Atlanta Developers Versus the Deceased

Atlanta City Councilman C.T. Martin caught some flack last month when he voted to approve a developer's plan to dig up bodies buried in a cemetery in Atlanta's tony Buckhead neighborhood. The developer claimed that when he bought the lot, he was unaware that it was a burial ground, but now the bones were in the way of his plans for the property. The other 11 council members voted against the measure, leaving the dead to rest in peace, but developers versus the deceased is a more persistent problem than one might think.