ARC, GA, The Atlanta Region’s Plan
Updated February 2020
By: Atlanta Regional Commission
https://www.atlantaregionsplan.org/
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age-friendly communities
This regional comprehensive plan includes a section on Healthy Livable Communities that discusses the need to become age-friendly. The first goal in this section contains an action item called “Improve Quality of Life at the Neighborhood, City, County and Regional Levels”, that explains how the ARC, also the Area Agency on Aging, is planning for an aging population through support services, senior center programming, and case management.
Autonomous Vehicles
The region’s plan includes a report that explores transportation conditions in Atlanta and discusses how autonomous vehicles can impact these systems. It describes the potential outcomes of automated vehicle technologies.
Built Environment and Health
This regional comprehensive plan addresses public health on its Healthy Livable Communities page. The action item "Improve Public Health through the Built Environment" discusses safety, active transportation, food systems, and green infrastructure. It shares current work being done to achieve these goals and points towards related plans by the ARC.
Creative Placemaking
The region's comprehensive plan contains an Arts & Culture element that promotes creative placemaking to improve quality of life. It defines policies to support creative placemaking, including identifying cultural resources, encouraging public art integration in infrastructure and public space, and increasing access to cultural assets.
Environmentally Sensitive Areas
The region’s plan identifies resources that are important to the region and require protection. The Regional Resource Plan contains three resource categories: areas of conservation or recreational value, historic and cultural resources, and areas of agricultural and scenic value. Categories are divides into smaller, more specific categories, then the plan assesses value, vulnerability, and management strategies.
Scenario Planning
This comprehensive plan included a scenario development process early in the creation of the plan. This used exploratory planning to aid in the creation of strategies for the Region Plan. The Regional Transportation Plan component utilizes scenario planning within it’s Future chapter.
Atlanta, GA
2010 Population: 420,003
2010 Population Density: 3,154.31/square mile
Barrow, GA
2010 Population: 69,367
2010 Population Density: 432.71/square mile
Bartow, GA
2010 Population: 100,157
2010 Population Density: 217.95/square mile
Carroll, GA
2010 Population: 110,527
2010 Population Density: 221.46/square mile
Cherokee, GA
2010 Population: 214,346
2010 Population Density: 508.32/square mile
Clayton, GA
2010 Population: 259,424
2010 Population Density: 1,832.48/square mile
Cobb, GA
2010 Population: 688,078
2010 Population Density: 2,026.45/square mile
Coweta, GA
2010 Population: 127,317
2010 Population Density: 288.77/square mile
DeKalb, GA
2010 Population: 691,893
2010 Population Density: 2,585.72/square mile
Douglas, GA
2010 Population: 132,403
2010 Population Density: 661.79/square mile
Fayette, GA
2010 Population: 106,567
2010 Population Density: 548.35/square mile
Forsyth, GA
2010 Population: 175,511
2010 Population Density: 783.46/square mile
Fulton, GA
2010 Population: 920,581
2010 Population Density: 1,748.04/square mile
Gwinnett, GA
2010 Population: 805,321
2010 Population Density: 1,871.17/square mile
Hall, GA
2010 Population: 179,684
2010 Population Density: 457.46/square mile
Henry, GA
2010 Population: 203,922
2010 Population Density: 633.05/square mile
Newton, GA
2010 Population: 99,958
2010 Population Density: 367.28/square mile
Paulding, GA
2010 Population: 142,324
2010 Population Density: 455.85/square mile
Rockdale, GA
2010 Population: 85,215
2010 Population Density: 656.55/square mile
Spalding, GA
2010 Population: 64,073
2010 Population Density: 326.12/square mile
Walton, GA
2010 Population: 83,768
2010 Population Density: 257.21/square mile