2020 NPU-H Master Plan A Vision for Adamsville

Doctor’s Memorial Park (TSW, 2019) 1 10.27.2020 Acknowledgments THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THIS PLAN! This master plan was conducted with NPU-H residents, Invest staff, non-profit/community based organizations, business community representatives, and other local leaders.

NPU-H CHAIR STEERING COMMITTEE R.R. Harris, Current NPU-H Chair Ruth Lyles Bailey, NPU-H Kathy Crawford, Former NPU-H Chair Alicia Boyard, Boulder Park Estates Community Lamont Bynum, NPU-H MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS Vernelle Cowan, NPU-H Mayor Kathy Crawford, NPU-H Felicia A. Moore, President Noki Crew, NPU-H Carla Smith, District 1 Joy Dixon, NPU-H Amir R. Farokhi, District 2 Patricia Floyd, NPU-H Antonio Brown, District 3 Delores Lattimore, Carroll Heights Cleta Winslow, District 4 Barbara Leath, Boulder Park Civic Center Natalyn Mosby Archibong, District 5 Khalifa Lee, NPU-H Jennifer N. Ide, District 6 Barbara Miller, NPU-H Howard Shook, District 7 Lena Reed, ABCP J.P. Matzigkeit, District 8 Herman E. Sims, NPU-H Dustin R. Hillis, District 9 Erika Smith, Andrea L. Boone, District 10 James Stembridge, NPU-H Marci Collier Overstreet, District 11 Greg Watson, NPU-H Joyce Sheperd, District 12 Michael Julian Bond, Post 1 TSW Matt Westmoreland, Post 2 Sarah McColley, Project Manager Andre Dickens, Post 3 Woody Giles, Planner CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT Jessica Lavandier, Strategic Planning Assistant Director Nate Hoelzel, Urban Planner III Keyetta Holmes, Director, Office of Zoning and Development Susan Coleman, Planner & NPU-H Planner

Mural at Collier Park (TSW, 2019)

2 Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 CHAPTER 1: EXISTING CONDITIONS 12 Location 14 Mapping 16 Demographics 28 Public Health 30 Previous Plans & Progress 32 CHAPTER 2: PUBLIC OUTREACH 48 Outreach Process 50 Steering Committee 54 Public Kick-off Meeting 56 Survey Results 58 Design Workshop 62 Public Open House (2019) 64 Draft Plan Open House (2020) 65 CHAPTER 3: RECOMMENDATIONS 66 Vision and Goals 68 Framework Plan 72 Public Safety & Quality of Life 74 Potential Redevelopment Node Concept Plans 76 Typical Street Sections 82 CHAPTER 4: IMPLEMENTATION 84 Priority Projects 86 Proposed Future Land Use 87 Proactive Rezoning 94 Redevelopment Criteria 100 Long-Term Initiatives 104 APPENDIX 110 CPTED Guidelines 112 Codes Violated 116 CDP Quality of Life Element Vote 117 NPU-H CDP Policies 119

3 Executive Summary Neighborhood Planning Unit H (NPU-H), located along the western boundary of the Atlanta city limits, features great access to major arterials such as Interstate 285, , Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK, Jr.) Drive, Fulton Industrial , Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, and Fairburn Road. A CSX rail corridor crosses the southern part of the study area, Interstate I-20 bisects the study area, and I-285 serves as the eastern edge. Unincorporated Fulton County is to the west. Residents of the 17 neighborhoods included in NPU-H have access to arts, entertainment, and culture, with the added benefit of living in an affordable area. Located approximately five (5) miles from , NPU-H is primarily served by the Hamilton E. Holmes MARTA Station (located approximately 1.5 miles east of the eastern boundary of NPU-H), and MARTA bus routes 73, 201, 850, 853, and 865. Although NPU-H is close to many in-town neighborhoods including downtown, it is primarily auto-oriented and often unsafe for pedestrians and bicyclists. Streets tend to be curved and form cul-de-sacs, which makes accessibility to needed services and destinations difficult to access by foot or bike.

4 5 This plan is a vision...

...is to create vibrant & safe community. 6 Storytelling Activity at Public Kick-off Meeting - March 26, 2019 (TSW, 2019) Project Purpose

This Master Plan is first and in the future, all by utilizing an • Illustrating ways to implement foremost a collective vision action plan and implementation the vision and goals; for the future of NPU-H’s strategy. The plan expands on the • Proposing a list of new neighborhoods. It is also a community’s history and existing policies and future projects strategy for its residents, character by: that align with the overall property owners, stakeholders, • Building on previous planning vision and goals of this plan; and businesses to spur growth efforts; and and development. The plan of action is to preserve and protect • Developing a vision • Establishing equitable the quality of life while promoting that guides growth and programs and facilities to growth in appropriate areas by development for the 17 create economic sustainability building on the community’s neighborhoods within NPU-H; for community members; existing assets, and identifying • Identifying a set of goals that catalytic sites and projects that the NPU-H community can will encourage redevelopment strive towards; Master Plan Chapters Following the executive summary, The Planning Team examined a the shared community vision this master plan contains four (4) existing conditions, including guided by a steering committee. chapters: demographics, land use and zoning, and development Recommendations Existing Conditions patterns. The analysis established Recommendations include Community planning has been a baseline understanding that lighting and code enforcement, evident in NPU-H since 2004. informed how the Planning streetscape changes, and In 2010, a group of concerned Team approached the public concept plans for three residents began addressing engagement process and redevelopment nodes: Bolton issues, concerns, and the need for the concept plans and policy Road, MLK, Jr. Drive and Fairburn an official document. In January recommendations. The Team Road (Adamsville Village), and 2017 contact was initiated with also mapped and analyzed Benjamin E. Mays Drive and the Department of City Planning transportation connectivity, Fairburn Road. for NPU-H neighborhoods. The community assets, environmental first official meeting with City conditions, crime statistics, and Implementation The Implementation Chapter Planning was held in June 2017. building code complaints. Aligning ongoing, recent, and proposes future changes to land past planning efforts that impact Community use and zoning along with a set NPU-H and surrounding Atlanta of criteria for redevelopment. A Engagement defining feature of this Master neighborhoods was a critical In preparing this plan, the Plan that sets it apart from component of initial planning Planning Team reached out to the past planning efforts, is that it efforts. Many planning efforts are NPU-H community in a variety of empowers community members in progress and many projects are ways, including online, through of NPU-H to use the criteria being implemented that directly the mail, surveys, and in-person when evaluating development affect the neighborhoods in public meetings. The plan reflects NPU-H. proposals in their neighborhoods.

7 Adamsville Regional Health Center (TSW, 2020) The Vision Atlanta City Design: Aspiring to the beloved community.

Equity Progress Ambition Access Nature

City Design Core Values The NPU-H Master Plan’s Vision, and associated Goals and Principles share the Atlanta City Design’s 5 Core Values.

Vision Statement: Create a “vibrant and safe community for the NPU-H neighborhoods by offering diverse housing options, thriving businesses, accessible transportation, connections to nature, and a high quality of life for all.

8 NPU-H Goals & Principles Create a high quality 1. Engage local educational partnerships with community of life for all residents organizations, non-profits, and recreation centers to increase the 1 quality of education for people of all ages 2. Encourage developers to provide usable green space in all redevelopment and use green infrastructure where possible 3. Attract a diversity of businesses that meet the needs of the community, including daily needs shopping and a variety of restaurants 4. Increase access to healthy, fresh food through redevelopment, community partnerships, and urban food gardens 5. Take a proactive stance on public health and mitigate the negative impacts of industries on Fulton Industrial Boulevard 6. Maintain parks and offer programming for residents of all ages

Focus redevelopment 1. Implement strategic rezoning that benefits residents and meets the on priority vacant goals set forth in this plan 2 properties and 2. Determine development criteria for priority redevelopment sites abandoned structures 3. Promote redevelopment of key commercial nodes and aging apartment complexes 4. Minimize flooding by maintaining natural terrain and using best practices for stormwater management

Promote inclusiveness 1. Foster aging in place through design and policy recommendations for all people 2. Increase the rate of homeownership in the community 3 3. Promote awareness of existing and future homeownership programs and bill assistance programs 4. Promote home rehabilitation programs and alternative energy sources to mitigate the cost of living for current homeowners 5. Engage renters in the community and encourage them to stay 6. Preserve naturally occurring / subsidized affordable housing units 7. Preserve the character of the single-family areas

Improve the 1. Enforce zoning, building codes, and public safety cleanliness and 2. Prevent dumping of trash, illegal parking, and illegal land uses appearance of 4 3. Improve City of Atlanta responsiveness to code violations properties, streets, 4. Establish community clean-up initiatives and parks 5. Promote community pride and ownership

Improve mobility by investing in existing 1. Integrate the Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and Fairburn Road corridor 5 infrastructure, projects into this plan increasing safety 2. Slow traffic and make major corridors walkable and safe and security of 3. Promote walkability by expanding the network of safe sidewalks transportation modes, 4. Add street lighting to low lit areas 5. Improve access to existing parks for all modes of transportation and expanding transportation options.

9 A Roadmap to Use these Recommendations FROM VISION

Framework Plan Callout potential redevelopment sites & priority corridors

Node 1: Bolton Road

Strategic Future Land Use Changes Node 2: & Adamsville Proactive Village Re-zoning on Key

Example Concept Plans Example Concept Vision that Support the 76 to 81) (Pages Properties

Node 3: Benjamin E. Mays & Fairburn Road NPU-H

10 TO ACTION

Redevelopment Criteria Hold redevelopment projects to high standards

A. Jobs & Businesses These two elements work B. Housing together to ensure future C. Building Design growth & development result in a vibrant and safe D. Transportation & Parking community E. Open Space & Sustainability When a developer wants to re- zone and redevelop a property, the community has a list of criteria they can use to work with the City.

