Local brief
This Atlanta street has no road. The city may retire it.
The roughly 2,000-square-foot Truitt Street SW right-of-way comes before a committee Oct. 14. Existing utility easements would stay.
Explore the source documentsTruitt Street SW is a street on paper, but the survey attached to Atlanta’s abandonment proposal says it plainly: “NO ROAD EXISTS.” The city is considering removing the roughly 2,000-square-foot right-of-way from its public street system.[1]
The 20-foot-wide strip runs off White Oak Avenue SW between the properties at 1151 and 1141 White Oak, according to the ordinance and survey. Councilmember Antonio Lewis’s proposal says the transportation commissioner has concluded that the right-of-way is no longer useful or necessary for public use.[1]
Abandonment would not erase existing public or private utility easements: those would remain for operating, maintaining or replacing utility facilities. What would happen to the land afterward is not spelled out. Ordinance 26-O-1534 names no buyer or subsequent development.[1]
Transportation Committee review is listed for Oct. 14 at 10 a.m. in City Hall’s Larry M. Dingle Committee Room, 55 Trinity Avenue. The agenda includes a three-minute general public-comment period.[1]
The measure was held Sept. 30 for a public hearing, but the Oct. 14 agenda does not identify a Truitt-specific hearing. This is a scheduled committee checkpoint—not approval of the abandonment.[1]
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