Atlanta, DeKalb win smart-growth grants
Another step in making sense of sprawl.
The hardest part about making progress in metro Atlanta is fixing the mistakes of its past. Thankfully, the Atlanta Regional Commission has some idea of how to turn sprawl into walkable and livable areas — places you actually want to be.
Today, the commission announced several new sites for its Livable Centers Initiative, an award-winning program that funds planning studies for cities and counties to help retrofit sprawl-afflicted areas. The two closest to home? The Donald Lee Hollowell-Veterans Memorial Parkway Corridor in Atlanta and Cobb County and the North Druid Hills Road Corridor in DeKalb County.
More details about those grants after the jump.