Tim Keane, Atlanta’s visionary planning commissioner from July 2015 to February 2022, will be moving from Boise to Calgary, Canada.
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When it comes to Five Points MARTA station redesign: ‘Let’s get it right’
MARTA currently is planning to spend $259.4 million to rebuild the downtown Five Points station with more than $200 million coming out of the limited More MARTA revenue. But the proposed redesign is getting pushback from key stakeholders.
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Jahnee Prince is named new Atlanta planning commissioner
Jahnee Prince has been named as Atlanta’s new commissioner of city planning after a seven-month vacancy.
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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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Atlanta must plan wisely for a new planning commissioner
Sometimes I crack open The Atlanta City Design: Aspiring to the Beloved Community, the massive urban vision book published under the auspices of Planning Commissioner Tim Keane, just to marvel that a government was capable of producing such a thing.
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‘Atlanta City Design’ book goes on sale in handsome, hefty print form; author discussion coming
Update: The Sept. 16 discussion has been postponed due to weather, with a new date to be announced. Four years after the City’s digital release of a book laying out a long-term vision for Atlanta’s urban planning, a handsome hard-copy version is now available at a bookstore and a discussion with its authors is coming […]
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Aim high Atlanta – pass an ordinance that truly protects trees
The people spoke loud and clear. At the recent meeting of the Atlanta City Council’s Tree Ordinance Workshop, city councilmembers listened to four hours and 44 minutes of 232 voicemails from the public about the proposed revision of the tree ordinance.
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City initiative aims to address housing affordability through zoning reform
Atlanta’s zoning policies have long been regarded as restrictive by affordable housing advocates and urbanists. Put simply, the city’s zoning code just isn’t very conducive to dense development.
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Atlanta’s trees are more vulnerable when the city’s arborists aren’t out in the field
When Wendy Kirkpatrick bought her Ansley Park house in 2017, she was drawn to community because of its history, its tree canopy and its quality of life.
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Citizens group proposes an alternative tree ordinance for Atlanta
Atlanta may get a new and improved tree ordinance after all. The Atlanta City Council held a Tree Ordinance Work Session on June 25 to discuss a proposed draft ordinance prepared by consultants and released March 20.
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Tensions on city advisory group cloud Mayor’s commitment to planning director Tim Keane
A storm has been brewing within the Atlanta Planning Department’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).
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We really did this for a Margaritaville?
On Thursday, Aug. 8, the demolition of 152 Nassau Street has ceased thanks to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ellen LaGura who ordered developers to stop demolition until an Aug. 29 hearing.
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Tim Keane to Atlanta: No more ugly buildings; focus on quality design
When it comes to urban design, it’s a new day for Atlanta.
Atlanta’s Planning Commissioner Tim Keane wants our developers and architects to step up their game. And he’s willing to hold up their projects if they don’t live up to higher quality design standards.
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Charleston Mayor Joe Riley: ‘You can never stop listening’
A fascinating conversation between two public servants took place last week – thanks to ULI Atlanta. It was a conversation that should become a guiding platform for how Atlanta can evolve into a next generation city.
The conversation took place between former Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley Jr. – who has been described as the best mayor in the country, serving his city for 40 years; and Atlanta Planning Commissioner Tim Keane, who worked for Riley for eight years before coming to Atlanta.
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Planned hotel in Midtown implements aesthetics espoused in ‘Atlanta City Design’
Atlanta has never been bashful about allowing old buildings to be razed and replaced by new ones, sometimes with little consideration of the aesthetics of the new structure. That era is over, at least for the moment, and the outcome of Atlanta’s new emphasis on beauty is to be built along Peachtree Street in Midtown.
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Atlanta’s Mayor Bottoms unveils $9 million effort to help low-income homeowners
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced three new affordable housing programs Friday to help low income homeowners from being displaced.
The three programs total $9 million, which the mayor said was a “drop in the bucket” of what needed to be invested to make Atlanta an affordable city for everyone.
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Atlanta striving to restore our natural amenities – our trees and our waterways
East Lake. Lake Claire. Vine City. Parkway Drive. Lakeview Avenue. Ponce de Leon Avenue.
Atlanta is full of streets and neighborhoods with names that hark back to a different time – when the city’s natural environment defined communities before they became built up, paved over or tunneled under.
Now a comprehensive effort is underway to bring back Atlanta’s natural amenities and make them part of our city’s future.
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Atlanta City Design 2017: A grand vision for people, nature and people in nature
In a City Hall conference room, Atlanta Planning Commissioner Tim Keane gently unrolled a mega-watercolor that Christian Sottile, an urban designer from Savannah, had painted of the new Atlanta City Design.
The watercolor captured the significance of the design process and its potential for Atlanta by using a graphic style that dates back to the early 1900s – depicting a desire fort this design tol become part of city’s landscape and identity for decades to come.
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MARTA, City of Atlanta and Relay Bikes seek to close ‘last mile’ gap
MARTA and the City of Atlanta are teaming up to provide the elusive “last mile” for people seeking alternative ways to get around.
MARTA and the city’s Relay bike sharing program launched their partnership on July 14 with an actual bike relay from the Colony Square bike station to MARTA’s Arts Center Station. MARTA and city employees “competed” in an effort to “win” the relay.
