Foxcroft parking request set for Nov. 5 review after staff urged denial

Atlanta’s zoning board is scheduled Nov. 5 to review a Foxcroft Road driveway and parking-pad request that planning staff recommended denying in September, citing potential street-access safety problems and ample parking elsewhere on the property.⁠[1][2]

The application for 1055 Foxcroft Road NW seeks a driveway-width allowance of 43 feet instead of 20 feet—more than double the listed limit—and a special exception for a parking pad in the required front yard. Dianne Barfield is the applicant; the agenda identifies Dominic Morea as the owner.⁠[1]

Staff’s Sept. 3 report described work already completed: a square parking pad, short drive and curb cut directly in front of the home. It said revised permit plans had been routed May 29, but no permit had been issued. That is the report’s account of the permit status at the time, not a determination of its status today.⁠[2]

The report explains that a small portion of the former circular driveway crossed a 75-foot stream-related impervious buffer, preventing replacement in the same configuration. Plans were revised because of that encroachment. Staff nevertheless concluded that the buffer did not constrain vehicle access or the availability of off-street parking.⁠[2]

Staff attributed a potential safety hazard from the reconfigured curb cuts—the driveway openings onto the street—to feedback from the Atlanta Department of Transportation. The report also said the configuration violated a curb-cut limit cited by the department. A three-car garage and parking area in the west side yard already exceeded the property’s parking requirements, staff wrote, concluding that denial would not prevent convenient, safe access.⁠[2]

Those findings are a staff recommendation, not a board ruling. The November agenda lists V-26-101 among deferred cases with the same requested exceptions. The records reviewed do not establish the board’s disposition of the September recommendation, whether a permit was later issued or whether the design has since changed; they also contain no direct applicant response to the staff findings.⁠[1][2]

The Nov. 5 board meeting is scheduled for noon in the second-floor Council Chambers.⁠[1]