Public Hearing: YES ? NO ? Department: Planning & Sustainability
SUBJECT:
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COMMISSION DISTRICT(S): Commission District 02 Super District 06
Application of Swig c/o Gaskins & LeCraw for a Special Land Use Permit (SLUP) to allow a drive-through facility in an Activity Center in the C-1 (Local Commercial) zoning district, at 2960 North Druid Hills Road.
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PETITION NO: N3-2026-0445 SLUP-26-1248014
PROPOSED USE: Drive through facility.
LOCATION: 2960 North Druid Hills Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30329
PARCEL NO. : 18 112 01 049
INFO. CONTACT: Lucas Carter, Planner
PHONE NUMBER: 404-371-2155
PURPOSE:
Application of Swig c/o Gaskins & LeCraw for a Special Land Use Permit (SLUP) to allow a drive-through facility in an Activity Center in the C-1 (Local Commercial) zoning district.
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommended Action
COMMUNITY COUNCIL: (April 2026) Denial.
PLANNING COMMISSION: (May 5, 2026) Pending.
PLANNING STAFF: (May 2026) Denial.
STAFF ANALYSIS: The applicant seeks to redevelop the subject property with a small, one-story drink shop featuring a walk-up window oriented towards North Druid Hills Road and a drive-through located behind the building. The submitted materials indicate a pedestrian-oriented frontage treatment featuring front seating area, bicycle parking, four on-site parking spaces located in the rear, retention of a single access point from North Druid Hills Road, a proposed screening fence, and a rear transitional buffer area. The applicant also states the building would operate through the drive-through and walk-up window only, with no public interior customer space. The property was rezoned in 1988 under Case No. CZ-88168 from O-I (Office Institutional) to C-1 (Local Commercial), subject to conditions associated with an oil change facility. Those conditions, as reflected in the record, included limiting development and use of the property to an oil change facility, main...
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