Great AJC overview of DAFC's wasteful $300M recent breaks

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Nathan Jensen, a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin who studies economic development strategies, reviewed the AJC’s findings, and said he was surprised by the scope of DAFC’s program.

The Fulton authority, Jensen said, seems to have incentivized nearly every type of high-demand development “in some of the most attractive areas of the state” with few minimum requirements for public benefits.

“To be honest, this looks so bad that people are either asleep at the wheel or people don’t care,” Jensen said. “You can’t say with a straight face that this is adding value to the community.”

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Well, some of us haven't been asleep at the wheel, but there's a cottage industry of self-dealers invested in keeping things this way. Tell Robb Pitts he has to replace his man on the DAFC board with a reformer.

robb.pitts@fultoncountyga.gov