Wednesday, January 23, 2002
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Wednesday, January 23, 2002 |
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Fayetteville gets revitalization grant By MONROE
ROARK
Fayetteville will be getting some help about $75,000 worth from the Atlanta Regional Commission in its ongoing downtown revitalization efforts. The city is one of 10 new recipients of ARC Livable Centers Initiative planning grants totalling nearly $1 million in matched federal funds. City Manager Joe Morton announced the Fayetteville grant at Thursday night's City Council meeting. According to a statement released by the ARC, the Fayetteville funds are for a study "intended to promote quality development with multi-modal connectivity, while preserving the historic core in the town center." The LCI program plans to award $5 million in grants over a five-year period, with $3 million of that having already been awarded. Beginning in July of this year, $350 million will be available for the projects themselves. To be considered for funding, LCI study scopes must demonstrate: A local planning outreach process that promotes the involvement of all stakeholders, particularly low- to moderate-income and minority citizens. A diversity of mixed-income residential neighborhoods, employment, shopping and recreation choices at the activity center and town center level. Access to a range of travel modes including transit, roadways, walking and biking to enable access to all uses within the study area. Other successful grantees this year include projects in Atlanta, Austell, Decatur, Lilburn, Powder Springs, Woodstock and Fulton and DeKalb counties. "Along with the 22 recipients funded over the last two years, there are now 32 communities in the Atlanta region developing 'quality growth' plans through the award-winning LCI program," according to the ARC. Fayetteville officials recently unveiled plans for improvements on the west side of the Courthouse Square, with a new parking area behind the buildings facing the square and next to the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House. The plan, which is being called "Backstreet Fayetteville," is the latest step in a larger overall effort to improve the downtown area an effort that recently got a boost from a new bond initiative approved by the city that should see several hundred thousand dollars allocated for the project.
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