Moratorium approved in McDonough

The McDonough City Council voted at its May 5 regular meeting to approve a moratorium on new applications for multi-family residential developments while city officials consider possible changes to its current code.

The moratorium lasts five months, through Oct. 5 of this year, unless a new ordinance is adopted before that date. The action applies to the multi-family residential, residential townhouse and residential condominium zoning districts.

Applications already in the pipeline were not affected, as evidenced by the council’s approval at the same meeting of a residential townhouse district zoning to allow 20 proposed units on a three-acre site on Hampton Street for the second phase of the Eagles Rest development.