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Planning

Planning. Our Future:. Understanding How Planning Benefits Your Community. Reducing the Cost of Planning. Regional Commissions have agreed to prepare the comprehensive plan at NO COST to the community: For core elements of the comprehensive plan At normal plan update deadline

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Planning

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  1. Planning Our Future: Understanding How Planning Benefits Your Community

  2. Reducing the Cost of Planning Regional Commissions have agreed to prepare the comprehensive plan at NO COST to the community: • For core elements of the comprehensive plan • At normal plan update deadline DCA will provide all data needed for planning on its website

  3. Overview of the Program Why Should We Plan? What Happens If We Don’t Plan? What Are the Standards for Local Plans in Georgia? How Is A Plan Implemented? Where Can We Get More Information?

  4. Why should we plan? • Improve & maintain a good quality of life • Bring the vision for the future to life • Protect the natural resources • Encourage & support economic development • Protect private property rights • Protect cultural resources

  5. Why should we plan? • Provide more certainty about: • Where development will occur • What it will be like • When it will happen • How the costs of development will be met

  6. Why should we plan? • Ensure desirable development patterns, to meet several needs: • Traditional neighborhoods • Infill on vacant parcels in established neighborhoods • Regional identity and local sense of place • Preserve and enhance existing areas • Create new areas based on our vision

  7. What happens if we don’t plan? • Sprawling development • Adjacent incompatible land uses • No sense of place in our community • Deteriorating quality of life • Traffic congestion

  8. What happens if we don’t plan? • Damage to environmental, cultural and natural resources • Disconnected development • Government “chasing” development with infrastructure • We have no say in our future!

  9. Local Planning Standards • Menu of plan elements(Community Chooses) • Only three elements required of all • Five elements required for some communities (depending on local conditions) • Substitution of existing plans/elements encouraged • Maximum of three elementsupdatedevery 5 years, remainder atlocaldiscretion

  10. REQUIREDfor all communities COMMUNITY GOALS NEEDS & OPPORTUNITIES COMMUNITY WORK PROGRAM

  11. REQUIREDfor some communities HOUSING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS LAND USE TRANSPORTATION

  12. OPTIONALelements EDUCATION PUBLIC SAFETY PARKS & RECREATION SPECIAL POPULATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTH WATER RESOURCES GREENSPACE

  13. Example: City A • CHARACTERISTICS: • 450 Population No Growth • Tier 1 for Tax Credits • No Zoning • Not in an MPO • Not HUD Entitlement • No Impact Fees • THEIR (Required) PLAN: • Community Goals • Needs and Opportunities • Community Work Program • Economic Development Element • Desired Optional Elements

  14. Example: City B • CHARACTERISTICS: • 75,124 Population • Tier 3 for Tax Credits • Zoning • Included in an MPO • HUD Entitlement • No Impact Fees • THEIR (Required) PLAN: • Three Core Elements • Land Use Element • Transportation Element • Housing Element • Desired Optional Elements

  15. How Is A Plan Implemented? • Managing the development and use of land • Zoning ordinances or subdivision regulations • Alternative types of regulations • More detailed planning, such as infrastructure or master plans • Financial programs • Annual budgets and capital improvement plans • SPLOST • Grants • Construction programs • Roads and highway improvements • Land purchase • Parks development • Government and civic buildings • Other projects as shown in the plan’s work program

  16. Where Can We Get More Information? • Government Contact: • City/County Planning Director • Phone, E-mail & Web Site • Consultant Contact: • ABC Planning Group • Phone & E-mail • Georgia DCA Contact: • www.dca.ga.gov

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