Newnan Bars High-Density Housing For 90 Days

NEWNAN, GA-Thirty miles southwest of Downtown Atlanta in Coweta County, local officials have been inundated with developers’ filings for preliminary plats, development plans, land-disturbance permits and rezoning applications.

To give itself some breathing room, elected officials have placed a 90-day moratorium on all new high-density residential ventures. City staffers confirm to GlobeSt.com that elected officials want to make certain the area’s 17,000 permanent residents and an undetermined number of new residents will have a balanced mix of multifamily, townhomes and single-family residences.

One of the areas officials are studying include the high number of quarter-acre lots that have been approved and are selling in the $160,000 range. The moratorium isn’t affecting planned commercial projects in the immediate area, local brokers tell GlobeSt.com.