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Community Improvement/Development
Development of the Atlanta Beltline
Atlanta has less parkland than 85 percent of similar American cities with populations of five million, but that could change with the development of the Beltline, a twenty-three-mile, multi-use trail in railroad rights-of-way that will circle the city within two miles of downtown, adding more than 2,000 acres of parks and connecting with a twenty-mile transit loop. The Beltline Emerald Necklace: Atlanta's New Public Realm (executive summary, 2 pages, PDF; full document, 152 pages, PDF), published by the Trust for Public Land, includes a mile-by-mile analysis of the Beltline and makes the case for a continuous, unbroken circuit developed in two phases: first the trail itself and then the more costly transit loop. The report was funded by the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, the Morgens West Foundation, and the Kendeda Fund.
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