1391 Collier Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

Live Work District

The purpose and intent of this chapter, in establishing the Live Work (LW) district, is as follows: Promote a balance of retail, service, office, dining and residential uses which serve the adjacent residential neighborhoods; Encourage the rehabilitation or development of underutilized industrial areas to include significant residential uses; Enhance the environmental and recreational amenities of railroad corridors through greenspace and landscaped buffers, pedestrian and bike connections and adjacent neighborhood parks.; Provide opportunities for the creation of live/work housing units that allow for the operation of limited types of small business out of the home.; Provide sufficient, safe and accessible open space for active and passive enjoyment by residents and workers; Improve the quality of air and water through provisions for the planting of trees, greenspace protection, bicycle parking and electric vehicle parking; Create a diversified city where people across the spectrum of age, income, ethnicity, and culture can live, work, shop, meet, and play; Improve the aesthetics of the built environment; Protect existing stable single-family neighborhoods from uses and building forms which are incompatible with their scale, character and needs; Create new mixed-use districts, in areas so indicated in the comprehensive development plan, which are pedestrian-oriented and have a balance of residential and commercial land uses; Prohibit the development of larger scale highway-oriented retail, service, office and dining uses which are intended to serve larger areas of the city than a single neighborhood or a small group of neighborhoods; Encourage a grid of connected streets to improve access and reduce congestion; Facilitate safe, attractive and convenient pedestrian circulation and minimize conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles; Encourage pedestrian flow through the design of buildings with sidewalk level uses, which open directly onto sidewalks adjacent to public streets; Improve pedestrian access within the district and to and from the surrounding neighborhoods; Establish building façade lines and sidewalk requirements, and reserve the space between buildings and the street for pedestrian functions; Minimize the use of streets in adjacent single-family neighborhoods for parking that serves commercial land uses by establishing adequate parking requirements and encouraging shared parking arrangements; and Provide a range of housing types and prices to meet different housing needs.