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TUCKER, Ga. — The Tucker City Council will meet on Oct. 14 and consider officially expanding its entertainment district to include the Tucker Town Green.

Tucker’s Town Green is an $8.6 million, 2-acre green space located near Main Street.

The meeting begins at 7 p.m. and is open to the public. It will be held at City Hall, located at 1975 Lakeside Parkway, Suite 350B. To see the full agenda and watch the meeting online, visit https://www.tuckerga.gov/your-government/agendas/.

This will be the second reading of the ordinance, the final step toward approval.

“The Downtown Entertainment District allows Tucker businesses within the district with a consumption on-premises alcohol license to serve beverages that can be consumed outside of their establishment and within the boundary of the entertainment district,” a memo from Community Development Director Courtney Smith says. “The goal of this program is to enhance vibrancy and street life in Downtown Tucker by allowing patrons to move easily between restaurants and outdoor spaces while responsibly consuming an alcoholic beverage.”

The Town Green is expected to officially open on Nov. 14.

In other business:

— The council has a packed consent agenda, meaning the items will all be approved in one vote, though the council could pull individual items off the agenda for further discussion. Some notable items on the consent agenda include:

  • A $200,000 contract increase for engineering services at Mountain Industrial Boulevard and U.S. 78. The total contract with Atlas Technical Consultants will now be $897,343. The increase is to cover additional and unanticipated design services required by the Georgia Department of Transportation. The project includes realigning the U.S. 78 off-ramps to provide better sight distance. It also includes traffic signal improvements and installing a narrow median between Greer Circle and Elmdale Drive, with median openings at major intersections

    “The interchange of Mountain Industrial Boulevard at U.S. 78 has the highest number of traffic accidents in the city,” a memo attached to the agenda says. “Crash data shows that there were almost 1,000 accidents in a five-year period, resulting in 262 injuries.”

    The Tucker Summit Community Improvement District will reimburse approximately $100,000 of the total cost.

  • A relocation agreement with Georgia Power for the Brockett Road sidewalk project for approximately $83,000. The sidewalk will be on the east side of Brockett Road, from Railroad Avenue to Comanche Drive. It will require relocating two utility poles, according to a memo attached to the agenda.

  • Canceling a contract with Dynamo Pools to maintain pools at Cofer and Rosenfeld Parks.

    “The new Aquatic Coordinator can accomplish the daily maintenance and many of the diagnostic tasks currently handled by Dynamo Pools,” the memo attached to the agenda says.

  • Amending city code to expand the kinds of certifications allowed for certified building inspectors who can complete multifamily code compliance certificates in the city of Tucker.

— The regular meeting agenda will include the first read and public hearing for a special land use permit for a massage establishment at 4800 Briarcliff Road, Suite 2033. The applicant is Salubrious Spa Massage & Body Sculpting. The business is located inside Northlake Mall. According to a memo attached to the meeting agenda, the company applied for zoning approval in August 2024 and was told a SLUP was required. The business has continued operating without an Occupational Tax Certificate or SLUP since that time. The company also built out the interior of the space without a building permit. All massage establishments in the city require an SLUP.

— The agenda will include a request for a 12-month SLUP extension for multifamily housing over 24 units per acre approved in 2022 for the SDM development at 2247 and 2251 Northlake Parkway

“The SLUP approval included the conversion of the existing office building into 216 multifamily units,” the memo attached to the meeting agenda says.

— The same developer is also requesting a modification to four conditions placed on a development of 80 rental town homes at 2245 Northlake Parkway. When that project was approved, the city imposed several conditions. Those conditions include a requirement for guest parking to be dedicated in surface spaces on an adjacent spot.

“However, the applicant later proposed converting the remaining office building to multi-family which triggered the need for the developer to relocate the guest parking for the town homes from the surface lot to the parking deck due to the need for an expanded fire lane and outdoor amenity area,” a memo attached to the meeting agenda says. “A major modification application (RZ-22-0002) was submitted and approved to change the conditions related to guest parking and the date of the approved site plan.”

The city says land disturbance permits were submitted, but the project hasn’t been built.

“The property owner is now requesting a second major modification to change the conditions related to the rental components of the townhome development so that they can construct for-sale/owner occupied town homes,” the memo says.