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Thank you, this is new AD 6 the

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Atlanta City Council deciding 8 to

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7 to table a vote on a proposed new

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police Academy in southeast Atlanta

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until their next council meeting.

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The public comment period here.

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Going on for nearly four hours today,

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11 lives Doug Richards explains

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what's at stake and why people feel

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so strongly for and against this

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plan. The Atlanta City Council has been

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listening to prerecorded public comments

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at their virtual City Council meeting.

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For most of the afternoon,

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and most of those comments.

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Are strongly opposed to

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the new police Academy.

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The issue is a large plot of

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land in southeast Atlanta.

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The foundations of the buildings

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visible from the air were part

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of the old Atlanta prison farm,

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which has transformed over the

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years from a penal institution

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into an overgrown green space,

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and many residents like it

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just fine the way it is now,

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as they told City Council

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members much of the afternoon,

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and I would

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like the Atlanta City Council to vote

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no on destroying the old Atlanta.

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Prison for us. It's an ideal area for

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public Parkland and a nature preserve.

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City leaders say Atlanta needs

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a new police Academy somewhere.

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The current 1 near the main

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Atlanta Post office is outdated,

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and backers say LAX security.

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The old prison farm site is already

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owned by the city and would

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be relatively easy to develop,

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and backers including the Atlanta

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Police Foundation say that

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site makes sense and I support

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the public Safety Training Center

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on Key Rd. We have to make this a priority.

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Crime is not where it should be.

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We're going in the wrong direction and

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it needs to be addressed immediately.

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But some residents and

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environmentalists say the old prison

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farm site is more valuable to residents

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as a green space at a time when such

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spaces are harder and harder to find.

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Mistakes too. Although that

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lands when we are facing so much

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development in the rest of the city.