The Club’s guest speaker this morning was Mrs. Mary Norwood, Citywide Councilwomen from the Atlanta City Council.
With more than a decade of community activism, our speaker forged her expertise in many areas of Atlanta politics: Environmental Preservation, Zoning, Traffic, Public safety, Housing, and Homeless Issues.
But Mrs. Norwood’s credentials do not stop with politics. She founded the successful computer telephony business called “OneCall Systems” in 1992. And today Norwood Communications now owns “OneCallWeb.com”
She was also the past C.E.O. of Rounsaville Radio Stations and the past president of the National Association of Media Brokers.
Mrs. Norwood also recently appeared on the television show “Nightline”.
The focus of Mrs. Norwood’s presentation concerned “finding a way to accommodate Atlanta’s growth without destroying everything that makes metro Atlanta a desirable place to live”…a tree canopied, green space city.
Metro Atlanta is surrounded by concentric rings of over 230 established neighborhoods.
Like growth rings in a tree, these neighborhoods need nurturing if they are to survive. They are what make Atlanta one of the best cities in the Southeast.
Atlanta Urban Development must be ‘forged in the fires’ of a decisive, strong “Board of Code Enforcement” that makes absentee landlords maintain their property in good condition and builders, doing new construction or renovations, adhere to current neighborhood building codes.
To maintain the beauty of our city, many issues and challenges will have to be balanced and ‘faced head on’ by government, builders, and residents of these neighborhoods.
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