Tuesday, May 27, 2025, Community Development Human Services Committee meeting. I am Jason Winston, chair of the committee. I am joined by my colleagues to my right, council member Mary Norwood, to my far left. We have council member Matt Westmoreland and to my immediate left. We have council member Lilliana, back to y'all. This does constitute a quorum. So I will make a motion to adopt the agenda of a second by back to y'all. Please open the vote.
One moment.
The vote is open.
The vote is closed for you, sir. You're nice. The agenda is adopted.
Thank you. Colleagues, you've had a chance to look at the meeting minutes from my previous meeting.
So I will make a motion to approve. Is there a second?
The vote is open.
The vote is closed for you, sir. You're nice. The minutes are approved.
Thank you, colleagues. It's just take us to the public comment section of our agenda.
However, we do have a communication appointee who doesn't need to get out of here relatively soon, so if there's no objection, I'd like to take that item first
CNN would like to proceed with item number two.
Item number two 25 c 0 0 6 9, a communication from Mayor Andre Dickens, appointing Mr. David Simkins to serve as a member of the city
Wilson County Recreation Authority, this appointment is for a time of four years.
Thank you, Mr. Sympkins.
You don't mind coming to the podium, telling us a little bit about yourself and why you're interested in this position.
We are both good distribution.
We've built an operating mechanism for both folks.
We've changed that airport to support.
It's not only here in the U.S.
but north of all throughout North America.
All right.
Any questions coming from colleagues?
Thank you.
You know, we've got a bunch of two approved by Councilmember West Morales.
I can buy back the RF. Please open the vote.
The vote is open.
The vote is closed.
The vote is closed for you.
You're nice. This item is favorable.
Congratulations. We appreciate your service.
Thank you.
Now that brings us back to the public comment section of our agenda.
I'll just remind the public you have three minutes.
I will gently remind you once you get close to the expression.
expiration time. So we'll start off. Our first speaker is Carole Holiday. You'll have
three minutes.
We'll get you a microphone there on this holiday. I've seen really
on that heading this way.
And I'm trying to raise enough that I can actually see you.
Thank you. I am Carole Holiday. I am deeply disappointed that the city is again refusing to
address the critical issue of tree protection. Will our air be safe to breathe? Will
more homes flood, will keep cause preventable deaths, who will bear the burden? Outdoor workers,
the elderly and people with health conditions who can't tolerate the heat, or those who
can barely afford rent much less air conditioning. Will it be legacy residents like those
in Peoples Town, who lost their homes when the failed stormwater system caused sewage
overflows in their homes? Or people living along the parts of Nancy Creek that flood? Will
the taxpayers who put the bill for capital improvements to address these problems, it will be all
of us who pay. When developers don't pay their fair share, someone else pays the price. Yet once
again, the city is conceding to developers, and someone has removed all of the preservation standards
previously presented. The only remaining change is an increase in recompense. The first since
two thousand and one. Why would you wait another seven months to implement this increase instead
of implementing it immediately? It's fair to discount recompense for affordable housing. But discounts
should be commensurate with the depth and quantity of affordable housing, not like the last proposal,
which offered previous for developers. The last proposal would have given a 90% waiver to an
higher projects with no pre-preservation and only 20 percent of the units went it at the so-called
affordable rates, including a two-bedroom apartment for $2,056 a month, which is actually
higher than the average cost of a two-bedroom apartment in Atlanta. This is fake affordability.
I was surprised when your colleague was quoted in the paper, hinting at how policy is made.
He said, and I quote, there's public support for being a tree hugger versus the campaign contributions you might leave on someone else's table and quote
I hope we can all agree that this is not the right way to govern.
Thank you.
Our next speaker is Henry Jordan and you'll have three minutes.
Give me out your spirit of God, everyone that's here.
Oh Lord my God, indeed I put my trust.
Save me from all of them that persecute me.
I need Jesus to help me fight my enemies. What about you? Help me not to be an enemy to myself. At that name of Jesus, every knee,
should bow, up things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth,
for living in seconds, have to temp first. These are three purposes for Jesus'
exhortation that every being in the universe someday submit to Him. That in addition to the
teacher universal submission, there are also some day, the universal confession that Jesus
Christ is Lord. We need Jesus help from self-destruction. And this shall be the plague where
we have the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh
are consumed away while they stand up on their feet and their eyes are consumed away in their
14 chapter 12 verse, decay, sockets is the plague where with the Lord will smite all the people
they are forward against Jerusalem. For Jesus to fight for us, we have to fight to obey him.
Y'all bought with the price. Me, not you, the servants of men, 1st 27 chapter, 23 verse. The price
pay for the blood of God's only son. We owe praise and glory for Jesus, for that on
the cross for our sins. We need Christ more than He need us, because we live in
his time. It's what we owe him. Now I'm trying to give him what I owe him the
praises and the glory and honor and power to obey Jesus. Thank you for listening to
Thank you, our next speaker is Michael Paris, followed by Dana Thompson.
Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman, Council of the NVIDIA members. I'm Michael Paris, I'm
President and CEO of the Council of a Quality Growth. I associate his handed out copies
of a letter that has been sent to you all by email, so you have that to take a look at.
I'll keep this mercifully short and tell you that I, number one, I want to say how much
appreciate the work that all the city staff has put into this ordinance especially city planning.
It's been hours and hours and hours and hours. I know y'all have been an extraordinary amount of time on this as well.
So I'm going to do appreciate that. The two main points in this letter and there's an appendix attached, which iterates numerous other
concerns. The number one
Number one concern is that we need to, we would really request that you re-address the affordable housing waivers,
which strangely did not end up in this version.
That's something we've always talked about.
We have others in the room that we've got to talk about that.
And then secondly, we've offered here to the idea of, in fact, instituting a maximum recompits,
but we've showed numbers that are much, much higher than today.
And that's something I think the industry would be very much interested in and applies all the way
across the board.
The letter you have, you'll hear from everybody today, is Atlanta, commercial border builders, the council quality growth,
they Atlanta home builders, and habitat for humanity.
And in the appendix, you're going to see quite a bit of stuff, but there is a section here that
especially addresses just script, almost script, or zero, so there's minor things that we would
suggest.
You'll take a look at, but some things that I wish you would really strongly consider in addition
to those two main points.
So instead of going through the mall, I'll let you take a look at those, appreciate the time and effort you all put into this and thank you for your work of this.
All right, thank you. Our next speaker is Dana Thompson.
You have three minutes.
Good afternoon, Chairman and Council members. Thank you for your time today.
The American Language Association strongly supports the city of Atlanta's building code to add a new section for roofing reflectant standards to reduce heat through the promotion of coal roofs.
These cost-effective coral reefs will reduce urban heat, reduce air pollution, including ozone and protect the health for all Atlanta residents, especially it's most vulnerable, including the young elderly in those living with lung disease.
The American lung association is the oldest voluntary public health association in the United States representing more than 34 million individuals living with lung disease.
The lung association is the leading organization working to save lives by improving lung health, health and preventing lung disease, the research, education and advocacy.
The lung association's 25, 25 state of the airport found that Atlanta Metro area ranked 48th worst for high ozone days.
Ground-level ozone pollution also known as smog forms when other pollutants react in the presence of heat and sunlight.
More heat often means more ozone.
This pollutant causes swelling, irritation of the lungs, immediate irritation can cause weasing and coughing and shortness of breath.
With repeated exposure, ozone can permanently damage lung cells.
For those dealing with chronic lung disease like asthma or COPD, heat, smog, may trigger
an asthma attack, severe COPD symptoms, or lead to lung infections.
Concentration of dark materials within cities creates an urban heat island, which is estimated
to be upwards of 10 degrees hotter than areas outside the city and some neighborhoods can be
up to 14 degrees hotter than others within the city.
Cool roofs are light colored roofs that reflect most heat, unlike conventional dark colored roofs.
Cool roofs reflect more than 50% of solar radiation, compared to traditional dark roofs which reflect only about 15 to 20%.
Dark surfaces like roads, parking lots, and roofs do not reflect the sun.
Instead, they absorb the sunlight which increases the surrounding air to higher temperatures.
As a result, the buildings next to these dark surfaces use more energy for air conditioning
it contribute to overall urban hot spots and increase ground level ozone.
Smart surfaces is the term used to encompass a suite of technologies that can help reduce
heat and cities.
These include reflective cool roofs, pavement, screen roofs, trees, PV systems, green spaces,
and rain gardens designed to help mitigate urban heat and enhance air quality and improve health.
We encourage you to learn more about smart services such as cool roofs as they provide a broad range of health benefits.
As an active and founding partner of the Smart Services Coalition,
I was strongly urge the City Council to move forward with this ordinance.
Together we can create a healthier, more resilient and safe city.
Thanks so much.
Thank you. Our next speaker is Jimmy Smith, followed by Brian Finley.
Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and Council members.
I'm Dr. Jimmy Smith and Service President of the Georgia Public Health Association,
and do speak in support of the ordinance to amend the city of Atlanta's building code
to add a new section for roofing reflects and standards to reduce heat produced by darker roofing materials.
Extreme heat is now known as the deadliest weather-related hazard in the United States
and it's getting worse.
Atlanta now experiences 13 more extremely hot days each year than it did in the 70s.
And by mid-century, we predict that there will be actually around 45 to 46 days annually
with a heat index above 100 degrees.
It's not just uncomfortable, it's dangerous.
And particularly for our children, our seniors, our outdoor workers,
and those without access to air conditioning.
This ordinance seeks to address this concern by moving toward the use of smart surfaces,
and in that as you've heard previously reflective, cool roofs and pavements that help
coosit cool the cities by reflecting sunlight to reduce the urban heat effects.
