Buckhead wants out of Atlanta

[FLVOL_79]

1. There is no lake in buckhead.
2. Those people arent ritzy enough to be claiming buckhead.

There is a Buckhead near Sugar Lake off I-20 (east of Atlanta).

It ain't Buckhead though..I spend a weekend here and there up in the north part of Atlanta (Marietta) and that whole area is pretty decent.

 

[PEPPERJAX]

Haven’t seen her post in a while.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Buckhead cityhood movement calls it Quits ‘for now’

The leaders of the effort to split Atlanta into two municipalities have called it quits “for now” after their Buckhead secession movement was crushed in the Georgia Senate.

The Buckhead City Committee announced its “farewell” to supporters in an email late Sunday that assailed Gov. Brian Kemp and other Republicans who raised concerns about the breakaway push.

“In a nutshell, Governor Kemp and his team coordinated behind closed doors to kill the Buckhead City bills before they even had the chance for an honest vote in the Senate,” wrote the committee, which is led by Bill White, a wealthy New York transplant.


Buckhead cityhood movement calls it quits ‘for now’

 

[85SugarVol]

Buckhead cityhood movement calls it Quits ‘for now’

The leaders of the effort to split Atlanta into two municipalities have called it quits “for now” after their Buckhead secession movement was crushed in the Georgia Senate.

The Buckhead City Committee announced its “farewell” to supporters in an email late Sunday that assailed Gov. Brian Kemp and other Republicans who raised concerns about the breakaway push.

“In a nutshell, Governor Kemp and his team coordinated behind closed doors to kill the Buckhead City bills before they even had the chance for an honest vote in the Senate,” wrote the committee, which is led by Bill White, a wealthy New York transplant.


Buckhead cityhood movement calls it quits ‘for now’

Why would the Governor conspire to kill Buckhead?

 

[LouderVol]

Maybe it's because I'm from the country but the whole metro Atlanta area runs together and I'm not sure anybody knows what "town" they're in at any given time. I had a meeting there and the facility was in Atlanta, but my hotel 30 yards away was in Tucker. I think we saw some of this confusion when the whole area was shut down by 1/10 of an inch of ice and nobody knew who was responsible for which road.

Again, I'm from a rural area so maybe someone can explain to me how Atlanta is in Fulton Country, Truist Park is in Atlanta but also in Cobb County?

the City is so big it straddles multiple county lines. And if you look at the county map it makes absolutely zero sense. All the surrounding counties want a piece of Atlanta even though its incorporated. Fulton County really needs to be divided into two.

Its all about taxes. Look at any city map, I remember studying Alcoa in school and the city limits extends on a couple roads miles past the rest of the city boundaries.

Generally the only distinction that really matters is ITP/OTP. ITP can be summed up as Atlanta, OTP will take on any town name. otherwise its just letting another Atlantan know more precisely where you live. again any city has this. I lived in Chattanooga growing up, and thats what I told outsiders. when I talk to someone from Chattanooga I say I am from East Brainerd but I have no idea where the lines are from the actual city of Chattanooga to unincorporated Hamilton or whatever neighborhood. Atlanta is just big enough where the impreciseness spreads to more people/bigger area.

 

[LouderVol]

Do the Cop City vandals have anything to do with the Buckhead dispute?

no. complete otherside of the city. I mean I guess if Cop City happened there could be more Atlanta Cops to patrol Buckhead. But the cops we have hear in Buckhead already don't do anything.