RESIDENT EMPOWERMENT

11 Cascade Family Skating on MLK, Jr. Drive at I-285 (TSW, 2019)

Existing Conditions

12 Chapter 1

Location Mapping Demographics Public Health Previous Plans & Progress

13 Caption (Right): Fulton Industrial Boulevard and the uses along it were identified as potential health hazards for res- idents of NPU-H; however, the area serves as an important employment and industrial center.

Caption (Below): Streets wind throughout the study area and UPS Customer Center (TSW, 2019) many do not have sidewalks on both sides. Location

Neighborhood Planning Unit H (NPU-H) is located on the western edge of the City of Atlanta and made up of 4,058 acres. It is bound to the north by Donald Lee (D.L.) Hollowell Parkway / Highway 278, the Fulton Industrial District of unincorporated Fulton County to the west, the City of South Fulton to the south and Interstate 285 to the east. It is approximately five miles from downtown Atlanta. Most of NPU-H is in City Council Fairburn Road (TSW, 2019) District 10, but the northern tip is in Council District 9. NPU-H is commercial corridor running east employment area at the comprised of primarily residential / west, an industrial and a mixed intersection of Fairburn Road and neighborhoods with the Martin residential commercial area in Benjamin E. Mays Drive. Luther King, Jr. (MLK, Jr.) Drive the north and a commercial/

14 UPS Customer Center (TSW, 2019)

15 indicates that after the Civil War ended, Adamsville became a common referenced title for the area and by 1906 the official name became Adamsville. The community name changed to Adamsville in 1870, one year after the founding of the Adams Lodge, a Masonic organization organized by George W. Adams. In 1871, Adams deeded the property with a two-story house to the Adamsville Lodge Number 171 for meeting purposes. Sign at G.A. Towns Elementary School (TSW, 2019) An 1883 Fulton County map indicates “Adamsville as a Militia District” (George Cram Map Neighborhoods housed at the Digital Library of and GeorgiaInfo.com). NPU-H covers parts of northwest roads and most likely served Franklin M. Garrett in his book and southwest Atlanta, where as a community center for the Atlanta and Environ: A Chronical there are 17 official City of surrounding land area. The of Its People and Events, Volume Atlanta neighborhoods within land area that is now called I lists Adamsville, Sandtown, its borders. Each neighborhood Adamsville was called the Lick and other familiar name places has a unique offering, and single- Skillet Settlement during the Civil as a ‘District’ for elections and family residential neighborhoods War (1861-1864). It may have been collecting taxes. and multi-family communities so named when the area was in are dispersed throughout the Dekalb County. In 1853, western Important Places area. Many of the homes were land lots of Dekalb County Community institutions were constructed after World War became Fulton County. Prior built throughout the area. First II, but some new residential to that, land lots were issued to Saint John Missionary Baptist developments have been built in white farmers and planters who Church, which was organized recent decades. Retail uses are were qualified through several as Saint John Baptist Church in focused in Adamsville around Georgia Land Lottery Acts. The 1883, is still located on Fairburn Fairburn Road, Fairburn-Mays people who settled in the Lick Road. However, the present at Fairburn Road, and Bankhead Skillet area came from Franklin church building was constructed Bolton at Bolton Road. Industrial County, Georgia, South Carolina, in 1972. Fain Elementary School uses are located on Fulton North Carolina, and Alabama. is apparently the descendant of Industrial Boulevard west of NPU- Eventually the ethnicities of a Hemphill School, which is shown H’s borders. mixture of people were in the on an 1893 map of Fulton County. area: white descendants of Fain Elementary School, built The early history of this area European immigrants, Creek in 1927, is named for Margaret was closely tied to the roads Indians, and enslaved Blacks. Fain, whose family resided in that led from ferries and bridges The Lick Skillet name faded away this area for many years. In 1930, at the Chattahoochee River due to the change in the ethnic the population of the Adamsville to downtown Atlanta. The climate and governance. Planters District was 1,176, reflecting a Adamsville community grew up and slaveholders died. Land was rather sparse settlement. around the junction of these sold or auctioned. One source

16 In the 1950’s and early 1960’s Bankhead Courts development reached West Atlanta. This growth is reflected Bankhead/Bolton in the number of subdivisions, commercial outlets, and schools built at the time. The initial phase of the Boulder Park subdivision was platted in 1951. In 1958, Carroll Heights Carroll Heights, Fairburn Heights, Old Gordon and other subdivisions were Fairburn planned. Baker Hills Heights Plaza was developed in Adamsville in the Oakcliff early 1960’s to accommodate the growing residential community. Bakers Ferry Schools were also constructed to serve the increased school age population. G.A. Towns Adamsville Elementary (1935), Harper High Wilson Mill Wisteria School (1963), Miles Elementary, Meadows Gardens and Adamsville Elementary Fairburn Road are named for distinguished / Wisteria Lane graduates of colleges in the Atlanta University Center Ridgecrest Forest Complex: George Towns (1870- 1861) Charles Lincoln Harper Mays (1877-1966) Leonora P. Miles (1872-1973). Interstates 20 and Boulder Park 285 were also constructed during Fairburn Mays the 1960s. Although Atlanta Wildwood Public Schools is in the process of a facilities planning effort (pages 18-19) and schools in Neighborhood Planning Unit-H of the antebellum home as a NPU-H have been affected, many land area or geography. The historic garden. NPU-H residents residents made it clear during State of Georgia Department noted that a grave site of the public engagement process of Transportation recognizes enslaved people may still remain, that these schools, including the historical significance of the which should be preserved Margaret Fain Elementary ‘Adamsville’ name place because and noted for the history. This and G.A. Towns Elementary, it appears on the Exit 9 sign of recommendation is listed in the should be repurposed because I-285.” Long-Term Initiatives in Chapter 4 of their significance to the as a project to undertake with the neighborhoods. The remains of the Judge William Urban Design Commission and Wilson House and site, which was In 1973 during the first Mayoral Historic Preservation Studio. located at 501 Fairburn Road SW, Administration of Maynard were demolished in December H. Jackson, Adamsville” 2015, according to the Atlanta became the name of a City of Preservation Center. The original Atlanta Neighborhood in the plan was to preserve the remains

17 Community Facilities

Parks • Herbert Green Nature Adamsville neighborhood. There are 110 acres of parks and Preserve is 56 acres in the The Fulton County Board usable open space in NPU-H. Boulder Park neighborhood. of Health provides Women, Although the spaces are not The forested and creek area Infants and Children (WIC) easily accessible by walking is shared by the Department Nutrition Program as well and biking, many are beautiful of Parks and Recreation, the as nursing services and a forested areas with designated Department of Watershed Communicable Disease Clinic. parking. Approximately 133 Management because of the • Harriett G. Darnell Senior people are served per park acre Utoy Creek basin that flows Multipurpose Facility in NPU-H versus 93 people per to the Chattahoochee River. in the Fairburn Heights park acre in the city of Atlanta Park Pride worked with the neighborhood, is operated (Trust for Public Land). This community to develop a by the Fulton County means residents in NPU-H do not Vision Plan in 2009. Although Department of Senior Service. have the same access to parks as there is a parking area, It provides life enrichment most Atlantans. there are no facilities, so classes, nutrition, education, walking and hiking only are fitness, leisure and other • Adamsville Gym Park is recommended. a 0.8-acre neighborhood activities for active adults age park adjacent to the Old • Old Adamsville Recreation 55 and older. Adamsville Recreation Center: The Office of Recreation provides senior Center in the Adamsville NPU-H is in both the Mays and neighborhood. programs, including physical fitness, social networking, Douglass Clusters. In 2017-2018 • Adamsville Triangle is a arts & crafts, and educational and during this process, APS was 0.05-acre greenspot at the seminars. In addition, it is closing and consolidating schools, intersections of Fairburn/ used as a warming center and some of which were located in MLK, Jr. Dr./Bakers Ferry emergency shelter as needed. NPU-H: Fain, Adamsville, and Road in the Adamsville Towns Elementary Schools. neighborhood. Public Safety • Benjamin E. Mays Cluster, • Collier Park is a mostly • Atlanta Fire Rescue Fire located south on MLK Jr. forested 16-acre community Station 9, provides fire and Dr., has an International park in Fairburn Heights. emergency services. Baccalaureate (IB) program. It has the Collier Park • Atlanta Police- NPU-H is Benjamin E. Mays High Recreation Center, a ball served by two police zones. School, Miles Intermediate, field, tennis courts, and a Zone 1 covers the area north and Kindezi West Lake are in recreation building, of MLK, Jr. Drive and Zone 4 NPU-H. • Wilson Mill Park is a 35.5- is south of MLK, Jr. Dr. • The Douglass Cluster, acre neighborhood park Fulton County located north of MLK Jr. Dr., on Wilson Mill Road in the • Adamsville-Collier Heights has a Science, Engineering, Fairburn Road/Wisteria Lane Atlanta Fulton County Technology and Math neighborhood. It has ball Library is located in the (STEM) focus. Harper-Archer fields, basketball and tennis Adamsville neighborhood. Elementary and KIPP Soul courts, and a playground. High School are in NPU-H. • Adamsville Regional Health • The Doctor’s Memorial Park, Center is located in the dedicated in 2016, is a 2-acre park in Fairburn Mays. 18 Towns Elementary is currently occupied as a Facilities/Operations Administrative building, due to the on-going APS Facilities Planning effort.

Margaret Fain Elementary is now a relocation site for West Manor Elementary School in preparation for renovations. Future uses for the building will be determined as part of the APS Facilities Planning effort.

