Alpharetta council approves rezoning for 41 Milton Ave, limits basement use to office

The Alpharetta City Council on Oct. 27 approved a rezoning and parking-in-lieu payment for 41 Milton Ave, allowing the property's roughly 997-square-foot basement to be converted for office use only and requiring the applicant to pay for three downtown parking spaces before receiving a certificate of occupancy.

Director Cook, the city planning staff member presenting the case at the public hearing, said the applicant requested rezoning from C-2 in the downtown overlay to allow a residential unit and to permit up to three parking spaces to be satisfied through payment into the downtown parking fund. "The basement area is approximately a thousand square feet," Cook said, noting the comprehensive land-use designation is Central Business District and explaining that "for an office, if an office was approved here, then 3 spaces…