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Transportation Camp Atlanta is coming October 14, 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM. For residents, transportation pros, advocates, students, community leaders, and others interested in the future of transportation! LOCATION: 235 Mitchell St SW FREE REGISTRATION: luma.com/9dmov16j?tk=...

An empty school building in Atlanta's Lakewood Heights neighborhood is being converted to housing, with affordable units included! 😍 www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...

Y'all ready to do some good this week? How I'd Fix Atlanta has once again partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help out a bunch of our neighbors. As always, we need your help. Please give what you can and tell everyone you know. unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...

The Atlanta Comprehensive Transportation Plan will guide transportation investments and improvements across the city over the next 15 years. Let the city know that you want a future where wallking/biking/transit are more highly valued as transportation! wspengages.com/ATLCTPSurvey

This is a great housing development for Downtown Atlanta! "The vast majority—193 apartments total—will be reserved at either 50 or 60 percent AMI, officials have said. No resident will be required to pay more than 30 percent of their income"

Affordable housing for first responders in Sweet Auburn, and it looks great! This is under construction now. Hopefully it can serve as a model for more affordable (and attractive) infill elsewhere -- and importantly *zoning needs to allow it*! atlanta.urbanize.city/post/firehou...

Ever wonder how your food gets to your grocery store to your home and to your plate? Why we have food deserts? Join the Atlanta City Studio August 25th, at 6:30PM at the Auburn Research Library to talk about this and more! RSVP here: mailchi.mp/atlantaga.go...

Georgia State University: save the 148 Edgewood building, don’t demolish it! Located within the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District, this 1926 building is one of the increasingly rare survivors of Atlanta’s pre-World War II urban fabric. www.threadatl.org/blog/save-14...

Good news: last night, the Zoning Review Board voted against allowing a new data center next to West End MARTA Station. This vote is only a recommendation to Council, but it's still important! Next, City Council's zoning committee will vote on it, possibly on Monday.

Wow! This is very well done... BEEPTHROAT An independent public-records project documenting the Atlanta BeltLine's turn from voter-approved light rail toward autonomous shuttles. Every allegation links to a source. www.beepthroat.com h/t @alexip718.com

Looks from this thread like Council is not rolling over for all of Andre’s TAD power grab. Thanks, ACPC, for covering this in real time for those of us unable to be there to watch the “fun”.

Ugh! Dickens appears to have taken thousands of dollars from the Affordable Housing Fund and used it to pay consultants who pushed for his TAD renewal initiative. Also: support local journalists! @atlpresscollective.com did great work on this.

Atlanta was supposed to do this but Mayor Andre Dickens rejected millions in earmarked regional funding and the pleas of local businesses and residents to dismantle Shared Peachtree, directly leading to two pedestrian deaths. It was rumored he did this to appease a single Republican oligarch.

Curious about the impact of the impact of the Mayor's updated Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative (NRI) on Atlanta Public Schools? I built a #shinyapp where you can see how changing TAD closures impacts future Atlanta Public School revenue. Check it out here - nickspiva.shinyapps.io/tad_app/.

Owners of large commercial properties should not be exempt from blight penalties! If Council passes this, the city's tax bill on the skeletal Campanile tower, which has blighted Midtown for several years, would go from $91,000 to nearly $2.3 million. www.ajc.com/business/202...

If a city tells you they have $100M to construct the largest police training facility in the country in the middle of a global pandemic, but the only way to fund grocery stores, hospitals, transit, and schools is to borrow money from your children’s futures…it is OK to have questions and concerns.

The level of dishonesty coming from this administration and the Beltline Inc. is unmatched www.ajc.com/news/2026/06...

Big kudos to Julian Bene for being such a great advocate for getting big commercial properties (including data centers) valued properly for taxes! This means millions more dollars for public services like schools.

Never forget... "We will create a more equitable transportation network in our city. We'll add bike lanes, sidewalks, complete streets, and yes, rail on the Atlanta Beltline." -- Mayor Dickens' inaugural address to Atlanta youtu.be/NiRDrSYbL14?...

Here's a welcome sight: this new 1070 Dill development puts 22 affordable townhomes a short walk away from Oakland City MARTA Station, with *zero parking* -- very progressive for Atlanta's urbanism! Households have to earn less than 100% Area Median Income to qualify. 1070dill.com/atlanta/dill/

This is great! We've heard these public toilets are only a pilot project, launched during this World Cup year, but hopefully this leads to permanent ones. Please read Hannah Palmers excellent writeup about the importance of public toilets to cities: how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-hannah-p...