19 Future Land Use

The map to the right shows the On either side of I-20 at Fulton Commercial, and Medium- City of Atlanta’s official Future Industrial Boulevard, the land Density Residential land uses. A Land Use (FLU) in NPU-H, which use is Medium-Density and Low- small area of Industrial is located is part of the Comprehensive Density Commercial. adjacent to the rail corridor. Development Plan (CDP). The The Benjamin E. Mays Drive residential portions of the NPU-H and Fairburn Road node has neighborhoods predominantly Office-Institutional, Low-Density have Single-Family residential land use designations, and a portion of the Fairburn Mays neighborhood at the southern end of NPU-H has a Low-Density Residential land use designation. Atlanta Public Schools and other public facilities have a Community Facility land use designation, and City of Atlanta Parks have an Open Space land use designation. Three areas in NPU-H have a mix of uses: D.L. Hollowell Parkway at Fulton Industrial Boulevard / Bolton Road, the MLK, Jr. Dr. corridor, and the Benjamin E. Mays Drive Jackson Memorial Baptist Church in and Fairburn Road node. New Housing Example (TSW, 2019) Fairburn Heights (TSW, 2019) D.L. Hollowell Parkway at Fulton Industrial Boulevard / Bolton Road and I-285 are at the northern end of the Fulton Industrial District and near the Atlanta Industrial District. This area is dominated by Industrial land uses and commercial uses fronting D.L. Hollowell Parkway. High- and Medium-Density Residential uses are adjacent to these and provide a transition to the Single Family Residential. The MLK, Jr. Drive corridor between I-285 and 1-20 has a Margaret Fain Elementary on Hemphill School Road (TSW, 2019) large concentration of Mixed-Use Caption: A variety of land uses with different types of buildings are distributed and Office-Institutional land uses. throughout the NPU.

20 21 Existing Zoning

The zoning classifications of most parcels in NPU-H mirror the land use designations. Most of the parcels have conventional zoning, and some that have been recently rezoned have “Quality of Life” zoning districts. Most of the single-family sections of neighborhoods have Single- Family Residential zoning (R-3 and R-4). There are small areas Planned Development Housing (PDH) and Two-Family zoning (R-5). Adamsville Green Senior Apartments on MLK, Jr. Drive (TSW, 2019) D.L. Hollowell Parkway at Fulton Industrial Boulevard / Bolton Road and I-285 has Industrial (I-1 and I-2) zoning districts with Commercial zoning (C-1, C-2 and MRC-2) fronting on D.L. Hollowell Parkway. This transitions to multi- family residential (RG-2, RG-3, MR-2, MR-3 and MR-4B) to the south. The MLK, Jr. Dr. corridor between I-285 and 1-20 has commercial zoning (RL-C, and C-1). On either side of I-20 the parcels have Multi-Family Residential Family Dollar on MLK, Jr. Drive (TSW, 2019) zoning (RG-3) and Low-Density Caption: (Top) Multi-family senior housing communities are located throughout Commercial (C-1) and Industrial NPU-H. This one is located on MLK, Jr. Drive near Fairburn Road. (Bottom) zoning (I-1) at the intersection Commercial buildings in NPU-H are typically set far from the street with parking in with Fulton Industrial Boulevard. front.

The Benjamin E. Mays Drive and Industrial (I-1) zoning adjacent to with the land use in three priority Fairburn Road node near Doctor’s the rail line. redevelopment nodes. Some Memorial Park has an Office- parcels are identified for the Chapter 4 makes Institutional zoning and adjacent City to proactively rezone. All of recommendations to update the parcels have Commercial (C-1) the others with recommended City’s Future Land Use (FLU) Map zoning. The area around it has changes on the FLU map also to meet the vision established some multi-family zoning (RG-2 have a recommended zoning in this Master Plan and better and RG-3) with a small area of classification where needed. align the zoning classifications

22 23 Transportation

NPU-H has a primarily auto- oriented development pattern. It is bisected by I-20 and contains high-volume arterials and truck routes, including Fulton Industrial Boulevard (S.R. 70), D.L. Hollowell Parkway (U.S. 78), and MLK, Jr. Drive (S.R. 139). Branching off from the arterials are collectors connecting to local streets owned by the City. Local, residential streets tend to be curved and form cul-de-sacs, rather than a Traffic and Sidewalk Conditions on MLK, Jr. Drive (TSW, 2019) grid pattern. A CSX rail corridor crosses the southern part of the study area, and Fulton County Brown Field, a general aviation airport, is adjacent to NPU-H in unincorporated Fulton County. NPU-H is served by MARTA bus routes 73, 201, 850, 853, and 865. Commuter buses travel along I-20 with CobbLinc and GRTA Express operating Monday through Friday with service to Downtown. The nearest MARTA rail station is the Hamilton E. Traffic and Sidewalk Conditions on MLK, Jr. Drive (TSW, 2019) Holmes station, located about 1.5 miles east of the eastern boundary of NPU-H (I-285). Benjamin E. Mays Drive is a designated bike route, and sidewalks are located on portions of some roads, but many lack sidewalks on both sides. Fairburn Road was identified as a “High Injury Network,” which are roadway segments where investments in safety improvements can reduce fatal and injury crashes. Fairburn Road connects most of NPU-H Typical MARTA Bus Stop (TSW, 2019) and includes multiple nodes and development types. More information is on page 82. 24 25 Public Safety & Quality of Life

Quality of Life and 2018 Building Code Complaints in NPU-H Code Enforcement The map shows a prevalence of building code complaints in NPU-H. Some buildings have been demolished due to code complaints and violations, including 940, 950, and 1020 Bolton Road, 114 and 184 Hemphill School Road, 740 Amber Place, and 4010 and 4014 Boulder Park Drive. Many locations, noted in dark red on the map, are identified as “Highly Hazardous Conditions,” which means the buildings are vacant, open and unsecured, or are dilapidated, decayed, unsafe, unsanitary, or pose an unreasonable risk to public health. Many of these properties are located along Fairburn Road and Bolton Road. NPU-H residents identified some of the quality of life code violations that occur regularly, often on the same properties (listed below), including parking violations, tree removal, using a residential property for a business, and tenant-landlord lease issues where the landlord is unaware the tenant is conducting a business on the property. For many issues, residents do not know who to call. Specific codes are listed in the appendix. • Parking vehicles on public and commercial districts • Parking on the front lawn streets indefinitely • Illegal signs including portable • Parking junk vehicles in a • Using the sidewalk area as a signs, flags, banners, balloons driveway with no tag parking area at the same time • Parking of large commercial • Never moving a vehicle parking on the street. vehicles on residential parked in driveway • Fences/walls exceeding property maximum height in residential

26 • Parking vehicles in the required front yard or lawn 2018 Crimes Reported by APD in NPU-H • Operating retail sales from residential property • Auto repair shop on residential property and on residential public streets • Building a room addition too close to neighbor’s property • Illegal rooming house Crime The map to the right it shows the concentration of reported crimes by Atlanta Police Department in 2018 throughout NPU-H. The areas with the highest level of crime are indicated as the areas in the darkest red color on the map (MLK, Jr. Drive at Fairburn Road, Fairburn Road at Benjamin E. Mays Drive, and nearby apartment complexes). Less crime occurs around the NPU-H parks. Both of the above listed locations were selected for concept plans for redevelopment using CPTED principles. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) The presence of code violations and complaints and crime in 75 feet. The CPTED Design maintenance is simple, as specific areas shows a need to Guidebook describes the the appearance of a cared- ensure development uses CPTED appropriate lighting levels, for space deters negative principles. The Redevelopment coverage, and fixtures. behavior. Criteria in Chapter 4 identify • Natural surveillance of • Natural access control some of these methods. Some spaces through buildings through clearly guiding key elements of CPTED are: facing streets and open space, people to building entrances • Lighting with appropriate programming activities, and with lighting, fencing where coverage on public streets ensuring “eyes on the street.” necessary, landscaping, and and private properties to clear lines of sight. prevent glare and allow users • Using durable materials to see anyone within 40 to and plants to ensure that

27 Demographics at a Glance

The data described on the NPU H Population following pages are estimates 20,000 from the 2017 American 18,000 17,274 Community Survey conducted by 16,000 14,049 14,624 the U.S. Census Bureau and ESRI 14,000 2018 demographics websites. It 12,000 is subject to sampling and non- 10,000 sampling errors. 8,000

Population 6,000 Population 4,000 NPU-H has an estimated 2,000 population of 14,624, an increase 0 of 4% or 575 from 2010, which 2000 2010 2018 shows that the population has Year stabilized and is starting to grow since the decrease in population NPU-H 2018 Population by Race between 2000 and 2010 of 3,225 0% 5% Other (18.7%) from 17,274 to 14,049. The 2% population density is 3.6 persons White per acre.

