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Key areas of metro Atlanta are cycling forward – providing better facilities for people who want to ride bicycles for transportation and recreation.

But progress tends to occur in fits and starts – rarely reaching the ever-growing demand that exists for new bicycle paths and facilities.

The City of Atlanta has tended to be a pioneer when it comes to bicycle facilities – issuing requests for proposals for a city bike share program in May 2013 – nearly two years ago.

Two Atlanta City Councilmembers – Mary Norwood and Andre Dickens – plan to introduce a resolution at Monday’s City Council meeting to green light the sale of the vacant George Adair Elementary School.

In a brief telephone interview Wednesday evening, Norwood said she was introducing the resolution on behalf of the Adair Park community and the neighboring residential areas.

Atlanta’s new school superintendent, Meria Carstarphen, gave an impassioned speech to the Rotary Club of Atlanta about how she and her board are rebuilding the public school system, and she invited business and civic leaders to make it a community-wide endeavor.

The mission, one that she made the entire audience repeat after her, is to prepare every APS student for colleges or careers when they graduate from high school.

The residents of the Adair Park community are appealing to the City of Atlanta to end “petty politics” so a developer can make an unprecedented investment in the southwest Atlanta community.

The City of Atlanta is holding the deed of the George Adair Elementary School – and not allowing the Atlanta Public Schools to sell the historic school to a developer who wants to “restore the building to its former beauty,” Randy Gibbs, the president of the Adair Park Today community organization, wrote in a letter to his councilmember, Joyce Shepherd.

The City of Atlanta is holding up the potential sale of the historic Adair Park School in southwest Atlanta to a developer because of its dispute over how much money the city owes the school system for the Atlanta BeltLine project.

The Atlanta Board of Education held a board meeting Monday night when it was to approve the potential sale of three properties to developers.

But Superintendent Meria Carstarphen explained that there was hitch with one of the three properties over the deeds of who owns the land. The school system used to be under the control of the City of Atlanta before it became an independent system.

Park Pride, a nonprofit founded in 1989 to advocate for Atlanta’s parks, has awarded $800,000 to 15 community groups to support capital park improvements in the City of Atlanta and DeKalb County.

It’s the most money that Park Pride has ever awarded in a single grant cycle in the history of the organization.