It’s so frustrating to keep revisiting the issue of whether to build rail on the BeltLine after years of repeated voter and citizen support for the concept.
Tag: Neighborhood Planning Units
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Plan to kill one Neighborhood Planning Unit, redraw others resisted by City Council members
A City plan to unilaterally kill Neighborhood Planning Unit R and redraw other Southwest Atlanta NPU boundaries is facing resistance from City Council members.
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‘Best Practices’ send NPU system on the road to badly needed reform
Badly needed reform of Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Unit system is finally on the way.
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NPU-R power struggle is the best and wildest example of a system in need of reform
A power struggle at Southwest Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Unit R – where the chair and a former “executive committee” are trading coup allegations and lockout attempts – is the best and wildest example of the need for NPU system reforms.
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Atlanta City Council may request ‘best practices’ reforms for NPU system
The Atlanta City Council is considering a call to establish “best practices” for the Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) system’s input and transparency in the latest reform rumblings.
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Attorney General’s office confirms it’s ‘unclear’ if Open Meetings Act applies to NPUs
Earlier this month, SaportaReport covered the murky legal question of exactly how public and open the meetings of Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Units (NPUs) must be. Now the Georgia Attorney General’s office has confirmed it’s still murky and essentially would require a lawsuit to clarify.
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NPU system’s open-meeting issues should get clarity in new reforms
The March 1 meeting of Buckhead’s Neighborhood Planning Unit B board wrapped up with a call for the public to exit so a private executive session could begin. As journalists have done since time immemorial, I piped up to ask the purpose of the private session and how it complied with the Georgia Open Meeting Act (OMA).
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Reporter’s Notebook: NPU system reform ideas are ‘fair and worthy,’ says City Council Zoning chair
This week, 132 years ago, Decatur Female Seminary was founded, and would later become Agnes Scott College. The seminary began in a three-story house with 63 students and four teachers in 1889. George Washington Scott, a primary benefactor, later named the school after his grandmother Agnes Irvine Scott. Agnes Scott now has 1,115 students and […]
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Nonprofit urges 10 reforms of Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Unit public input system
Ten recommendations for reforming Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Unit system were announced by a civic-focused nonprofit Sept. 16 after three years of study. The Center for Civic Innovation’s effort was the first comprehensive review of the nearly half-century-old NPU system, which provides input to City government on virtually any topic, since 1979. The recommendations center on […]