Race African American The population of NPU-H is White predominantly African American Asian (93%), similar to 2010. Other 93% Age Black / African- The NPU-H population is fairly American evenly distributed between all age groups. However, since 2000, the population between 0-19 has NPU H 2000 Population by Age NPU-H 2018 Population by Age decreased from 36% 13% to 29%, while the 23% population over 60 has 29% increased from 13% to 60+ 36% 60+ 0-19 23%. 0-19 0-19 0-19 20-39 40-59 20-39 22% 40-59 60+ 40-59 40-59 20-39 20-39 23% 60+ 29% 26%

28 Housing Housing Occupancy There are approximately 6,550 housing units in NPU-H, an 100.00% 15.24% increase of 173 units (2%) since 90.00% 16.30% 2000. Most of the housing units 80.00% 83.70% 84.78% (55%) are single-family homes. Approximately 85% are occupied, 70.00% leaving 15% of units vacant, similar 60.00% to 2010. According to the Census, 50.00% a third of the homes were built in the 1960s. 2010 2018 Occupied Vacant Housing Tenure Most housing units are renter- occupied 60% and 40% are owner-occupied. The percentage NPU-H 2010 Housing Tenure NPU -H 2018 Housing Tenure of renter-occupied housing has increased from 53% in 2010 to 60% in 2018. The median home value is $116,369 and increase from $107,362 in 2012. 40% 48% Owner Occupied 53% Renter Occupied Owner- Owner Owner- Occupied Income Renter- 60% Occupied The average per capita income in Occupied Occupied Renter- NPU-H is $14,100, a slight increase Occupied from $13,424 from 2012. The poverty rate is 32.94%, a slight decrease from 33.6%. Household Size The number of people in each NPU-H Employment Construction household has been decreasing since 2000 from 2.87 persons Manufacturing per household to 2.23 in 2018. Wholesale Trade This decrease is household size 4% 5% 3% Retail Trade is consistent with the decrease in 6% 2% the number of people 0-19. Transportation/Warehousing 12% Information Employment 1% Finance/Insurance Employment in NPU-H is spread 17% throughout many sectors, but the 6% Real Estate/Rental/Leasing largest employment bases are Professional/Scientific Health Care / Social Assistance (14%), Retail Trade (17%), Admin/Support 14% Transportation / Warehousing 11% Health Care/Social (11%), Admin / Support (11%). Assistance Educational Services

Arts/Entertainment 11% 2% 2% 2% Accommodation/Food 2% Services

29 Public Health

The information in this section diabetes (National Institute of medication. There is also a high is provided by the Center for Health). Sleep deprivation is likely rate of coronary heart disease Disease Control and Prevention’s to be at play, at least partially, compared to the rest of Atlanta. 500 Cities Program. This section for some health data for the This correlates with the higher will discuss trends that appear community. The community has cholesterol rates, smoking to be present within the data. a higher rate of mental health rates, diabetes, obesity, and NPU-H’s residents are primarily issues than most of the City, lack of physical activity; all are over the age of 35, which means one of the highest obesity rates, risk factors for coronary heart that they are more susceptible and one of the highest rates of disease. The community has to certain types of diseases than diagnosed diabetes in adults. A higher levels of chronic kidney areas of the City with a lower high percentage of the residents disease (CKD), which makes average age. report having no leisure time. sense, as diabetes, high blood Lack of exercise and sleep pressure, and heart disease Sleep Patterns & deprivation, in combination with are leading causes to CKD Mental Health obesity, is likely to contribute development (National Institute A large proportion of NPU-H to the community’s high rate of of Health). receive less than 7 hours of sleep diabetes. Stroke is also highly prevalent pet night. Sleep deprivation can in the community, with some lead to increased mental health Chronic Disease of the highest rates in the city. disorders, as well as increasing NPU-H has very high prevalence Strokes are typically caused the risk of high blood pressure, of high blood pressure, and by high blood pressure and heart disease, obesity, and a large percentage of the community takes blood pressure smoking. Strokes occur more

Fulton Industrial Boulevard has many car lanes and narrow, unsafe sidewalks (TSW, 2019)

30 often in African American, Alaska and a lack of access to health with questions about health Native, and American Indian insurance, but the proximity to and disease, transportation and adults than in white, Hispanic, or interstates, Fulton Industrial walking, traffic, pollution, safety, Asian American adults (National Boulevard, and MLK, Jr. Drive healthcare facilities, quality of Institute of Health). likely contribute to health issues. life, and the environment. A total of 911 surveys were completed. At this time, many healthcare Habits 538 of these were from zip code centers are located in NPU-H, Binge drinking is very low in 30331, which is located in NPU-H. including Adamsville Regional this community, but smoking Some of the survey results were: rates are moderate, and in some Health Center, Fulton County neighborhoods high. Chronic Resource Center, Emory Dialysis • 274 respondents in 30331 obstructive pulmonary disease Center, and the Atlanta Medical indicated that having rates are high throughout NPU-H. Research Center. Although a sidewalks was of the highest The leading risk factor for this high percentage of individuals importance; are receiving routine check-ups, disease is smoking, and other • 391 respondents in 30331 many citizens are not receiving factors that can lead to this indicated that having a clinical preventative services, disease include air pollution, hospital was of the highest including flu shots, pneumococcal chemical fumes, and dusts importance, and 292 shots, colorectal cancer (National Institutes of Health). respondents in 30331 said screening, and mammograms. Air pollution, chemical fumes, that having a medical clinic Other preventative services and dust could be prevalent in was moderately important; NPU-H because of the proximity that residents are not receiving to Fulton Industrial Boulevard as often include fecal occult • 371 respondents indicated and the Atlanta Industrial Park. blood tests, sigmoidoscopies, that potholes were of high Asthma prevalence in this colonoscopies, and papanicolaou importance; smears. However, this community community is high for the City of • 279 respondents indicated does receive higher rates of Atlanta, which could be partially that having a recreation cholesterol screening, likely due due to the higher smoking rates center nearby was of the to community history. and the location of the NPU, highest importance; adjacent to two major interstates, traffic arterials, and truck routes. 2010 NPU-H Health & • 224 respondents in 30331 Environment Survey indicated that having a senior NPU-H showed fairly high levels NPU-H conducted a community- assisted facility in 30331 was of high cholesterol and moderate based environmental health moderately important; levels of cancer compared to assessment in order to create • 347 respondents indicated the rest of Atlanta. NPU-H a profile of the community’s that littering / dumping was showed higher levels of arthritis, environmental health status. The of the highest importance to potentially because more than proximity to truck routes, the address; and one-fourth of the population is Fulton Industrial District, and the over 50 years old. high rate of asthma increased • 254 respondents indicated The community also showed high NPU-H residents’ awareness that maintenance of vacant rates of residents with all teeth and concern for health. NPU-H property was moderately lost, which correlates with the presented information about important. air, water, personal health, low percentage of individuals The original documentation for violence prevention, safety, attending dentist appointments. this survey is included in the litter, and more at 14 events appendix. Potential Contributors between February and May Many of these health conditions 2010. NPU-H also conducted a could arise from aging individuals Health and Environment survey

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Many previous planning efforts have been completed, which will affect the NPU-H neighborhoods. An extensive analysis was done to assure that this Master Plan reflects the main themes and recommendations found throughout the plans. Below is a list of these plans and projects.

2016 Capital Improvements 2009 The Herbert Greens 1 Ongoing NPU-H Master 13 22 Planning + Community Program + Community Work Nature Preserve: A Engagement, NPU-H Program, City of Atlanta Conceptual Vision, Park Pride 2020 Chattahoochee 2016 Atlanta Community 2 Riverlands, City of 14 Engagement Playbook, City 2006 Collier Heights 23 Atlanta, Atlanta Regional of Atlanta Conceptual Park Master Commission Plan, Park Pride 2015 Cargo Atlanta: A 15 2018 Atlanta’s Transportation Citywide Freight Study, City 2009 Atlanta’s Project 3 24 Plan, City of Atlanta of Atlanta Greenspace, City of Atlanta 2018 Urban Ecology 2015 Atlanta’s 2015-2019 2007 Westside Atlanta: 4 16 25 Framework, City of Atlanta Consolidated Plan, City of Blueprints for Successful Atlanta Communities, Georgia 2018 Envision: ATL Parks + 5 Conservancy Recreation Comprehensive 17 2014 Assessing Urban Tree Plan, City of Atlanta Canopy: A Baseline Canopy 2006-2013 Hollowell/MLK 26 Study, City of Atlanta Redevelopment Plan + Tax 2018 More MARTA Atlanta, Allocation District, Invest 6 MARTA + City of Atlanta 2013 Creating Linkages + 18 Atlanta Eliminating Barriers: The 2017 Atlanta City Design: 7 Strategic Community 2005 MLK Jr. Drive Corridor Aspiring to the Beloved 27 Investment Report, City of Transportation Study, City of Community, City of Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta 2017 Resilient Atlanta: 2011 NPU-G Community 2004 NPU-H/Adamsville 8 Actions to Build an 19 28 Master Plan, City of Atlanta Community Comprehensive Equitable Future, City of + Georgia Conservancy Development Plan, NPU-H Atlanta 2010/2013 Fulton Industrial 2004 Donald L. Hollowell 2017 Vision 2022: Live. Work. 20 29 Blvd Redevelopment Parkway Redevelopment 9 Thrive., Atlanta Housing Framework + Fulton Plan, City of Atlanta Authority Industrial CID Master Plan, 2001 City of Atlanta Public 2017 Creating New Fulton County 30 10 Art Master Plan Connections, Invest Atlanta 2010 D.L. Hollowell Parkway/ 21 2000 Northwest Atlanta 2017 Utoy, Sandy, + Camp Veterans Memorial Hwy LCI 31 Framework Plan, City of 11 Watershed Improvement Study, City of Atlanta, Cobb Atlanta Plan, City of Atlanta County + Atlanta Regional Commission 2016 Comprehensive 12 Development Plan, City of Atlanta