In addition to your active engagement with trying to build urban forests and the trees in
the area to improve overall well-being.
These smart surfaces matter, for the build climate resilience and improve public health by mitigating extreme heat,
reducing heat-related illnesses, improving air quality, and boosting mineral will be in.
While smart surfaces are needed everywhere in cities, they are especially important in the underserved
and sometimes unrecognized communities that typically house low income, minority, and otherwise vulnerable populations.
For those communities, these urban heat islands pose a major public health threat.
This proportionally impact the environmental populations and communities of color who
often lack access to green spaces and infrastructure upgrades.
So on behalf of the Georgia Public Health Association, I urge you to give favorable
consideration to the cool roof ordinance.
Thank you.
And we've been joined by Council Member Jason Dozier.
Our next speaker is Brian Finley's followed by Nathan Hitches.
Greetings Council members. My name is Brian Finley.
I am a serve as the Vice President of Housing and Land Development for Atlanta Habitat for Humanity.
As an organization committed to building safe affordable homes for working families,
we are also deeply value Atlanta's identity as the city in the forest.
We believe that housing and tree preservation are not competing interests.
They are shared vials that must be thoughtfully balanced.
We appreciate the significant work that has gone into
revising the trade protection ordinance.
The recent updates represent a step forward
and we're encouraged by the city's responsiveness
to the community feedback.
That said, we believe further refinements
are still needed to ensure the ordinance
supports affordable housing.
Especially on larger, more complex sites
that design flexibility is essential.
At the request for the mayor's office,
we are beginning meetings with council members
and city staff later this month and in mid-June.
These kinds of issues, I can't say.
These kinds of conversations along with testing
ordinance on real-world projects will be critical
to making sure it works not in theory but in practice for our family's reserve.
For that reason, we respectfully ask the Council to delay adoption of the TPO until this
collaboration process is complete.
Together we can shape the policy that protects our urban forest while ensuring Atlanta remains
the city where all families can afford to call home.
We thank you for your time, your service, and your continued partnership.
Thank you.
Current speaker is Nathan Hedges, followed by Howard Kasman.
Hello, committee members.
Chairman, thank you so much for hearing me today.
I'm making Hedges with the Allen Morris Company, where the developers of the star
metals at Atlanta projects in West Midtown.
I'm here to speak on in regards to the tree protection ordinance, which is currently
held on today's agenda, which is something that we support strongly for the further
consideration. I won't re-elaborate all points that the other good folks here that have talked about through protection today made.
Tree Preservation was removed. I did make comments at the last meeting, and specifically we'll show you again this project in West Midtown, which is landed in the Amores Company in our partners currently own.
It is 3.3 acres under the Preservation Standards that were previously in there. There would have been a 35% Preservation requirement.
In our entitlement of this project, we agreed to set aside
about an acre of the property for green space.
That's publicly accessible.
That's included in the entitlement.
However, that's dependent on us being able to build parking
below grade, not above grade, which takes a lot more space.
And with the preservation standard,
we would not have been able to build that parking below grade
because we would not have been able to just serve the land.
And there would have been a defacto taking
of about an acre of this property, which has a cost-bases value of about $10 million, which obviously
would have been a deep concern for us and our investors if the city had did it to
fact of taking a $10 million of land that was already entitled.
So I want to encourage you to continue to hold the ordinance until some of the concerns that
are currently out there can be addressed.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
Next speaker.
Howard Kasman followed by a Catholic.
Good afternoon.
I'm Howard Kasman.
How did we get here today?
Well, we've had a tree protection ordinance since 2001 with no actual protection for existing trees.
Efforts since 2014 that have been building towards a stronger and more balanced tree ordinance.
And then we had consultant with efforts that collapsed in 2019.
Council members asked us to work with city planning staff to create a new ordinance.
Last minute efforts to vote in a new version and late 2021 failed in the council.
And after we met with the mayor in early 2022, he directed city planning to initiate a
stakeholder group.
The meetings in 2022 went nowhere but were restarted in 2024 with broader participation,
stronger structure and facilitation.
Broad recommendations included tree protection and affordability component and increased
rack and pants fees.
City planning released a draft based on these recommendations in January of 25 and then another
revision came out May 1st.
All the provisions were vetted by the audit department, NPUs, the planning department.
All efforts were building towards a stronger and more balanced tree ordinance.
Then something big happened.
in response to somebody or some group city planning eliminated all tree protection.
Including on single family, and reduced the recompense fees. How can we have a tree protection ordinance without any actual protection?
How can protections for affordable housing be pulled from the proposed ordinance? How can the city continue to subsidize for profit developers with
occupants fees so far below market price.
Some developers have mistreated and possibly even lied about what the May 1st TPO version
would do to restrict their development.
When we showed them, they were ignoring or hadn't read their provisions that would allow
them to develop and develop fully affordable housing we were ignored.
How can the city ignore eight years of community input, city staff work, and recent input
from the NPUs.
How can the city throw away taxpayer dollars spent on eight years of city staff and consultants
work on the tree ordinance?
How can the city ignore the findings and recommendations of two tree task force groups
that the mayor originally asked for?
How can the city ignore the findings and recommendations of the city design plan and other
Atlanta planning and sustainability goals?
I was going to ask you today to support amendments that would restore single-family tree protections,
but my understanding is there is no support for that here on this committee.
Am I wrong?
How do I inspire you guys to do something different?
How can we just let this all go?
Because nothing's going to happen if we don't get it past now.
Thank you.
next we have Katherine Cole followed by Dennis Harrell and we've been joined by
Councilmember Michael Julian Bob.
Hi I'm Katherine Cole I've done a lot of work with
tree ordinances for the past 20 years a lot of work with City of Atlanta. I haven't
really prepared comments today I'm really not even sure where to start. One thing I
am going to say though is every time people come up here and say something they say we
love trees, but we love trees, but we love trees, but and trees are always falling into the
but to the degree that we don't protect single tree today in City of Atlanta and the destruction
of the tree ordinance that was put before you two weeks ago, also promises to protect zero
trees. People get paid to build things on land that trees stand on. People get paid to cut
down trees. People get paid to plant trees. There is no financial interest in keeping trees
standing, but that is the most important thing we need to do for this city.
The ordinance that came to you a couple weeks ago, there was a tree preservation standard
for single-family residential that was vetted by the law department, went to the NPUs, the
response from the NPUs was not that we want less tree protection we wanted more.
That has been taken out along with everything else.
What I would urge you to do, if you can do that, is to reinstate, at least, the single-family
residential part of the tree ordinance that covers, basically, it only covers medium and large-sized
lots.
Small-sized lots are exempt from it.
I also want to make just a couple of comments about some of the information that's been
to you about what the ordinance will or will not do to certain development projects.
We have looked at site plans.
Some of the things that have been brought to you, or people said, well, we can't do affordable
housing in this subdivision because it would take a certain amount of land.
People did not read the text.
There's a choice.
It did not take their land and on top of it, the lot sizes were so small that they would have
been exempt from the ordinance and has been represented to you that people are going to lose
lots and all that kind of stuff.
The single-family residential part is well-vetted.
I will not disagree that we need some more discussion
on the commercial side.
I agree that there needs to be more discussion there.
But there's a lot that we can do.
And what is being asked is to throw out all of it
after all this work, all this collaboration.
People are asking for more collaboration.
We've had 10 years of collaboration.
We need to get this done.
Thank you.
All right. Thank you. Next speaker is Dennis Harrow followed by Carson Brown.
Good afternoon, council members.
And I needed Dennis Harrow done with growth homes. We're in affordable housing builder. And we currently build in Atlanta.
Birmingham, Alabama and Dallas taxes.
Our unique mission is to provide affordable housing for home ownership.
a more challenging pursuit than typical multifamily solution to the affordable and workforce housing crisis that we have.
We have a current commitment to produce 1,000 single family homes in the city of Atlanta focusing on historically red line neighborhoods in Atlanta.
As a part of a 1,000 home commitment, we have two existing communities in the late planning stages.
Breyerwood, which is a 100-unit community located across from Green Breyer Mall, and our second
one located at 1981 County Line Road.
With financial support from the City of Atlanta, we will be able to provide homes for families
aren't in between 80% and 100% of the area of the median income.
As I'm sure you can understand, the impact of the proposed triordnance on the already low margins
associated with these projects, which has made them unfeasible.
As a proposed ordinance is currently written, regardless of the intent.
It is in direct opposition to what we see as the current administration's mission to provide
affordable housing by placing an inordinate financial burden on projects such as ours.
In a specific example, our county line road project, right now we are at a 30% dvh under
the current guidelines that would cost us with, we have $30,000 plus DBH at the $30,000,
we're right at a million dollars.
If we go up to $118, that's going to take us up to $3.5 million dollars.
So that's a $2.5 million increase just in the first year increase.
And that would just simply make this project unsustainable for us.
Our initial response when introduced to the proposed ordinance was, why change something
that's working. And I may be a little uninformed, based on some of the comments that preceded
me, it appears that it's not working, but in our world it's working and it's costing us.
And one example we had to pay about $13,000 for one single family house detached that went on
market for about $350,000.
That's not sustainable.
We would encourage you to continue to concept the max
recompense at 30%.
Because this encourages developers to say 30% of the trees,
which is a strong tree protection ordinance.
And we encourage you not to raise the qualifying
for max recompense above the 30%.
We understand and agree that preserving
treatment canopy is critical for a host of reasons.
We simply need a better balance.
be trained preserving, treat canopy, and furthering the Council's agenda for affordable housing.
Thank you, Ms. Harold. Time has expired. Thank you.
Next speaker is Carson Brown.
