Mary Norwood
Public Safety, Integrity, Neighborhoods
Mary Norwood has been a leader in the City of Atlanta and the Buckhead Community for more than 35 years. She is focused on improving our quality of life, while working to preserve our neighborhoods, keeping people and our businesses safe, and fighting for transparency and integrity in city government.
Fighting for you.
The accomplishments of Mary throughout her career are numerous. In her current term on City Council, Mary created task forces to study and fix important issues in District 8.
Public Safety Task Force (2022-2024)
Transportation Task Force (2023-2025)
Arts Project
(2024-2025)
Mary’s tireless commitment to her constituents has ensured everyone has a voice at city hall.
Tackling Important Issues:
Public Safety
Mary is a leader on public safety and understands that we deserve safe and clean neighborhoods.
Her record includes support for:
- Public Safety Training Center, ensuring we have the best trained police officers in the country
- Putting more police officers on our streets
- Strategies and initiatives to attract, recruit, train, and retain the best police force
- The new Buckhead police precinct.
Moreover, as a long-term supporter of our Fire Department, Mary is overseeing the replacement of our Fire Station 26 at the intersection of Howell Mill and Moores Mill Roads. Her involvement is ensuring that the design of the roadway around the new station enables the best possible response time for AFRD.
Infrastructure
Mary’s partnership with Mayor Dickens and his leadership team formed an Infrastructure-Sustainability Task Force to address pollution and flooding in the Peachtree Creek basin. This important work will be a focal point in completing a 30-year commitment to improve the quality of our water ways in Atlanta.
In 2000, Mary led the way on direction for Nancy Creek Watershed and provided the leadership for construction of the Nancy Creek Tunnel to clean up pollution and make it safe for our residents. This new task force will focus on the Peachtree Creek basin with the remediation of Peachtree Creek and improvements to the sewer treatment facilities in this part of the city’s sewer system.
Traffic, Roads, Sidewalks
Mary is working with the Administration to prioritize the paving of our streets, constructing sidewalks, and providing traffic calming.
When the City authorized her Transportation Task Force under the leadership of ATLDOT, her office contributed the employment of a Transportation Consultant to participate in this process. She is committed to assuaging our traffic congestion and making our streets safer for our families, businesses and visitors.
Zoning
Mayor Dickens has done an outstanding job in advancing these two important initiatives for our City while protecting our neighborhoods throughout this process. For decades to come, these two initiatives will have a profound impact on our city and its future.
Parks & Greenspace
Because our parks are such an important part of our community, Mary has assisted in the creation of several new parks in District 8:
- The Betty Young Park and the Sam Roberts Park in the Peachtree Battle neighborhood.
- The 30-acre Randall Mill Greenspace, property of the Lucinda Bunnen estate located in the Mt Paran-Northside neighborhood
In addition to the creation of new parks, Mary has assisted in the following:
- Bitsy Grant tennis center’s clay courts.
- Beaverbrook Park playground
- Friends of Springlake Park
- Standing Peachtree Park
- Atlanta Memorial Park
- Chastain Park Horse Park
- Friends of Tanyard Creek
- Loring Heights Park
- The Atlanta Opera relocation of their recital hall and administrative offices, which will add a premiere, established arts institution headquarters to District 8 at Memorial Park on the Bobby Jones Golf Course.
Mary believes that protecting our greenspace and tree canopy are critically important to our enjoyment in our city.
That is why she is partnering with the Administration in rewriting our Tree Protection Ordinance. She is the only councilwoman who has participated in our City’s Tree Protection legislation since the first Tree Protection Ordinance was written in 2002.
Her institutional knowledge of this issue, along with so many others, provides a continuity much needed in our city government.
Working to Serve You
Mary recently was acknowledged in Atlanta Magazine’s 500 Most Influential Leaders as a Legend in Government & Infrastructure.
Mary Norwood’s dedication to Atlanta and Buckhead is not over. She is ready and willing to continue to work for us in the fashion we all have come to know.