Zoning board recommends 60-day delay for White Street’s 335-home rezoning

Atlanta’s Zoning Review Board has recommended a 60-day delay for a White Street rezoning tied to 335 homes and a warehouse redevelopment. The board’s Oct. 8 marked agenda records neither the denial city planners sought nor the approval recommended by Neighborhood Planning Unit T.

The proposal covers 12.5 acres at 1200 White Street SW in West End. It would reuse an approximately 200,000-square-foot warehouse, add the multifamily homes and include a mixed-use building. The staff report describes 20% of the homes as available to households earning 80% of area median income—a proposed project term, not an adopted requirement.

Staff’s objection is to the additional development rights, not the submitted housing and reuse plan. Planners say that plan can proceed under the existing industrial mixed-use zoning without exhausting the building area already allowed.

The requested mixed residential-commercial zoning would remove the requirement to include industrial uses and more than double the maximum building intensity. Staff puts the increase in floor-area ratio at 3.3 to 7.2: the ceiling on total building floor space relative to the site’s area. Those are zoning limits, not the size of the proposed development.

The board’s recommendation leaves those broader permissions undecided. The marked agenda gives no reason for the delay or confirmed return date, and it does not record final approval or rejection of the rezoning.