Good afternoon, Council members. My name is Carson Brown, and I'm with the Council for Quality
Growth. I will come before you to say that we support changes made to the May 12 draft ordinance,
but it's important that both affordable housing waivers and maximum recompense fees continue to
be part of this ordinance. We would propose instituting maximum recompense fees that are
level, the current amount, and the current ordinance, and additionally we would support adding
language regarding affordable housing, waivers, that for both for sale and rental units
that our builders are able to take advantage of without the use of deed restrictions in
other way and use restriction agreements, which limited the ability of home buyers to build equity
in their home in their purchase homes. We would encourage you to consider both of those items,
and we hope that you will reconsider or consider re-implementing both affordable housing waivers
and maximum occupants, caps and this TPO.
Thank you.
Our next speaker is Kevin Norton, followed by Garrett Wiley.
Good afternoon, Council members.
My name is Kevin Norton.
I'm a senior vice president of Land Development for Empark communities.
Well, maybe painted that developers and builders would love to just cut down trees for
development.
I can assure you that it's not the case.
We participated in meeting meetings over the years and trying to find reasonable solutions.
And as you guys all know that you've been working hard on this, it's it's it's it's a tenuous balance.
As developers and builders, we seek balance so that trees can be say while also allowing development to continue affordably.
Affordable affordably means not only cost of trees, but ability to develop land.
If the TPO is too strange and undeveloped, the affordability in the city will suffer and
development will start forcing a crisis of another type, where we will not have enough
housing for the increasing population.
We are here today to applaud city planning office for releasing this May 1st, I'm sorry,
May 12th, 2 phase draft of the trepute action ordinance that responsibly delays portions of
the TPO that need to be project tested with the zoning 2.0.
We do, however, have some suggestions for adoption under this phase that include retaining
the maximum recompense and bringing back the affordability waivers.
We know that this phase 1 approach will provide protections for trees and with registration
requirements and heavier penalties will punish bad actors within the city.
We want to remind everyone that the development community has participated for years in these
drafts.
As the development community, we have presented example, for example, of how the May 1st version
of the TPO would have halted residential and commercial development, including affordable housing
projects, even built by habitat for humanity.
The greatest challenges we have had, we have found, are that the solutions posed for preservation
and or conservation practices do not work with the city's underlying zoning code.
For the TPO to be most effective, it truly needs to be tested with the zoning 2.0.
that includes single family and commercial projects.
The zoning code is the backbone of city planning and the tree protection ordinance is a
subordinate ordinance that supports that zoning code.
Thank you for your time. Thank you for your continued efforts in this.
Thank you. Next we have Garrett Wyland.
You have three minutes.
Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and committee members. My name is Garrett Wyland, the vice president of government affairs
for the Greater White Home Builders Association.
Our association is, we have 1200 company members.
About half of those are builders,
or modelers, developers.
The other half are service providers.
That's support our industry.
I have not spoken in front of you publicly in a couple of years,
because we have followed the process of choosing
our designated person to participate in the collaborative
working group.
So Jim Cheeks has been speaking to you
reflecting our opinions and our views on contributing to this ordinance.
But I didn't want to give an overview of what it means and what a common misconception
is with a developer and what a developer is.
Within our 600 builders, 2% of those are what we consider a large commercial or
a large volume developer.
The others are small business owners.
And these are the ones that are building in the city of Atlanta.
They build one to five homes a year.
That's the majority of our membership.
A lot of them do remodels and additions to homes.
So with the preservation standards
that were targeted more towards the single family
residential side, more than any other,
I think this is who this was affecting.
And we believe that when you look at the amount of available land
here in the city of Atlanta, that we must protect the ones
want to continue to be here and work here. And with that, with a previous ordinance in place,
we were having folks that were just saying we will never come back. We'll never come back to
the city and be able to build here. So again, I'm going to go ahead and set down and support the letter.
Our name was on the letter that was submitted to you earlier today and asked that you
continue to take a little bit of time. Look at the max recompense fees. Look at considering
bringing back in the affordable housing waivers and also ensuring the fact that we
make sure this coincides with zoning 2.0 and the water shed regulations. So with that,
I thank you for all the work that you all have done and for listening to both sides of the aisle.
If you will on this issue, I know it's been an exhausting process and
best that you please consider our request.
Thank you.
Our next speaker is Jeff Brunk.
Good afternoon.
Jeff Brunk with Brockville.
I wanted to kind of sound like a little bit of a broken record here.
Max Reckon events got to have it.
You know, that's something that we feel is not negotiable.
You know, at least give us the idea of what's the worst case scenario when we're looking at a piece of property.
In addition to that, you know,
The affordable housing waivers. I know that there are some discussions about people wanting limited to the percentage of affordability on a piece of project. That's not how deals get financed. So the market rate units on a project are helping to subsidize the affordable units.
If you penalize the market rate by increasing the cost of the tree protection ordinance or recommends fees, you will then remove the potential subsidy from the affordable housing units.
You know, we can show you how the financial models work on those, there's plenty of bright people that understand that.
One of the other things I really want to see that we feel very passionate about is moving the review of the Arborist to the front of the line.
Right now we go through, we buy a piece of property, we do all of our due diligence, we go through civil engineering designs, everything, the Arborist is the last person to review the plans.
move them to the front, you know, do a binding pre-application meeting where we can sit down
and discuss these things and look at the trees and figure out, do we want to buy this
piece of property, do we want to take the risk, you know, you do that, we can stop arguing
about a lot of this, you know, we, we have had one site where we've had a greenfield site
cutting trees, most of the stuff we do, we developed an old junkyard, two different trucking
facilities, a recycling facility around the west side of Atlanta, so we're not out cut
and trees, but we are doing our best to deliver affordable housing.
I was talking about utilities last time I was here.
I think that I'm going to echo that again.
We need to make sure that we are taking into consideration our utility work and the problems
that the city of Atlanta has with its old infrastructure that needs to be taken into account
with the impacts of the street protection ordinance.
So, it's all I got.
Appreciate it. Thank you.
All right, thank you.
And our last speaker for today is Frankie Elliott.
I got after a new Monday's Frankie Elliott
and Land of Commercial Board of Realtors.
I just want to reiterate what we said earlier,
regarding the recompense, max recompense fees
and also the affordable housing waiver.
But I also wanted to point out
one of the issues that we brought up in the letter
you received had to do with what the gentleman,
Mr. Rock just spoke about which was the pre-application planning meeting.
I think there's a lot of value in making that a binding part of this process because I think that's where the
Arborist and developer can sit down together and look at what the highest and best use of that property and how best to preserve what's there.
So at the very beginning, everybody goes into a development or looks at a piece of property and understands right away what the protection
or needs to be what the replanting needs to be.
And we start that process right at front.
So there's no additional cost at the end of it.
Everybody understands what's going on.
And also, just reminding you what's included in this ordinance
also is in the appeals process and a notice process.
So there's plenty of opportunity throughout this
for people to participate in what happens
on these lots and how they're developed.
So I would really encourage you in addition
to the two other items, the recompense,
and the affordable housing waiver to strongly consider
making those pre-application or pre-site
approval process, finding within that process.
Thank you so much.
Again, thank you so much for agreeing to work with us,
and continuing conversations on this issue.
Thank you.
And thank you to everyone who signed up today for public comment.
This does take us to our presentations.
Section of our agenda.
We have two presentations today.
Our first is the Department of Grants Community Development.
We'll welcome up commissioner on it.
Good afternoon, Chair Winston and CDHS Council members and team.
I have a fairly quick presentation for you today.
You are familiar with DGCD's model.
We are the Department of Grants and Community Development, and I'm the Board of
Learning and I'm Service Commissioner.
I'm model is we are DGCD doing good in our community, grounded in service, committed to
moving a lens of forward and dedicated to excellence.
The Department focuses on four primary areas.
HUD is how the mid funds are at the largest portion of our
charge, where we deal with the facilitation and
implementation and monitoring of the allocation from the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for
Community Development Block Grant, CDBG, Home Investment
Partnership Program, Home Emergency Solutions Grant,
ESG, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS,
And then we also have an old version of a Section 8 program.
I believe we are actually the last grantee, at least in the state,
that still operates this Section 8 moderate rehab program.
We are tasked also with applying for an implementing competitive grants,
but then also assisting other city events to departments with their federal
applications for grants.
And then lastly, we're closing out the city's federal recovery funds known as NSP.
I know you are very familiar with these slides, so I'll go through it quickly for the benefit
of those watching in the public.
These next slides list the priorities that we consider when awarding and reviewing and monitoring CDBG, ESG,
I change a little bit, I change the format of the presentation for our funding.
I have been listening for you, I think, for the past three years, the individual reimbursement
requests.
I believe you know now that we are current, we are reimbursement faster than ever before,
and are exceeding 2 CFR regulations, 2 CFR requirements of 30 days for reimbursing our
subrecipients. We are averaging 22 days or less for those reimbursements. So unless you
tell me you wish that you wish for me to return to the previous format, what I'll do
going forward is just list for you to total to date of the amounts paid out in reimbursements.
These numbers are for our payments made through May 16th.
So, the City's Department of Grants and Community Development has reimbursed
subrecipients who are providing services with CDBG funds, 689,645, CDBGCV, which were
our COVID funds, 238,157, ESG, 137,629, healthy homes, which is one of our newer competitive
of grants, 2127, those reimbursements did not go to
subrecipients, those reimbursements for trainings and other such things that HUD has mandated.
The home program, we reimburse 1.5, almost $1.6 million, home ARP, which is home CV funds, $2.4 million,
The
next slide will reflect our grant balances today. This information is provided specifically so that you can track what the city was awarded versus how much we have remaining, as you are aware there are timelines attached to each grant.
