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What
is a Comprehensive Plan?
In 1989, the Georgia General
Assembly passed the Georgia Planning Act, which established a
coordinated planning program for the State of
Georgia
. This program provides local governments with opportunities to plan
for their future and to improve communication with their neighboring
governments.
The cornerstone of the coordinated
planning program is the preparation of a long-range comprehensive plan by each local
government in the state. This plan is intended to highlight community
goals and objectives as well as determine how the government proposes
to achieve those goals and objectives. It is intended that the
comprehensive plan be used to guide local government decision-making
on a daily basis. The Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) is
the over-seeing agency for the final approval and acceptance of this
plan. The Atlanta Regional Commission is the other agency involved
with this planning process.
What’s
in a Comprehensive Plan?
Elements of the city’s Comprehensive Plan
include:
1.
PUBLIC
INVOLVEMENT AND PARTICIPATION (Community Vision)
2.
Population/Demographics
3.
Economic development
4.
Natural and historic resources
5.
Community facilities and services
6.
Housing
7.
Land use
8.
Intergovernmental coordination
9.
Transportation
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