Atlanta council advances multiple rezoning and special-use items; several approved as amended or referred

The Atlanta City Council advanced a series of zoning and special-use items and handled routine procedural business during its legislative session. Council members approved minutes and then moved through 16 numbered zoning and ordinance items, adopting some measures, amending and approving others, and referring several items to the Zoning Review Board for further review.

The meeting opened with approval of the meeting agenda and minutes. Council members then proceeded to consider zoning committee recommendations, first-reading captions, rezoning petitions and special-use permit requests for properties across the city, including applications associated with the Metropolitan River Protection Act and multiple zoning-section citations referenced on the agenda.

Key actions included: the council placed Item 1 (MRPA 2406) on the record for captioning so it can be included on a future consent agenda; members approved two rezoning items (Items 2 and 3) as a block after staff and advisory body recommendations for approval; items 4 through 6 (special-use permits and an amendment to ordinance 201652) were amended to include stated conditions and then approved as amended; Item 7 (a special-use permit request for a personal care home) was filed/treated favorably following a motion to file; Items 8 through 15 (a set of rezoning and special-use items) were referred to the Zoning Review Board; and Item…