And each grant year, so CDBG funds, by instance, are good for seven years.
Home funds are good for eight years, ESG funds are good for 24 months, and hopper funds are
good for three years.
So each year attaches a different term to each of those funds, and we just want to keep you informed.
For FY17 funds, the only remaining amount we have is for the Home program, and that balance
is approximately $352,000.
For FY 18, we have home funds remaining at $1,851 to 11.
For FY 19, we have CDBG funds of just $2,017 remaining
from the more than $7 million allocated.
And then home funds of $1.6 million.
For FY 20, we have balances for CDBG, CDBG, CV, and home.
These numbers, as I mentioned, were as of May 16th, but then last week, we drew down additional funds.
So, the CTVG CV balance is actually 1,059,653 and 53 cents.
For FY21, we have CTVG home and home art funds remaining.
For FY22, we have CTVG home and Hopua, but the Hopua funds has since been further expended.
in the balance there is 1,840,054 dollars in 93 cents for FY203.
We have funds remaining for CTVG home and hop 1.
However, the hop with funds have been further extended and the balance there is 8,594,875
and 34 cents and FY204 we have the balances remaining here.
So the last time I stated that for this year, drawdowns completed as of May 16, total $21,428, $34 and $68.
However, with those additional drawdowns, because of the additional funds that have been expended, as of May 23rd, the total amount is $22,264,698.
We recently, meeting two weeks ago, received our city of Atlanta FY-25 HUD allocation for
our community development planning programs. This is the federal government's FY-25.
So, fiscal year 25, and almost recent allocations are reflected here, we will now add once that grant
agreement is fully executed, 6,602,130,000 to the CDBG grant, 2,331,804, and 29 cents for
home, 15,399 and 142 for hoport, and 5,988,623 for ESG. So effective from the date that these
grant agreements are executed. These funds for CDBG will be good for seven years. The home funds
will be good for eight years. The hop of funds will be good for three years. And the ESG funds will
be good for two years.
The next slide is going into the total number of clients served for the last
calendar years. So last calendar year or our program year, we served almost 18,000 city of the
to residents with the funds expanded during that year, not the entirety of the funds awarded,
but the funds expanded during that calendar year. And I do want to stress here that the majority
of the 17,798 residents serve may less than 30% of AMI. So for instance, a family of four would be
making less than $21,000. And so these are resources that are in fact needed and are used to leverage
day-to-day needs and just basic necessities for Atlanta residents and for hop was specifically
we started more than Atlanta residents as that includes 29 counties.
All of the other funds are limited specifically to the city of Atlanta.
In the 2026 budget presentation last year for the Department of Grandson Community Development,
And I did share that the federal funding crisis is in fact the source of daily concern and
trepidation for our department.
The concern applies not only to the funds that were just allocated because those grant agreements
have yet to be executed, but also to the funds that have already been awarded and are being
expanded.
Never before have we had funds frozen that have been previously awarded and are being expanded,
But because we experienced that recently, it remains an ongoing concern for us.
The city is now able to access those funds again, and we're moving quickly to encourage
our subrecipients to spend properly and timely so that we can reimburse what they spend.
But that federal crisis is a concern for funds that have yet to be allocated.
it. The federal government's FY206 funds reflects zeroing out a CDBG and home and folding
hop-away into a different program, and we are just uncertain what that means going forward.
We can do as a department that can see to educate you also, you can spread the good news,
the administration, all about advocates, all of our subrecipients, and all of the community
members and residents who will listen to that they can understand the economic impact and the
true need of these funds.
Healthy homes is a newer program that is lead capacity.
Healthy homes allows us to identify hazards, economic hazards, in low to moderate income residents
homes, and then mitigate those hazards.
And lead capacity allows us to help build the city's capacity for those subrecipients
who will go out and help us mitigate and address
lead in homes of low to moderate income residents.
What's next for us?
The 2025 NOFA notice of funding availability is pending.
We actually released applications and started the process
on April 28th, and that process will close tomorrow.
We were sure to share all of our advertisements,
our opportunities for training, and seminars
for those who are either interested in these funds
or are applying to continue providing the resources.
We sent all of that information out to you.
We were very diligent about providing individual seminars and trainings,
and that process will close tomorrow.
And then the Department will begin its review of all applications.
We will make recommendations to Mayor's office,
and we will bring those recommendations to you for approval.
Out 20, 25, 20, 29, consolidated plan is due to HUD, and we have completed the selection of the third party consultants.
The draft has been submitted. We sent it back reviewing where we're reviewing again.
We will submit that to Mayor's office, and that also will come to you for ultimate approval.
And that concludes my quarterly presentation for the Department of Grants and Community Development.
And I will gladly answer any questions that you have.
I think you commissioned the last time you weren't in front of us, you were kind of sound of the alarm about the lack of communication coming from HUD and the federal government just wanted to see how that was going now.
It's the same.
We understand that our local representatives have been instructed to reduce the amount of communications that they are providing.
that did not come from CPD. They didn't tell me that they're not allowed to speak with me just to be clear because I know
HUD watches these presentations. But we can tell we used to have daily weekly by weekly communications and
conversations and they're just not happening emails or a few and far between and we're not getting
responses that are needed just to process our day-to-day operations. So we're doing the best we can.
We have systems in place, we have pauses and procedures that have been previously approved
by HUD, and we are operating under those same pauses and procedures, but we have not seen
an increase in communication.
Any other questions, comments from colleagues?
Let's see you now.
We appreciate you coming in.
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you.
Our next quarterly update will be in best Atlanta, Dr. Cumminsage.
Good afternoon.
My name is Eloise Cementage, proud president and CEO here at Invest at Atlanta.
I have asked the team to come to make a very swift presentation on three specific topics.
It's one to give you enough date on the water grants.
Then we will talk about the tax allocation district and then we'll end specifically on the
about-line SSD. So with that, I'm going to turn over to Lori and leads our economic development team.
Jennifer, who leads our community development and tax allocation district team, and then Nino, who is our CFO.
Lori.
Good afternoon. Following the water main disruption in May in June, 2024, and thanks to the
swift leadership of Mayor Dickens and this Council, Invest at Lantau Ronside to Media at
Lee, speaking with businesses, and we launched a water recovery program within just 48 hours
to support our impacted businesses.
To date, the program has delivered measurable results.
472 small businesses funded,
4,458,000 total grants awarded,
and with an average grant amount of 9,446 dollars and 61 cents.
3,625 employees compensated,
and a median annual business revenue of 602,394.
So the following graph illustrates the reach and the impact of the program today,
underscoring our shared commitment to rapid response and small business resilience.
We continue to be efficient stewards of the city's funds and we are finalizing internal
reconciliation or awaiting final confirmations from our compliance and audit. Next slide, please.
You know we like to talk about data and stats. I like to put faces with data, so Mr. Chair,
you'll recognize this face in the picture. This is Mr. and Mrs.
This is Mr. and Mrs. Jeanette Kat, who were in your district and were affected and thanks
to the support of this council and this administration. She kept her doors open and was able
to support her employees and she wanted me to relay thanks and appreciation to everyone here.
That's that's my piece right there if anybody has any questions on the world.
We'll do questions. We'll save questions for the end, but thank you, Laura.
Great. Good afternoon everybody. Jennifer fine in best at Lanta. Again, I guess I'm going to try to be very brief and at the end
dive into any questions in comments that you might have. So I'm going to give again a quick overview of the projects that we have approved so far in
25 in the city's eight active tax allocation districts.
Always like to start off with how important it is to note the breadth of how
TAD Financing is directly impacting people.
And it's really one of the only if not the only public financing tool to impact retention
of jobs and small businesses and helping them grow by providing access to otherwise
in accessible financing, TAD is very unique in that it can fund environmental remediation work
on land that would otherwise sit undeveloped, reactivating these areas creates public open
spaces and parks. I think we all know the active role that TAD plays in the creation of
affordable housing. In a nutshell, we're trying to solve really complicated and significant
issues and you'll see this a little bit in this presentation, but as I present quarterly,
really trying to drill in on office to residential conversion, small business activation,
as key priorities for how we implement TAD financing.
Syslide gives an overview, again, of the projects so far in 2025.
We've approved 14 projects or initiatives in five tax allocation districts.
Again, representing a wide range of project types and geography.
As you can see, over 42 million in TAD Financing has been awarded, which in turn will leverage
over $273 million of private investment into the city of Atlanta.
These projects represent 682 housing units of which 302 will be affordable at AMI area median
income limits ranging from 30 to 80%.
tab funding will also be used to redevelopment vacant commercial space and to need a neighborhood
serving retail and restaurant use. So just an overview map showing the location of these 14
projects and initiatives. In particular we're happy to see projects in the Perry Bolton Tad as well
as the west side in the Beltline but Perry Bolton Tad is an area of increased importance for
lots of reasons, development, activity, but also we have a funding availability in the
in the PeriVolent tab.
This is an overview of all the project details for these 14 projects, just as it take
away for you, and then the last couple slides will dive into what these projects are going
to look like, who they serve, where they're located, to hopefully get you excited about
that the work that we're doing.
Project on top, we are extremely excited about it's been a long time coming.
It should look very familiar to you.
This is the complete redevelopment of 143 Alabama through an RFP process.
Gorman and company was selected to completely redevelop the vacant property,
as well as some adjacent parcels and two phases.
Phase one A is the stabilization, security, and activation of the property
prior to the World Cup. That's obviously going to involve some physical improvements. You'll
see to the building some reactivation of a surface parking lot in the back to capitalize on
the World Cup activities as well as some community activities signifying the redevelopment
of the property and then phase one B will be the actual conversion of the building into 50 units
affordable housing. The developer just recently, last week, applied for 9% tax credits through
DCA. Hopefully those will be awarded. And then later on phase 2, you can see it in the
far right image in the background. That will be new construction on the vacant property of 151
affordable units. So all told, the $3.5 million west side grant was awarded for the first phase,
phase one and one A and one B.
