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Atlanta implements Phase One of updated tree policy, advocates call for more changes in Phase Two
Advocates call the changes “modest.”
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Blue Heron Nature Preserve, Georgia Tech team up to analyze 30-acre tree canopy
The folks at Blue Heron are intent on ensuring Atlanta lives up to its legacy as a green city.
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Family visit weaves views of greenspace, civil rights and hospitality
Sometimes having a fresh set of eyes on where you live helps you better appreciate what works and what’s lacking. For me, those fresh set of eyes belonged to my sister, Elena Saporta; and my niece, Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri, who came to spend the better part of a week visiting Atlanta and Georgia.
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After Atlanta BeltLine’s next round of construction, Northeast Trail will directly connect to Piedmont Park
Anyone living near the Atlanta BeltLine’s Northeast Trail will be seeing changes to the pathway during their morning walk or bike ride. The Atlanta BeltLine team is moving forward with construction along Segment Two of the trail, which stretches from Westminster Dr. to Mayson St. Notably, this section will be the first to provide a […]
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Atlanta City Council reins in proposed long-range growth plan
Atlanta on Tuesday advanced an amended long-range development plan that eliminates major objections raised by residents and instructs city planners to abide by state rules on community involvement in future planning.
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Remaking Atlanta: Concerns arise to city’s long-range plan for growth
Atlanta’s proposal to change social dynamics and housing prices in neighborhoods with single-family houses faces a rising number of challenges in the final days of debate.
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Atlanta: we can have it all – density, affordable housing while protecting our tree canopy
The City of Atlanta is literally at a crossroads over how it will grow.
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John Ripley Forbes Big Trees Forest Preserve named to Old-Growth Forest Network
The John Ripley Forbes Big Trees Forest Preserve, in Sandy Springs, has been designated part of the Old-Growth Forest Network, a national network of mature forests that are protected, native and publicly accessible.
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Murphey Candler Park construction creates divide in community
By Hannah Jones Murphey Candler Park has been a centerpiece of the Brookhaven community. It has served as a place where people could convene, tying the community together, but now it’s something that is tearing them apart. Murphey Candler Park is a 120-acre park in the City of Brookhaven that includes sports facilities, a series […]
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Protecting trees: Replace cut/scrape housing with village conservation communities
By Guest Columnist GREG RAMSEY, founder of Village Habitat Design
Our last forests in and around Atlanta (The City of Trees) are under assault. Sites are needlessly being cut and scraped to further a suburban, conventional style development pattern that has consumed most of the woodlands and farms in and around Atlanta. We are left with a limited number of “forest enclaves” on the remaining private tracts of land, and they are awaiting a similar fate.
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Time for Atlanta’s arborists, developers and citizens to advocate for trees
Nearly every tree surrounding the Darlington Apartments – 127 in all – on Peachtree Road will be cut down to make way for a new medical office building and garage.
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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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One neighborhood’s question: How to respond to first huge proposed development
Residents of a quiet neighborhood in Southwest Atlanta have to decide if they support or oppose a proposed multi-story housing development for senior citizens, one with a density that could bring the type of life-altering effects familiar in faster-growing parts of the city.
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Atlanta tweaks tree protection, floats idea of forming urban forestry division
Atlanta continues to tinker with its ordinances to protect trees and the vaunted tree canopy. The city this month has partially protected the Tree Trust Fund and started discussing the formation of a forestry division to manage wooded land.
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Looking to the future of experiencing nature, as seen at Blue Heron Nature Preserve
Atlanta’s Blue Heron Nature Preserve has started “Spread Your Wings,” a social distancing program with a broader purpose of expanding the preserve’s role as an urban ecology center oriented around a new three-mile trail system that traverses ridgelines across 30 acres in Buckhead.
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Trees and seedlings come up $3.4 million short in Atlanta spending, say advocates
Some fear Atlanta’s tree canopy won’t last.
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Environmentalists, builders seek more density without cutting down trees
If Atlanta is to save its precious tree canopy, there’s a lesson to be learned from the adversaries-turned-friends experience between environmentalist John Noel and developer Adam Brock.
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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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Forest provides ‘reservoir of beauty, peace, freedom’ in time of health crisis
By Guest Columnist DEBRA PEARSON, retired educator with Atlanta Public Schools Never in my lifetime have I witnessed such a strong societal response to a health crisis. I am a member of the age demographic that is most at risk for coronavirus infection. I have thus been sequestered in my home for several days. Yet, I […]
