Atlanta’s new self-storage rules left out one zoning district. Now comes a proposed fix.

Atlanta’s Office-Institutional zoning district was left out of a self-storage permit requirement the City Council adopted Oct. 5. Now Councilmembers Dustin Hillis and Andrea L. Boone propose adding that review—and keeping new storage applications on hold there for an extra 60 days.⁠[1][2]

The proposed extension is limited to that zoning district, not the whole city. Ordinance 26-O-1595 says the existing 180-day moratorium runs through Jan. 11, 2027, and would continue it for another 60 days for affected Office-Institutional applications. It covers new building, land-disturbance, special-use and special administrative permit applications, plus rezoning requests, for construction of storage facilities.⁠[1]

The companion measure, 26-O-1596, would move secured-storage and mixed-use storage facilities from the district’s permitted principal uses into its special-permit provisions. The broader ordinance adopted Oct. 5 passed 11-0; the follow-up bills identify Office-Institutional zoning as an omission from its permit requirements.⁠[1][2]

The proposed permit language would retain the restriction on storage sites with any property within 500 feet of the Beltline corridor. It also retains an exception allowing existing facilities within that distance to redevelop at their existing floor-area ratio, consistent with the code’s requirements.⁠[1]

Both measures remain proposals. Council referred them to the Zoning Committee without objection Oct. 19, and the packet schedules committee consideration for Oct. 26 at 11 a.m.—not a guaranteed final vote.⁠[1]