Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration is presenting its proposal for a downtown streetcar to City Council this week and hopes to gain approval for the project in time to apply for a $52 million federal grant, Maria Saporta reports. The feds rejected Atlanta’s bid last year for a $300 million for a plan that included a streetcar [...]

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 [...]