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City of South Fulton, GA - Planning & Zoning

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Click to View Full Oct 2022 Presentation on Comprehensive Planning for Future Land Use khalidCares.com/Zoning
Click to View Full Oct 2022 Presentation on Comprehensive Planning for Future Land Use

Mayor khalid Calls to Restrict Like Uses

khalid shared the Zoning Amendment with Mayor & Council City Council, department directors and the City's Zoning Rewrite consultants in July 2019 (khalidCares.com/Zoning)
khalid shared the Zoning Amendment with Mayor & Council City Council, department directors and the City's Zoning Rewrite consultants in July 2019
​In 2019, Councilman khalid worked with the Planning & Zoning Department (CDRA) to author the Moratorium Against Like Uses, which halted permits businesses already over-represented in our communities (beauty shops, dollar stores, tires shops, etc.) to come before City Council for a vote.

Councilman khalid's desire was to make these restrictions permanent, based on distance. However, the Planning & Zoning Department (CDRA) incorporated them into the city's new Zoning Code as Special Use Permits, meaning that these businesses can still apply for and receive permits — but only by a vote of a majority of City Council. ​
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Read Councilman khalid's original 2019. Distance-Based Like Uses Ban (khalidCares.com/Zoning)
Read Councilman khalid's original 2019. Distance-Based Like Uses Ban

Zoning Rewrite

The City of South Fulton is overhauling its Zoning laws, which govern everything from what kinds of businesses are allowed in what areas of our city to what kinds of materials must be used in the construction of homes or commercial storefronts.

Click the pictures below to read the Current Zoning Ordinance and Proposed amendments. Visit this page and Text FULTON to 33777 to receive updates on the Zoning Rewrite.
The first of at least 2 Public Readings of the Zoning Rewrite will be held via Zoom/YouTube, Tuesday, November 10 at 3:00.pm and will be broadcast on this page.

Click the black link below to find Tax, Voting, Floodplains and other information for any address in Fulton County. 
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Fulton County Land Maps (Address Lookup)

Current Zoning Code

City of South Fulton, GA's Complete Zoning Code (khalidCares.com/Economy)
In 2017, the new South Fulton City Council adopted Fulton County's existing Zoning Code. The City contracted with Consulting firm Woods LLC for a complete re-write of the 784-page Ordinance, which is expected to to be completed December 2019. View the entire current Zoning Code below. ​

Proposed Zoning Rewrite

Overview of Rewrite Changes
City of South Fulton's Proposed Revised Zoning Code khalidCares.com/Zoning
Read the entire Zoning Re-Write

Consultants Hired to Help with Rewrite

The video of above offers of an overview of changes to the Zoning Code recommended by Wood Consulting, which the City hired to oversee the rewrite. The current Zoning Code, adopted from Fulton County during the transition to cityhood, has not undergone any major updates in 50 years.   

Zoning Classes Explained

Primer on City of South Fulton's Zoning Codes & Classifications (khalidCares.com/Economy)
Click the picture above to view & print this Primer on South Fulton's Zoning Classifications. This document helps explain all the maps and other documents on this site. 

Overlay Districts

Overlay Districts are a section of the Zoning Code that set the architectural and aesthetic (visual) requirements for building in a particular area of the city. Because of the visual impact of these design standards, overlay districts are usually a focal point in community discussions around zoning. 

South Fulton has 7 such districts: Cascade, Cedar Grove, Cliftondale, Fulton Industrial, Old National, Sandtown and South Fulton Parkway — found in Section 202.06 of the Revised Zoning Code.

