Recap of the August 3rd Community Meeting
By: Jennifer Peterson, Community Development Director
Approximately 120 people attended this fourth of five community meetings. POND and Company began the evening with an overview of the comprehensive planning process in general and a presentation on basic design concepts. To view the presentation please click here.
The majority of the evening was devoted to the main workshop and discussion exercise. The room broke into groups with approximately ten people and one facilitator at each table. Each group discussed four major areas, which at previous meetings, had been declared the areas where we should anticipate the greatest pressure to change and redevelop. Those areas are the Dunwoody Village area, the Georgetown area, the Winters Chapel area and the Tilly Mill area. The groups discussed if these are areas where change should be encouraged or resisted. If change is encouraged, how should those changes manifest? What sorts of development types, uses, heights, densities, and open spaces are appropriate for each area? What sort of facilities and connections should be created? The comments made within each table were recorded by the facilitators.
POND and city staff will now take that information and build recommendations of policies and projects for the city to use over the next 20 years. The first drafts of the document and policies will be presented as a part of the next community meeting.
The next community meeting will be Thursday September 24th. I hope you will be able to attend.