Fayetteville, Georgia is seeing more applications for new townhomes than the city council can stomach.
Fayetteville, a city of 19,000 people located south of Atlanta in Georgia, has frozen all new residential rezoning applications for a period of sixth months, with a unanimous vote by the council and support from the city's mayor, Ed Johnson.
An article by Jill Howard Church for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution provides details of the rezoning moratorium, which comes in response to what one councilmember describes as "exponential demand for new housing."
The city is putting the finishing touches on an updated comprehensive plan and land use map—both are expecting to be adopted by the council in 2022.
Fayetteville is the latest example of small cities pressing pause of development approval processes in response to growing demand during the pandemic. Planetizen shared similar stories from Aspen, Colorado in December and Summit City, Utah earlier this year.
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