"If we want to live compactly, sustainably and transit oriented, the BeltLine and that growth presents the opportunity to create that kind of place, " Gravel added.

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So this, in many ways, is trying to bring us back to a good century ago, how we designed and built cities where we had landscapes which were far less reliant on cars and much more transit-oriented forms of development.

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