To the Honorable Members of the Atlanta City Council,

My name is Ayman Kamel, CEO & Principal of K5 Hospitality Group — operators of 5Church, AltaToro, Virtue Rooftop, and a major employer in the Midtown / North Avenue corridor.

I am submitting this petition not only on behalf of K5 Hospitality, but in solidarity with hundreds of workers, tens of thousands of guests, and dozens of neighboring businesses who are now directly suffering financial loss because Midtown has become functionally inaccessible due to overlapping lane closures, uncoordinated construction, and traffic gridlock.

For months, our team has witnessed a direct and measurable decline in:

• guest accessibility
• reservations and private event demand
• same-store revenue performance
• guest satisfaction due to commute times and unpredictability

Guests now cancel reservations simply because they can’t get here. This is not a result of growth — this is a result of poor coordination.

Key Issues:

• Multiple projects are being permitted simultaneously on the same arteries.
• There is no coordinated scheduling across agencies, private developers, utilities, and city DPW.
• There is no proactive notification or onboarding of affected businesses prior to closures.
• Construction timelines repeatedly extend without transparency or consequence.

We all understand progress requires temporary inconvenience — but permanent damage is now occurring.

We are already seeing:

• real revenue losses
• decreased guest volume
• reduced employee income
• reputational damage to Midtown as a destination

This is now threatening the economic engine of this district. We respectfully request City Council take the following corrective actions immediately:

• Establish a Midtown Traffic Coordination Task Force (City / Midtown Alliance / Business Coalition).
• Freeze or sequence overlapping lane closure permits until a unified schedule exists.
• Require impact mitigation plans for all construction affecting principal