The Green Space Race
7 March 2001 - 10:00am
Across the nation billions of dollars are being spent on parks and land preservation. Atlanta is part of this national trend.
" In cities and counties across the country, billions of dollars are being spent to preserve land and develop parks. The trend is not lost on metro Atlanta...$30 million being made available to the state's 40 fastest-growing counties in the first year of Gov. Roy Barnes' green-space initiative, with most of the money targeted for metro Atlanta. The program is designed to protect land from development, including the creation of passive parks with walking trails or natural areas."
Full Story:
Metro Area Pouring Heaps of Green into Parkland
Source:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 5, 2001
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