And we're actually going to have a project
groundbreaking on June 5th that's just been announced.
So hopefully we'll see you there.
Bottom image shows the adaptive reuse
of the 100 year old warehouse buildings cut rate box,
which a lot of us are familiar with if we ride
Marta to the airport.
You can see them to the left, right adjacent to the outline.
So the project will involve multimodal
transit oriented retail office and residential space to create a really key gateway to the
Beltline Trail adjacent to the Murphy Crossing site.
The development will include 1226 lost-style apartments as well as over 12,000 square feet
of ground floor commercial and an additional 3,200 square feet of retail space located in
an outbuildings and or containers along a Beltline spur.
$3 million about line tag grant was awarded to aid in this $53 million development with an estimated
2026 completion date.
Then the last of my projects slides show some, again, very unique projects that really
only tad can help finance.
Top slide shows the complete renovation of a long vacant small commercial building in South
downtown into a new El Tassaro restaurant, just down the street from us at 171 Mitchell Street.
$50,000 East Side Tads small business improvement grant was awarded to help the local
business owner with build out of an ultimately $2.7 million project that's being done
in conjunction with the property owners, Soto, South Downtown. So we're extremely excited about
as the restaurant is a local success story piggybacking off of its original location in the
edgewood neighborhood, as well as its second location at Leanne White. Project Activate's
a key property at the intersection of broad and Mitchell, the center of Soto's redevelopment
of their south-down portfolio. And then the imagery on the bottom is a 20 unit infill development
on two vacant residential lots on James P. Brawley Boulevard in the English-Nap English Avenue
neighborhood. The developer has been a resident of the neighborhood for over 10 years and has
been developing properties in the neighborhood since 2007. We're always extremely happy to help
support small local developers who are in turn aligned with our mission and priority to create
quality affordable housing.
I think this one should be my last slide.
Again, just to wrap up and to give an overview
of the numbers related to these 14 projects
that I just talked about, but also just driving home
that these projects directly impact people,
the residents, and the employees in the city of Atlanta,
and then I can't overstate how incredibly difficult
the work is, development is very difficult right now.
general, um, TAD, one of the most robust tools that we have to help get projects over the
finish line, um, and we're committed to the work and TAD is a critical piece, um, of the
success of these developments in the city. And I think with that, I'll turn it over to Nina.
Good afternoon. I'm Nina Chapada, the CFO here at Embest Atlanta. Uh, 2021 bonds were issued to help
the completion of the Beltline Trail. 88 million was available for projects at issuance.
Through March 31st, 2025, around 80% of those funds have been spent leaving a balance of 18.6 million.
This balance is anticipated to be spent by the end of fiscal year 26.
Collections for the last two tax years of seven and eight million respectively are sufficient
to cover the debt service. That concludes the Beltline Special Services District update.
And I will turn it back over to Dr. Clementage.
Thank you, team. And just open it up now to the Council for any questions you may have.
Thank you, Dr. Clementage. We got some folks queuing up.
We'll start with Council Member Jason Beijer.
Thank you, Mr. Chair and good to see you, Dr. Clementage.
A couple of quick questions. The first one, Lexi Business Program.
How's it going so far? What's that engagement low like so far?
Yeah. I'm going to turn it to Lord.
I actually spoke about this at our budget meeting and commended both this council and yourself
for being instrumental. It's going really well. We've had a lot of people sign up to our
Atlanta local legacy app. If you haven't already, done it. It's online. We've had a lot of outreach
to legacy businesses and they've really appreciated the face-to-face engagement as well. And the legacy
empowerment grant was launched on May 1st and we have had, I think, 23 applicants and there's
some in process right now, we've hosted in-person webinar and in-person events as well,
and it's been very well received, so thank you so much for asking the question.
Absolutely, and just my ask for your team is that's in the self-start collecting data and
figuring out outcomes and having success stories, I don't love to see that because for me as I
talk to potential funders and potential supporters, I want to make sure I have that information
armed array to go so we can make sure we can grow to program as we move forward.
I'm there with you.
All right.
And then my other question I had was about the TADS.
So Jennifer, with the quarter TADS and with the stadium TAD, my understanding was that
expected to close around 2030-2031, but on the presentation it has 2050, is that a change
that we're working on or if you can talk through that?
Yeah, we're identifying the longest term of commitment and APS has pledged support in those
corridor tabs through 2050. That was part of the 2018 omnibus category. So we probably should have
the way that we're
Identifying that is the longest term that we have from the support of a tax and jurisdiction.
Okay. Has what about full and county? Full and county so far does not extend to 2050.
Okay. But the APS portion does.
Okay. And what percentage of the full and county contribution is in the overall revenue stream for our tax funding?
for those.
APS, the APS portion of the contribution is about, I mean, the Fulton County portion is about
24 percent.
Okay.
And then my other question with the Beltline tag and also the Beltline SSD, I know 2030-2031,
we're trying to get the trail wrapped up.
However, it's just a larger conversation about how do we finance transit on the Beltline?
I'm curious, on one hand, if there's been an exploration of extending that tab out to support
a few of the trans operation, and, secondly, if there's an exploration about the SSD
and using that as a tool to support transit on the belt line as well, recognizing that both
are, I imagine there would need to be so much a solution or some changes to expand either the scope
of what can be spent on with those funding streams or also extending that out, but
recognizing the changes that have been made to the east side.
Street card extension is some exploratory work that's happening in my district on the
Southwest Rail. I'm very curious to see what we can do to support getting rail, getting
friends on a belt line, do our existing tools, and I know this might be a strong vehicle for
that, so I'm packed at a little bit.
So the answer is yes, we are looking at all options from the tad to more philanthropic
to other partners, to even government, federal funding, even the way we've seen a couple changes,
but really trying to explore always to try to understand how we can get there, because the goal is how we can get there.
So all of the options are currently on the table.
Okay.
The magic can't go into more detail right now.
Got it.
You know, I understood.
I think all I have, Mr. Chair, are you all good to see you all again?
Thank you.
Next we'll have questions from council member.
Thank you. And I was always the policy wonk of council managed to knock out a good bit.
Just a few short questions, short being relative.
The section 8 housing updates, the section 8 piece that we adopted in year one, that
invested really led the way on, where we did any money coming from you all to any
development, those developers would have to be register with Atlanta housing and accept
Section 8 vouchers.
We did put a requirement on number but we did pass that year one and I don't expect
you to have the numbers today but if you someone from the team could get me the numbers of
how many projects that have been enforced with that would be very helpful.
Most of our projects have them so I would say it's probably 100% but I'm going to go back and
check with the team.
Thank you.
Similar to a customer dozer would love to be armed with those statistics and facts.
You'll have been doing a lot in Sweden, and obviously that's been a big focal point for me.
And my district, especially not that FIFA should be the momentum for us to pour into this corridor.
But obviously trying to ride the wave of that momentum.
And best is obviously that they're long before all the attention is input there.
So how are our developments?
I know that there were some of the wheat-free properties that many have been given to and a few other buildings.
and I haven't seen much movement on those so curious as to where we are.
Yeah, I'll let Jennifer, she's dealing directly with developers.
Sorry.
I think your question was about the projects that you know have been approved in sweet Auburn
and kind of just development activity.
So the ones that are the most obvious to speak to are the ones where you can see the activity,
like sweet Auburn grand, like front porch, like Georgia works.
Those are all, you know, either complete or in the throws of being complete.
You mentioned Wheat Street specifically we approved two projects from Wheat Street. One was
renovation kind of redevelopment of the education portion of the United States and they did a fantastic job.
Yes, so that one so you already know that one's complete toward it and good and then the other one and quite honestly
So this I actually owe a follow-up conversation to them
We've had conversations several months ago. It's the building
We're talking about the property that's the building that is on the same lot as
I want to say it's not the Mason building, but yes, it's that baking building.
We awarded a resurgence grant super excited about it because it provides opportunity for ground floor.
Retail.
And it hasn't stalled.
There will be activity, but it was very much delayed because it had an anchor tenant that was supposed to go in there restaurant use.
That is no longer going to be located in that building.
Okay. So the update that I need to get is how successful they've been in attracting another anchor tenant for that ground floor because the viability, the financing, the cash flow of it kind of depends on that.
So that one hasn't started yet. So I get information as of this week and I can report back, but that is definitely kind of on our radar to keep track of that.
Thank you.
Because they have done a really good job with the resources
they've been getting from you all.
Yeah, so sometimes with projects,
I get concerned about whether a project's actually going
to advance, because that does happen.
It's really difficult work.
Doesn't happen a ton.
This one, I'm not concerned about that so much.
It's more just really wanting to capitalize on this other
momentum, but understanding how important that anchor
tended is.
And if they're trying to go for restaurant use,
That's a very difficult and very specific, so I can appreciate them being deliberate about that.
And so I think that's the case right now, but I'll call them and find out.
Thank you.
And his investment involved with the Butler Y project with Gorman or is that a separate?
So they will be, I mean, we ultimately, I think, will be.
So it's been on our pipeline for a long, long time.
I know in the building is that buildings have come down, so we're moving it along.
We did help with the technical assistance pre-development,
e-cci-tad funds helping to generate and get that project to a level of readiness.
And so I anticipate they will be applying for e-cci-tad grant funding for that project.
Thank you, and I know we talked about startup business locations and kind of the initiative you have going,
and I know that my team is working with you on that.
