Plan A - Draft #2 - Appendix 6, Revision Highlights

There are many old industrial sites, many unoccupied, which can easily be used for low, medium, or high density housing. There is no need to take already existing housing and tear those down or build on vacant lots in those neighborhoods. Use the open, old industrial sites that dot our neighborhoods for housing. Don't forget, home ownership is one of the primary methods of creating wealth. It should not be squandered to build housing where there are already plenty of other options.

If I am interpreting this chart correctly, it looks like lots that are currently Medium Lot Single Family are slated to be revised to allow Low Density Residential, Medium Density residential, and High Density Residential, while those more affluent people living on large lots do not have to worry about Low, Medium, or High Density projects being built next door to them. Once again, City of Atlanta protects its most affluent residents at the expense of less affluent. Where is the fairness in this? Make the system fair for all. If we need housing, don't just penalize the less affluent people in Atlanta. Make Low, Med, and High density apply to all neighborhoods or none.

Thank you for keeping this guiding principle.

This is a change from the 2021 Compatibility Table

RG3 fits the new Low Density Residential development pattern , the Medium Density Pattern is a lot more intense now allowing RG4, MR4a, 4b to implement.

Since you have shifted RG-4 from High Density Res to Med. Density Res it only follows that RG-3 should shift to Low Density Res to fit the new definitions of these development patterns. RG4 and RG3 should not be in corresponding zoning categories, there is too much difference in density/land use intensity. RG1-RG4 should be in Low Density and should be converted to Neighborhood scale zones (N5a,b,c etc.) to reflect the original intent of Residential General categories; of preserving existing structures by allowing houses to convert to multi-family, and allowing a variety of other types of housing in a compatible neighborhood scale like duplexes, single-family, townhomes and small apartments. These districts currently have a good portion of the City's naturally occurring affordable housing at a scale that fits in with existing neighborhoods.

Thank you, this is a good news for Atlanta's neighborhoods.

keep low density residential

Until trnsportion challenges are fixed this needs to remain low density. There is only one neighborhood rod for everyone to 75 and it cannot handle more traffic. It has become a caustic (and likely carcinognic) nightmare of exhaust for folks living on Moores Mill and the health and safety of citizens needs to be priority number 1. Ideally, traffic from Cobb, smyrna and Bolton would be redirected to non-neighborhood and larger capacity roads to get into town. With better traffic routing and usable public transit options then more development in these "outskirt" nighborhoods woud make sense.

Until trnsportion challenges are fixed this needs to remain low density. There is only one neighborhood rod for everyone to 75 and it cannot handle more traffic. It has become a caustic (and likely carcinognic) nightmare of exhaust for folks living on Moores Mill and the health and safety of citizens needs to be priority number 1. Ideally, traffic from Cobb, smyrna and Bolton would be redirected to non-neighborhood and larger capacity roads to get into town. With better traffic routing and usable public transit options then more development in these "outskirt" nighborhoods woud make sense.

I'm unsure as to how this area can be planned for high density when there does not seem to be any infrastructure upgrades to address the traffic in the area. The current traffic increase from the development at West Midtown has created an untenable commute during rush hour.

I don't see any information related to the vine city area. There are so many vacant houses. Please advise where I can find the development plan for Vine city area.