The Chattahoochee Hill Country Conservancy Board of Directors is pleased to announce its new leadership for 2008. The organization will be led by Chairman, Joseph G. Martin, Jr. of Civitas, Inc.; Vice Chairman, Thomas K. Farmer of The Nature Conservancy; Secretary, Robert D. Mowrey of Alston & Bird, LLP; and Treasurer, Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Venture Lab. Other board members include James H. Kaminer, Jr. of Seyfarth Shaw, LLP and Steven R. Cover, Planning Commissioner for the City of Atlanta. The Conservancy’s executive director is Christine W. McCauley.

The Chattahoochee Hill Country Conservancy’s mission is to create and implement innovative land use and conservation programs that protect the environment, enhance the quality of life, and promote sustainable economic growth. The Conservancy has been assisting in the implementation of Georgia’s only comprehensive Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program for the last five years and serves as the only TDR Bank in the State.

The city of Chattahoochee Hill Country incorporated in June of 2007 and is the fourth new city in Georgia in the last two years. The City boundaries incorporate 33,000 acres of Fulton County’s original 40,000 acre Chattahoochee Hill Country Overlay, which is designed to protect the rural character of the area while guiding growth to appropriate development nodes through transferring development rights. The plan calls for three high-density village sites (receiving areas) within the 40,000 acres and the protection of the remainder of the Hill Country’s agricultural, scenic, and natural resources (sending areas).