ride their bikes on it and why do we have people be able to walk along it and then a guy named jim langford who was at the time in charge of the trust for public land, someone approached him and said they wanted help turning the sort of derelict land south of this big old derelict sears building into a park and they said you can make this into a park and alleviate all the flooding by building a retention pond there. he thought that was a great idea the beltline was in the news at that point, the idea of it. he said, you know and looked at the map it goes right up to piedmont park, goes through piedmont park. if we build this part down here and oh, look there's this other little part down here in this neighborhood and he realized it connected a bunch of parks. why not make it a green way. why to make a linear park that connected parks so he hired alexander garvin who is a world-famous city planner who i also got to know through this to come down here and to try to figure out what kind of a parks you could have and atlanta is severely under parked. we have a lot of trees in this city, beautif

and then guy named jim langford, who was at the time in charge for the trust for public lands, somebody approached him and said they wanted help turning the sort of derelict land south of this big ol' derelict sears building on response -- on ponce deleon avenue, and you could relief flooding, building a retention pond there. he thought that was great idea. the belt line was all in the news, the idea of it. look at the map, it goes up to piedmont park, it goes through piedmont park. if we build this part down here and, oh, look, this other little park down here in this neighborhood. he realized it connected a bunch of parks. why not make it a greenaway? make it a linear park that connected parks? he hired alexander garvin, a world famous city planner, who i also got to know through this, to come down here to try to figure out what kind of parks you could have. and atlanta is severely underparked. we have a lot of trees in this city, beautiful trees, but most of them are in people's backyards. most of them are not in public places. in metro atlanta, which is this huge sprawling mess of s