And I hear about to reopen that, so we found locations were very excited to work with you on that project.
And I was gonna ask how close were we at the Georgia Works building being done. Yes
So we just we would just did a tour in there a couple months ago and it looked
I mean really really good. So I can't tell you right now
I don't want to understand well if you can get out but if you were in there maybe three months ago
That's pretty good full gas
Looked amazing. They were super excited
They had a little bit of a gap of funding that they were trying to solve for, like everybody, but I'll call the executive director and find out, but
That is not a project that I'm concerned about. Okay, that's really good to be amazing. Great.
I'm very excited to hear that. And then I'll be remiss by the ask.
Gursley store update. Good.
I'm very excited to see a good or be on edge with location in June, so very happy with those.
are opening day? June 26 we're looking at. Great. Thank you and if I may ask and I know this is
off the topic of this but can we please make sure to it's an invite to the seniors to come
set because they're very excited. And I will flag this for later to talk to them best about the
front porch project obviously their difficulties of getting that people to move in because of the
complexities of that location. I do want to move on because I don't want to hold my colleagues hostage
But that is a project I want to discuss with you all because of that aim for project does fail.
I believe that it will be very bad for the court.
So I do want to speak to that.
I know we're in a bit of a holding pattern and trying to figure out what to do.
But if we could, if someone on the team could reach out.
So we can speak about that.
It would be very helpful.
Happy to.
Thank you.
We've been joined by Councilmember Andrea Boone.
Any other questions coming from colleagues?
I'll see you know, and thank you, Dr. Memphis, thank you everyone for showing up today.
I appreciate the quarterly update, so we'll get going with our regular agenda items.
That takes us to section G communications.
I don't number one, 25 C, 0068.
A communication from time your career, county clerk to the Fulton County Board of Commissioners,
submitting the appointment of Mr. Jeff Mullivay to serve as a member of the BOT line text
allocation district advisory committee this appointment is for it's time of two years.
This item will need to be held.
So I'll make a motion to hold.
I'm going to second by backyard. Please open the boat.
The boat is open.
Will everyone please vote?
All right.
Excuse me.
It's close to 6.009 this item is held in committee.
That takes us to our consent agenda
or to think ordinances for first reading.
I don't number 3, 25, all 13, 19 and ordinance by Community Development Human Services Committee
on behalf of the Department of Grants and Community Development to amend the cities 2015 through 2018
consolidated plan and the 2018 annual action plan budget for the purpose of reprogramming home
investment partnership programs funds and an amount not to exceed 1,020,521 dollars in
for continued contract services with radio and development partners LLC and EQ housing LLC
all contractive work shall be charged to and pay from the council's adhering and for the purposes.
I don't number 4.
25.
13.
20.
An ordinance by Community Development Human Services Committee on behalf of the Department of Grants and Community
Development.
So amend the cities 2015 through 2019.
Consolidated Plan, the 2020-2024, Consolidated Plan, the 2019 Community Development Grant Fund Budget,
the 2020 Community Development Grant Fund Budget, and the 2021 Community Development Grant Fund Budget,
for the purpose of re-programming community development block grant programs funds,
and an amount not to exceed $50,000 in zero cents. To fund the CBBG,
Kemperson Road, Sire Walk Improvement Project, all contracted work shall be charged to
impede from the council's adhering and for the purposes.
I don't number 5, 25, 013, 21, and ordinance by Community Development Human Services Committee,
authorized in the mayor or his deputy on behalf of the City of Elanta to enter into an easement
agreement with Elanta Independent School System to provide a public trail known as the
trail spur located at 1550 Joseia Williams Drive northeast to authorize the mayor on behalf
of the city of Elancer to execute the easement agreement and further purposes.
That takes us to our regular agenda, ordinances for second reading, item number 6, 25O 1163
and ordinance by constant member Michael Julian Barnes will amend the F-2025 budget to transfer
funds in the amount of $200,000 in 0 cents to the Elancer's student movement trust fund
we're still into ordinance 19 0 11 56 and further purposes. Thank you. I was
understand this item needed to be held.
So I'll make a motion hold.
The vote
is open.
The vote is closed six shades zero names. This item is held. Item
number. If there is no objection from the committee can we take item 7 through
12 and item 15 as a block. Yes, please proceed. Item number 7 25 0 12 63.
CDP-25006, an ordinance by Community Development and Human Services Committee, to amend the land use
element of the 2021, a Lansing Comprehensive Development Plan, so as to read this, name property
located at 481-485 and 495 West Lake Avenue, Northwest, 1595-1607-1617 and 1625, North Avenue, Northwest
15, 9, B, 1600, 16, 18, 16, 21, and 16, 26, pasty place, Northwest, 480 and 492, and
on Wood Road, Northwest, from the low density residential for zero to eight units per
acre land use designation to the low density residential land use designation and for the
I'm number eight, 25, 01264, CDP 25, 007, and ordinance by Community Development Human Services Committee.
So I'm in the land use element of the 2021, and I'm in comprehensive development plan.
So as the redesignate property located at 1138 Glenwood Avenue southeast from the low-density residential land use designation to the mixed use medium-density land use designation and further purposes.
Item number nine, 25, 01265.
CDP-2512, an ordinance by Community Development Human Services Committee to amend the
land use element of the 2021 Alliance of Comprehensive Development Plan, so as to read
that's a great property located at 2945 Forest Park Rose Southeast from the single family
residential land use designation, to the industrial land use designation and for other purposes.
I don't number 10, 25, 012, 66, CDP 2513, an ordinance by community development him and services committee.
So I'm in the land use element of the 2021 alanth the comprehensive development plan.
So as to redesign property, located at 1280, Chattaguchi Avenue, Northwest, from the industrial land use designation to the high density residential land use designation, the number of the purposes.
Item number 11, 2502 of 67, CDP-2515, an ordinance by Community Development and Human Services
Committee to amend the land use element of the 2021 and Lancet Comprehensive Development.
So as to redesign a property located at 1944, St. John Circle Southwest, from the single
family residential land use designation to the medium density residential land use designation
and for the purposes item number 12, 25, 0, 12, 68, CDP, 25, 16, and ordinance by
community development.
He miservices committee to amend the land use element of the 2021 Lansing
Comprehensive Development Plan, so as to re-designate property located at 3335
Salto Avenue Southeast, from the medium density residential land use designation, so
to use slow density land use designation and for the purposes item number 15,
25, 013, 03, and ordinance by council members Andrea Elblum, Dustin Hillist,
Marcy Coyote, Orber Street and Matt Whistmoreland to resign from R4 to MR3 for
property located at 745 Bolton Road to modify the official zoning map and for the
purposes. All these items will need to be held for a public hearing.
I'll make a motion to hold and second my backyard please open the vote the vote is
opened
for one moment the
vote is closed seven years your names these items are
hailed in committee that takes us to item number 13 25 out school 93 in
ordinance by council members Jason Wiston and Matt Worst-Morning
Maria Dr. 2013 Lakewood Liverpool Center's an issue to study without my
modification because the purpose of reactivating the plan and for the
purposes. I'll make almost two approve. Second
vibe was more than could please open the vote.
The
vote is open.
The vote is closed. 780 nice. This item is
favorable. I don't number 14. 25 out 12 99 and ordinance by
Councilmember Dustin Hillis authorizing the mayor or his
designated need on behalf of the city of Atlanta to
enter into one temporary access and construction
easement agreement into a permanent access and
utilities easement agreement with three B South LLC. So relocate
certain city installed infrastructure from adjacent property. So authorized
the mayor on behalf of the city of Atlanta to execute the easement
agreements and any other agreements necessary to effectuate the
purpose of this ordinance and for the purposes. Thank you, colleagues. This was
just my understanding that this was to remove some city property on the
Shirley Clark Franklin Park. So I'll make almost two approve. So second.
I'm going to say.
I'm going to say goodbye to you.
Please open the book.
The vote is open.
Well, everyone, please vote.
The vote is closed.
7.8.0.
Nice.
This item is favorable.
That takes us to item number 16.
25.0.
13.0.
Four.
And orange is by council members.
I'm Julia Elbomb.
Marci car.
Your overstreet.
Dustin Hillis.
Michael Julian Bond.
And Matt and Wistmoreland.
Authorizing the Covenants of City on the Real Property.
Located at zero James James Town Court.
to the city of College Park for the purpose of supporting the development of the Fulton County Botanical Garden.
So authorized the mayor, chief procurement officer, and city attorney to execute on necessary documents to effectuate said conveyance,
so way of conflicting ordinances and further purposes.
Councillor Boone.
Yes, Mr. Chair, we would like to hold this item.
We did have a very fruitful meeting with College Park and aviation today.
So we would like to hold this so that they can work the parking issue out.
It is a large project located in College Park, Georgia.
And we own seven acres that they are in need of only for parking.
So we are looking to possibly sell that to them.
Okay, so we got a motion to hold by customer and boon the second by was more than if you
can please open the vote.
The vote is open,
the vote is close, 7 years, your nice, this item is favorable,
hailed my apologies.
I don't know if it's 17, 25, 13, 0, 6, and ordinance by
Councilor May Brown, Georgia, El Boom, authorizing the chief financial officer to amend the
FY25, General Fund Budget, to create a mayor's office of equity, diversity, and inclusion to support
trust fund for the purpose of funding, Modi, initiatives and events as may be authorized.
