Zoning committee asks City Planning to study removing parking minimums as part of zoning rewrite

The City of Atlanta Zoning Committee voted to ask the Department of City Planning to study removing parking minimums citywide and to consider embedding that change in the forthcoming Zoning 2 rewrite. Councilmember Jason Dozier introduced the resolution and moved its approval; Councilmember Carden Wyckoff seconded. The committee approved the measure after debate; the clerk recorded the vote as 4 yeas and 3 abstentions.

Dozier framed the resolution as a direction to staff, not immediate code change, saying the goal is to "posture our city for future growth" and to reduce regulatory barriers to development. He cited cost drivers for construction, telling the committee that "every parking space in a parking deck that's built as part of a development cost about $50,000," and argued those costs are ultimately borne by renters and tenants. Dozier also said "roughly 40% of the city currently does not have parking…