Georgia's Republican-controlled state Legislature has passed legislation that would give three mostly white areas of a metro Atlanta county the chance to form their own cities this year.
Supporters of the three Cobb County city proposals say race and politics have nothing to do with their efforts. Cobb — home to the Atlanta Braves' stadium — lies about 20 miles northwest of Atlanta and is one of the most populous counties in the state, with more than 760,000 residents stretching over 340 square miles .
On a recent Monday morning, shoppers trickled into The Avenue, an outdoor mall with a Williams Sonoma and Pottery Barn in the proposed East Cobb boundaries. A few miles away, a sign urging voters to form the city stood on a lawn in a subdivision of million-dollar homes along the Chattahoochee River. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the East Cobb bill into law Feb. 15, setting up a May referendum.
“I think people equally oppose it because they see it as something that is a response to the changes in leadership and the party shift in the county and because our district commissioner is a young accomplished Black woman, our district chair is an accomplished Black woman,” she said., MARTA, with some residents citing concerns it will lead to urban growth.
Since 2005, voters have approved more than a half-dozen new cities in the region, many of them in those majority-white suburbs. Maintaining the suburban character of those areas means continuing housing and transportation policies that have traditionally excluded Black people and other minorities, Connor said.“They can say, ‘We’re homeowners, taxpayers. We want to preserve the kind of community we live in,’” he said.
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