The Marietta Register
Cobb County · Est. 2009
The 5–2 decision to delay the $14.2 million North Marietta Square project followed hours of comment from residents, merchants, and the project’s own architects. A revote is now expected in May.
Beginning in February 2022, the Register filed 47 open-records requests against the City of Marietta, the Downtown Development Authority, and three private contractors tied to the North Marietta Square project. The resulting 1,400 pages — now published in our free public archive — documented contract amendments, change orders, and a procurement process the state auditor later called “non-compliant.”
The Register keeps a full-time reporter assigned to the story domains that decide how Marietta is run — not just the loudest ones.
A working group will meet monthly through June to draft a permitting framework — the third such attempt since 2021.
Board members will review the data at Monday’s work session and consider whether to expand the program to Kell and Lassiter.
The Register’s review of 54,000 dispatch records is the first independent count of MPD response performance since the 2021 audit.
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