SPI-8 Zoning Overlay for Parking

Home Park Special Public Interest (SPI-8) zoning: Off Street Parking Regulations

The City of Atlanta has put into place an SPI zoning overlay in Home Park to preserve and protect the Home Park neighborhood from overcrowding of streets with excessive vehicles. Due to the narrowness of streets within the Home Park neighborhood, the fact that many streets are one-way, and that emergency vehicles have had challenges reaching those who have needed their help, SPI-8 was created to regulate parking in Home Park.  It reads as follows from the City of Atlanta Code of Ordinances:

Home Park Special District SPI-8 off-street Parking Regulations Sec. 16-18H.001. – Scope of provisions. The regulations set forth in this chapter, or set forth elsewhere in this part, when referred to in this chapter, are the regulations in the SPI-8 Home Park District. (Code 1977, § 16-18H.001) Sec. 16-18H.002. – Statement of intent. The intent of this chapter is establishing the SPI-8 Home Park District is as follows: (1)To preserve and protect the Home Park neighborhood from overcrowding of streets with excessive vehicles parked resulting from the rental of housing units. (2)To modify the minimum off-street parking requirements of the R-5 (Two-Family Residential) District for single-family and two-family dwellings within the areas so designated on the attached map. (Code 1977, § 16-18H.002) Sec. 16-18H.003. – Minimum off-street parking requirements. The minimum off-street parking requirements of the R-5 (Two-Family Residential) District contained in section 16-07.010 are hereby modified as follows for the area so designated on the attached map: Single-family detached dwellings and single-family zero-lot-line detached, semidetached and attached dwellings; one off street space per bedroom. (Code 1977, § 16-18H.003)