Atlanta Adopts Zoning To Encourage New Urbanism

Atlanta has adoped a new "live-work" zoning guideline to encourage mixed use development.

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May 24, 2002, 7:00 AM PDT

"The "live-work" zoning class will allow small-business owners to work at home by putting a shop or office on the ground floor and their living quarters upstairs. Mixed-use zoning will reverse old policies that had discouraged developers from building homes, stores and offices in a single complex. The new multifamily zoning class will allow for high-rises with neighborhood businesses, such as coffeehouses, barbers, florists or laundries, on the ground floor."

Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism

Read the full story: Zoning categories to promote 'new urbanism' projects

Thursday, May 23, 2002 in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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