It's primary day across Georgia, so the polls are open and the lines are long, but the bigger local story is at City Hall: Mayor Dickens is pulling back his $10 billion Neighborhood Reinvestment plan and letting the BeltLine tax district lapse. Housing advocates are nervous about whether the long-promised zoning rewrite will actually add density, Portman's Amsterdam Walk teardown near the Eastside Trail is coming into focus, and Amy Sherald's big retrospective just opened at the High in Midtown.
Dickens Scales Back His $10 Billion Neighborhood Reinvestment Plan
Mayor Andre Dickens is trimming the Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative, the ambitious plan to steer up to $10 billion into affordable housing and wraparound services for Atlanta's south and west sides. The revised version would let two of the original eight tax allocation districts expire, including the BeltLine TAD, the city's largest, when it sunsets in 2030. The plan has been under scrutiny for a year, and this is the clearest signal yet that the final version will be smaller than the pitch.
Development & Housing
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