{"73499":{"#nid":"73499","#data":{"type":"news","title":"City of Decatur Links Health \u0026 Transportation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe City of Decatur, which has recently become one of the most desirable places to live in metro Atlanta, is undertaking a Community Transportation Plan to make Active Living a serious part of their transprotation system. Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) is partnering with Sycamore Consulting, Inc. and Kimley Horn and Associates to help the City develop the plan, dubbed \u0022Decatur Gets Around\u0022 by city officials. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDecatur hopes that through this plan they can become an \u0022active living community.\u0022 An active living community is one that is planned and designed with a focus on pedestrians and bicyclists and enables people of all ages and abilities to engage in routine daily physical activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECQGRD and its partners began the Community Transportation Plan in September of 2006 and will wrap up their work in spring 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The City of Decatur, which has recently become one of the most desirable places to live in metro Atlanta, is undertaking a Community Transportation Plan to make Active Living a serious part of their transportation system.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GT Center Works on Community Transportation Plan"}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2006-11-17 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:46","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/decaturga.com\/cgs_citysvcs_dev_transportationplan.aspx","title":"City of Decatur Community Transportation Plan"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cqgrd.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development"}],"groups":[{"id":"1260","name":"CQGRD - Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EKaren Leone de Nie\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECenter for Quality Growth and Regional Development\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=kl123\u0022\u003EContact Karen Leone de Nie\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-5125\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["k.leonedenie@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}