The 2024 Culture and Community Design cohort completed their first public engagement event with community partner, Village Skatepark ATL. After prototyping ideas, the class collaborated on a creative wayfinding system…
The Community Planning Academy Prepares Future Planners to Build One Great Region
Wanna learn about comprehensive planning for communities? The Atlanta Regional Commission’s Community Planning Academy (CPA) offers high-quality, cost-effective training to help planners and decision-makers engage with stakeholders and lead their…
Metro Atlanta Climate Action Plan: A Roadmap for a Sustainable and Healthier Future
It’s clear that climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing metro Atlanta. Now, the Atlanta Regional Commission is working to address this challenge by developing the Metro…
LINK NYC: Takeaways From the Big Apple
In August, the Atlanta Regional Commission shepherded a cohort of 135 metro Atlanta leaders to New York City for the annual LINK trip. For context, when you compare New York…
Regional Bike-Ped Mapping Tool Makes It Easy to Find the Nearest Path – and What’s to Come
Don’t blink. You might miss another bike-ped trail being built in metro Atlanta. In fact, multi-use paths are coming online so fast, it can be hard to keep up. ARC…
Take This Survey and Help ARC Update the Region’s Public Participation Plan
Everyone, it seems, has an opinion on transportation in metro Atlanta. And now, the Atlanta Regional Commission is updating the region’s public participation plan to ensure that more of these…
Atlanta’s First E-bike Rebate Recipients Roll Out
If you’ve recently noticed a few more shiny, new e-bikes cruising the streets of the ATL, it may be because the first round of e-bike rebates has been awarded to…
ConnectATL Summit Explores the EV Transition
What does the historic shift to electric vehicles mean for metro Atlanta? That question was at the center of this year’s ConnectATL Summit, which took place on July 25 at…
ARC’s Updated ‘100 Metros Dashboard’ Shows How ATL Stacks Up to Peers
Here’s a quick quiz: How does metro Atlanta rank in population growth rate nationally between 2020 and 2023? How many metro areas had more multi-family building permits than Atlanta in…
On a Roll: Atlanta E-Bike Rebate Program Off to Strong Start
The City of Atlanta’s E-bike rebate program is a runaway – or should we say, rollaway? – success. Consider that 8,888 people applied for an e-bike rebate by the June…
Georgia Energyshed Project Powers First-Ever Study of Atlanta Region’s ‘Energyshed’
First things first. What’s an energyshed? Perhaps it’s best to think of a watershed: the streams and rivers that provide water for a particular region. An energyshed is similar, just…
Riding for More Than Recreation
Used with permission from Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. Photo: Erin Sintos Her company, The Happy Black Parent, an educational play space, is located in Atlanta’s Pittsburgh Yards. The community driven, innovative…
