The plans for a new public safety training center have polarized Atlanta into two camps – those for and those against. That was evident during a confrontational Atlanta City Council meeting that began at 1 p.m. June 12 and lasted for nearly 17 hours with an overwhelming number of speakers passionately arguing against what they have labeled as “cop city.”
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Georgia ACLU resigns from new training center task force, calls for project’s halt
The Georgia ACLU has resigned from the new task force about the controversial public safety training center and called for a halt of its construction.
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Mayor names new training center/forest task force, but role and transparency remain unclear
The task force’s exact role, authority and transparency remain unclear, including to some groups with seats on it.
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Training center maps suggest outside property used to meet green space requirements
Planners of Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center appear to be counting properties outside its legal boundaries to meet a lease-required amount of green space.
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Atlanta mayor announces task force to merge training center and park input
The task force will merge input on the controversial public safety training center and a still-mysterious parkland plan.
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South River Forest vision report calls for 445-acre park around training center, green jobs, more
The newly released South River Forest green space vision report includes such big ideas as green jobs programs, affordable housing pilots, and a new, 445-acre park centered on the former Atlanta Prison Farm and its controversial public safety training center.
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Seeking peaceful green solutions for training center in South River Forest
The controversy over building a public safety training center on the site of the old Atlanta Prison Farm continues to fester.
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Deron Davis stepping down as executive director of Nature Conservancy-Georgia
The Nature Conservancy in Georgia is undergoing a transition in leadership. Deron Davis, executive director of the Nature Conservancy-Georgia for more than eight years, will be stepping down Sept. 16.
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South River Forest vision expands with a look at historic South-View Cemetery
Already metro Atlanta’s biggest green space concept in decades, the South River Forest may get bigger still by embracing the historic South-View Cemetery.
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South River Forest civic engagement work can help bridge divide
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) and the Nature Conservancy publicly kicked off its South River Forest Community Engagement process at a meeting Saturday morning at DeKalb County’s impressive Sugar Creek Golf & Tennis Center off Bouldercrest Road.
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South River Forest process gets a steering committee
A 25-member steering committee for the South River Forest green space concept has been named as public engagement meetings are set to begin this month.
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South River Forest public input begins with online survey
Public engagement for the South River Forest green space concept has kicked off with an online survey.
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Who should plan the park next to Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center?
Planning for Atlanta’s public safety training center is increasingly focused on adjacent parkland with no clear authority and no communication with groups who will include the green space in a South River Forest input process launching in January.
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Lake Charlotte Nature Preserve, Southeast Atlanta’s huge forest, opens to the public
Lake Charlotte Nature Preserve, the huge Southeast Atlanta forest acquired last year by the City, has quietly opened to the public.
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Public safety training center plan heads to City Council with chorus of opposition
The controversial plan to build a public safety training center at the former Atlanta Prison Farm site is heading to City Council for consideration Aug. 16 in a downsized version that is still opposed by a coalition of community and activist groups. The council’s Finance/Executive Committee on Aug. 11 approved a version of the plan […]
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Opposition grows to police training center at Atlanta Prison Farm
For decades, the vision for the historic Atlanta prison farm has been to transform it into a green jewel for the region.
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South River Forest: A big green dream starts coming true
A lovely June morning was the perfect time for a nature hike in southeast Atlanta, but the starting point was a bit of a surprise. A small group traversed the tire-doughnut scars in the parking lot of the Value Village shopping center at Moreland and Custer avenues, parked behind its graffiti-covered loading docks, passed through […]
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South River Forest, housing affordability studies among projects gaining ARC assistance
The massive South River Forest public park concept and housing affordability studies in Buckhead and Chamblee are just a few of the programs that this week won technical or financial assistance from the Atlanta Regional Commission. The ARC on May 12 announced eight winners of its competitive, annual Community Development Assistance Program support. Through CDAP, […]
