Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has opted not to run again after a disastrous year that has placed her city on the growing list of urban centers with alarming increases in crime. Recently, Bill White, chairman and CEO of the Buckhead City Committee, appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to talk about the movement to separate Buckhead from Atlanta. White pointed to the increase in violent crime in residential neighborhoods as a key driver of the initiative.
In a move that bites the hand that feeds it, Atlanta recommends moving to abolish the suburbs ahead of the Biden administration requiring the city to do so. Buckhead is not what is traditionally considered a suburb. Residents there provide about 20% of the city’s budget, and their children attend Atlanta Public Schools. However, it is an area of the city primarily made up of neighborhoods with single-family homes.
Atlanta would like to change that. According to the Saporta Report, single-family zoning comprises 63% of Atlanta’s land area. In 2018, Mayor Bottoms said her vision was One Atlanta, a more “affordable, resilient and equitable city.” The Atlanta City Housing Design report operationalized this vision. Unfortunately, the recommendations buried in the text use the city’s policies from 1929 as a model to increase population density. (Yet, the proponents of these policies call themselves progressive.) Their proposals include:
- End single-family zoning, allowing any property owner by right to build an additional dwelling unit (called an “Accessory Dwelling Unit,” or ADU) on any lot now zoned for one family residence.
- Allow the property owner by right to then subdivide the lot and sell the ADU separately on its own “flag lot,” then presumably build another and repeat the process.
- “Loosen” the building requirements, such as size and height, for ADU’s making them cheaper, encouraging the use of modular housing technology.
- Reduce minimum lot sizes and minimum set-backs from the street and adjacent properties to get more buildings onto every property.
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The more the demoncrats do the more good things they undo. Is it possible that they always have a plan in place to distract us from what they are doing? I wonder did fauchi have the virus we paid for released to distradt from the arrangement of the election fraud? Has this been a long series of "don't look there; look here"?
So corrupt
The above policies are coming to a neighborhood near you or your own ... shortly... unless we retake the government and return to our historic system of Constitutional government with a massive reduction in the size, power, and authority of the Federal Government.
Return the bulk of government power to the States and local governments. Restrict Federal Government to a strict rendering of the powers granted it in Article 1, Section 8 of the US constitution and NO MORE.. no more finding powers not specifically enumerated in Section 8.