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The Atlanta City Council (formerly the Atlanta Board of Aldermen until 1974) is the main municipal legislative body for the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.It consists of 16 members: the council president, twelve members elected from districts within the city, and three members representing at-large posts.
Atlanta's 343 parks, nature preserves, and gardens cover 3,622 acres (14.66 km 2), [348] which amounts to only 5.6% of the city's total acreage, compared to the national average of just over 10%. [ 349 ] [ 350 ] However, 77% of Atlantans live within a 10-minute walk of a park, a percentage slightly better than the national average of 76%. [ 351 ]
Atlanta city seal. The city government of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, is composed of a mayor and a body of one councilman from each of 12 districts, a City Council President, and 3 other at-large councilmen: Post 1 representing districts 1-4; Post 2 representing districts 5-8; Post 3 representing districts 9-12
The entire metro Atlanta region with area codes 404, 770, 678, 470, and 943 is a local calling area, one of the largest in the United States, without long-distance charges for calls between area codes. All calls in the area are dialed with ten digits.
Fulton County is a county in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 1,066,710, [1] making it the state's most populous county. [2]
Buckhead is the uptown commercial and residential district of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, comprising approximately the northernmost fifth of the city.Buckhead is the third largest business district within the Atlanta city limits, behind Downtown and Midtown, and a major commercial and financial center of the Southern U.S.
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In 2016, it was found that Atlanta Housing Authority's publicly paid executives evaded federal rules capping pay at $158,700 by supplementing their salaries with money from the nonprofit National Housing Compliance, which receives money from a contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to administer low-income housing.