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NPU-H Master Planning and BeltLine) as well as nearby Urban Ecology Framework Community Engagement neighborhoods and streams, The ongoing Urban Ecology NPU-H has been engaging including NPU-H’s neighborhoods Framework study is the first of the community in a variety and Utoy and Sandy Creeks. its kind for Atlanta. Guided by of ways and started a master In addition to promoting a the Atlanta City Design vision planning process in 2010. These safe and connected corridor of future growth, and building activities are documented with more river access, the on the momentum of Atlanta’s in a file shared with the City RiverLands emphasizes ecological Project Greenspace, Assessing planning staff. Activities include restoration, stewardship, and Urban Tree Canopy, City of a Neighborhood Nexus grant education. The Chattahoochee Atlanta’s Watershed Improvement (2012); health and environmental RiverLands is a multi-generational Plans and Resilient Atlanta, the survey (2010) described on pages project that builds from previous City is undertaking this 18-month 30-31; the community dialogue decades of activism and collaborative planning process event in 2004 (as well as the policymaking. to identify Atlanta’s unique Herbert Greene study); Georgia ecosystems and habitats and Atlanta’s Transportation Conservancy 2008 Blueprints align development priorities Plan (ATP) Workshop; and visioning for with these characteristics. The The ATP is the update to the the I-285 and MLK project is implementing Atlanta Connect Atlanta Plan, the with the Atlanta Business and City Design’s value of Nature; City’s first comprehensive Community Partnership in 2010. immediate policy outcomes will transportation plan adopted in be a re-write to Atlanta’s Tree Chattahoochee Riverlands 2008. Guided by the Atlanta Preservation Ordinance and to Chattahoochee RiverLands City Design vision of an Atlanta designate areas for conserving (2020) is a vision for a 100- less dependent on cars, less habitats and biodiversity, mile public realm between congested, more accessible, increase building and population Buford Dam at Lake Lanier to and supportive of sustainable density with lower natural and Chattahoochee Bend State economic development, the ATP environmental justice impacts, Park. It was developed between proposes new action strategies and connect more people to 2018-2020 by the City of to commit to transportation greenspace. Planning participants Atlanta, Cobb County, Trust for investments for an inclusive may identify significant ideas for Public Land, Atlanta Regional Atlanta. It addresses both current natural systems, growth areas, Commission (ARC) and countless and future needs and will position and greenspace accessibility in community members. The Atlanta to have a safe, mobile, NPU-H neighborhoods. highlight of this new public place and affordable transportation is a continuous paved greenway system. The plan provides policy Envision: ATL Parks and that follows the Chattahoochee and project recommendations Recreation Comprehensive River as it goes through 19 that will leverage local funding Plan cities, including the entire sources through the MARTA and Building on the City’s 2009 7-mile riverbank of Atlanta. The T-SPLOST sales taxes and the Greenspace Plan and updating Chattahoochee RiverLands vision Renew Atlanta infrastructure the 2013-2017 Strategic Plan is to bring people to the river. bond program, and it suggests for Parks and Recreation, Tributary trails will connect the tapping into regional and federal the Envision: ATL Parks and main greenway to regional trails funding opportunities through Recreation Comprehensive (e.g., Silver Comet and Atlanta the ARC. Plan is Atlanta’s Department of

34 Parks and Recreation ongoing the world must become more Invest Atlanta + planning effort to expand resilient to the physical, social Hollowell/Martin Luther the City’s parks, events, and and economic challenges of King Redevelopment Plan, programs. The City has a goal the 21st century. In response Tax Allocation District and for bringing all Atlanta residents to this, the strategy applies Program Description, and within a half-mile walking distance a resilience lens to existing Application for Funding of greenspace. The Office of and future planning ideas for In 2006, the Donald Lee Park Design has been leading Atlanta. Individuals, communities, Hollowell Parkway/Martin Luther the City’s efforts to develop a businesses, governments, and King Jr. Drive Tax Allocation Facilities Provision Plan which all types of systems will be able District (TAD) was created and will guide future investments in to respond to adverse events Invest Atlanta (formerly Atlanta parkland, trails, greenways and and crises, and be more able Development Authority) was other greenspaces under this to implement plans and thrive designated as the redevelopment comprehensive plan. for generations to come. The authority. The Redevelopment strategy ties together numerous Plan (2006) and Program More MARTA Atlanta City planning initiatives, such Description and Application The More MARTA Atlanta as adapting to climate change, for Funding (2013) guide the program is a collaborative expanding energy- and water- use of revenues collected in partnership between MARTA and efficient infrastructure, tackling the TAD to encourage private the City of Atlanta to develop environmental justice and investment for redeveloping and implement a program of brownfields, and creating a the two corridors. The TAD transit projects that will create healthy food system. financial incentives are targeted a world-class, sustainable in redeveloping primarily mixed- transportation system for the Vision 2022: Live. Work. use, transit-oriented development growing and evolving city. After Thrive. (TOD) and industrial areas months of public input, technical Atlanta Housing Authority’s along the corridors. A few of analysis, and performance (AHA) five-year strategic plan, these “nodes” of activity are measures, the MARTA Board Vision 2022: Live. Work. Thrive., in NPU-H, including Bankhead of Directors officially adopted renews the organization’s focus Courts and surrounding the plan recommendations in on affordable housing throughout industrial and commercial October 2018. It set in motion the Atlanta. Aligned with the City’s areas as well as the commercial city’s largest transit expansion Comprehensive Development areas at the intersections of in more than four decades. In Plan, AHA acknowledges that Fairburn Road and MLK Jr. NPU-H, this means more transit the number and type of housing Drive in Adamsville and Bolton options in terms of greater constructed and preserved Road and MLK Jr. Drive in Old frequency in bus service, are major factors affecting Gordon. The TAD’s objectives especially through the Adamsville population growth. Affordability build on the past community- neighborhood, and a lower and equity are top priorities, driven plans—specifically, priority, but still an identifiable and this plan identifies three Northwest Atlanta Framework project, the expansion of MARTA pressing needs: 1) attract a Plan and Donald L. Hollowell rail service to I-285 and MLK, Jr. diverse population at all income Parkway Redevelopment Plan. Drive. levels; 2) promote growth in slow Redevelopment projects in the growth/declining population Resilient Atlanta: Actions to TAD are evaluated, in part, on areas; and, 3) meet the needs of Build an Equitable Future their community benefits, such as a growing senior population by Resilient Atlanta is the City’s job creation, alternative modes providing affordable housing and strategy for urban development of transportation, affordable opportunities to age in place. in response to changes, no matter housing, access to healthy foods if these are chronic stresses or and placemaking. sudden shocks. Cities around

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Noted Community Concerns regarding Invest Atlanta and the TAD: The Hollowell Parkway/Martin Luther King Jr. Drive TAD (#8) is one of 4 Commercial Corridor TADs in the City of Atlanta. TAD #8 has never been activated, even though NPU-H community residents and the former NPU-H Chair (Kathy Crawford, 2013-2019) submitted proper documentation for community participation on the Advisory Committee. Community residents also initiated a meeting and met with Invest Atlanta representatives (Jennifer Fine and Vanessa Angulo) who promised to conduct an NPU-H fair event for small businesses in 2019; however, the event and follow-up have not occurred. Other attendees at this very important session were Kathy Crawford, Delores Lattimore, Vernelle Cowan, Megan Map: Intown Corridors Character Areas from the Comprehensive McCullough, Council District 10 Development Plan (summary to the right on page 37). Senior Staff person, and Interim Director of the Department of and informal discussions for urban streams. This report not City Planning Keyetta Holmes. this meeting are available. The only presents baseline and Other invitees who could not residents hope TAD #8 will existing conditions of the water attend include Councilmember become a strong, useful tool quality within the Utoy and Andrea Boone and Invest Atlanta for the business community in Sandy Creek watersheds, but it CEO Eloisa Klementich. Agenda NPU-H. also summarizes and compares various models based on Items included Rezoning Issues; Utoy, Sandy, and Camp potential development scenarios. MLK Convenience Store Issues; Creeks Watershed These analyses recognize Invest Atlanta Concerns; Public Improvement Plan previous small area planning Safety and Quality of Life Issues; The Utoy and Sandy Creeks efforts—Tax Allocation District Formal Complaint Process traverse NPU-H. This means plans, Livable Centers Initiatives Needed; NPU-H Master Plan; that all development decisions and others—to not necessarily and Fulton Industrial Boulevard in the NPU play a critical role predict how development will District. Email correspondence in the future health of these

36 occur, but to acknowledge that maintaining, and renovating livability. Demand for freight new development will likely public facilities and infrastructure. transportation will continue to take place within much of the The Community Work Program grow, which will further strain watersheds, and its impact (CWP) is a longer-view, fifteen- Atlanta’s aging infrastructure should be considered in any year strategy for unfunded and and raise funding demands for future watershed investments. funded, capital and non-capital transportation projects. This plan As such, the plan identifies a host projects that implement Atlanta’s underscores the importance of of specific stream restoration, CDP. Projects listed in city-wide integrating freight policy, land stormwater control, and green and small area plans adopted by use planning and development infrastructure projects. These the City, and projects proposed projects citywide. In particular, project ideas are further by Neighborhood Planning Units Fulton Industrial Boulevard, assessed for their suitability and (NPU) are included in the CWP. Bolton Road., D. L. Hollowell constructibility through desktop A project must be included in the Parkway and MLK, Jr. Drive are exercises and field visits..1 CWP before it can be prioritized critical truck routes crisscrossing in the CIP. The CIP/CWP must NPU-H. Cargo Atlanta Comprehensive be reviewed by the Atlanta recommends a few specific Development Plan Regional Commission (ARC) projects in NPU-H. The City of Atlanta adopted its and the Georgia Department of most recent CDP in November Atlanta’s 2015-2019 Community Affairs (DCA) and 2016. The CDP establishes the Consolidated Plan adopted by the City of Atlanta by visions, goals, and objectives for Funds allocated to the City October 31st each year. development throughout Atlanta. of Atlanta from the U.S. It establishes the framework Atlanta Community Department of Housing and for evaluating and identifying Engagement Playbook Urban Development (HUD) zoning, land use, design, and The Atlanta Community are managed according to other planning ideas at the city to Engagement Playbook is one Atlanta’s Consolidated Plan, community levels. Planning takes tool created by the City and which must be updated every on many forms in Atlanta from a group of Atlanta residents five years. These funds are from city-wide to neighborhood and and institutions to implement annual entitlements, including corridor plans. These plans are effective public engagement. Community Development Block incorporated in the CDP when This “playbook” is a collection of Grants (CDBG), Emergency Atlanta City Council approves lessons learned over an eighteen- Shelter Grants (ESG), Home them. The City completely month collaborative process and Investment Partnership updates the CDP every five related best practices intended Program (HOME), and Housing years with each Neighborhood to increase the civic capacity Opportunities for Persons Planning Unit (NPU) proposing of city officials, city residents, with AIDS (HOPWA). Based their own development policies community groups, and service on identified needs, market and priorities—making the CDP a providers. It proposes some conditions, and collaborative dynamic, community-driven policy principles and practical advice planning processes with document and an important to help guide specific community community stakeholders, the guide for reaching decisions on engagement during planning City prioritizes these funds for Atlanta’s future. processes. affordable housing, reducing homelessness, and economic 2017-2021 Capital Cargo Atlanta: A Citywide development in low- to moderate- Improvements Program and Freight Study income neighborhoods. Community Work Program Cargo Atlanta is a comprehensive The Capital Improvements study and baseline assessment Program (CIP) plan is the City’s of freight and goods movement 5-year implementation strategy within Atlanta. It centers around for funding, constructing, two themes: mobility and

