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A key focus of freight planning policy issues and considerations involve the co-location of similar freight-related land uses. Owing to the fact that there is no direct revenue-producing benefit related to the location of many freight-related facilities, the location of such facilities and the infrastructure needed to insure efficient operations are frequently dictated by the cost of available land. Provided sufficient facilities and infrastructure exists, such locations will be most evident where land is cheapest. Historically, the cheapest land has tended to be in areas of low-income and minority populations.
It is imperative that environmental justice play a key role in the dialogue between public and private entities within the Atlanta region, and that it plays a further role in freight-specific transportation and land-use polices within the region. Therefore, for both the region-wide and sub-regional analyses conducted in this sub-task, the study will also incorporate ARC’s existing EJ information to understand these populations’ proximity to current and future freight districts and corridors and how potential negative impacts may be mitigated or eliminated.
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Final Technical Advisory Committee,
September 18, 2007 at 9:00 a.m.
Final Steering Committee, September 21, 2007 at 8:00 a.m.
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