We've been article 10, Division 4 of the procurement and real estate code of the city of
Atlanta, code of ordinances to authorize the mayor or to execute contracts with sponsors
to support Modi events, authorize the mayor or his ethnic need on behalf of Modi to accept
a donation from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and amount not to exceed 1,670
in zero cents for the purpose of supporting Modi initiatives and events to amend the FY25 budget
by adding to anticipation and appropriations, donating funds in an amount not to exceed 9,600
$70.0. All funds to be charged to impede from the fund account listed here in, authorized
donations and smotterships, funds as may be subsequently approved by Council to support future
Modi initiatives to be deposited into the trust fund account created hereby and further purposes.
I think we did send it, but I will, we did update it with the corrected amount, there was one discrepancy, but that might have been on the resolution, not the ordinance.
Can you speak to that?
I believe the correction you're referencing and concerns these subsequent donation resolution.
I believe the United States Institute here is likely to add the account numbers.
Absolutely.
Thank you for that clarification.
Do we refer?
So, because we can send this to FVC, depending we receive the substitute.
So, I'd most do approve.
Thank you all.
Excuse me.
do we have the set of super twenty five oh thirteen oh six
well i don't have the set of two for a talk about thirteen oh six we do not
okay so so we're gonna we'll approve on condition that we're
received the substitute at FEC is that the motion
oh sorry
it's rubbish i'm sorry i think the paper is
door referred to FEC and is financed that we'll need to provide the information for the substitute
So it would be a appropriate to move it forward to FEC where it could away. They need it substituted
Okay, so the correct motion would be to approve to move forward. Okay
Thank you
The vote is up.
The vote is close.
780 nice, decided.
It was favorable.
And it will move on to FEC tomorrow.
Item number 18, 25, 013, 08.
In ordinance by council member Michael Gillian Bines,
we provide the second amendment to ordinance 25, 01138,
which originally authorized the city of Atlanta to donate funds
in and amount not to exceed $12,000 in zero cents.
Each to East Atlanta Business Association,
a little five points business association with in Merchants Coalition, Virginia Highland District
Association and Sweet Robin Works in which authorized the mayor or his design needs to execute
corresponding agreements therewith for terms of 12 months to support and encourage participation
in the Atlanta Main Street program in which was a men bid person wants to order in
$25.026 to remove starting organizations on authorized to receive donations under charter
Section six dash 306 and to redirect the donation intended for the little five points business association to the little five points cultural district
So redirect the donations intended for East Atlanta business association and West and merchants coalition to suite up and works and further purposes
Thank you
Councilman Buckler. Thank you
First I wanted to thank Councilman Bonford working with me and it and I had some concerns about the paper and I'm
should have him as the author kind of taking the time to work through it with me.
I understand, again, that legal flag, the issues with gratuity, so we have to have these
go to 501C3s, and that this is meant to correct that.
I would not be properly servicing my district if I did not highlight concerns I have.
I had led this last time around Main Street.
There are agencies that are being proposed that have not been making sure money makes it into
the community.
I also, it's my understanding that the money is being taken from the East Line of Business
Association and the West End Merchants Coalition and that money instead of finding, it was
my understanding that we were going to help those agencies find a way to get that money
to rectify the issues so they could get that $12,000 by identifying 501C3's or at least helping
them through the process. May I ask what the plan is there now?
Absolutely. Jay Matthews, Department of the City Planning Office Housing Community Development,
Neighborhood Economic Development. So yeah, so sweet, Auburn stepped up as a cohort of the Ministry
to be the fiscal agent. We did, because I'll be going, we found that to be the most streamlined
we are path to get the funds to both East Atlanta, business association, and the West
in Merchett's Coalition.
He set up a sweet office set up to do that before, and the understanding was that it would
be a smoother process for us to get the funds to support as quickly as possible as these
FY-25 funds for our ministry districts.
Understood.
And I get why that is the best path forward.
There have been issues with this agency in the past, actually, partying with dollars.
I have major concerns about them being the fiscal agent.
I have had enough issues getting them to be of money in their own community, and this
is an agency that has over $1 million in their bank account, and is being awarded this money.
This is not turning out into the community.
Is there a way for us to hold the $12,000 for him?
I'm fine with the addition with them.
I'm fine with sweet auto and dispensing the $24,000 to the $12,000 each to the other two agencies.
I am not okay with them receiving their dollars.
So if that can be held because DCP was supposed to work, I would believe that we were supposed
to work through making sure that somewhere in the process they would be tied and required
to give those dollars because they're does seem to be a lapse in understanding you all are
doing your jobs remarkably.
And so it is my job to let you all know that while I know that their examples and their
productive relationships on the ground level, on boots on the ground in the weeds, there are
great issues getting those funds into the community for beautification efforts. And for other
things that are coming out requests that really should fall under their responsibilities and
adjustism happening. So I would either motion to hold or if there's a way Mr. Robinson
is it possible to remove the $12,000 of that agency and allow them to take the $24,000
to give? Does that make sense? I'm seeing if we can separate the donations. Because this
was a concern and my understanding was that we were going to have a solution before
additional funds were read in for this paper.
The paper can be amended or substituted to remove any donations listed as possible. I'm not
quite following what specific change you would like, but I'm not doing anything that could be done.
The 12, I am asking that we remove the $12,000 for the fiscal agent, but allow them to
dispense the $2,000 donations to easily in a business association and Western, Western
merchant school. I understand, my apologies, we cannot direct the 501C3 to provide our donation
to business association. The underlying issue is that we are not permitted to provide our funds
through donation to business association. So we can't tell the fiscal agent that they have
to give it to the business association. If it's there and I will defer to DCP concerning. But what I
as to donate funds to a proper 501c3 in lieu of the businesses.
So we cannot circumvent the issue by directing the 501C3, which is a proper recipient, to give it to the improper recipient.
And so what you're saying is even though this is being read in and we're asking them that they said they're going to be the fiscal agent to donate to these other two agencies
There's nothing that we can do to require them to do that
Yes, I cannot speak to what's we at all more works is saying how they will
But we have to utilize the fund. I cannot speak of that. What I can say is we cannot tell them
Okay, that they must give the money to whom is an improper recipient. You know our donations got it. Thank you
So again that highlights further my concerns and so
I'm gonna have to motion to hold this because
I still have serious concerns and questions that I raised last time that's still not been answered
With respect to DCP, I know you have to move these things, but I am good conscience and good faith cannot allow this to move forward until we rectify those issues, so I will motion to hold.
May I ask a question?
I would absolutely prefer to use different physical agents.
I would absolutely prefer to use a different physical agent.
We can ask either another mainstream district or they have partnering 501c3s that are associated with the neighborhoods.
Thank you.
If you can find another fiscal agent, I'd be much,
hey, we'll leave you at a lot of my concerns.
Okay, to move the paper forward on condition,
we do that by Monday.
Absolutely, thank you.
Second, second, I do want to make it very, very clear, though.
Actually, I'm going to vote no,
so we pulled this off of consent
so that we make sure that that is the case come Monday.
So that we have it off of consent agenda
so I can address it when it comes back to committee.
And I do want to thank you all
because you have been working on this
And I know your press, and you have so many other things to do.
This is by no means, and by no means directed at DCP or the work you'll have done.
I'm very grateful for you.
I just have concerns about the agency, and I'm trying to do my due diligence, and I appreciate
you.
Thank you.
So, seconding.
Or, no.
I just thought it wasn't going to do that.
So, someone else needs a second.
Let's do it.
Oh, second.
There you go.
Oh, commission.
Which may be important.
The vote is open.
Never mind.
I can vote yes, because it won't be on.
consent because it's being moved for it on
condition. So I will do that.
The vote is closed. 7A is the
nice. This item is favorable on condition.
That takes us to item number 19.
25 vote, 13, 13, and ordinance by
council member Marcy Carr, your
overstreet to amend the city of
Elance Dakota ordinances at chapter 54,
Article 1, section 54, dash 1 to provide
and exemption from the mandatory
affordable housing requirements for
to please subsidize most of our family residential properties.
Thank you. Do we have somewhere from just part of the planning that I want to speak to this legislation?
I can make a motion to hold.
I was not prepared to speak on this but I did it like what's happening if anybody has a planning department.
But I'll just go ahead and make a motion to hold.
So we have a motion to hold. We have a second by council member.
Norwood, please open the
vote.
The vote is open.
The vote is closed.
78 is the United States item is held in committee.
That takes us to section J resolutions.
Item number 20, 25R 3503,
Resolution by Council Member Jason Winston,
Lily Annabotigari,
Jason Dozier,
I'm here for Roki and Matt Wissmoreland,
requesting that the mayor or his district need conduct a
feasibility study to address the challenges small businesses face
in accessing affordable retail space in Atlanta to consider tax incentives, lease subsidies,
pilot programs and other support strategies and further purposes.
So we have a moment.
The vote is open.
The vote is close.
7 days, your nice this item is amended.
I'll make a motion to approve as amended.
The second by backyard please open the
vote.
The vote is open.
The vote is closed, seven days, zero nights. This item is favorable as amended. That takes us to item number 21, 25R, 3504.
A resolution by council member Matt Wissmoreland, authorized in the city of Atlanta to donate a total amount, not to $10,000 in zero cents.
From the district eight, discretionary account to the Ardemar Park neighborhood association, personal one to section six, dash 306.
Now the city of Elante's charter to authorize the chief financial officer or his desk knee to make the donation authorized hereby from the councillors to hear in and for the purpose
Councilmember was more with motion to amend to councilmember or what's name
Thank you sir
The vote is open
The vote is closed seven days zero nays this item is amended motion to approve as amended
The
vote is open
The vote is closed seven days zero nays this item is favor boys amended
Item number 22, 25 R, 3407, a resolution by Councilmember Antonio Lewis, authorized in the mayor on behalf of the city of Atlanta,
so accept the donation of enhancements and slight improvements as outlined in Exhibit A, that you've had approximately $80,000 in zero cents from the Atlanta House Foundation,
for Pittman Park Recreation Center located at 950 Gerobody Street, Southwest,
Atlanta, Georgia, 30310 for the purpose of improving the facility and for the
purposes. I'll make a most true proof.
