Proposed Camp Creek CID Seeks to Ease Traffic Congestion
A group of business and political leaders recently launched an effort to create a community improvement district, or CID, near Hartsfield airport and the Camp Creek area.
CIDs are used to raise revenue for a targeted local purpose.
The Camp Creek CID sets out to tax local commercial property owners in order to ease traffic congestion on Camp Creak Parkway, improve road signage, and clean streets.
Natalie Martin, a property manager for Duke Realty, is heading the campaign.
“We want to make the area more attractive so that the entire area becomes a destination, that people want to come there, that it’s not labeled like, oh my god, who wants to deal with the traffic on Camp Creek.”
Martin says the CID would raise anywhere from $400,000 to $1 million per year. She says one of the first projects would be a diverging diamond at the intersection of Camp Creek Parkway and I-285. The project is estimated to cost $5-8 million.
The CID must get the consent of more than 50 percent of commercial property owners in the area. Then, the city of Atlanta, East Point, College Park, and Fulton County must sign off.
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