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Why does a house in Cherokee County cost roughly $5,500 more to build than a house down the road in Cobb County? 

While impact fees are a tool to help defray the costs of infrastructure needed to support new development, they are also an additional housing cost.

A comprehensive list of development impact fees in Georgia with examinations of single-family and multifamily rates.

For centuries, too-good-to-be-true deals have snagged investors with promises that they can ignore past failures because “this time it will be different.” Peachtree City’s leaders appear to have been told […]

It’s Friday! Events August 28: Mark your calendar to hear former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission Paul S. Atkins and the American Enterprise Institute’s Peter Wallison discuss the dangerous regulatory expansion […]

How do policy-makers prevent the area around I-75 and I-285 from becoming completely gridlocked when the Braves play? By Baruch Feigenbaum  The announcement that the Atlanta Braves are abandoning Turner […]

It is somewhat understandable why the Atlanta highway system was built like a wheel with the city at the center and interstates fanning out from the core. Think about our […]

By Baruch Feigenbaum   On July 31, 2012, voters in 12 regions in Georgia, including a 10-county Atlanta region, will decide in a referendum whether to enact a 1 percent […]

By Baruch Feigenbaum   On July 31, 2012, voters in 12 regions in Georgia, including a 10-county Atlanta region, will decide in a referendum whether to enact a 1 percent […]

By Benita M. Dodd An annual survey of the nation’s roads by the Reason Foundation reveals a lot about congestion in Georgia. The state is ranked 10th in the nation […]

By Benita M. Dodd Transportation policy may not have been the priority during the legislative session, but in the long shadow of the Gold Dome, proposals, plans, ideas and reports […]