City of Holly Springs, Georgia Town Center Transportation Study & Plan
CITY OF HOLLY SPRINGS, GEORGIA TOWN CENTER TRANSPORTATION STUDY & PLAN FINAL – May 2, 2011 TOWN CENTER TRANSPORTATION STUDY & PLAN FINAL – May 2, 2011 URS Project # : 15280811 Prepared for: The City of Holly Springs, Georgia 3237 Holly Springs Parkway Holly Springs, GA 30115 Prepared by: URS Corporation 400 Northpark Town Center 1000 Abernathy Road, NE Suite 900 Atlanta, GA 30328 Tel: 678.808.8800 Fax: 678.808.8400 www.urscorp.com City of Holly Springs, Georgia Town Center Transportation Study & Plan EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The City of Holly Springs is a community analysis, and stakeholder engagement. located in central Cherokee County, A variety of conclusions were made, Georgia with a U.S. Census estimated most focusing on the Hickory Street 2009 population of 9,126 people. For corridor, particularly in the short the past decade, many of the planning distance between Holly Springs efforts in the city have focused on Parkway and Palm Street where a creating a town center, conducted variety of different transportation issues through the Livable Centers’ Initiative were discovered. In addition, the study (LCI), a program providing funding and determined that the two major planning assistance from the Atlanta roadways serving Holly Springs (Hickory Regional Commission (ARC). Street and Holly Springs Parkway) may This Town Center Transportation Study & need future widening in order to Plan focuses on the existing and future minimize future congestion. transportation needs within the town Recommended projects, center area. As such, a variety of implementation timeframes, estimated planning and engineering analysis costs, and potential funding sources techniques were used including site are provided in the table below.
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