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In November 2024, before Mayor Dickens axed the project, Smith was still on the record that her NPU was “supportive of transit on the Beltline.”
It took less than a week after the Portman donations went through for her to change her stance against MARTA, which operates the Atlanta Streetcar.
It took less than a week after the Portman donations went through for her to change her stance against MARTA, which operates the Atlanta Streetcar.
![In a November 2024 interview, Chairperson Courtney Smith said NPU-E was “supportive of transit on the Beltline” and “[o]pen to exploring what it looks like.”85 While NPU-E neighborhoods like Sherwood Forest and Ansley Park are “all predominantly single-family neighborhoods,” NPU-E overall is made up of roughly “50% single-family focused neighborhoods and 50% multi-family neighborhoods,” Smith explained.86 The impressive development around the NPU’s dense neighborhoods like Midtown are a part of the “Improvement District” whereas the “Garden District” is mostly houses.87 In a recent survey, Rao and others witnessed that the more populous urban NPU-E neighborhoods like Midtown, Georgia Tech, and Atlantic Station all supported Beltline rail.88 Older residential areas like Ansley Park were not ready to commit, however.89 Those residents expressed fears that Beltline rail would erode the buffer between historic single-family and commercial areas, already fraught with tension arising from “incompatible land uses.”90 In that survey, NPU-E ultimately refused to express support for Beltline rail; it gives each neighborhood an equal vote, thus weighing Midtown and its 19,000-plus residents the same as neighborhoods like Sherwood Forrest with fewer than 500 residents.91](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mencpxk4spd3xn3qotwkyyqf/bafkreifevxbkqbfj5z6fq6v7m7xtu2rmrdiei4lum7sal25hdivjdge3zm@jpeg)
July 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
In November 2024, before Mayor Dickens axed the project, Smith was still on the record that her NPU was “supportive of transit on the Beltline.”
It took less than a week after the Portman donations went through for her to change her stance against MARTA, which operates the Atlanta Streetcar.
It took less than a week after the Portman donations went through for her to change her stance against MARTA, which operates the Atlanta Streetcar.
No you don't understand, this is necessary and unavoidable so that people who refuse to live where they work can drive directly to their office at the highest speeds possible!
May 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
No you don't understand, this is necessary and unavoidable so that people who refuse to live where they work can drive directly to their office at the highest speeds possible!
The people organizing against it have created multiple different email chains trying to fear monger about the project. From their words, it's apparent they don't want any multi-family homes next to them.
May 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The people organizing against it have created multiple different email chains trying to fear monger about the project. From their words, it's apparent they don't want any multi-family homes next to them.
A $3 million dollar gift to a consultant that will put three of these on the beltline just to say that it will not solve the problem unless we give them $50 million more. Anything to not build real transit in this city.
May 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A $3 million dollar gift to a consultant that will put three of these on the beltline just to say that it will not solve the problem unless we give them $50 million more. Anything to not build real transit in this city.