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The City of South Fulton held an Alcohol License and Zoning Public Hearings Special Meeting on Tuesday, September 22, 2026. Mayor Carmalitha Gumbs called the meeting to order at 5:06 PM, and it was adjourned at 5:16 PM. All council members were present, establishing a quorum. The primary agenda item was a combined rezoning and special use permit case, which was withdrawn by the applicant. A certificate presentation was also made.
Case Z26-015/U26-007 (Welcome Foods): This item was a public hearing for an application by Welcome Foods requesting a rezoning from MIX (Mixed Use) to C-2 (General Commercial) and a Special Use Permit (SUP) to develop a 5,000 square foot gas station/convenience store with fuel pumps and a 1,800 square foot drive-thru restaurant on 2.13 acres at 4225 and 4165 Flat Shoals Road in Council District 5. Both the City Staff and the Planning Commission had recommended denial for the rezoning and the SUP. The applicant subsequently requested to withdraw the application. Per City ordinance, requiring a council vote on withdrawal of an advertised case, the council accepted the withdrawal by unanimous consent.
A Municipal Leader Community and Workplace Culture Course certificate was presented by Niles Ford of the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) to Councilmember Linda B. Pritchett for her completion of the certification program.
During the hearing, Councilmember Catherine F. Rowell corrected the record regarding a previous deferral for the Greater Turner Church case (Z26-012, CDP 26-005, CV 26-003 at 4685 Cascade Road). Noting there was no second meeting in November, the council accepted her request to move the case to the December 8, 2026 council meeting by unanimous consent. No executive session was held.
zoning public hearing I will take a personal moment and ask um councilwoman right to read the civility pledge the way we govern ourselves is often as important as the positions we take our collective decisions will be better when different views have had the opportunity to be fully vetted and considered all people have the right to be treated with respect courtesy and openness we value all input we commit to conduct ourselves at all times with civility and courtesy to each other thank you very much councilwoman right mr clerk please sound the roll this roll call for today's zoning public hearing meeting the honorable captain of Riley district one present the honorable aaron v Johnson district two present the honorable Tanya Tony Wright district three present the honorable JC Sebastian District 4 here the honorable Kiosha B Bell district five present the honorable Natasha Williams Brown district six present the honorable Linda Becker Pritchett District 7 here and the honorable mayor carmelita gums here madam mayor you have a quorum thank you mr clerk can you please sound the next item next item under I call license rezoning variance and modification cases we had one case listed which is Z26-015 U2607 uh which is located at 4225 and 4165 flat shows road located in council district five I understand this is gonna be requested for withdrawal that's correct thank you um Mr. Clerk Reggie McClendon Managing Director of Community Development and Regulatory Affairs uh this case the applicant uh has requested a withdrawal of the application I will say for the benefit um of our newest member of council um and this is in her district uh that our um ordinances require that oh I'm sorry it's not our distance I believe this is in this is in five but uh I was thinking about a different case the um this is um our ordinances require that um once a case has been advertised and the applicant wishes to withdraw it that council has to actually uh accept that withdrawal and so uh that's why instead of us just kind of taking it off of your um of your agendas and moving on we bring it to you and ask you to vote on that withdrawal thank you mr mclendon if there is no opposition in reference to the withdrawal we will go ahead and set the withdrawal there's a question councilwoman round at our last zoning uh hearing I said a hearing a deferral for a hearing for Greater Turner Church to the second meeting in November and it's been brought to my attention that we only have one meeting in November and December and I wondered if I needed to correct for the record or can we get the date of that meeting in November and that's a question for Mr. McLendon do we want to go to the first meeting in November or the first meeting or the meeting in December I I thought I was told that there was is only one meeting in November right so so you want to so it's currently we're we said second meeting in November but there isn't one so do we want to do November or December I guess December because it'll been after that date do we have that date the December meeting I was going to say we did have it listed uh for the November 10th um council meeting with Grady Turner Chapel AME church if uh if you do not want it on that date then the meeting in December will be on December 8th we may be able to make that November 10th okay okay december 8th I'm gonna defer to the land of the director he in the meeting with me too so um let's move that to December 8th so I can make the community aware do we have to take a vote being that you think do we need to take a vote okay um with that being said if there are no um opposition against that we will move this item to december eighth two thousand twenty six for greater turner church uh for the record i'll just sound the items Z 26-012 and CDP 26-005 C V 26-003 uh case in District one located at 4685 Cascade Road and the motion is what is to defer this item to the December 8th council meeting all right and that has been accepted unanimously mr clerk please sound the next item madam mayor and members of council that was the only case we had for tonight's meeting next is Roman number four which was proclamation presentations we uh had scheduled tonight a municipal leader community and workplace culture core certificate presentation um by the georgia municipal association uh presented to council member Pritchett and sir if you can introduce yourself do we all want to come up to the front oh you got to do a presentation I'm sorry okay all right well my name is Niles Ford I work with General I mean Georgia Municipal Association I'm here representing Freddie Broom who you all know very well um I'm also here to acknowledge the completion and of a program that Freddie Broom is over a municipal leader um community and workplace culture uh certification and I'm showing the certification of completion um within that program there are very there are many modules one of the modules is collective leadership emotional intelligence financial ethics um public safety and community well-being economic and community growth stakeholder engagement human resource management and there's a final capstone that the individual has to do I'm here to acknowledge the fact that councilwoman Linda Pritchett completed this program and I'm honored to provide and and present this certificate certificate of completion yes we all will assemble around councilwoman Pritchettes and the mayor needs to be in the center is the woman who's coming out now with the long hair and then everybody else can be numeric so we'll ask the mayor to stand next to the gentleman in the bait shirt thank you yes just like that and then you can take it from here all of us here um on this council believe in education believe in professional development and with the Georgia municipal association we have been able to learn how to effectively govern and so I'm really excited about this because I learned a lot it's a lot of information that we can apply and help our residents to be proud of the work that we do so thank you again thank you all right congratulations are we ready to take the picture excuse me can you have some interact with the shape of the just before we just want to make sure we got some right here this way that's all the way we can this way yeah it is one two and three good stay there stay there holding grade one two and three excellent total there you go one two and three thank you. Mr. Clerk, please found the next item.