City of Atlanta v. Omar El Sawi

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia ATLANTA,____________________ December 16, 2019 The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order: A20D0175. CITY OF ATLANTA et al. v. OMAR EL SAWI et al. Property owners Omar and Kinda El Sawi requested a riparian buffer authorized encroachment from the City of Atlanta. Both the technical panel and the commissioner of the City’s Department of Watershed Management denied their request, and the El Sawis filed a petition for certiorari in the trial court. On January 16, 2019, the trial court found that the Department’s decisions were arbitrary and…