The Atlanta City Council passed a resolution urging the adoption of the Edgewood Corridor Public Safety Task Force’s full priority recommendation list during the Feb. 2 meeting, but a resolution imposing a 180-day moratorium on the acceptance of new alcohol license applications along the corridor was referred back to committee.
The resolution urging Mayor Andre Dickens to adopt and implement the list was part of Councilmember Liliana Bakhtiari’s legislative package supporting recommendations from the task force, which was formed after a July 2025 mass shooting on Edgewood Avenue in July 2025 that injured 10 people and killed Santos J. Wyatt.
The task force’s recommendations, which were released Jan. 20, included imposing a temporary moratorium on new liquor licenses in the neighborhood. However, the council unanimously voted to send the resolution back to the Public Safety and Legal Administration Committee.
Councilmember Alex Wan, who recommended referring the resolution back to committee, said he believed the city had different tools within zoning that could be used to meet the requests of the task force that didn’t require licensing and permits.
Bakhtiari, who seconded Wan’s motion, said they put this legislation forward to “try to triage before welcoming any more chaos to the corridor” but that Wan and other colleagues had suggested ways forward that could give the policy “more teeth.”
“My community really wants this, and while I would love to see it pass today, in the hopes of continuing to work together [with Wan], we believe this could be a very strong model for other corridors in the city,” Bakhtiari said. “…I communicated to Councilmember Wan, though, that if we do not have a path forward on this paper by the end of the month, in its edited form, I will be introducing this paper again in its form today.”
The council also approved:
• A resolution authorizing a $1 million donation to the Atlanta Regional Commission and Propel ATL to support electric bike initiatives within the city.
• an ordinance authorizing the retroactive exercise of a one-year, $27.3 million renewal option for continued provision of managing general contract services for various Department of Parks and Recreation Projects.
• A resolution authorizing a $486,000 special procurement agreement for improvements to the City’s Joint Operations Center at the Atlanta Public Safety Headquarters.
• And an ordinance approving the application for and acceptance of a $635,000 reimbursement grant for the Afterschool Meals Services program.
Other approved legislation included a resolution expanding the boundaries of the Airport West Community Improvement District and an ordinance amending the City’s Tree Protection Ordinance to correct errors, provide clarification, and add a provision regarding tree removal on earthen dams.
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