Residents of the city of Lilburn, in Gwinnett County, love their pets. And a memorial bridge on the Camp Creek Greenway Trail at Lilburn City Park will serve as a permanent reminder of that fact, offering residents a place to memorialize their own pets. Lily’s Bridge, named after an animal rescued in the park, has been painted with a rainbow design, a nod to the poem “At the Rainbow Bridge,” a famous tearjerker that describes pets waiting on their owners in Heaven. Park-goers have also put up on the actual bridge pictures and even collars of their own pets, who are surely waiting on their owners on the other side of the metaphorical rainbow bridge.
Atlanta, Fulton Co. square off in tax fight
The City of Atlanta has long used tax allocation districts (TADs) as an economic development tool, leveraging property tax increases to pay for local infrastructure projects. But the Fulton County Commission has slammed on the brakes, voting 4-1 to reject a proposed 30-year extension of Atlanta’s TADs. That sets up a major budgetary clash, as the Fulton TADs would be expected to generate over a billion dollars over that period. Now the county will vote on TADs on a case by case basis, with stricter oversight and enforcement, leaving Atlanta’s money faucet DRIFTING…
