Atlanta Flooding Fight

**HOLD FOR RELEASE WITH COPY BY KATIE FOODY** Tanya Washington, a resident of the Atlanta neighborhood Peoplestown (holding papers), talks to media during a press conference on the steps of Atlanta City Hall on Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. Washington and others are protesting the city's plan to turn about two blocks of Peoplestown into a retention pond and a park. The city claims that severe storms could flood every home there. Some residents are going along with the plan and have already sold their properties. (AP Photo/Kevin D. Liles)

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**HOLD FOR RELEASE WITH COPY BY KATIE FOODY** Tanya Washington, a resident of the Atlanta neighborhood Peoplestown (holding papers), talks to media during a press conference on the steps of Atlanta City Hall on Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. Washington and others are protesting the city's plan to turn about two blocks of Peoplestown into a retention pond and a park. The city claims that severe storms could flood every home there. Some residents are going along with the plan and have already sold their properties. (AP Photo/Kevin D. Liles)