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Columbus Metropolitan Club - Chattahoochie Hill Country: Model for Darby Watershed?
The Chattahoochee Hill Country conservancy, southwest of Atlanta, has a plan to balance conservation and development on 65,000 acres that have not yet been suburbanized. Under conventional zoning, the waterways, farmland and rolling hills would eventually have 30,000 homes that gobble up 80 percent of the land. Under the conservancy's proposal - with broad support but little money - the area could have 38,000 homes on less than 20 percent of the land. The development would primarily be in three clusters of "conservation development."
The area is comparable in many ways to the 56,000-acre Darby Watershed area in western Franklin County in that it is beautiful, under development pressure and near the city. Under conventional zoning, the area would accommodate more than 30,000 homes and take up almost all the land. But many people involved in a planning group that includes Franklin County, Columbus and eight suburbs and townships would like to see pockets of denser development and preservation of the remaining land.
Chattahoochee Hill Country President and Executive Director, Stacy Patton, will outline the process and plans for the Chattahoochee and discuss the parallels with the Chattahoochee Hill Country and the Darby Watershed.
The area is comparable in many ways to the 56,000-acre Darby Watershed area in western Franklin County in that it is beautiful, under development pressure and near the city. Under conventional zoning, the area would accommodate more than 30,000 homes and take up almost all the land. But many people involved in a planning group that includes Franklin County, Columbus and eight suburbs and townships would like to see pockets of denser development and preservation of the remaining land.
Chattahoochee Hill Country President and Executive Director, Stacy Patton, will outline the process and plans for the Chattahoochee and discuss the parallels with the Chattahoochee Hill Country and the Darby Watershed.
January 11, 2006