Councilmember Yeoman’s Record

Housing Affordability

Andy Yeoman on Atlanta News First Discusses Property Tax cut for Doraville homeowners

 

  • Maintain 100% senior exemption.
  • Co-sponsored a referendum that lowered the millage rate from 9 to 6.5 for homeowners, plus a $10,000 exemption.
  • A 100-unit affordable senior housing development will open in 2024 on Peachtree Road near Assembly.

 

 

 

Remediate Commercial Blight

  • Tilly Mill Shopping Center
  • KMart Property
  • Big Box retail on Buford Highway
  • Downtown blighted buildings

 

 

 

Watch Councilmember Yeoman get the honors of demolishing the Kmart property with an excavator!

Winters Chapel Improvements

  • Built new sidewalks and repaved Winters Chapel Rd in District 1, eliminating the terrible conditions of this important gateway.

 

Education

  • Worked individually with the Board of Education to redistrict Northwoods Neighborhood from Cary Reynolds to Doraville United.

 

 

 

Public Art

 

 

 

 

 

Tank Farm Improvements

  • Authored legislation that allowed for $4,000,000 in infrastructure improvements in the tank farm that was 100% paid for by the petroleum companies.