An Atlanta City Council committee is considering an ordinance that would expand existing restrictions on self-storage development along the city’s Beltline Overlay District, a 33-mile loop that connects 45 neighborhoods. The proposal aims to broaden a measure passed in 2023 that prohibits storage projects within 500 feet by increasing that distance to half a mile, according to the source.
The ordinance is sponsored by council member Jason Dozier, who calls self-storage a “non-active usage” that doesn’t benefit the Beltline, which offers multi-use trails, parks and a future streetcar-transit system.
A similar measure was introduced in 2017 by then-council member Joyce Sheperd following a proposed project along a future Beltline segment in South Buckhead. The debate was reignited this year after a Public Storage facility was approved for a parcel near Piedmont Park, considered one of the Beltline's busiest intersections, the source reported.
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Source: Axios Atlanta, Atlanta Could Ban New Self-Storage Buildings Near the Beltline
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