The Zoning Committee convened with Chair Matt Westmoreland presiding, adopted the agenda and approved the minutes before taking up legislative business. Committee members uniformly approved or filed a series of rezoning and special-use requests, held a small number of items for later consideration, and referred others to review boards. Several motions were recorded with committee votes of 7–0 where a vote tally appears in the transcript.

Among the actions the committee took: it voted to hold the rezoning request for 696 Highland Avenue NE (item 1); it filed items 2, 5 and 9 after staff presentation; it approved item 3 (an ordinance by Councilmembers Jason Dozier and Liliana Bakhtiar to amend the 1982 Atlanta zoning ordinance to prohibit barbed wire and razor wire along public rights-of-way) and item 6 in a combined motion; it amended and approved items 4 and 8; it held item 7; it referred items 10 through 19 and item 21 to the appropriate review board(s); and it reported a substitute for item 20 and referred that substitute (a digital changing billboard at Cleveland Circle SW) to the Zoning Review Board. Recorded motions were moved and seconded by named members (for example, Dozier moved approval of the anti-razor-wire ordinance; Hillis frequently seconded motions). The transcript records no vetoes or failed final adoptions during the session.

After the legislative business, consultant Caleb Arasico delivered the committee’s final Atlanta Zoning 2 briefing. Arasico said the rewrite has been an "eight-year" effort that began with diagnostic work, public idea labs and testing of a second draft ordinance. He said the team had taken "several hundred" comments, the draft had been downloaded at least "11,700 times," and staff testing reviewed 27 recent cases to see how the new code would apply. Arasico summarized three headline policy issues in the draft: replacing "family" with "household" and proposing a lowered occupancy standard (described in the draft as a reduction from the current 10-person-equivalent standard to 4 for unrelated occupants, with related individuals counted differently); changes intended not to rezone properties but to convert the map to the new nomenclature; and limits to the duration of the Development Review Committee process to speed reviews. He said the draft also standardizes relief provisions (three types of administrative modification), introduces a "cluster option" to preserve open space in lower-density PDH areas, incorporates several Special Public Interest (SPI) districts such as Garden Hills, Galloway School and Tuxedo Park into the draft, and proposes adjusted, context-sensitive development bonuses and reduced parking requirements in some districts.

Arasico characterized the testing outcomes as generally favorable: the draft's consistent terminology and new applicability tables make the code easier to use, he said, and staff testing yielded numerous technical clarifications. He said the draft ordinance and map would be available online no later than Dec. 19 and that the team was aiming for an introduction and MPU review early next year with adoption targeted for June or July 2026 if the process proceeds as planned; Director Holmes confirmed that timeline on the record.

Councilmember Norwood praised the team's work and the meeting adjourned with a motion from Councilmember Shook and a second from Hillis.

Votes at a glance (as recorded in the transcript): adopt agenda (7 ayes, 0 nays); approve minutes (7 ayes, 0 nays); hold item 1 (vote recorded); file items 2,5,9 (7 ayes, 0 nays); approve items 3 & 6 (vote recorded as favorable); amend and approve items 4 & 8 (7 ayes, 0 nays); hold item 7 (item held); refer items 10–19 & 21 (vote recorded); report substitute and refer item 20 (vote recorded). The transcript includes some ambiguous numeric renditions in a few vote lines; where a clear tally is provided above it is reported as recorded in the meeting transcript.

No final decision on the comprehensive Atlanta Zoning 2 rewrite was made during the meeting; Arasico and staff indicated the draft will proceed to formal introduction and MPU review with further public hearings and council consideration.