Friday, December 6, 2002
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Friday, December 6, 2002 |
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Community planning, design topic of seminar Wednesday The public is invited to attend an all-day workshop on community planning and design that is being offered by the Atlanta Regional Commission Wednesday in Atlanta. The "Tools for Design and Decision Making Workshop" is designed to give community leaders, planners and elected officials tools they can use to maintain community livability in the face of rapid growth. Rapidly growing counties in the metro Atlanta region have confronted a wide array of challenges in the last decade. Fayette County was no different as its population grew 46 percent during the 1990s. Fayetteville and Peachtree City have been awarded grants from the ARC's Livable Centers Initiative to study how to integrate growth on Ga. Highway 74 with existing town center growth in Peachtree City, and to promote quality development and improved transportation access while preserving the historic character of Fayetteville. The event will also feature keynote speaker Peter Katz, a nationally recognized urban theorist and founder of the Congress for New Urbanism. The workshop will focus on four different areas of community planning: Housing and Neighborhoods, Community Building, Environmentally Sensitive Planning and Transportation Choices. A variety of topics from those areas will be discussed in 17 different sessions during the entire day on subjects such as: Effective Public Involvement in the Community Planning Process; Mixed-use Development; Water Conservation; Bike Pedestrian Planning; and Crime Prevention and Safety. The workshop will run from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Charles Loudermilk Conference Center on 40 Courtland Street in Atlanta. The cost is $75 for individual registration and $60 for students and groups of five or more; the price includes a luncheon. For more information or to register, contact ARC organizer Kellie McDonough at kcmcdonough@atlantaregional.com or call 404-463-3212.
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