The vote is open.
Hold everyone, please vote.
The vote is closed.
7080 nice. This item is favorable. Item number 23, 25R, 3509.
The resolution by Council Member E-Shake Collins pursuant to the workforce
innovation and opportunity act of 2014 authorizing the mayor or his
dignity on behalf of the Lancet Department of Labor and Employment Services to
execute a one-stop partner's memorandum of understanding with one-stop
partners in local workforce development area number three concerning the
operation of the one-stop delivery system in the local area and for other purposes.
Have a most-to-approved by West Moral and a sick-by-backed guy.
If you could please open above.
The vote is open.
The vote is closed.
780 nice to decide it is favorable.
Item number 24.
25R 3511.
A resolution by council member on jury al-boom.
Authorizing the city of Elanta.
To authorize donations pursuant to section 6-306 of the city of Elanta Sharder.
To the following non-profit charitable organizations.
organizations, the winning-edge leadership academy, Kent Kizzi, dream above the influence, and
an amount not to exceed $500 and zero cents to each organization, and to Vox Atlanta, and
an amount not to exceed 15, $1500 to zero cents to support each organization's strong commitment
to improving the lives, experiences, and opportunities of women and girls in Atlanta.
It's authorized that Chief Financial Officer, or his designation, to make the donations authorized here by from the
Accounts list of here in and for the purposes
Are we still waiting on substitutes?
Sounds strange on this. Yes. Okay, so make motion. So we'll make a motion hold. I'll make a motion hold
The vote is open
the vote is close 780 nice this item is held
If there is no objection from the committee, can we take items 2526 and 28 together?
Let's proceed.
Item number 25, 25R, 3515, a resolution by Community Development Human Services Committee authorized
in the mayor or his designated need to enter into the second window option for one year with
each of four vendors under the agreement number listed, standards for hope after school
program and services with future thinkers commencing on October 17, 2025 and ending on October
16th, 2026, and amount not to exceed $80,000 and zero cents, centers of hope after school program
and services with Johnson & Limit Management and Production Company, commencing on October
17, 2025, and ending on October 16, 2026, and amount not to exceed $100,000 and zero cents,
centers of hope after school program and services with the Youth Science Academy, commencing
on October 19th, 2025, and ending on October 18th, 2026, and amount not to exceed $150,000 in
zero cents.
As soon as I've helped after school programming services with KidsGMUSA, commencing on October 31,
2025, and ending on October 30, 2026, and amount not to exceed $20,000 in zero cents.
To continue, as soon as I've helped after school programming services on behalf of the Department
of Parks and Recreation. For the purpose of providing youth and team out of school programming,
all contracted work will be charged to and pay from the count numbers listed here
in and for other purposes. I don't number 26, 25 R, 35, 16. A resolution by community
development in the services committee, authorized in the mayor or head of the community. So
answering to the second renewal option for one year with each of four vendors under the
agreement numbers listed. Send us a hope after school program and services with 3G publishing
commencing on July 31st, 2025, through July 30th, 2026, and amount not to see $100,000
in zero cents.
Centers of Hope after school program and services within rich kids now do a business as
youth and enrichment services commencing on August 31st, 2025 through August 30th, 2026, with
no additional funds added for services, Centers of Hope after school program and services
with Atlanta Music Project commencing on August 31st, 2025 through August 30th, 2026, and
amount not to exceed $45,000 in zero cents.
Senors of Hope Actors School of Programming Services with the Social Circle Foundation
commencing on July 1st, 2025 through July 3rd, through Joe, 3026, and amount not to exceed
$300,000 in zero cents.
To continue the Senors of Hope Actors School of Programming Services on behalf of the Department
the Parks and Recreation for the purpose of providing youth and
team out of school programming. All contracted work will be charged to and pay
from the council numbers listed here in and for the purposes. Item number 28.
25 are 35 18. Our resolution by community development him and service
is committee authorizing the mayor who is designated to enter to the first
renewal option for one year with each of the two vendors under the agreement
and then we'll list it, send us a probe after school program and services with next up
girl sport and social club, commencing on June 24th, 2025 through June 23rd, 26th
and amount not to exceed 100,000 dollars in zero cents, send us a probe after school
program and services with teach x, commencing on June 14th, 25th through June 13th, 26th
and then amount not to exceed 70,000 dollars in zero cents, to continue the send us of
after school program and services. On behalf of the Department of Parks and Recreation,
but the purpose of providing youth and seeing out of school programming, all
contrary to work will be charged to impact from the council members list of hearing and
further purposes.
Dr. McCumich Navos, good afternoon.
Good afternoon. Mr. Chair and members of the council. Thank you, Jasmine for reading all of that.
I really appreciate that. Thanks for taking these as a block. All of these contracts have to
with afterschool services, if one contract, the reason we're divided into three,
four of the vendors, their contracts come do in the fall.
That's the first one.
Four of them come do the summer.
That's the second one and two of them come do in June.
And so it was decided it was better to keep them based on their contract date.
But it's all for afterschool programming services.
We have put over 2,000 children and teens in our afterschool program.
This year that ends this week at 18 sites.
As nearly a record for us, we start camp that's friends on June 9th and we actually start registering for 25-26 after school on that same day.
So these contracts allow us to do things like tutorial, technology, stem, steam, arts and crafts and dance and athletic events through our after school program.
Um, very proud of and hopefully all of y'all seen this, we have our new summer guide that just came out Friday
It's got all of our swimming pools, but it also has all of our afters
School programs involved in it. Registration starts on that, like I said on June 9th, happy to answer any questions, and thank you for your support of this contract.
Thank you. I've got a most to approve by what's more on the second by Dozier. Please open the book.
The vote is open.
The vote is closed. 7A is your nays. These items are favorable. That takes us back to item number 27, 25R 3517.
I was a lotion by Community Development Human Services Committee,
to transmit the 2026 through 2030 Capital Improvement
which includes Capital Improvements
so that these city incidents define and hold or impart
with the development impact fees to the Georgia Department
of Community Affairs and the Atlanta Regional Commission
and compliance with the requirements
of the Georgia Development Impact Fee Act and for other purposes.
Thank you.
And I know this item needs to be amended,
but Councilor Norwick, yeah.
Yes, I want to make sure that on the third to last page that an item in a fifth to last page that an item in district eight that I get information on.
So to go forward on condition that I get that information before voting on the official list.
This item would need to be held for the public here. We're just going to amend it today to include in ZBA.
Okay. So I make a motion to amend
the vote is open.
The vote is closed.
78 zero-nice. This item has been amended. And I make a motion to hold the
vote is open.
The vote is closed. 78 zero-nice is item would be held in committee.
That takes us to section
Okay, do referrals, I don't know for 29, I don't know for 29, I don't know for 29, 25,
30, 13, and ordinance by council members, Lily Annabatiari, Jason Winston, I'm here
for Rocky by Randy Amis, Jason Dozier, Matt was Moorlin, E-Shake Collins, Michael Julien
Bionne, Marcy Carlio Ovestry, Algeria Elboun, Dustin Hillis, Alex Juan, and Howard Schutt
to amend the CD of the Lance's Building Code to add a new section for roofing reflectance standards
to reduce heat produced by darker roofing materials and for the purposes.
Thank you, customer Norwick.
I like it, man, to add my name to the legislation place.
One moment.
May we have a voice vote?
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Bob? Bob? Bob? I'm so sorry.
Okay, the vote is close, 7 days, 0 days, that item is a
minty. Okay, we have the amended legislation on the floor, Councilman moved back there.
Yeah, I wanted to give my chief policy officer an opportunity to come up and speak to this
paper, but the general, the greater detail, but the general piece is, is that this was
worked on for more than a year, law, thing, law, misclayton, and Mr. Robinson guided us through
this beautifully, really appreciative to UDC preservation community and others for this
neutral cost, this cost, neutral change that will, when we reach 80% coverage lower the
city's heat by two and a half degrees. So, I'll allow Ms. Finale to come and speak further.
Good afternoon.
Thank you.
Alex Finnell, Council Member Bacteri's office.
I think the member summarized it beautifully, but this paper essentially creates a new roof
reflectancy standard, which simply put requires lighter roofs in most places.
Current, under this proposed standards, all tile roofs and metal roofs already meet the standard,
And as for asphalt roofing, which is the most common we use material, lighter roofs would
be preferred, but they're also materials that are available below the average asphalt roofing
cost, which would comply in darker colors.
And as the council member said that this would, once we reach 80% compliance, lower the city's
maximum temperature in the summer at two and a half degrees at 50% compliance, one and a half
degrees and also I think important to note, especially for this committee, as we're considering
our most vulnerable residents here in the city of Atlanta, a compliant home will see an
average of four to five percent savings annually in HVAC and energy costs, so really win
win for the city and for individual homeowners as well. And happy if there are any other questions.
Thank you. And as we said, Head Island is the leading cause of displacement.
For our seniors, our renters and our most vulnerable populations.
So I'm greatly appreciative to my team and to everybody who worked on this a lot of a lot of time and effort was put into this. So I would like to motion to approve.
The
vote is open,
the vote is closed, six shades, the United States item is favorable
as amended, that takes us to section AO, papers held in committee, item number 42, 2406191,
an ordinance by council member Michael Julian Bond, as substituted by community development,
here in my services committee to amend the Atlanta City Co. Part 2 chapter 158 article 2
to adopt a new tree protection ordinance for the city of Atlanta and for the purposes.
So we have no further legislative items than we are, Jim.