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3 days ago · Atlanta Civic Circle reveals the issues shaping metro Atlanta, empowering you to make a real impact.
Advocacy groups demand Atlanta City Council seek public input …
3 days ago · Five civil rights and policy advocacy groups issued a joint letter Tuesday asking the Atlanta City Council to hold a work session with public input on a controversial reform bill that they said would imperil the independence and efficacy of the city’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
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The Atlanta Civic Circle takes deep dives on issues affecting metro Atlanta, providestools and resources to help the community learn more about the topics, and equipsreaders with information on how they can get involved in civic issues. Since formation,the Atlanta Civic Circle has launched a Housing Affordability focus area and a Democracy initiative to include in …
Meet Atlanta’s City Council - Atlanta Civic Circle
Jan 3, 2022 · The City of Atlanta’s 2021 elections ushered in a new City Council President, along with a mix of new and returning council members. Scroll down to learn more about each elected official. Click the headshots to visit their official council page.
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Our mission Our mission is to inform the public on the most critical issues facing metro Atlanta by providing in-depth reporting and presenting possible solutions with opportunities for civic engagement online and in the community. Our definition of civic journalism Civic journalism is a way to inform the public about the most critical issues affecting our …
Atlanta Ethics Office raises concerns over changes proposed in City ...
5 days ago · Sengova said many of the changes proposed in the bill, filed Jan. 6 with the Atlanta City Council, would jeopardize her office’s autonomy, echoing issues raised by the OIG. “We’re just as concerned, and we want to make sure that there is a fair resolution,” Sengova said at the meeting. Sengova was speaking at a Jan. 16 meeting of the joint governing board for the Ethics Office, which ...
City council chills Atlanta from opening warming centers near …
Dec 6, 2024 · Without any public input, the Atlanta City Council has approved legislation that discourages the city from operating emergency warming centers near schools. As temperatures drop, the measure could sharply restrict where the city can provide unhoused people lifesaving refuge from the cold.
Atlanta Civic Center redevelopment could finally start this winter.
May 22, 2024 · Crews could break ground on the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center’s long-overdue redevelopment before the end of the year, kicking off a potentially 13-year plan to bring new restaurants, retail, office space, a hotel, and around 1,500 residences — roughly a third of them affordable housing — to the mostly empty and overgrown Old Fourth Ward site.
What Atlanta’s zoning rewrite will (and won’t) do
2 days ago · It’s been more than 40 years since Atlanta updated its zoning code, since before the Beltline and even before the Olympics. A lot about this city—its people, culture, businesses, needs—has changed since then. Zoning code determines what (and where) developers can and can’t build, often based on districts delineated by that code. This is why you don’t have warehouses in the middle of ...
Atlantans have mixed feelings about big salary hikes, shift to full ...
Nov 20, 2024 · A proposal to raise the salaries for Atlanta’s mayor, 16-member city council, and nine-member board of education — and to make the city council and school board positions full time — drew mixed reactions from Atlantans whom Atlanta Civic Circle interviewed along the Beltline this week.