Issue Sheet LIC2025-039
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City of Smyrna Issue Sheet File Number: LIC2025-039 A Max Bacon City Hall 2800 King Street Smyrna, GA 30080 3 4 4 9 9 Agenda Date: 11/17/2025 In Control: City Council File Type: License Agenda Section: Formal Business Department: Community Development Agenda Title: Public Hearing - Pawnbroker license – New request – Atlanta Title Pawn, LLC – 2380 Cobb Pkwy SE, Smyrna, GA 30080 - with Autumn McClellan Ward 1 Councilmember - Glenn Pickens ISSUE AND BACKGROUND: Application was made for Pawnbroker license – New request for Atlanta Title Pawn, LLC. 2380 Cobb Pkwy SE, Smyrna, GA 30080 – Autumn McClellan is the agent applicant. RECOMMENDATION / REQUESTED ACTION: Community Development recommends denial of the requested pawn broker permit. The subject location at 2380 Cobb Parkway does not meet the location requirements, per Section 22-85 of the City’s Pawn Broker Ordinance. Sec. 22-85. - Location. No licensed location for a pawnshop or broker or a pawn for title establishment or any other business coming under this article shall be located closer than 1,000 feet to any similarly licensed location, or any church, school, public building, or library after October 1, 1991. The subject location is approximately 790’ from another pawn broker located at 2481 Cobb Parkway. The city code requires a minimum separation of 1,000’ between pawn brokers. The applicant has submitted a survey showing the separation between the pawn brokers as 1,044’, but the surveyor used the nearest path of travel method for the measurement, which is not contemplated in the City’s Pawn Broker Ordinance. A literal reading of the ordinance would use a straight-line method of measurement.