The Decatur City Council has approved a full rewrite of the city’s zoning ordinance and adopted an updated zoning map, modernizing rules the city says have been in place since the late 1950s.

Five years after the city authorized a company to update Decatur's zoning ordinance, the Planning Commission will begin a review of the proposed rewrite in a July 6 work session. Goals of the rewrite ...

Officials trying to accommodate the city's changing housing market will implement a rarely used zoning for a new Southwest Decatur subdivision that will have 261 homes in a combination of ...