City Council flops on sustainable building law
BY Ken Edelstein • December 17, 2009
From Lynette Young, CEO of Sustainable Atlanta, writing on the SaportaReport:
For the last 18 months, Sustainable Atlanta has engaged leaders and experts from Atlanta’s academic, business, governmental sectors and nonprofits to work on updating Atlanta’s current building code to make the city a better place to live, work and play.
Unfortunately, the Atlanta City Council missed a tremendous opportunity by shelving the Atlanta Sustainable Building Ordinance during their last meeting as a Council on Dec. 7, 2009.
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Ms. Young, you’re woefully off-base regarding the ASBO. You imply that the water conservation provisions would somehow impact or mitigate the effects of the ruling in the Lake Lanier lawsuit. Yet in the final draft of the ASBO, the water conservation measures you tout wouldn’t have become mandatory until July 1, 2013 — one year AFTER Judge Magnuson’s deadline.
You also cite the Forbes.com “most toxic city” article, but did you even bother to read it? Here’s a quote from the fifth paragraph:
“While the Atlanta metro area takes top honors for toxicity, don’t blame the city alone. The Atlanta metro includes the city of Marietta, the site of chemical plants and metal coaters. The city has toxic release levels higher than those of the principal city of Atlanta, in spite of a population 13% the size of Atlanta’s.”
The ASBO was little more than a transparent attempt by your lobbying firm, Damespointe, and its cadre of LEED consultants to profit from the passage of a overly bureaucratic and unnecessary ordinance.