The Green Space Race

Across the nation billions of dollars are being spent on parks and land preservation. Atlanta is part of this national trend.

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March 7, 2001, 10:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

" 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."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Metro Area Pouring Heaps of Green into Parkland

Monday, March 5, 2001 in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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