1 - Ivan Allen, Jr. Digital Collection - Georgia Institute of Technology

wyCHE FOWLERBroke 11e VoteControversialNorthsideZoning KilledBy HANK EZELLA Uree-times-orgued Northsiderezoning proposal hasbeen turned down in the;.tlanta City Council on a ticbrea\tingvote from CouncilPresident Wyche Fowler.The commercial lOnl!IG requestwent to an 8-S tie \\ henCouncilmen Richard Guthmanand John Calhoun changedtheir earlier stand9 and votedagainst it.In another act.iQn In t t sMonday meeting, the .:ouncUapproved a reso\uUon whichasks airline officials for writtenassurance by the end ofthe year that the alrlines areready to begin the first phasesof development of a multimilliolHloUarpas se n g e rterminal complex between therunways of Hartsfield InternationalAif1Xll1n,e council turned down,after lengthy argument. anamendment from CooncUman:Marvin Arrington w hie hwould have asked for assurancesthat the airlines willmaximize their use of Harts·field e\'ett after a secood airport\s bUilt.The zoning request was fora neighborhoOd shopping facilityona U·acre tract closeby the intersection of CollierRoad and Howell Mill Road.Similar proposals have beento the council twU:c before inthe last three y~~. 'IbiJ tlm~the property owners wererepresented by P. AndrewPatterson, an attorney in the1 a w firm once headed byMayor Maynard Jackllon.'The commercial zoning requestfirst appeared In 1971,but was turned down aft.er almosttmanimous oppositionfrom nearby residents.Later the tract was identifiedas a possible site forlocating public hoUsing. 'Ibecommercial zoningreq~treappeared, residents seemedto favor it, and it was approved.But thai action was voidedon a technicality by thecourts.On the third time around,surrounding residents wereapparently of intense but splitopinion.Guthman, a Northside COllrJ.cIlman, was the subject ofseveral signs carried by about20 picketers Voilo marched outsidecity hall Monday in Opp>sition to the mning.But those critical placards,some referrlng to Guthman'scampaign slogans of last fall,had no effect on his cnangedvote, Guthman said.He changed after dlseoverlogthat some adjacent residenceswould be separatedfrom the proposed .;,0;';';;';"at development by onlyseven-foot side yard, Gutbmansaid.calhoun cited D need forcitizen participation in chang­Ing his vote.His tie-breaker was consistentwith earlier voles against"commercial encroacbmtnt"lnto the area, Fowler said.On other subjects the COWlclI,-Received from the mayorthe selection Of 22-year-oldSylvester J. carey to serve asD non-voting, resident memberof the Atlanta Housing Authority,and referred for confinnationhearings thenominations of CouncilmanMarvin Arrington and attorneyElizabeth Neely to theAtlanta-Fulton County Recrea·tion A~rity. They would rep1 ace Councilman BuddyFowJ'kes and Larry Geller·sledt Jr., .. [onner presidentof the Atlanta Ouunber ofCom.....,..-Bog",00