The Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, denied a request for a temporary restraining order to halt clearing and construction work at the forested site of a planned police training facility that activists in Atlanta have dubbed “Cop City.”
, the project’s land disturbance permit allows for “phase 1” construction processes that include sedimentary control measures and “certain security measures, including … a widened parking pad, security lights, generators, and storage for supplies to support 24 hour patrols.” A Planning and Sustainability Department inspector found that no work was performed beyond this scope after an inspection last week.he doesn’t plan to appeal last week’s ruling denying the restraining order.
The denial of the temporary restraining order comes as a loose coalition of community activists dubbed “Forest Defenders” are building toward a large convergence during a week of action March 4-11. The convergence is aimed at potentially reoccupying the South River Forest after a series of violent raids on a protest encampment resulted in the police-perpetrated shooting of Forest Defender Manuel Esteban Paez Terán in January.
“I think Judge Cox’s ruling is a bummer, and I hope that the case moves forward with being able to stop the project beyond this, but I think for most activists in Atlanta the fight continues.”of the land disturbance permit earlier this month with the DeKalb County Zoning Board of Appeals.
Atlanta’s South River, Echols says, has been on a state’s 303 list of waters polluted by sediment that fail to meet water quality standards. It’s
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