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House committee backs substitute to let North Fulton cities control development authority appointments
Summary
A substitute to SB 151 won committee approval after sponsors said it preserves local control by allowing North Fulton municipalities to opt out of the Fulton County Development Authority; the substitute limits the bill’s scope to Fulton County and does not itself create a new authority.
Senator Beach, sponsor: "What this bill does is simply create a North Fulton development authority," said Senator Beach in committee testimony, explaining the policy rationale for concentrating tools for economic development in the north Fulton area.
Speaker Pro Tem Tim Jones presented a substitute, saying the measure "does not create a new development authority, but ... defines a massively municipalized county" and that the version before committee "absolutely honors local control." The LC number for that substitute was read into the record (LC 473627 S).
The substitute was presented as narrower than the original bill: it would restrict the proposal to Fulton County and allow any North Fulton municipality to choose, by ordinance, whether to participate in a development-authority arrangement rather…
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