Atlanta’s famed and beloved urban forest is to be expanded by about 4,000 trees before April 2015 under an agreement with Trees Atlanta the Atlanta City Council is slated to be adopted Monday.
Atlanta is known as a "city in a forest" because of its extensive tree canopy. Credit: Atlanta BeltLine
Sheep and goats are to be grazed on public lands in an effort to combat invasive plants, according to another part of the pending legislation. Trees Atlanta promises that the ...more
Atlanta seems to have an endless capacity to talk about the state of sidewalk repair. By most accounts, the state of repair is poor. The repair bill for more than 1,200 miles of sidewalks is pegged above $150 million. The city’s challenge isn’t just maintaining sidewalks. Keeping up with their location is a problem. The Atlanta City Council may add to that burden every time it waives the city’s requirement for subdivision developers to install sidewalks in front of a project. Instead, ...more
A long-awaited effort to create iconic bridges across Atlanta’s Downtown Connector is culminating this summer and a final design is due before the year’s end. The first two projects involve Peachtree Street, Atlanta’s signature boulevard. The working draft for the enhancements is evocative of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a world famous bridge that’s located in the host city of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games that came right after the Atlanta games. - See more at: http://saportareport.com/blog/2013/07/beautification-of-peachtree-street-bridges-first-step-in-vision-for-downtown-connector/#sthash.sVdghwxJ.dpuf more
