Atlanta council votes to file medical-cannabis special-permit proposal
The citywide amendment received a 15–0 filing vote Sept. 8 after staff, neighborhood planning units and the zoning board recommended approval.
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The citywide amendment received a 15–0 filing vote Sept. 8 after staff, neighborhood planning units and the zoning board recommended approval.
The zoning board denied the six-to-ten-foot height exception without prejudice, allowing a new application for the same or a similar request.
The 14–0 Sept. 8 vote concerns a 3.14-acre site at 1775 Buckeye Street SW; the action entry does not provide the amendment details.
The zoning board reduced the required setback from 60 feet. Its approval letter is to accompany a separate building-permit application.
The zoning board approved reducing the west-side setback from seven feet. The approval letter is to accompany a building-permit application.
The Sept. 8 filing vote was 15–0. Staff and the zoning board recommended filing, while NPU B recommended approval.
The substitute passed 14–0 Sept. 8, allowing the property to exceed limits on wall signs and building signs on corner lots.
The applicant wants to enclose an existing well and cites a rear-yard pool, septic field lines and side-yard trees as constraints on placement.
The site plan proposes 83 parking spaces and shows about 1,200 square feet of patio extending into a stream's impervious setback.
Sandy Springs' September report also invites an online transportation-needs survey and says the project team is scheduling focus groups.
The Sept. 18 report lists installed signal heads at Trowbridge and Northridge. Two Hammond Drive street-sign installations depend on signal construction.
Sandy Springs' Sept. 18 report lists right-of-way acquisition and utility coordination underway, with property appraisals under review.
The request is on the Oct. 8 planning work-session agenda; the application proposes no change to its indoor recreation use.
Draft minutes record a unanimous vote. Planners had recommended retaining the 20-acre rule and adding hamlet-expansion and preservation work.
Draft minutes record unanimous approval with Planning Commission recommendations. A separately listed definition amendment failed for lack of a motion.
The substitute passed 11–0. The minutes summarize the requirement but do not establish its district-by-district scope or effective date.
The total includes acquisition and related site costs, using park-impact-fee and Eastside TAD funds. Committee review is listed for Oct. 13.
The proposed sale to Fulton County is capped at $68 million. The minutes list Oct. 14 as the next Finance/Executive Committee checkpoint.
The contribution depends on the conservancy receiving a $3 million Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program grant. The substitute passed 10–1.
The study would examine public land, federal funding and potential new or replacement units. Committee consideration is listed for Oct. 13.
The amended zoning action retains the Beltline Overlay. A connected plan amendment changes 774 Ponce de Leon Avenue to High Density Mixed Use.
The 11–0 vote authorizes a refund for overpaid 2026 occupation tax, but does not establish that payment has been made.
The change replaces heavy-industrial and conditional multifamily zoning while retaining the Beltline and Upper Westside overlays.
The action replaces heavy-industrial zoning at two Glenn Street properties and a Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard property.
Council also changed the site's comprehensive-plan designation to Medium Density Residential. The amended zoning action passed 11–0.
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