Atlanta Bio-Med, Inc. v. DeKalb County

Clarke, Chief Justice.

We granted this application for discretionary appeal from the denial of petitions for an injunction, a writ of mandamus and a declaratory judgment to decide which procedures are required for the passage and rescission of a text amendment to the DeKalb County zoning ordinance. For the reasons that follow, we hold that the zoning procedures set forth in OCGA § 36-66-4 (a) apply to both the passage and rescission of a text amendment; the procedures set forth in OCGA §§ 36-66-4 (b) and 36-67-5 do not apply.

In December 1989, brothers Gary and Danny Brock began investigating…