Residents of southwest Atlanta's Neighborhood Planning Unit P have been fighting a controversial gas station planned for 3397 Greenbriar Parkway since last year. This week they scored a victory: the developer withdrew an application for an alcohol license.
Faye Floyd, who chairs NPU-P, got the news via email just hours before a key zoning meeting. "Although we didn't win the fight for the gas station not to be built, they will not be allowed to sell any type of alcohol," she said. "We're going to take that as a win."
The controversy traces back to SPI-20, a 2022 zoning ordinance that prohibited new gas stations on Greenbriar Parkway. The area already has about 10 gas stations within a one-mile radius. Residents say the city should have blocked the project entirely.
