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Jennifer Toole, ASLA, is the founder and President of Toole Design and has over 30 years of experience planning and designing multimodal transportation systems. A certified planner with a degree in landscape architecture, Toole has a strong background in urban design. She has been involved in numerous projects of national significance for the Federal Highway Administration, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
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, edited by Paul Hawken, bike infrastructure is identified as one of the top 80 solutions for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The book finds that in 2014, 5.5 percent of urban trips worldwide were by bicycle. If that number grew to 7.5 percent by 2050, displacing some 2.2 trillion passenger miles completed by vehicles, some 2.2 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided, realizing approximately $400 billion savings over the next
For the first time, the city of Atlanta is launching a program to take land it owns and convert it into affordable housing, reports J.D. Capelouto.
The program will start with four sites, identified by the Atlanta Department of City Planning after an inventory of publicly owned property. The planning department s inventory found that the city, the Beltline, Metro Atlanta Land Bank, Atlanta Housing and Invest Atlanta own a total of 877 acres of land over 490 parcels that could be turned into housing, according to Capelouto. The four sites include three single-family properties in southwest Atlanta and an apartment building downtown.
In Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken, bike infrastructure is identified as one of the top 80 solutions for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The book finds that in 2014, 5.5 percent of urban trips worldwide were by bicycle. If that number grew to 7.5 percent by 2050, displacing some 2.2 trillion passenger miles completed by vehicles, some 2.2 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided, realizing approximately $400 billion savings over the next 30 years. What are the most important steps cities and communities can take to rapidly grow bike use?
Most people just don’t feel safe bicycling, which is the greatest disincentive. We spent nearly a century in this country building a transportation system that essentially only caters to people who are driving motor vehicles. We have a system that fundamentally doesn’t support bicycling.
GROUNDFLOOR announces new pilot program to spur accessory dwelling unit (ADU) growth in Atlanta
GROUNDFLOOR is now offering financing for ADUs and allowing investors to fund these unique projects, which benefit local neighborhoods
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ATLANTA, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/
GROUNDFLOOR, the wealthtech platform that allows everyone to build wealth through real estate, is announcing a new pilot program to spur the development of more accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in the Atlanta jurisdictions where they are currently permitted. The new initiative is designed to support developers who seek financing for the renovation or new construction of ADUs, and enables socially minded investors to fund these projects through GROUNDFLOOR s platform.