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The program covers sewer-cleaner trucks, pickups, dump trucks and a backhoe; its supporting text says the share of vehicles beyond normal service life has fallen to 18%.
The initial work would cover about 3,000 feet of creek beside Atlanta Memorial Park. The conservancy’s state-grant application deadline is Oct. 16.
The held ordinance calls for closed-loop water cooling at new and existing facilities, including data centers served through wholesale or intergovernmental water agreements.
The substitute would extend six agreements for four months with up to $27.22 million more; the agenda version sought twelve months and $20 million.
The ordinance cites repeated failures and limited operating capacity at R.M. Clayton, South River and Utoy Creek; funding would cover components for up to three clarifiers.
The reserve transfer would support design, construction management, infrastructure compliance and urgent engineering needs; final appropriation is not established.
Synagro South would continue hauling water- and wastewater-treatment solids. The renewal is contingent on adoption of the FY 2028 budget.
Cobb County calculates 24.82 homes per acre; the city report uses the applicant's smaller wetlands estimate to calculate 24.19.
The proposed ordinance lists a $13.23 million construction contract. Staff attributes the largest paving overrun to a bid-quantity error, not work departing from the approved design.
The $15,000 one-year software purchase would replace a platform limited in tracing cryptocurrency transfers. Police funds would cover an estimated $740 balance.
The proposal includes a laundry/pantry area. Council's Oct. 6 agenda lists a public hearing under rules limiting clearing and impervious surfaces near the Chattahoochee.
The workshop runs from 6–8 p.m. at the City Springs Conference Center. Feedback will inform the city’s long-range comprehensive and parks plans.
The congregation proposes reusing an existing building without expanding its footprint. The variance concerns neighborhood setbacks for the building and parking.
The application described a 1,782-square-foot accessory dwelling and garage, citing flood-zone constraints that limited space behind the main house.
The revised wall would leave the state’s 25-foot buffer but remain partly in the city’s 50-foot buffer. The Board of Appeals will consider the request Oct. 7.
Recommended conditions also call for sidewalk improvements and pedestrian lighting on Windward Parkway and Edison Drive.
The held proposal would allow existing structures’ lowest floors two feet above base flood elevation, rather than Atlanta’s more protective ordinary standard.
The held measure uses 200 feet from a property line or 500 feet from premises, measured along a gravity-flow drainage course; low elevation alone would not establish unavailability.
The project near Sidney Marcus Boulevard and Buford Highway includes a 15-million-gallon tank and a 75-million-gallon-per-day pump station to reduce sewer overflows.
Buildings require council architectural approval; the September 28 report says the requested mixed-use building elevation has been provided.
A separate recommended condition calls for a future road connection to the property south of the site if it develops commercially.
Police and planning would prepare crime reports and maps for Campbellton-area corridors and a second area bounded by Bakers Ferry, MLK, Lynhurst, Cascade and Rogers.
The Milner proposal keeps a $345,364.50 ceiling and would leave Atlanta Police as the sole user agency while the city prepares a new solicitation.
The twice-amended ordinance also covers fire plan reviews and permits. The public-safety committee held it at the sponsor’s request.
The resolution would reaffirm support for closing and repurposing the Atlanta City Detention Center; the committee held it for further review.
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