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City Planning briefs committee on CDP outreach, zoning testing and affordable‑housing progress
Summary
Department of City Planning reported broad public engagement on the comprehensive development plan, said testing of a new zoning ordinance will follow the plan, and noted more than 11,000 affordable units have been completed or started since the mayor set the 20,000‑unit goal.
Commissioner Prince of the Department of City Planning provided the committee’s quarterly update on Feb. 5, outlining the department’s public engagement, reporting metrics and the near‑term schedule for the comprehensive development plan (CDP) and zoning ordinance.
Prince said the department has four major concurrent initiatives: the CDP, a new zoning ordinance, a short‑term rentals and party‑house ordinance, and a tree protection ordinance. She described a multi‑format outreach campaign that included three rounds of public meetings; in round 3 alone the department logged 844 attendees and conducted pop‑up events at festivals and BeltLine locations. A draft of parts of the CDP is available at atlantaforall.com, she said, and the department expects to take the plan to Neighborhood Planning Units (NPUs) beginning in March with a targeted City Council adoption in summer 2025.
Prince highlighted progress on the housing tracker: “There have been over 11,000 affordable housing units either completed or started since the mayor set his goals of producing 20,000 affordable housing units,” she said, and noted the department will continue to report on trends by work stream and geography. She said the zoning ordinance is being developed in modules; once the CDP is finalized the department will undertake a testing phase with architects and engineers so the new zoning rules can be applied to real‑world designs. Prince said that testing is planned for the second half of 2025, with final zoning adoption targeted in early 2026.
The commissioner also flagged operational coordination around code enforcement: multiple departments administer different codes and the department has convened a multi‑department working group to improve enforcement coordination and compliance outcomes.
Ending: Prince urged continued engagement and said the department will publish further drafts and schedule NPU hearings, and offered to provide council members with outreach and workshop data on request.
