A church owns 29 acres at Arnold Mill. Nothing has been filed.

A church owns 29 acres at Arnold Mill and New Providence. Nothing has been filed.

Restoration Church of North Atlanta is the owner of record on two adjoining parcels at the Arnold Mill and New Providence crossroads: 14 acres at 12965 Arnold Mill Road, 15.06 more at 12950 New Providence Road. County records show both transferred on December 18, 2025, from the estate of Judy Puckett Burton. Both are zoned AG-1, the agricultural district that is most of why Milton looks like Milton.

The purchase surfaced publicly on August 3, when a resident raised it during public comment at City Council. Since then the talk has run well ahead of the record. So we put six questions to City Hall about where things actually stand. On Wednesday, the city answered.

Nothing is in motion. "The City has not received anything on either parcel," communications director Greg Botelho told us by email. No use permit application, no rezoning petition, no pre-application meeting, no concept review, no land disturbance permit. Nothing scheduled or expected either, and the city "would not want to speculate."

The path, if a church campus is ever proposed there, is fixed: a place of worship on AG-1 requires a use permit approved by the Planning Commission and then City Council, with public comment at both. There is no version of this that happens quietly.

Two more answers frame what is even buildable. The city says these parcels were envisioned as residential in the Arnold Mill Small Area Plan, next to a corner envisioned for commercial. And there are no plans to extend sewer in that area, so anything of size proposed on that land would have to solve wastewater without it. For now, Fulton County taxes both parcels as ordinary residential land, not under the exempt class that covers operating churches.

We reached Restoration Church for comment Monday and had not heard back by press time. Worth keeping level: owning land is not a development application. As of today there is nothing at City Hall to support or oppose. The moment something is filed, it lands on a public agenda, and you will read it here.