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Residents urge council to address traffic, road conditions and concentrated development in Buckhead-area neighborhoods
Summary
Three residents raised traffic delays, potholes and excessive local development during public comment at an Atlanta City Council meeting, asking council members to consider neighborhood balance when approving zoning decisions.
Three Atlanta residents used the public-comment period to urge the City Council to address heavy traffic, poor road conditions and what they described as concentrated residential development in portions of Buckhead and adjacent neighborhoods.
Dalil Anthony, a Garden Hills resident, said traffic congestion on the principal north-south routes is severe and that commutes downtown can take “at least an hour and 15 minutes.” He described repeat bottlenecks on Piedmont Road, Peachtree Road and the downtown connector and said delivery trips between Buckhead and Virginia-Highland routinely took more than an hour in evening peak periods.
The traffic complaints were…
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