The Republican-controlled Georgia Senate rejected a bill Thursday that would have paved the way for residents of the wealthy Buckhead neighborhood to vote by ballot referendum on whether to deannex from Atlanta and create their own city.
out of a Senate committee Tuesday. The moment was a tangible show of significant progress for the cityhood movement, which only became serious in the last few years after Buckhead City Committee’s leader, Bill White, took hold of the effort.
The movement saw its first sign of real momentum in 2021 as residents of Buckhead, one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the South, faced a surge in violent crime in Atlanta. White and others formed the city committee and“There is no leadership here in Atlanta,” White told Breitbart News at the time. “No one is taking any corrective kind of actions on resources for police, allowing them to do their job.
that much of that has improved under Atlanta’s current mayor, Andre Dickens , a grim 170 homicides occurred in 2022, the third year in a row that homicides have increased. Dickens, who has made crime a top focus since the outset of his tenure last year, is adamantly opposed to carving Buckhead out of Atlanta, which would effectively decimate the city’s revenue and has raised concerns among some about it affecting the state’s bond rating.
Dickens’ stance was bolstered ahead of Thursday’s vote by Gov. Brian Kemp’s administration after an attorney for the governor, laying out numerous questions he said were unanswered about the logistics of creating the new city.noted that Thursday’s vote, while a significant setback, was not a fatal blow for Buckhead cityhood proponents given how vocal and organized they are.
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