Atlanta's skyline slowly becoming another Vancouver (Vinings, Pitts: sales, 2014, neighborhoods)

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Originally Posted by cqholt

Ride a bike and you'll notice the hills as well.

Or walk or run!

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Originally Posted by skbl17

I always laugh whenever someone suggests that Atlanta sucks because "there's no water" or "there's no riverfront" or "Downtown should be on a river!". For those posters and prospective residents who claim that Atlanta's somehow lacking without a "major water feature", what do you suggest? Flood the Downtown Connector (politically and economically unfeasible)? Eliminate the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area and encourage mass development from Cumberland to the riverfront (no)? Pick Atlanta up and move it somewhere else (impossible)? Flood the westside and make it a new Lake Lanier (politically undesirable)?

I think Atlanta's doing just fine without being on a riverfront. I don't think we're "water starved" either; sure, this isn't central Florida or Minnesota in terms of lake coverage, but this isn't a desert. We have our rivers, reservoirs, and lakes. They're not widespread, but they are there.

As for the OP: While Atlanta's core is coming along nicely (especially Midtown,) I don't think it quite has the building density of Vancouver yet. Vancouver, WA...yes. Vancouver, BC...no.

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Some people may want Atlanta to do something with its creeks/rivers. As I said in the other post, Atlanta has chosen to mostly keep things in their natural state and they are mostly hidden. And rather than being property lines, the creeks tend to run within people's property.

Houston uses its bayous for flood control and has concrete lined many of them and cleared the top and created heavily used hike and bike trails along them for recreation. The one along Braes Bayou runs about 20 miles from the University of Houston to Alief in the west. The trail along Memorial Drive/Buffalo Bayou is probably the signature as it was the route John Travolta drove to town in the movie Urban Cowboy. Its a different approach and probably is the best approach for Houston with its flooding issues.

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Originally Posted by JMatl

We are very aware, however a lot of people that don't know this come here for info.

He paints Atlanta with a completely negative and false brush to the point that it deserves to be challenged.

But you're right, it has become pathetic.

Y'all need to chill and quit over-reacting. Its several of you who are personally attacking him and violating the TOS. Correct him or ignore.

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Originally Posted by JMatl

Exactly. And the Chattahoochee is a treasure.

What other major city has a beautiful wild river in a National Park in the shadow of skyscrapers? A river so clean on the Northside you can fish for trout.

No other place in the U.S. comes to mind, but it would most certainly not be Houston.

People fish in Braes Bayou and Buffalo Bayou in the shadow of skyscrapers in Houston. But I sure wouldn't eat them. However, I definitely wouldn't eat anything out of the Chattahoochee near Atlanta either. Atlanta is one of the worst places in the nation for sewage spills. Most other cities cleaned that up 30 years ago. The Chattahoochee trails are really nice, but eating the fish is taking it a bit far. Catch and release-ok.

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Originally Posted by bu2

There are creeks everywhere in Atlanta. Atlanta just doesn't highlight them. They keep them in their natural state and they are mostly in backyards or hidden in trees.

Or build over top of them and channelize them.

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Originally Posted by cqholt

Or build over top of them and channelize them.

That's been done in a few places. But there are still lots of small creeks everywhere.

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You don't really see creeks around downtown as downtown is on a ridge.

I didn't really realize that until coming in Atlanta Highway from Cobb County once. You don't notice it so much from the south, east or north.

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Originally Posted by bu2

People fish in Braes Bayou and Buffalo Bayou in the shadow of skyscrapers in Houston. But I sure wouldn't eat them. However, I definitely wouldn't eat anything out of the Chattahoochee near Atlanta either. Atlanta is one of the worst places in the nation for sewage spills. Most other cities cleaned that up 30 years ago. The Chattahoochee trails are really nice, but eating the fish is taking it a bit far. Catch and release-ok.

That's, nice. But I agree, I wouldn't eat fish from those bayous either.

You clearly have no knowledge if the Chattahoochee on the Northside. I would most certainly eat trout from the river caught North of Vinings. Trout can't thrive and survive in polluted waters.

As far as "most other cities cleaned that up 30 years ago," in case you haven't noticed we have been spending billions of dollars over the past few years to remedy this exact thing.

You must be fairly new here.

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Originally Posted by JMatl

That's, nice. But I agree, I wouldn't eat fish from those bayous either.

You clearly have no knowledge if the Chattahoochee on the Northside. I would most certainly eat trout from the river caught North of Vinings. Trout can't thrive and survive in polluted waters.

As far as "most other cities cleaned that up 30 years ago," in case you haven't noticed we have been spending billions of dollars over the past few years to remedy this exact thing.

You must be fairly new here.

Other cities spent those billions in the 70s and 80s. I was shocked when I moved here that Atlanta was still dumping. I thought the EPA had gotten that under control everywhere. Atlanta and DeKalb (although less than Atlanta) still have a lot of sewage spills in the Chattahoochee. DeKalb is definitely spilling north of Vinings.

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Originally Posted by bu2

Other cities spent those billions in the 70s and 80s. I was shocked when I moved here that Atlanta was still dumping. I thought the EPA had gotten that under control everywhere. Atlanta and DeKalb (although less than Atlanta) still have a lot of sewage spills in the Chattahoochee. DeKalb is definitely spilling north of Vinings.

Proof and links please, or get back to the thread topic.