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Assessing Urban Tree Canopy in the City of Atlanta: A Baseline Canopy Study Nearly half of Atlanta is covered by the urban tree canopy. The tree canopy covers slightly more land in NPU-H. This is quite remarkable as trees in cities contribute to a wide variety of aesthetic, recreational, and environmental benefits. Published in 2014, this is the first comprehensive study of Atlanta’s urban tree canopy and it led the current policy discussion about how best to update the City’s long-standing tree ordinance and the best potential planting locations in Atlanta. The report makes the case to understand the tree canopy within each NPU and throughout the city as the first planning step to expanding the canopy’s benefits for all Atlantans. Creating Linkages and Eliminating Barriers: The Strategic Community Investment Report Referred to as the Strategic Map: Neighborhood Typology from the Strategic Community Community Investment (SCI) Investment Report Report, this city-wide assessment of housing conditions provides a of healthy neighborhoods— While this report is just a unique perspective on Atlanta’s such as, quality of life, physical snapshot, the City is partnering residential neighborhoods (map conditions, amenities, return on with Neighborhood Nexus to to the right). It includes an public and private investments combine the report’s data with overview on housing vacancy and demographics and diversity— other common neighborhood and occupancy and observed to rank neighborhoods from indicators, which are updated, residential parcel conditions exceptional to fragile investment so neighborhood progress and and neighborhood investment. areas. In turn, strategies for changes to indicators can be The report uses a windshield improving neighborhoods can be tracked over time. survey and common indicators tailored to existing conditions.

38 Fulton Industrial Boulevard to collaboratively plan for more The Herbert Greene Nature Redevelopment Framework vibrant, walkable places with Preserve: A Conceptual and Fulton Industrial CID greater access to transportation, Vision Master Plan jobs, services, and healthy Totaling over 50 acres, The Fulton Industrial Boulevard has lifestyles. ARC provides funds Herbert Greene Nature Preserve been a significant generator for planning studies and for is a popular natural area located of industrial and commercial transportation projects proposed in NPU-H in the Boulder Park jobs in and around NPU-H for in LCI plans. The D. L. Hollowell neighborhood, just outside of decades. However, the corridor Parkway/Veterans Memorial I-285, adjacent to Fulton County’s competes with new, suburban Highway LCI Study is the only Utoy Boulder Park. Visitors can industrial parks and struggles to LCI study so far in NPU-H. The experience old growth trees and retain and attract businesses. In study area stretches 4.5 miles trails that access the Utoy Creek. 2010, the Fulton County Board along the corridor across I-285 City of Atlanta Departments of of Commissioners adopted the between Buckner Road in Cobb Watershed Management and Fulton Industrial Boulevard County and Commercial Avenue Parks and Recreation acquired Redevelopment Framework in Atlanta. Planning participants land for the preserve in 2004, and established a Community focused on the challenges and indicating the importance of the Improvement District (CID) opportunities to: greenspace for both local water from Campbellton Road to the quality and recreation. With all • Improve transportation I-20 interchange/Fulton County the planning efforts revolving access to MARTA, I-285 and Airport-Brown Field to carry- around nature and development I-20 and connectivity to out the corridor’s revitalization. near the Herbert Greene Nature Downtown Atlanta, Midtown, A CID is a self-taxing district Preserve, including the current Fulton Industrial Boulevard led by its businesses. In 2013, Urban Ecology Framework, it may and other nearby employment a collaborative planning be an opportune time to revisit and service centers; process produced the Fulton this conceptual vision and its Industrial CID Master Plan. • Redevelop vacant and implementation progress. Local businesses and other underutilized land; Collier Heights Park stakeholders assessed specific • Support aging in place, senior Conceptual Master Plan strengths, weaknesses, living, and affordable housing; Park Pride and community opportunities, and threats for residents led the conceptual the corridor and laid out a vision, • Link local recreational areas master plan for Collier Heights implementation strategy, and with the broader greenspace Park in 2006. The Visioning work plan for its redevelopment. system, the Chattahoochee List included many items, the The Urban Land Institute of River and nearby streams; largest including: pavilions, a Atlanta provided advisory • Create industrial jobs in and playground canopy, a splash pad services and produced a 2012 around Atlanta Industrial Park and additional playground, trails, Technical Assistance Program and workforce to fill those improved landscaping, wetland study to help further understand jobs; restoration, a gym, sports fields the existing conditions and and courts improvements, public potential of Fulton Industrial • Preserve historical resources restrooms, and site lighting and Boulevard. and neighborhoods; and, furnishings. D. L. Hollowell Parkway/ • Create a greater sense of Atlanta’s Project Veterans Memorial Highway place with more inviting Greenspace LCI Study community gathering spots As Atlanta grows over the next ARC’s Livable Centers Initiative and retail, restaurant, grocery, decade, greenspaces—city parks, (LCI) is a grant program and entertainment options. natural habitats, stream buffers, encouraging local governments urban gardens, greenways,

39 Previous Plans & Projects tree-lined streets, and shaded brownfields, connecting NPU-H/Adamsville gathering spaces—will be critically greenspace to major commercial Community Comprehensive important to the quality of life, and transportation corridors and Development Plan economy, environment, and sense addressing environmental justice. Adamsville is a long-established, of community in Atlanta. Atlanta’s mixed-use neighborhood in Martin Luther King, Project Greenspace establishes Atlanta and faces challenges Jr. Drive Corridor an action strategy to create these like many other older residential Transportation Study spaces and achieve a world-class and employment centers. In MLK, Jr. Drive is a major greenspace system. Atlantans 2004, Neighborhood Planning commercial and transportation consistently expressed the desire Unit-H hosted a dialogue with corridor cutting through the for high-quality, accessible, safe, the community to explore Adamsville and Old Gordon and well-maintained greenspace. these challenges as well as the neighborhoods in NPU-H. The City leaders are responding opportunities for improving corridor connects Westside through bold initiatives, such as Adamsville. What followed was Atlanta residents, visitors, the Atlanta BeltLine, Westside an effort to understand how to workers, and commercial trucks Reservoir Park, AgLanta, an urban tap into the City of Atlanta’s to Fulton Industrial Boulevard ecology study, and city-wide comprehensive development and Downtown and points in watershed improvements and planning process, and this between. This report is the green infrastructure. eventually led to preparing the basis for several plans and NPU-H / Adamsville Community Westside Atlanta: Blueprints implementation projects along Comprehensive Development for Successful Communities the corridor in the last decade. Plan. During the planning process, This Blueprints planning process It focuses on redevelopment dialogue expanded, surveys were involved the West Atlanta challenges and possibilities in taken, and data were analyzed to Neighborhoods in NPU-H as certain activity nodes along the support specific goals, strategies, well as NPUs D, G, I, J, K, L, and corridor, including at Fairburn and action steps for Adamsville. T. The study frames challenges Road and at I-285. This planning This report, while nearly fifteen Westside Atlanta faces and effort led to others along the years old, coupled with specific recommends several short- to corridor such as the TAD, LCI, NPU development policies long-term goals around four main and the recently-funded MLK, and priorities in the city-wide community-driven concerns: Jr. Drive Innovation Corridor Comprehensive Development 1) land use and urban design, project. While improving transit Plan, offers a solid starting point 2) housing and community and increasing multi-modal for planning at the neighborhood- development, 3) transportation, transportation dominated the level in Adamsville. and 4) the environment. The planning discourse, other ideas— relative minor focus in NPU-H enhancing safety and public Donald Lee Hollowell neighborhoods along with the services, creating jobs, preserving Parkway Redevelopment age of the plan may make several neighborhood character and Plan findings and recommendations history, protecting greenspace, The D.L. Hollowell Parkway inconsequential or stale, but and allowing affordable housing— Redevelopment Plan builds upon the study is one of the early were incorporated into the the Northwest Atlanta Framework planning documents bringing community’s goals and objectives Plan recommendations for up broader themes impacting for this plan. specific land use, urban design, NPU-H, including redeveloping transportation, housing, and

