Most weekends my husband and I go for walks in the woods. Last weekend was no different. We hiked a short trail near Smyrna called…
Week before last, I shared that the Dept of City Planning (DCP) was dissolving the Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) R. The SWATs are a story…
I’ve been writing a lot about process and politics, but this week I’ll talk about how this and our individual actions contribute over time to…
…Retaliation, rubber stamps, and red tape, essentially. The last time I wrote about the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board, I shared that I discovered (by attending…
I’m taking a break from my series on the APD and what I learned about it at the Citizens’ Police Academy to offer a note…
Last week I wrote about my challenges within the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board (APAB) as we navigate the Executive Order signed by Mayor Andre Dickens…
Not Hillary’s…mine. As a general rule, I don’t write about things until well after they’re complete, but today I’m going to make an exception because…
Private property rights are a personal favorite of mine. My appreciation of local control is something that must have grown along with the crops in…
The Atlanta Planning Advisory Board. It’s such a long title and sounds so innocuous, doesn’t it? *sigh* In some ways it really is. In some…
While many may debate the proper role of government, most would agree that creating roads is a reasonable expectation in exchange for taxes. City streets…