Click the links below to read the proposed changes for each overlay district . Click the pictures to the right to view Councilman khalid's proposed Overlay District changes for Old National, South Fulton's largest commercial corridor.   
Read Councilman khalid's Recommendations to Old National's Overlay District. khalidCares.com/Zoning
Click to read Councilman khalid's Recommendations to Old National's Overlay District.
Cascade
Cedar Grove
Cedar Grove Agricultural
Cliftondale
Fulton Industrial (FIB)
Old National
Sandtown
South Fulton Parkway

ZONING REWRITE MEETINGS
Meeting 1: Tuesday, November 10 • 3PM
Meeting 2: December 8 • 10AM

South Fulton Councilman khalid is calling for revisions to Old National's Overlay District that would require commercial buildings to be built up to the sidewalk with side & read parking to create a more walkable streetscape. khalidCares.com/Zoning
Councilman khalid is calling for revisions to Old National's Overlay District that would require commercial buildings to be built up to the sidewalk with side & read parking to create a more walkable streetscape.
South Fulton Councilman khalid is calling for the city's Zoning Rewrite to include a ¾ mile notice to be required for any land disturbance, like this one at 6575 Old National Highway khalidCares.com/Zoning
Councilman khalid is calling for ¾ mile notice to be required for any land disturbance, like this one at 6575 Old National Highway. 
With a focus on the future of Old National as an upscale arts & entertainment district that attracts millennial professionals and creatives, Councilman khalid has called for changes in the Old National Overlay that would require new commercial fronts to be built to up to the street with parking in the rear; and amendments to the Zoning Code that would raise height restrictions along the city's largest commercial corridor.  Additionally Councilman khalid has called for large parking lots to set aside spaces for electric vehicles and charging stations. 

Under the current Zoning Code, developers can clear-cut and develop land without giving notice. Notice to residents within one-half mile of a development is only required if the development will require re-zoning.  Often, residents will not be alerted about new construction in their communities until a project is well underway, as is the case with this clearing of land at 6575 Old National Highway and Nevels Road.  Councilman khalid is calling to amend the Zoning Ordinance so that any such change would require notice be given to every resident within a ¾-mile radius of such a project. 

Councilman khalid is also calling to raise the minimum heated space requirements for studio and efficiency apartments. khalid worked with
Community Development Director Shayla Reed on a temporary ban against multiple businesses of the same type which he now wants to see made permanent in the Zoning Code. This would mean, for example, there could only so many liquor stores or nail salons in one neighborhood.

Leave your questions and comments on these and other Zoning Rewrite using our Zoning Feedback form below. 

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Upcoming City of South Fulton, GA Zoning Meetings khalidCares.com/Zoning
Upcoming City of South Fulton, GA Zoning Meetings
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ZONING TERMS GLOSSARY
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The words "shall" and "must" are mandatory, and the words "may" and "should" are permissive.
Overview of City of South Fulton's Proposed 2021 Zoning Ordinance khalidCares.com/Zoning
Overview of City of South Fulton's Proposed 2021 Zoning Ordinance.
Certificate of endorsement (COE). A document evidencing support of a material change in the appearance of a property located within an overlay district by the person or board designated within an overlay district.​

Design Review Board (DRB). A panel which, when appointed by the City Council, consists of eight members appointed to consider applications within a specific overlay district.

External design feature. The general arrangement of any portion of structures or landscaping, including the type, and texture of the materials, the type of roof, windows, doors, lights, signs, and fixtures of portions which are open to the public view.

Exterior architectural features. The architectural style, general design and general arrangement of the exterior of a structure and site, including but not limited to the kind or texture of the building material and the type and style of all windows, doors, signs, facade, landscaping and other architectural fixtures, features, details, or elements relative thereto.​

Landscape. Plant materials, topography and other physical elements combined in relation to one another and to structures including pavement.

Logic of design. Widely accepted principles and criteria in the solution of design problems.

​Material change in appearance. A change in a structure or a parking lot within an overlay district that exceeds ordinary maintenance or repair (defined below), and requires either a sign permit, building permit or land disturbance permit such as, but not limited to:
  1. The erection, alteration, restoration, addition or removal of any structure (including signs) or parking lot;
  2. Relocation of a sign or building;
  3. Commencement of excavation; or
  4. (4)  A change in the location of advertising/signage visible from the public right-of- way.
Overlay district. A geographically definable area, possessing a significant concentration or linkage of sites, buildings, structures, objects or landscapes, including the adjacent area necessary for the proper treatment thereof, united by plan and/or physical development. An overlay district shall further mean an area designated by the South Fulton City Council as such.

