Tuesday's Tour & Tip
New City Proposed to Accommodate Atlanta’s Massive Growth
The Atlanta Regional Commission is working to figure out how more than 6 million people will fit into metro Atlanta during the next 25 years.
The latest tool for the "Envision 6" planning process brought together about 160 people -- city and county planners, neighborhood advocates, consultants and representatives from agencies such as the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority and the Federal Highway Administration.
They spent half a day this month placing stickers on large maps of the region, plotting where development should go and what types of development should be built.
Tom Weyandt, director of comprehensive planning at the ARC, said the exercise was like a big Sim City game.
Weyandt said the most interesting suggestion was to create a new city in Cherokee County between I-575 and Ga. 400.
The results will help the ARC formulate its Regional Development Plan, the ARC's policy statement about development. Cities and counties are not required to follow it, but often decisions about where to put transportation dollars are gleaned from it.
Those who didn't attend the session can participate by filling out a survey on the ARC Web site, www.atlantaregional.com.
-- Janet Frankston
DATE: September 26, 2005
PUBLICATION: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA)
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