Community Development

What makes a vibrant city? Maybe it’s being able walk to the grocery store or post office with ease. Maybe it is the feeling of stores and housing intertwined in…

Registration is now open for the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Spring 2022 Training for Planning Officials. Offered by ARC through its Community Planning Academy (CPA), the training will explore the historic and legal…

The Nature Conservancy of Georgia and Atlanta Regional Commission are collaborating on a community engagement process designed to develop a shared vision of the 3,500-acre South River Forest. The effort…

The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) is accepting applications for two local planning programs: the Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) and the Community Development Assistance Program (CDAP). The application period for both…

A state-of-the-art City Hall building and an adjacent 8-acre park are infusing new life into downtown Fayetteville. After nearly five years of dreaming, planning, and building, the City of Fayetteville…

The new Rodney Cook Sr. Park in Atlanta’s Vine City neighborhood is much more than a beautiful place to play and relax. It also doubles as a watershed management project,…

East Point has achieved a major first for metro Atlanta: the region’s very first comprehensive community agriculture plan – which has been awarded ARC’s Regional Excellence Award for Visionary Planning….

Land is so scarce in the densely populated City of Clarkston that precious few new residential units have been built in the past decade. And with rentals accounting for 85%…

After five decades, the 112-unit Gateway Manor and Oakview apartments in downtown Decatur had fallen into disrepair and needed to be either torn down or fully redone. With affordable housing…

ARC’s interactive housing data tool has received a makeover fit for an HGTV reality show.  No walls were broken down or bathroom tile obliterated in the renovation, of course. This upgrade is all about…

Recently released 2020 Census data confirms that the Hispanic population continues to be a major engine of growth in the 11-county Atlanta region. As we celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month,…

In this episode: the story of someone who’s done everything she was supposed to and is still facing eviction. It’s the kind of story that’s becoming alarmingly common in our…

With the U.S. Supreme Court overturning on Aug. 26 the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s eviction freeze, distressed tenants in metro Atlanta and across the U.S. are running out of time…

How could 125 miles of trail along the Chattahoochee River transform our relationship with Atlanta’s natural landscape and while really and truly serving the underinvested communities in its path? We talk about these questions and more as we discuss…

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released population counts for counties and metro areas from last year’s decennial Census, providing a treasure trove of data on growth and diversity in our region.   The bottom line:…

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, restaurants across metro Atlanta faced a crushing dilemma. How could they serve customers and stay in business while indoor dining was off…

Forsyth County has long had one eye focused north on the nearby North Georgia Mountains and another south toward booming metro Atlanta. It’s part of what makes this county of…

Like most major thoroughfares in metro Atlanta, New Peachtree Road in Doraville was designed first and foremost to move cars. Now, the City of Doraville is transforming part of New…