228731 external_news 1376414664 1475893595 Marshall Willis' masters thesis on a parking tax in Atlanta for Georgia Tech's School of City and Regional Planning is being studied by Atlanta City Councilman Aaron Watson's office as a potential way to encourage transit ridership and spur denser development. Estimates of how much the fee could raise range between $40 and $75 million per year. A second, less likely option to address Atlanta's transportation backlog would be a bond measure that would first need to go to voters.

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