RIDE GWINNETT THE COUNTY’S PUBLICcomprising 33.3 percent 2000 to 49.5percent in 2023, according to Censusdata. And yet Masino says the countyhas a magic “ability to work togetherand get big things done.”“There’s just something in theDNA that I don’t think exists in other municipalities where the cities,county, nonprofits and other organizations work together,” he continued.“We have 17 cities, five CIDs and thecounty, which is the largest municipal40JAMESMARCH //A PR I L 2 02 5and a half ago when we had GwinnettMedical Center.” (Gwinnett Medicalwas renamed Northside HospitalGwinnett after Northside merged withit in 2019.)Ride Gwinnett, its public transitsystem, offers bus and paratransit services. But it’s limited, and the county’stwo voter referendums asking residents to approve expanding MARTAinto Gwinnett, including the additionof a 1 percent sales tax, were defeatedTRANSPORTATION SERVICE PROVIDERin 2019 and 2020.With 53 percent of residents votinggovernment in the state and the school against a non-MARTA 1 percent transportation SPLOST last year, Hendrickdistrict is the largest in the state andson said it’s unlikely that Gwinnettthe 11th largest in the United States.”will have another transit referendumGwinnett does occasionally failanytime soon.in its improvement efforts, he said,“While people have expressedpointing to residents’ no votes on afrustration with traffic, they don’t wantspecial-purpose local-option sales taxto pay for a solution,” she said. “Notes (SPLOST) in 2024 and around 2009.only do they not want it, but they holdHowever, Masino added, “We candecades-old claims it’s because of thework on really big things in the comcrime and lower property values thatmunity. There was a decision to bringheart surgeries to the county a decade MARTA will bring. Those are the same
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