40 economic development changes awareness and ownership of and strategies to improve the art, using processes that reflect conditions contributing to community values and identity, disinvestment and inefficient and coordinating among citywide use of properties along the D.L. public art interests. Methods Hollowell Parkway corridor. The for funding public art and corridor is a significant connector establishing a more organized between Downtown and Midtown structure were included in the Atlanta and Cobb County for plan. Currently, there is a 1.5% neighborhoods in north NPU-H. public art requirement for capital projects. Northwest Atlanta Framework Plan An often-referenced document when planning in NPU-H and surrounding vicinity over the last two decades, the Northwest Atlanta Framework Plan focuses on D.L. Hollowell Parkway (formerly Bankhead Highway), Bolton Road, Marietta Boulevard, Perry Boulevard, Hollywood Road, Chattahoochee Avenue, and nearby areas that are potentially impacted by these corridors. The plan prioritizes public-private partnerships and funding—for example, tax increment financing—to spur neighborhood revitalization, economic development and sustainability. City of Atlanta Public Art Master Plan The City of Atlanta Public Art Master Plan aims to give structure to public art stewardship and sets forth policies and processes for the City to implement its objectives. The plan references all public art programs administered by the City. The goals for public art included defining the types and locations, strengthening inter- agency coordination for the planning, siting, and conservation of art, increasing community

41 Recent Progress & Initiatives

Major Implementation a retaining wall, new rubber to adopt vacant, City-owned Projects safety surfacing, and new play properties to start urban gardens Many projects from the previous equipment, fitness equipment, or urban farms. Two farms are studies summarized above have and benches. located in NPU-H. Gratitude Botanical Farm is located on an been implemented. The list below Friends of Collier Heights easement on Collier Drive. Their indicates the major projects that Park Educational programs: mission is to educate, grow, feed, affect NPU-H neighborhoods. The Friends Group organizes and serve the community through educational trips to Atlanta • Renew Atlanta: Martin Luther organic urban agriculture. They City Hall and Washington, D.C. King, Jr. Drive streetscape grow produce and herbs and farm to learn about government and improvements. See page 46 related products for sale and to civics, and they also provide for more detail. donate to seniors. Farm Awry books to students. The STEM cultivates medicinal herbs, dye, • Atlanta Transportation program offers coding and and fiber plants. Plan and Renew Atlanta: robotics programs for students at Fairburn Road streetscape Atlanta Heights Charter School, Adamsville We Care Food Share improvements (in design and the STEM Festival brings 15- Program: Fulton County Covid-19 process as of plan writing). 20 organizations and companies Emergency Fund awarded See the appendix for details. to the school. $25,000 to NPU-H for health and wellness programs. They will • Creation of the MLK TAD: Public Art provide healthy food to NPU-H Invest Atlanta created the NPU-H is working with residents. In addition, they MLK TAD (see pages 35-36). community members and artists partnered with the Association to design and install a mural at • Code Enforcement Efforts: of Black Cardiologists and the entrance of Adamsville on Demolition of 1020 Bolton Morehouse School of Medicine Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Road. to provide health and nutrition • Department of Watershed Fresh Food & Urban education. Agriculture Management: Sewer and Young Generation Movement NPU-H is considered to be a water line improvements. (YGM): Since 2012, YGM has low income low access (LILA) been advocating and empowering food area because there are NPU-H Community- youth ages two to twelve to not enough grocery stores, Led Initiatives become role models and leaders supercenters, neighborhood The NPU-H community has been in their community. They have markets, or farmers’ markets to working hard to implement some a health and wellness program serve the neighborhoods. To projects, build community pride, that teaches cooking, gardening, increase access to fresh food, help during the 2020 COVID-19 and healthy lifestyles. YGM’s and to work towards the goal of pandemic, and identify grant Movement Community Center is 85% of Atlanta residents within funding. Below are some on-going located in NPU-H. YGM hosted a a half-mile of fresh affordable and recent successes. produce give-away in September food by 2022, the City developed 2020. Collier Park Improvements the Grows-A-Lot program. The Park Pride awarded a 2019 program seeks to promote urban Grows-A-Lot and YGM are listed Legacy Grant to the Friends of gardens and farms designated as potential partners for projects Collier Heights Park for a new as food deserts, such as NPU-H. in the Long-Range Initiatives, play area. The park improvements The Grows-A-Lot program works Open Space and Sustainability included the construction of with individuals and organizations section in Chapter 4. 42 A community mural on MLK, Jr. Drive (Community Photo, date unknown)

A community mural on MLK, Jr. Drive (Community Photo, date unknown)

NPU-H residents, leaders, and community organizations have a long history of building community pride and advancing the quality of life for their neighbors. The photos of the murals above and the descriptions of on- going and recent initiatives provide examples of this commitment to the community.

43 Atlanta City Design

Atlanta City Design: part of the study area is Rural, accommodating growth that Aspiring to the Beloved while the northwestern portion is will spur commercial vitality Community Production Area, as shown in the and a vibrant public life. Rural Atlanta City Design (ACD) draws map to the right. According to the Neighborhoods are the least together plans, projects, policies, ACD, Suburban Neighborhoods dense, least-walkable parts and priorities into an aspirational tend to be post-war, automobile- of Atlanta and tend to have vision for Atlanta. It articulates oriented subdivisions. These large lots and narrow, winding, values, strategic actions, and areas often lack sidewalks, and often curb-less streets. design proposals so more street connectivity, retail, and Production Areas consist of detailed plans are implemented employment. Residential parcels strategic industrial land and rail and better decisions are made here have large yards, less yards where intermodal transfer about the future growth of impervious surface, and greater facilities, warehousing, and key Atlanta. All of this is to pursue tree coverage than other areas. production facilities are needed Dr. King’s ideal of a “Beloved Corridors are the major streets close to the city center. The Community” and transform that connect out from the city’s ACD indicates that Production Atlanta into the best possible core and are characterized Areas should be protected and version of itself. by commercial development. are, therefore, not included as a Corridors can become main growth area. The ACD articulates Atlanta’s streets for every community, vision organized according to its five core values of Equity, Progress, Ambition, Access, and Nature. It focuses future growth into already-developed areas called Growth Areas, which are further categorized as Core, Corridors, and Clusters. Outside the Growth Areas are the Conservation Areas, which include Urban Neighborhoods, Suburban Neighborhoods, Rural Neighborhoods, and Production Areas. Conservation Areas are the natural parts of the city that are less suited for growth and that should be protected from radical change. Atlanta City Design + NPU-H Most of NPU-H is designated as Suburban, with Corridors along Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and Fulton Industrial Boulevard. The southernmost

44 Atlanta City Design + NPU-H

• Mostly “Suburban” Conservation Area • “Corridors” along MLK, Jr. Drive and northern end of Fulton Industrial Boulevard • “Rural” on the southern edges of the NPU • These Growth Areas will determine how development occurs in the future to accommodate Atlanta’s increasing population. • The NPU-H Master Plan Vision and Goals are tied to the Atlanta City Design on pages 68 to 69.

Caption: The Atlanta Region is growing and the City will capture a large share of the new growth (to increase to 1.2 million people). The ACD aims to direct growth to the designated Growth Areas and create Production Areas to ensure industrial employment areas are still available and Conservation Areas to ensure the preservation of nature and tree canopy. This method continues At- lanta’s typical growth patterns to-date.

45 MLK, Jr. Drive Innovation Corridor Project & Public Art

City of Atlanta was awarded a $10 million TIGER Grant for the MLK, Jr. Drive Innovation Corridor Project, now nearly 100% constructed.

Innovation Project will be placed at the center of the for Adamsville. The artwork will This $27 million project, funded roundabout at the exit ramp, will stand 30’ tall and 27’ wide and will by Renew Atlanta, spans be accessible and viewable for depict music, arts, and culture approximately 7.2 miles from all citizens and visitors in the city that represents the southwest Northside Drive to Fulton as they drive, bike, or walk down Atlanta and the community. The Industrial Boulevard and includes the MLK, Jr. Drive Innovation budget is $250,000, and should a combination of federal, state, Corridor at the I-285 exit ramp be complete in June 2021. and local funding. The project will provide additional pedestrian and bicycle facilities: multi-use trails; linear park; raised landscape medians; pedestrian crossing islands; repaired sidewalks; ADA upgrades; two-way cycle track; traffic signal improvements; upgraded signs and markings; and lighting improvements. The section in NPU-H is a State Route, so Atlanta Department of Transportation (formerly, part of DPW) had limited options to make changes to roadway, Rendering of forthcoming Gateway Monument at MLK, Jr. Drive & I-285 including the existing median (Department of Public Works) with HAWK signal in front of CT Martin Recreation Center and crosswalk and sidewalk repairs. Gateway Public Art The Adamsville 285 Gateway Monument will be created by Atlanta artist Ayokunle Odeleye, who was commissioned by the City of Atlanta to design this stainless steel gateway monument. This signature public art installation will become one of the most unique, recognizable, and highly visible public artworks Rendering of streetscape changes in front of Adamsville Recreation Center (Department of Public Works) in the city. The monument, which 46 Common Themes in Plans

Some common themes exist among the many previous plans and projects that affect NPU-H:

Key Corridors: Neighborhoods: redevelopment that is compatible Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Plans recommend preserving with the character of existing Bolton Road, Donald Lee the single-family residential neighborhoods. Plans state Hollowell Parkway, and Fulton character of NPU-H’s single- that more intense development Industrial Boulevard are key family residential neighborhoods, should occur along corridors development corridors and particularly Carroll Heights, and not encroach into existing truck routes. MLK, Jr. Drive is residential neighborhoods, and a high-volume road with bus that the height and scale of new transit and is recommended single-family homes should be for medium-density residential, similar the existing homes. office/institutional, and mixed-use Natural Features: development, including diverse NPU-H is rich in high-quality retail and housing types. Bolton environmental features like Road is a growth corridor north parks, greenspace, tree canopy, of Fairburn Road recommended creeks, and wildlife habitat. for industrial use to the west Existing and planned bicycle, and commercial and residential pedestrian, and greenway trail uses to the east. D.L. Hollowell facilities will help further connect Parkway is recommended for and enhance these key natural industrial / production uses west features. Recommendations focus of Fulton Industrial Boulevard on protecting existing natural and commercial uses to the east. resources and minimizing impacts Plans recommend high-capacity on streams and other natural transit and reconfiguration of the features. D.L. Hollowell / I-285 interchange area. Since Fulton Industrial Quality of Life: Boulevard is an important truck There are concerns about route and industrial thoroughfare, illegal dumping, littering, and plans focus on retaining lack of amenities and retail industrial / production to the access. Recommendations are west, while allowing residential, NPU-H has an abundance of natural to promote landscaping and commercial, and industrial resources, like Herbert Greene code enforcement of blighted growth to the east and minimizing Nature Preserve (TSW, 2019) properties and storefronts, impacts on adjacent residential provide and improve sidewalks, neighborhoods. Additionally, and protect natural resources and Fairburn Heights, Adamsville, and several plans mention Fairburn historical sites. Boulder Park. Recommendations Road and recommend multi- for new housing development family residential development, include middle- to higher-income mixed-use development, and housing to establish a greater supportive and senior housing, diversity of housing types and and bike lanes.

