December 6, 2013
Monthly Neighborhood Planning Unit T (NPU-T) general meeting with police, fire, and community prosecutor’s updates, neighborhood association reports, committee reports, and zoning and alcohol license reviewing.
NPU-T is the neighborhood planning unit covering the intown southwest Atlanta neighborhoods Atlanta University Center, Ashview Heights, CollegeTown (formerly Harris Chiles), Just Us Neighbors, The Villages at Castleberry Hill, West End, and Westview.
December 5, 2013
Monthly Neighborhood Planning Unit T (NPU-T) general meeting with police, fire, and community prosecutor’s updates, neighborhood association reports, committee reports, and zoning and alcohol license reviewing.
NPU-T is the neighborhood planning unit covering the intown southwest Atlanta neighborhoods Atlanta University Center, Ashview Heights, CollegeTown (formerly Harris Chiles), Just Us Neighbors, The Villages at Castleberry Hill, West End, and Westview.
December 14, 2012
Westview would like to congratulations the 2013 Neighborhood Planning Unit T (NPU-T) officers:
Chair – Claiborne White
Vice Chair – Nia Knowles
Secretary – Terry Ross
Recording Secretary – Brent Brewer
Parliamentarian – Cathy Witt
Treasurer – Vonda Henry
Sergeant-at-Arms – Kristina Nadreau
What is an NPU? Neighborhood Planning Units (NPUs) are citizen advisory councils that make recommendations to the Mayor and City Council on zoning, land-use, licensing, and other planning issues. When planning-related changes are necessary within Westview the neighborhood organization will make a recommendation to NPU-T. Westview is one of seven Atlanta neighborhoods that makes up NPU-T.
August 10, 2012
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: Empire Board of Realists, 686 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd., Atlanta, GA 30310
Details: Monthly Neighborhood Planning Unit T (NPU-T) general meeting with police, fire, and community prosecutor’s updates, neighborhood association reports, committee reports, and zoning and alcohol license reviewing. For more information about NPU-T visit www.nputatlanta.org
July 26, 2012
Councilmember’s Cleta Winslow and CT Martin have introduced two zoning ordinances impacting the Westview neighborhood.
Ordinance Z-12-16 focuses on an area at the intersection of Cascade Avenue and Beecher Street in the southeastern corner of Westview, as well as adjacent neighborhoods. The ordinance reads: “An Ordinance to rezone certain properties within the Cascade Avenue corridor in NPU-S and NPU-T from C-1 (Community Business) and C-1-C (Community Business-Conditional) districts to the NC-14 Cascade Avenue-Beecher Street Neighborhood Commercial District, and for other purposes.”
In 2000 the City of Atlanta introduced the new “Neighborhood Commercial (NC)” zoning in an effort to steer zoning regulations away from automobile-focused development to a more balanced and inclusive building solution that would welcome pedestrian traffic. The goal of the NC zoning is to provide a friendly and inviting commercial atmosphere that focuses on and is supported by the surrounding residential neighborhoods.
Ordinance Z-12-17 focuses on an area at the intersection of Cascade Avenue and Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard on the eastern edge of Westview, as well as adjacent neighborhoods. The ordinance reads: “An Ordinance to rezone certain properties within the Cascade corridor in NPU-T from the R-4 (Single-Family Residential), C-1 (Community Business), and the C-1-C (Community Business-Conditional) districts to the MRC-1-C (Mixed Residential Commercial-Conditional) and MRC-2-C (Mixed residential Commercial-Conditional) districts, and for other purposes.”
The Mixed Residential-Commercial (MRC) zoning was equally instated to steer away from automobile only driven development. MRC zoning encourages development that provides commercial use for street-level traffic in conjunction with higher density residential use such as condominiums or apartments above the commercial space. Its additional purpose is to focus buildings back towards the street for pedestrian traffic, while hiding automobile parking in the rear and eliminating giant parking lots with big building setbacks.
The introduction of the legislations to turn the Cascade-Beecher area into a neighborhood commercial district and the Cascade-Ralph David Abernathy area into a mixed residential-commercial district is intended to build a framework that will support the City of Atlanta’s new vision of all-encompassing community development.
A public information session took place on Wednesday, July 25th, 2012. The ordinances are scheduled to appear on the agenda of NPU-T for a vote at the Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 meeting. If residents deem changes necessary they are encouraged to defer the vote and supply requested changes for a vote at the September NPU-T meeting.
Download PDFs of the full ordinances: Z-12-16 & Z-12-17
September 5, 2011
Monthly NPU-T General Meeting with Police, Fire, and Community Prosecutor’s updates, Neighborhood Associations reports, Committee reports, and Zoning and License Review Board.
The agenda and minutes can be downloaded from our website at: http://www.nputatlanta.org/agenda-minutes.php
PARKING: Please enter parking lot from R.D. Abernathy Blvd.
March 30, 2009
On March 26th, 2009 the Zoning Review Board voted to approve the Supportive Housing Ordinance (Z-08-48). The ordinance basically grants supportive housing operators the ability to operate without a special use permit, and therefore abolishing the vote by the NPU required to open a facility. This ordinance will grant the operators the ability to still operate with special uses – such as higher occupancy rates.
The NPUs have not been engaged in the process, and at the hearing not one resident or homeowner spoke in favor of the ordinance. The proponents were all developers and people who stand to gain financially by easing up the rules.
The ordinance will grant all the power to the Mayor’s office through a certification process. The certification requirements they were presenting at the hearing were less than a page long. It will without a doubt be exploited.
Please take a moment and fill out the form on www.npuvoice.org to contact your councilmember. They need to hear from you on this matter! And please pass this on to anyone else you know that lives in the City of Atlanta.
Also, please note that everybody is in favor of having some type of supportive housing. This isn’t a battle against the homeless. It is a battle to make sure the NPUs and you continue to have a voice.