Peachtree Corners Comprehensive Plan Slowly Coming Together

As part of its ongoing process to create a Comprehensive Plan, the city of Peachtree Corners held its second community meeting Tuesday (April 30) night at Winters Chapel United Methodist Church.

With guidance from Pond & Company, an engineering firm hired to assist with the mammoth task of collecting every piece of data on the city, some 30 Peachtree Corners residents gathered to provide their input on a host of issues such as revitalizing the Holcomb Bridge Road corridor, adding multi-use trails to tie schools, neighborhoods to nearby parks to addressing empty shopping centers.

"This is the most fun thing as mayor," said Mayor Mike Mason before the work session began. "We get to chart our course. It's worth our time because our community has a high quality of life and good property values."

Pond & Company's Michelle Alexander led the session. "Look at this a a business plan," she said. "The city needs to plan its future and your input is vital for city leaders to use to help with that process.

"We need to first know where we are, where do we want to be and then decide how we will get there," said Alexander.

To help with the process a number of tables were arranged with large copies of maps of the city. Small groups were then formed of 8 - 10 people to discuss their ideas on what Peachtree Corners would need to do to prepare for the shifting demographics of its current population and to plan for an influx of over 40,000 expected to move into the city over the next two decades.

The data gathered at the two community meetings will provide additional input Pond & Company and city leaders will use in creating a Comprehensive Plan. The city is required tye the state to file its plan by the end of October 2013.

A third Community Meeting is scheduled for July 25, 2013 from 5-8 p.m. at City Hall. In the interim, visit the project website: peachtreecornersplan.blogspot.com for updates.

And if you haven't taken the online community survey, you have until May 4. Click here for the link to the survey or visit the city's website

Fast facts about Peachtree Corners

• Peachtree Corners has a job-housing balance of 2.43; there are 2.43 jobs for every household.
• Ten percent of working residents have jobs located in the city.
• The unemployment rate in Peachtree Corners is estimated to be 9.1 percent. this is slightly higher than Gwinnett County's unemployment rate: 7.4 percent.
• Nationally and in metro Atlanta, the fastest growing industry is health care, followed by professional and technical services and real estate.
• The largest industry based on the number of jobs in Peachtree Corners is retail, followed by professional and technical services and administrative/support services.
• There are 35,344 primary jobs in Peachtree Corners and 17,241 employed residents. However, only 10 percent of them have a job that is located in the city.

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