Atlanta’s former planning commissioner – Tim Keane – has been named head of Charleston’s planning, permitting and engineering. He will start the position in the beginning of June.
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Planner Tim Keane: ‘Atlanta needs to change a lot’
After six-and-a-half years in Atlanta, Tim Keane is moving on to greener pastures – Boise, Idaho. Keane’s final day as the City of Atlanta’s planning commissioner will be Friday, Feb. 18, and his presence in Atlanta will certainly be missed.
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Bowen Homes: Catalyst project to revive swath of Northwest Atlanta
Atlanta’s next Peachtree Street could emerge along the blighted neighborhoods around the former Bowen Homes if a master developer who’s to be selected Wednesday can fulfill a long list of expectations.
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What can we learn from pandemic flu planning?
By Guest Columnist DAN REUTER, CEO of Reuter Strategy, an urban and regional planning firm
Georgia and most states have a history of pandemic influenza planning. President George W. Bush signed the first national Pandemic Influenza Strategy in 2005. The strategy was backed up by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Pandemic Influenza Plan.
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To manage unruly neighbors, Atlanta should move zoning enforcement to police: audit
Atlanta’s zoning enforcement is poorly managed and should be turned over to the police department. The city’s planning department disagrees, according to an audit submitted Tuesday to the Atlanta City Council.
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Alycen Whiddon – Atlanta’s unsung visionary city planner
By Guest Columnists JIM KULSTAD, LORI LELAND-KIRK AND CAROLYN H. RADER, environmental advocate, urban planners and friends of Alycen Whiddon
Unsung visionary, landscape architect and urban planner, Alycen Whiddon left a permanent legacy in the urban design of Atlanta that we all enjoy today. Long before linking greenway trails, creating pedestrian and bike-friendly streets and zoning for vibrant urban spaces were commonly accepted concepts, Alycen was their champion.
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Atlanta’s plan to boost density stalls in council; Mayor’s team doesn’t reveal intents
Atlanta will take a month to reconsider a controversial proposal to boost residential density in traditional neighborhoods. In addition, the plan drew significant challenge Tuesday from two ranking members of Atlanta City Council.
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Planning for the boom: Truck traffic expected to rise in metro Atlanta, North Georgia
A boom in truck traffic is expected by 2050 in metro Atlanta and North Georgia. Rail cargo also is likely to increase significantly, and with it congestion at grade-level intersections of train tracks and roads.
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Atlanta’s proposal offers false hopes for housing affordability, breaks from ‘Atlanta City Design’
By Guest Columnist MIKE DOBBINS, Georgia Tech professor of practice and former Atlanta planning commissioner
Stop, look and listen. Atlanta’s misguided densification planning and zoning strategy is barreling down the tracks. It has many negatives – it will exacerbate the housing affordability crisis, destabilize neighborhoods and gut the NPUs ability to shape their neighborhood’s future.
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ULI Atlanta: Inspiring best practices for land use and development
By Guest Columnist HEATHER HUBBLE, ULI Atlanta Advisory Board
Shaping the Future of the Built Environment for Transformative Impact in Communities Worldwide. This is the mission of the Urban Land Institute, a global nonprofit education and research organization, founded in 1936, with a strong local chapter.
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Three women named to lead schools in Georgia Tech’s College of Design
The three women who this summer take office as chairs of three schools at Georgia Tech’s College of Design continue both a tradition of academic excellence and the growing role of women in fields that once had been the domains of men, according to the dean of the college.
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Atlanta begins hearings on housing density as one developer offers ‘model’ project
As Atlanta on Monday takes steps to increase residential density, a proposed development in Northwest Atlanta would create up to 455 dwellings on 36 acres. Supporters contend the 12-unit-per-acre project represents the city’s future in terms of density and affordability.
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COVID pushed public meetings online; more Atlantans join in neighborhood planning
The digital divide is real, but a hybrid online/offline meeting model may bridge it.
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ATL seeks public input on $29 billion transit wish list
Metro Atlanta residents still have time to offer suggestions on the $29 billion transit wish list being assembled by the region’s transit planning agency, the ATL.
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ARC holds hope for hamlet to be nurtured by Tech, Atlanta Housing near stadium
Planners with the Atlanta Regional Commission haven’t given up hope that Georgia Tech’s next big real estate development can be intertwined with the Herndon Homes public housing development to create a pleasant community a few blocks north of Mercedes Benz Stadium.
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Equitable development: Master plan at Hulsey Yard a successful example for Murphy Crossing, elsewhere in Atlanta
By Guest Columnist BRANDON SUTTON, a member of the Hulsey Yard Study Committee
2020 will no doubt be remembered as a time of unprecedented disruption to the lives and businesses of countless people throughout the country, including right here in Atlanta. In a macro sense, the world has changed dramatically. In a micro sense, the lives and daily choices of people everywhere are in a state of suspended animation.
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Reopening metro Atlanta’s economy safely: Google offers data to inform decisions
Google has made public a treasure trove of never-before-seen proprietary data that could help decision makers reopen the economy safely in metro Atlanta. Google’s report shows changes in categories of places people visit – whether they’re going to work, buy groceries or walk the dog, and so forth.
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Post pandemic: Views on sustainability, racial equity, just development practices
As the pandemic crisis passes, the new orders of life provide opportunities to improve conditions in terms of sustainability, racial equity in placemaking, and more just development practices. These are among the views expressed by the head of the U.N., a national author who examines Atlanta in an upcoming book, and a longtime urban planner now teaching at Georgia Tech.
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ARC’s mobility plan offers ‘glimmer of hope’ as residents struggle to move about
A glimmer of hope is one key component of the 30-year plan for spending $174 billion to improve mobility in metro Atlanta.
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ARC goes high tech to reach public to devise plan for 2050
By David Pendered
Think of ARC’s long-range, regional planning blueprint done with 3-D animation. It would feel more alive, more real-time representational of the region it aims to serve. And the conversation has already started about the future the blueprint aims to inform.
