Gun Club Park to become "trail-oriented development"

• A proposed mixed-use development could bring more affordable housing and add life along Proctor Creek Greenway, a multiuse path that will connect the Beltline to the Chattahoochee River.

Zoom in: The Atlanta Urban Development Corp., a city-controlled nonprofit that's turning city-owned land into housing, wants developers' help to begin the first phase of the "trail-oriented" community.

• Current plans call for a mix of housing types and more than 200 units of permanent affordable housing.
• At least 40% of the development's rental units would be reserved for households earning 50% to 80% of the area median income.

Yes, and: For-sale units would also be set aside as "affordable" for people living on low incomes.

Fun fact: Roughly 100 years ago, a gun club was established on the property, hence the name.

• Over the past 20 years, the park has become a dumping ground and "a fracture in the connectivity of the city's westside neighborhoods," city documents say.
• Despite the history of dumping, city officials say, the cost of soil remediation for the entire 44-acre site is about $5,000.