...Gwinnett and Cherokee made lists of fastest-growing counties in the U.S.The numbers are being studied by the Atlanta Regional Commission, which helps local governments in their planning efforts.Mike Alexander, the research division chief at...

...management; named Outstanding Alumnus in 2005Political experience: Cobb County Commission (1991-92); Atlanta Regional Commission (1992-1994); Georgia Public Service Commission (1994-2012); U.S. Department of Energy Appointee...

...goals for the regional lists, the local money has almost no rules, except that it go for transportation.The Atlanta Regional Commission has been working for months to get the local governments to assemble lists. Its referendum website has a place...

...can get it done," House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams said during Tuesday's breakfast meeting of the Atlanta Regional Commission.Abrams, a tax attorney who represents Atlanta, said removing the energy tax to attract job-producing...

...established in metro Atlanta since 2006. The Atlanta Regional Commission publishes multiple documents explaining an overlay's...Lebeau, the senior principal planner for the Atlanta Regional Commission.Planners hoped consistent design standards...

...she became the first Atlanta mayor in memory to attend meetings of the Georgia Municipal Association, the Atlanta Regional Commission and other multi-city events.At the same time, the leaders of the Georgia and Metro Atlanta chambers of...

...district commissioner, elected chairman of Cobb County Commission in August 2002. Elected chairman of the Atlanta Regional Commission in 2004. Is vice chairman of the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District. In 2003, appointed...

...Alabama and Florida time to work out a water-sharing plan. The Georgia parties, which include the state, the Atlanta Regional Commission and the city of Atlanta, are seeking an appeal to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. They...

...projects in Georgia for federal stimulus funds. Among the projects Mr. Perdue signed off on was $25 million the Atlanta Regional Commission is funneling to the MARTA transit system. MARTA had said it might have to cut back service without the additional...

...mayor of Mesa, Ariz. Atlanta is still years away from a comprehensive plan, said Sam Olens, chairman of the Atlanta Regional Commission. That means the city is years away from dreaming up ways to finance a transit overhaul, either through a...