CHC News
February 2010
Conservancy Elects Four New Board Members
February 2010
Conservancy Assumes Responsibility for Master Plan for Greenway Trails.
February 2010
The Conservancy Sponsored the Arbor Day.
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We have a treasured heritage in CHC with families who have lived here for six and seven generations. We believe one measure of our success will be that new residents become the first of many generations who chose to live in CHC.
The Chattahoochee Hill Country’s efforts began when the local residents, aware of impending development, came together to create a new land use plan promoting sustainable development coupled with environmental preservation. The community, working with local government and nonprofit partners, held a series of public meetings to define the vision and document their goals.
In 2001, they obtained a grant and hired a professional planning firm to facilitate the process and document their vision. The result was the Chattahoochee Hill Country Community Plan, a plan now incorporated in the South Fulton 2015 Amended Comprehensive Land Use Plan and the Fulton County Chattahoochee Hill Country Overlay District Ordinance, both adopted in 2002. By combining various land use tool, from outright land purchase for conservation to conservation easements and innovative development strategies such as mixed-use villages, CHC has fostered environmentally friendly regional growth. Adopted in April of 2003, the Fulton County Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Ordinance provides a mechanism for managing development by concentrating it in areas the community designated for development. The Chattahoochee Hill Country Land Use Plan represents the first plan in the region that was developed by a community through a grassroots initiative, and has won recognition from the Atlanta Regional Commission, the Urban Land Institute, the Georgia Planning Association, and others.
The innovative sustainable development tools developed so far are just the beginning.