If you’ve driven around Buckhead in the past couple of years, you know that traffic congestion has become a major issue. Already a crowded area, dozens of additional apartment buildings have turned already crowded streets into nearly unmanageable snarls during rush hour.
For that reason Atlanta City Councilmembers Yolanda Adrean and Howard Shook this week introduced a new piece of legislation that seeks to limit the amount of parking spaces developers can build in Buckhead. Currently the area is zoned under “suburban-style” parking allowances, which lets developers put in more parking spots than the neighborhood can efficiently fit. The new Parking Overlay legislation, to undergo public review next month, would reduce maximum number of parking spaces to numbers found in downtown Atlanta, which is zoned with more urban concerns in mind.
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