The City and the neighborhood support providing reliable power to the area and have identified viable alternative routes that do not run through a historic residential district and destroy the tree-lined character of the city.

• Georgia Power will use eminent domain to claim easements in the yards of historic Decatur homes and place encumbrances on homeowner deeds, which will likely result in uncompensated losses in property values.
• Old-growth trees in the neighborhood will be removed to allow massive steel power poles 4 feet in diameter and 100 feet high.
• Decatur’s eastern gateway will change from leafy, tree-lined residential streets to an industrial corridor.
• The charm, character, and safety of living in a historic Decatur neighborhood may be lost for good.

•  The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified magnetic fields from high-voltage power lines as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”
• The impacted streets are part of Safe Routes to School, a national program that makes walking and bicycling to school a safe and routine activity. Scores of children use these routes twice a day.
• https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2023/02/power-lines-and-cancer-is-there-a-connection
• https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2023/02/power-lines-and-cancer-is-there-a-connection

• The City and property owners were kept in the dark while this project was being developed for seven years.
• Georgia Power delayed notifying the neighborhood and the City of Decatur until the “eleventh hour” — possibly because it would be too late to change course.
• Current status: The plans have been drawn, and Georgia Power is actively procuring land and easements.
• Tree removal is slated for Q2 2025, and poles will be erected soon after.

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