Later this summer, a select group of Peachtree City residents will receive a survey in the mail that will help guide the city’s future for the next 10 years and beyond.

The survey is still being finalized by the city’s volunteer Comprehensive Plan Committee, and much of it will focus on how — and how often — residents use the city’s golf cart path system. The total number of survey participants has yet to be determined, and they will be selected randomly in an effort to get representation from a diversity of citizens, according to committee member Elizabeth Keysar.

Sometime after the printed survey is mailed, the city will make the survey available for anyone to take on the city’s web site. But those results won’t be as trustworthy as those from the printed survey, as the computer results can be skewed with input from persons who don’t live in Peachtree City ... or anyone who wants to take the survey several times in an attempt to slant the results, Keysar said.

The survey will allow residents to rank the importance on a variety of issues such as expansion of the city’s public safety services, redevelopment of existing and aging residential areas and whether the city should grow in the future by using annexation to extend the city’s geographical limits.

One question on the survey asks if the respondent would use alternate transportation such as buses, trolley, light rail or car pools within the city, between Fayette and Coweta counties, between the city and the airport and between the city and Atlanta.

In addition to using the mail survey results, the city will also hold several public meetings at a later date to get input on the plan, noted City Planner David Rast.

Many other communities who are also updating their comprehensive plan are using consultants whose work appears to be the same, Rast said. Peachtree City, however, is eschewing the use of a consultant and instead is relying on city staff and the volunteer committee.

“We want to try to create a plan that is unique for Peachtree City,” Rast said.

With just about 400 to 450 lots remaining undeveloped, city staff is projecting the population to max out at 37,500 persons — not including any potential annexation, Rast said. That’s a dramatic change from the original vision of having more than 80,000 people in the city, he added.

The three developers with the largest amount of vacant acreage left to develop are Pathway Communities, the Bradshaw Group and John Wieland Homes, Rast said.

City staff have been compiling a database with information on each parcel’s land use, zoning and other characteristics, Rast noted. Once completed, that will give the city its most accurate land use map ever, Rast said.