Fairburn Road leads proposed $8.74 million street-funding package

Fairburn Road would receive $3.21 million—the biggest share of a proposed $8.74 million transfer from Atlanta’s transportation development impact-fee reserves. The Fairburn Road Complete Streets allocation accounts for more than a third of the money spread across 15 projects.⁠[1]

The Transportation Committee is scheduled to consider Ordinance 26-O-1662 on November 9. The packet lists both that committee step and November 16 City Council consideration as pending: this is a proposed budget transfer, not an approved appropriation.⁠[1]

The measure would move $8,744,069 from reserves into project accounts in the city’s fiscal year 2027 capital budget. The ordinance describes development impact fees as supporting capital improvements needed to serve growth, and proposes using this money for street, intersection, traffic-signal and communications improvements.⁠[1]

After Fairburn Road, the largest allocations would be $1 million for South Boulevard Complete Street, $846,901 for Piedmont Safer Street and $655,846 for the 15th Street Safe Street Corridor.⁠[1]

Other proposed allocations include $600,000 for the Flat Shoals Avenue, Arkwright Place, Walthall Street and Howell Drive intersection; $550,000 for Central Park Place pedestrian improvements; and $350,000 for Milton Avenue pedestrian crossings. Signal enhancements along Boulevard, McDaniel Street and Glenwood Avenue would receive $500,000.⁠[1]

The funding schedule assigns dollars, not construction start or completion dates. The ordinance also says any money left unspent after a project closes or is completed would return to the unrestricted reserve account.⁠[1]

The committee meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, November 9, in the Larry M. Dingle Committee Room at Atlanta City Hall, 55 Trinity Avenue.⁠[1]