Monday, July 23, 2012
Officials with City of Atlanta Parks and Buckhead Heritage Society talk about the benefits of the Ga. 400 trail and some key components that will make it unique.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
For those looking for more information about the Ga. 400 trail, Livable Buckhead has released an informative video detailing the project. In the video, George Dusenbury from City of Atlanta Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs discusses plans to increase park space in Buckhead — which he calls one of the least "parked" areas in the city. Also, Erica Danylchak of the Buckhead Heritage Society reveals how important historic sites will be incorporated along the trail. More recently, Gov. Nathan Deal announced the approval of $750,000 to go toward the Ga. 400 trail. Although the trail will be implemented by Livable Buckhead, the money was granted to the Buckhead Community Improvement District. The Ga. 400 trail is one of 12 infrastructure …
Monday, June 25, 2012
Governor Deal approved funding for 11 other projects through the Georgia Transportation Infrastructure Bank.
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Governor Nathan Deal announced recently the approval of funding for 12 transportation infrastructure projects, including the much discussed Ga. 400 trail in Buckhead, totaling more than eight million dollars in grants and loans funded by the Georgia Transportation Infrastructure Bank (GTIB). The GTIB program is a revolving infrastructure investment fund established in 2008 by Georgia legislators and administered by the State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA). Only community improvement districts (CIDs) are eligible for grant funding and CIDs and local and state government entities are eligible for loan funding. The 11 CIDs awarded are as follows: Perimeter (Fulton), Midtown, Atlanta, Gwinnett Village, Gwinnett Place, Buckhead, Evermore, …
Friday, March 30, 2012
Group says project would bring crime to their backyards
Organized neighborhood opposition to the Ga. 400 trail emerged Thursday night with a slide show not on the agenda at the North Buckhead Civic Association's 40th annual meeting. After a scheduled Livable Buckhead presentation about its plans for the trail, homeowner Leanne West of Glengary Drive stood up and asked to show her presentation to the group. West said she represents 44 families in the Loridans Drive-Glengary area who strongly oppose the project and have set up a Facebook page, "Concerned Citizens About Livable Buckhead's Ga. 400 Trail Project." Livable Buckhead's plans call for the trailhead to be placed at Loridans besides Ga. 400 in a wooded area near the historic Lowry-Stevens cemetery. Little, a research scientist at Ga. …
Friday, March 2, 2012
Gordon Certain urges residents ot learn as much as they can and share opinions
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Friday, March 2, 2012
From Patch Reports Editor's Note: North Buckhead Civic Association President Gordon Certain has been a leader of efforts to develop more parks for his community. With Livable Buckhead beginning community meetings to gather residents' proposals about the Ga. 400 Trail design, Certain sent the following message to civic association members. Buckhead Patch reprints it from a recent email Certain sent out about the trail. "I have lived here in North Buckhead for 37 years and for the last 12 have been president of NBCA. I have learned a lot about the neighborhood during those years and have seen a lot of change. I have always been interested in understanding land use. In one of my more analytical moments a few years ago, I figured out that at …
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Livable Buckhead holding one-on-one meetings with community, CID board told
Property owners’ wishes will be incoporated into the Ga. 400 trail design, Livable Buckhead Executive Director Denise Starling said Tuesday. Presenting an update about the trail to the Buckhead Community Improvement District’s board, Starling said Livable Buckhead is starting one-on-one meetings with property owners whose yards abut the trail's path, which will run along Georgia DOT right of way. “People think the trail is done, that it’s a fait accompli, but we don’t have a design,” she said. “We’re going to let property owners inform that design. It’s not done. We’re still two years away from construction.” Starling said that property owners living beside the tral are expressing concerns. “It’s now about a lot of angst and a lot of …
Monday, February 27, 2012
Livable Buckhead to give information on project
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Monday, February 27, 2012
From Patch Reports Livable Buckhead Executive Director Denise Starling released a Ga. 400 Trail fact sheet Monday to give Buckhead residents information about the project. According to the timeline on the Fact Sheet, trail construction is to begin in September 2013 with completion planned for July 2014. Conceptual and prelimnary design will continue through September of this year, with the final design work continuing through March 2013. Permitting will be carried out from April through August 2013. "With concept approval imminent, the team will begin meeting with individual property owners and trail neighbors to discuss their concerns and desires for the trail design," Livable Buckhead last week in its monthly Buckheadlines newsletter. In…
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Vote expands Buckhead CID's boundaries
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
From Patch Reports The Atlanta City Council Monday approved expanding the Buckhead CID's boundaries to facilitate development of the Ga. 400 trail, according to reporter David Pendered's article on the Saporta Report. The article on Atlanta Business Chronicle columnist Maria Saporta's web site said the council approved the plan to extend the CID's boundaris to Loridans Drive, where the Ga. 400 trail will begin. The proposal was on the council's concent agenda, which means it passed wihtout debate, Pendered said. While the Buckhead CID is supporting the trail, the project is being run by the affiliated Livable Buckhead, which has been involved in trail design and discussions with the Georgia Department of Transportation, PATH, the Norfolk-…
Monday, October 31, 2011
Neighborhood launches Buckhead Heritage Society's oral history project for Buckhead Collection
North Buckhead’s past lived anew for area residents Sunday afternoon. In connection with the North Buckhead Civic Association’s annual Fall Fling, residents congregated in the Blue Heron Nature Preserve’s building to look at historic surveyors’ maps and development plans. Comparing present day homes, businesses and landmarks with what existed long ago proved an exciting detective game. The “History Day” event at the nature preserve was the kickoff of a Buckhead Heritage Society project to gather oral histories and historic photos and documents of Buckhead neighborhoods for Livable Buckhead’s Buckhead Collection project. The historic information is to be used to provide historic guideposts for trails to be developed in Buckhead’s Council …
Monday, October 24, 2011
Organization built Chastain Park, Tanyard Creek trails
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Monday, October 24, 2011
From Patch Staff The PATH Foundaton, which developed the popular Chastain Park and Tanyard Creek trails in Buckhead, is celebrating its 20th anniversary, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. In one of its latest projects, PATH is working with Livable Buckhead to develop a trail along Ga. 400. The trail is one of the first projects in the Buckhead Collection initiative to increase greenspace, public squares, trails and historic sites in Buckhead's District 7. The Buckhead Business Association, through its Bucks on the Streets project, is also providing funding for the Buckhead Collection. PATH built the Tanyard Creek trail in partnership with the Atlanta Beltline organization. The Chastain Park trail is one of PATH's more popular …
Monday, June 27, 2011
Livable Buckhead looking for entries
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Thursday is the deadline for entries to Livable Buckhead's naming contest for the Ga. 400 trail, to be built under the Buckhead Collection greenspace intitiative. Naming ideas are sought for the trail section running from the Ga. 400 toll plaza to approximately I-85 in Buckhead, the Livable Buckhead announcement said. The name should be connected to the Buckhead Collection, the larger system of parks and trails being developed for Buckhead's Council District 7 under Livable Buckhead and the Buckhead CID. The name should also allow additional components of the system to be "named in a similar fashion," according to the organization. To enter: The Buckhead Collection planning effort has been spearheaded by Councilman Howard Shook, who …
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