City of Atlanta CDP

Preface

Bill Kennedy

Credits

2004-2019

Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP)

City of Atlanta

Department of Planning, and Community Development

July 2003

CITY OF ATLANTA OFFICIALS

Shirley Franklin
Mayor

ATLANTA CITY COUNCIL
Cathy Woolard
President of Council

                        

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN MANDATE

The Charter of the City of Atlanta mandates the preparation of a comprehensive development plan (CDP) in Section 3-601 as follows:

The Mayor shall have a comprehensive development plan of the City of Atlanta prepared and maintained to be used as a guide for the growth and development of the City and which will identify its present and planned physical, social and economic development.  This plan shall: 1) set forth the comprehensive development goals, policies and objectives for both the entire City and for individual geographic areas and communities within the City, 2) in conformance with such development goals, objectives and policies, identify the general location, character, and extent of streets and thoroughfares, parks, recreation facilities, sites for public buildings and structures, City and privately-owned utilities, transportation systems and facilities, housing, community facilities, future land use for all classifications, and such other elements, features and policies as will provide for the improvement of the City over the next 15 years.

The CDP is used as a guide in the preparation and adoption of the five-year Capital Improvements Program (CIP) and yearly City Budget.

The following plans are hereby incorporated into the 2004 Comprehensive Development Plan:

1. The Impact Fee Study, City of Atlanta, Georgia, prepared by James Duncan and Associates in association with Rimrock Consulting, Dr. Arthur C. Nelson, LRE Engineering Inc.; Webb and Web, attys; the Sales Law Group, P.C.; and Williams-Russell & Johnson, dated March 18, 1993.  In cases of conflict between the Impact Fee System: Final Report and the Comprehensive Development Plan, the Impact Fee System: Final Report shall prevail unless otherwise expressly stated by the City Council.
2. The Atlanta Empowerment Zone Strategic Plan: Creating an Urban Village.
3. 2004 – 2019 Capital Improvement Program
4. The 2000 Annual Action Plan of the 2000 – 2004 Consolidated Plan, which identifies needs, priorities, and geographic targeting policies for funding which the City receives through grant programs of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban.
5. City of Atlanta 2002  Detailed Adopted Budget
6. Atlanta Renaissance Program prepared by the Atlanta Renaissance Board in 1996.  The study included a thorough analysis of Atlanta’s economic conditions and trends. 
7. Redevelopment Plans:

8. Area Studies: i) Southwest Atlanta, ii) Buckhead Village, iii) Northwest Atlanta Framework Plan, and iv) Home Park Master Plan.
9. Corridor Studies: i) Cheshire Bridge Road, ii) North Highland Avenue and iii) District Two Rail Corridor Study.
10. Parks, Open Space, and Greenways Plan.  The Plan, adopted in 1993, established park planning policies intended to guide the development of parks and recreational facilities for the next 15 years.

PREFACE

City planning is about creating connections and interactions between forces that create and change the places we live in.  Since city planning is so complex, the City of Atlanta has begun to use the following set of working principles to help navigate its planning and development practices:

• include all those affected by a contemplated planning or development activity from the beginning;

• incorporate all of the disciplines, skills, experience and knowledge that can contribute;

• include all the agencies and organizations with any jurisdiction or voice;

• use planning as a connective tool to put people in touch with each other and with their places;

• develop a vision that generally guides where the planning activity should be heading;

• identify implementation steps in increments that can be accomplished, that have community support, and that move in the direction of a shared vision;

• think of the whole of the effect of an activity, even as its various parts are being identified;

• use urban design as a reflective communication and visioning tool to help people see, understand and interact with work as it progresses;

• include the dimension of time - and motion - in conceptualizing city planning and urban design responses to develop needs;

• acknowledge change, and seek positive directions in anticipating and responding to change forces;

• build on strengths, on what is already working, in formulating planning and development strategies; and

• be ready with a strategy to implement necessary changes
  
  
  

AN ORDINANCE

BY COMMUNITYDEVELOPMENT/HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE

AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE  2004 CITY OF ATLANTA COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

WHEREAS, Sections 3-601, 3-602 and 3-603 of the Charter of the City of Atlanta require that the Mayor shall have prepared a one-, five -, and fifteen – year Comprehensive Development Plan to provide for the physical, social and economic growth of the City as will best promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the City'’ residents; and

WHEREAS the Mayor has caused the 2004 Comprehensive Development Plan to be prepared as outlined in the Charter; and

WHEREAS the requirements of the Charter have been met by Council concerning this plan;

NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA, HEREBY ORDAINS:

Section 1: That the document entitled, City of Atlanta 2003 Comprehensive Development Plan, consisting of twenty-one functional elements and graphics plus 24 Fifteen-Year Land Use Plan maps, is hereby adopted as the official Comprehensive Development Plan as mandated by Section 3-601, 3-602 and 3-603 of the Charter of the City of Atlanta.

Section 2: That, following the adoption of the Comprehensive Development Plan, the Council amend the City’s zoning ordinance to conform it to the plan in accordance with procedures prescribed by general law.

Section 3: That this plan shall become effective immediately upon adoption by the City Council and approval by the Mayor, and shall remain in effect until such time as it is amended or repealed.

Section 4: That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

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