Overlay property. An individual site, structure, object or landscape, including the adjacent area necessary for the proper continuity thereof, contained within an overlay district.

Street hardware. Objects other than buildings that are part of the streetscape. Examples are: street light fixtures, utility poles, traffic lights and their fixtures, benches, litter containers, planting containers, fire hydrants, etc.

Streetscape. The appearance and organization along a street of buildings, paving, plantings, street hardware and miscellaneous structures.

150+ Townhouses & Homes Proposed for
​6705 Camp Valley Rd, 30296

PGO Investments, based in Sandy Springs, is proposing to build 150+ townhouses & homes at 6705 Camp Valley Rd, 30296 (click to enlarge) khalidCares.com/Zoning
PGO Investments, based in Sandy Springs, is proposing to build 150+ townhouses & homes at 6705 Camp Valley Rd, 30296 (click to enlarge)
Sandy Springs developer PGO Investments is proposing to build 72 townhouses and 92 detached, single family homes on 45.7 acres off Camp Valley Road, along the Fulton and Clayton County line. The land is currently zoned SR (Senior Housing). The developer is requesting re-zoning the land to TR (Townhouse-Residential).

According to PGO representatives,the townhomes would be priced from the high $100,000s; with the single family homes starting in the mid-$200,000s. The site is being developed on-spec, which means that PGO is shopping this idea to several builders, none of which have yet committed. As such, the specific design details of the homes has not been confirmed.

The current site plane (above) has two exits, via a traffic circle, which both let out onto Camp Valley Road. According to Michelle Battle, attorney for the developer, "it is not possible to access Morris Road (the bottom left corner of the property) to allow an Old National Highway exit." Watch Councilman khalid's conversation with the developers and City Planning staff and submit your questions, comments and concerns about this project to the Councilman using the form below. 

    Camp Valley Development

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Planning Commission Hearing
August 18, 2020

Planning Commission Hearing
August 18, 2020

Community Zoning Information Meeting (CZIM)
Monday, August 10 • 6PM 

​The Camp Valley presentation begins at 24 minutes into the meeting. 

Old National (District 6)
​Zoning Representatives

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South Fulton Planning & Zoning Department
Business Permits Zoning & Regulatory Affairs
Shayla Reed, Director
Shayla.Reed@CityofSouthFultonGA.gov
(470) 809-7200​

Councilman khalid
khalid@khalidCares.com
(404) 545-3900
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Citizen Boards

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Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee
Derrick Burnett

Code Enforcement Board
Joyce Armster
Code Enforcement Board Website
Planning Commission
T. Floyd 
Planning Commission Website
Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA)
Robert Dawson
ZBA Website
City of South Fulton Community holds several, public information sessions and zoning hearing in which residents can voice their concerns about new construction & development in our area, as well as dealing with violation of city codes regarding commercial & residential property. 

Each of the hearings is handled by a board of South Fulton Residents, appointed by members of City Council.  The length of the term of each board appointee is the same as the City Councilperson who appointed them. 
Currently, due to COVID-19 precautions, all Zoning Meetings will be held online.
​​Code Enforcement Board hearings and deal with violations of the City residential & commercial building codes.  ​However, some violations will be referred to the City's Municipal Court. 

Zoning Information Meetings (CZIM) are usually 2nd Thursdays at 6PM and allow residents to review the proposed plans of developers and individuals seeking zoning applications from the city. Residents are encouraged to come ask questions and express their concerns.

Developer-Initiated Information Meetings are also required to be held and usually take place within days following the city-led CZIM.  

Planning Commission Hearings are usually 3rd Tuesdays at 6:30PM. All Planning Commission recommendations are forwarded to Mayor & Council for final vote.

.Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA)  Hearings are usually 3rd Thursdays at 1:00PM. Decisions made by the Planning Commission may be appealed to the ZBA. 
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Mayor & Council Zoning Hearings are usually 4th Tuesdays at 10:00AM. City Council rulings are final, and appeals on their rulings must be made to Fulton County's Superior Court.
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