As development heats up along Memorial Drive in southeast Atlanta, the City Council on Monday passed an ordinance imposing a three-month moratorium on accepting new building permit applications that could affect a seven-block “Greenway” on the street.
The Memorial Drive Greenway runs on the north side of the street between Oakland Cemetery and Capitol Avenue.
The land has been envisioned as a “grand gateway” to the state Capitol since 1974, when it was included in a state plan approved by then-Gov. Jimmy Carter, according to the ordinance by Council Members Natalyn Archibong and Carla Smith. Atlanta and its Invest Atlanta economic development authority have been assembling parcels in the corridor since 2005.
A moratorium lets neighborhoods along the corridor “review how any new construction may affect the viability of the Memorial Drive Greenway Project,” the ordinance says.
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