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	"author_name": "Atlanta DSA Intown Branch",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/atldsa-midtown",
	"title": "Atlanta City Council: Stop the TAD!",
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	"description": "Right now, Mayor Andre Dickens and his administration are rushing major legislation that will impact Atlanta’s future 30 years out and beyond. On Dec. 1 – the last Council Meeting of the year – it’s very likely that Dickens will force a vote on extending all 8 Tax Allocation Districts (TADs) until 2055. TADs act as targeted development engines that siphon new tax revenue away from public schools and city services to accelerate and subsidize private, for-profit development in targeted districts around the city. Most of the current TADs were meant to expire 2030 or later, but now that he senses opposition to his plan, Dickens is trying to ram through this major legislation before the new City Council (which will have new representatives for Districts 2, 7, and 11) is sworn in this January. TADs have been pitched as a way to invest in the people and infrastructure that the TAD encompasses, in practice they act as unaccountable slush funds, completely cut off from community control. While this plan to extend the TADs come with bold promises to invest in affordable housing, transit, and healthcare – some TADS (such as the Beltline TAD and Atlantic Station) have a track record of doing the exact opposite – gentrifying neighborhoods, pushing out longtime residents, and prioritizing unaffordable, luxury commercial development. Without a real plan or guardrails, the community has NO reason to believe new TAD revenue will go towards creating equity or affordability in our city. On top of this, the newly proposed TAD “Oversight&quot; committee consists exclusively of the mayor’s own appointees, business interests like the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and Atlanta Committee for Progress (one of the biggest corporate backers of Cop City). Email and call your City Council Members TODAY before the Nov. 25 meeting for the Community Development and Health Services Committee Meeting Nov. 25 and the last Council Meeting of the year, Dec. 1! Tell Council to vote NO on extending the TADs without a more robust plan and community participation.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-the-tad"
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