Take that, Gwinnett
August 14, 2008 at 4:50 pm by Mara Shalhoup in NewsThe growth of the Atlanta metropolitan area is finally slowing. Not so for Atlanta proper, though. This is coming from the Atlanta Regional Commission.
First the bad news (or, depending on your opinion of sprawl, the good news):
The population of the 10-county region increased by 70,200 people between April 1, 2007 and April 1, 2008, the smallest increase since 2003 and 16 percent lower than the annual average increase of this decade.
Now, the part that really gets Gwinnett’s goat:
Despite the slowdown in the rest of the region, growth in the City of Atlanta remains robust with its largest single-year population gain in almost 40 years, up 13,100 people. The City’s annual growth also marks the first time in at least four decades that the City added more new residents than Gwinnett County.
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