Atlanta zoning committee holds several rezoning items, approves anti-razor-wire ordinance and hears detailed update on 'Atlanta Zoning 2' rewrite

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…