Article Category: City Council Update

With 2018 continuing its very busy start, the Mayor and City Council met four times in the month of February. The first of those meetings took place on February 5, when the Council voted to approve a moratorium on new land use applications that would seek to rezone properties to the higher-density RSM classification. Applications…

January was a big month for the Mayor and City Council, as they were sworn in during the January 8 meeting. Mayor Frank Auman and Council members Matt Robbins and Michelle Penkava all took the oath for a second time, while District One Councilwoman Pat Soltys became the body’s newest member. During that January 8…

T ucker’s Mayor and City Council held one, very busy meeting in the month of December. The meeting featured a packed agenda, including three issues requiring public hearings. The first of the public hearings was an expected second read and vote on a rezoning for a 19-unit single family development on Saren Court. The developer…

Tucker’s City Council met three times in the month of November, holding a pair of meetings, as well as a planning retreat. The November 13 meeting came on the heels of the referendum vote approving EHOST/SPLOST across DeKalb County. City Manager Tami Hanlin presented an update on the SPLOST at that City Council meeting. According…

Tucker’s City Council kept busy during the month of October, holding four public meetings to discuss a range of issues. At their October 9 meeting, Council voted 5-0 to approve a series of variances and a special land use permit (SLUP) for a 94,800-square-foot climate controlled multi-warehouse facility on Northlake Center Drive. That permission was…

Tucker’s City Council met twice in the month of September, making one major decision and laying the groundwork for two others. The regular called meeting on September 11 was delayed to September 13 because of severe weather. At that meeting, Council voted unanimously in favor of a resolution to implement a special-purpose local-option sales tax…

August saw the City Council prepare to address two significant development projects. The first, a 19-unit residential project on Saren Court, was granted a deferral at the developer’s request. That pushes the first read on the project to October 23, with a second read and vote scheduled for November 13. The other big project was…

Tucker’s City Council put in some long hours in the month of July holding two called meetings, as well as a day-long planning retreat to discuss future priorities. At the meeting on July 10, an independent auditor from the firm Mauldin & Jenkins presented the City with a “clean audit” for the Fiscal Year ’16…

By now the term “Tucker Tomorrow” has been discussed and debated by City residents, business owners and other stakeholders for the better part of the past year. Last fall, the City contracted the consulting firm The Collaborative to manage the process, empowering them to gather input, hold community meetings and, ultimately, author a draft version…

May was a busy month for Tucker’s City Council, as they met four times and hosted the grand opening of their new dedicated meeting space on First Avenue. The biggest issue decided in May was the approval of Tucker’s FY ’18 budget. The $7.6 million budget passed on May 22 by a 6-0 vote. It…

City Council held a pair of regular called meetings in April, laying the groundwork for a busy month of May. One issue the Council discussed was a change to the City sign ordinance that would prohibit the so-called “feather signs” used by certain businesses. This was debated over a first read at the April 10…

The big item before City Council in March was the City’s hotel/motel tax. At a special called meeting on March 2, Council voted 5-2 to approve a resolution that supports restoring the rate in the City to eight percent. Any change to a locality’s hotel/motel tax must go through approval under the Gold Dome. Tucker…