47 Community Engagement

48 Story-telling activity at the Public Kick-off Meeting (TSW, 2019)

Chapter 2

Outreach Process Steering Committee Public Kick-off Meeting Survey Results Design Workshop Final Public Open House

49 Outreach Process

The diagram below summarizes the public outreach through each state of the planning process. The Steering Committee (described further on pages 54 to 55) played a huge part in making sure this plan is feasible for the NPU-H community and providing more detailed ideas for recommendations. In addition to a project website updated throughout the process, other means were used to engage the community, including online and paper surveys, 3 public meetings, and engagements at neighborhoods events.

• Review information from Kick-off Meeting and first Steering Committee Meeting • Second Steering Committee Meeting

• Visit NPU-H to analyze • Design Workshop with community to physical conditions design and planning concepts, present preliminary findings, and receive feedback • Analyze existing conditions, demographics, and previous plans

INITIATE & UNDERSTAND ENGAGE & EXPLORE Spring 2019 Summer 2019 - Spring 2020

Online & Paper Survey Available

• First Steering Committee Meeting Getting the Word Out • Kick-off Meeting with community • Postcards mailed to all addresses in to introduce the process and NPU-H for kick-off meeting. collect information on key issues and opportunities • Flyers placed in libraries, recreation centers, health centers, NPU-H • Meet with the City of Atlanta meetings. Department of City Planning

Getting the Word Out • Yard signs placed at key intersections • Flyers placed in libraries, recreation centers, health centers, NPU-H meetings.

50 • Prepare preliminary recommendations and draft concept plans for redevelopment nodes • Develop additional maps and visioning graphics City Council • Continue to engage with Atlanta Adoption Department of City Planning Staff in addition to engaging other City Departments and Invest Atlanta.

GUIDE THE FUTURE FINALIZE REPORT Summer 2019 - Spring 2020 Summer - Fall 2020

Online & Paper Survey Available

• Refine recommendations from Design Workshop • Produce a final plan document • Third Steering Committee Meeting to review draft • Fourth Steering Committee Meeting to Redevelopment Criteria review draft plan document and concept plans • Present final plan at NPU-H meeting • Plan Open House & • CD/HS Public Hearing and Committee Presentation Meeting Vote

51 Engagement Overview

“I really feel we need to brand our area [...] When people feel they have entered a community it will help build community unity, feel, and respect.”

The creation of this master plan involved a robust community Kick-off Meeting (TSW, 2019) engagement process focused on meaningful conversations with stakeholders and residents. The Planning Team reached out to the NPU-H community using various platforms, including online and in-person methods of communication and interaction. Through roundtable discussion, online and paper surveys, and Steering Committee (TSW, 2019) community visioning workshops, this plan reflects a shared vision for NPU-H that encapsulates the wants and needs of those who live the 17 neighborhoods. The following pages summarize the engagement results during this planning process.

Design Workshop (TSW, 2019)

Top Left: The first Steering Committee meeting involved a “Funnel Activity” to identify major challenges and opportunities that could be developed into project goals.

Top Right: The Kick-off Meeting had a variety of input activities, including a Story Telling board that allowed participants to tell their personal memories and stories.

Bottom: The Design Workshop began with a presentation summarizing previous input and analysis.

52 The NPU-H Master Plan was 38 a Collaborative Online Process that & Paper included: Surveys

4 3 100 Steering Community Kick-off Committee Meetings Meeting Meetings Attendees

51 50 Workshop Final Public Attendees Meeting Attendees

53 Caption: The Funnel Activity identified major challenges and opportunities that were used to define plan goals (TSW, 2019).

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee’s roles Steering Committee overall themes. The top 5 items and responsibilities were to: Meeting #1 to address were: 1. Quality of Life; 2. Infrastructure and Streets; 3. • Identify strengths, March 14, 2019, 5:30 PM @ C.T. Cleanliness; 4. Inclusiveness; and, weaknesses, opportunities, Martin Recreation Center 5. Redevelopment. The results of and threats in the community; The first Steering Committee this activity were used to write • Provide comment and meeting was attended by 13 the Vision Statement and Goals recommendations on members of the Committee. and Principles (pages 68-69). community input activities; The Planning Team gave a brief presentation about the existing Steering Committee • Promote the plan to conditions analysis and input Meeting #2 neighbors, friends, relatives, activities for the Public Kick- April 18, 2019, 6:00 PM @ C.T. and others in the community; off Meeting. The remainder of Martin Recreation Center the meeting was dedicated to a • Provide thoughts on the “Funnel Activity” (photo above) The second Steering Committee plan recommendations to identify the major issues and meeting was attended by 5 and how best to conduct opportunities that this plan members of the Committee. public meetings that solicit should address. All of the ideas A brief presentation detailed feedback. were written then organized by feedback heard at the Public

54 All below photos were taken throughout NPU-H (TSW, 2019)

Quality of Life

Adamsville Green Senior Housing Results of the Funnel Activity (TSW, 2019)

Kick-off Meeting, the draft Vision Steering Committee and Goals and Principles, and Meeting #4 (Re-set) ideas for the forthcoming Design June 25, 2020, 6:00 PM, Workshop. The planning team led Video Conference Call the Committee members through Transportation re-writing the Vision Statement The fourth Steering Committee and Goals and Principles to meeting occurred via ZOOM more accurately reflect the Conference Call due to the needs and desires of the entire COVID-19 pandemic. Ten NPU. A second activity helped Committee members and MLK, Jr. Drive identify the key locations for five City of Atlanta staff which to draw concept plans to members attended the illustrate how the Vision could be meeting. The planning team achieved. gave a brief presentation that described progress to-date, Steering Committee next steps, and an overview Meeting #3 of the recommendations. Housing June 13, 2019, 6:00 PM @ C.T. Then, the planning team led Martin Recreation Center the Committee through a discussion of all of the Long- The focus of the third Committee Term Initiatives individually to Home in Boulder Park Neighborhood Meeting was on revising determine which ones seemed Redevelopment (or Rezoning) appropriate for the NPU to Criteria based on comments lead and to receive feedback collected at the Design Workshop on the ideas. in the Developers Wish List activity. The planning team and Committee reviewed each criterion word for word, and Jobs & Businesses Committee members raised a red or green card to indicate whether or not they agreed with the criterion. If not, discussion led Atlanta Center for to the appropriate ways to phrase Medical Research the criteria, or removal.

55 Public Kick-off Meeting

Community input is a key • Vision statement and goals on a map to mark areas for component of developing board to help determine top places they love and want to a plan’s vision, goals, and priorities keep, where they live, where recommendations. The first development could occur, public outreach effort was • Completed paper copies of where long- and short-term the Kick-off Meeting, which the surveys and comment improvements could be made; took place on March 26, 2019, cards and secondly, to place flags at the C.T. Martin Natatorium • SWOT Analysis to help on landmarks that designate and Recreation Center. determine NPU-H’s greatest a personal memory or event, Approximately 100 members of strengths, weaknesses, an enjoyable social event, the community were present. opportunities, and threats. a potential safety concern, The Planning Team presented Participants shared their or an event of historical the initial analysis of the NPU-H opinions using sticky notes on significance. community, including previous boards for each topic. plans assessment, existing conditions, and demographics. • Story Telling Exercise that asked participants to do After the presentation, meeting two things: place stickers attendees participated in these activities:

Caption (all photos): Activities at the Public Kick-off Meeting on March 26, 2019 (TSW, 2019). 56 Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats

• History and • Lack of street • Encourage black- • on generations of lighting, especially on owned businesses major streets families major thoroughfares • Re-open pools and • Lack of sidewalks or • Neighbors who look • Procedures for recreation centers narrow sidewalks out for each other resident input about • Traffic calming on • Inadequate police • Good location and zoning key corridors like and fire protection access to Downtown, • Lack of affordable Benjamin E. Mays • Dumping trash and I-20, I-285, and the housing for aging-in- and Adamsville Drive lack of property airport place • Add low-cost grocery maintenance • Tree coverage and • Lack of sidewalks stores • Too many low-cost nature • Property • Encourage mixed- retail options and maintenance use development no diversity of • Lack of restaurant, that doesn’t cause restaurants and retail shopping, services displacement options • Promote community get-togethers for clean-up, and education about healthy living

Safety Concerns Enjoyable Social Events of Historical Personal Memory Events Significance

• Crime and gunfire • Picnics with • G.A. Towns • Attended elementary • Speeding traffic neighbors and card Elementary School school at Towns on Cascade Road, playing building (1962) - and High School at Bakers Ferry Road, • Educational International Style Harper Lynn Circle, Brownlee community events for structure by architect • I moved into this Road kids Richard Aech nice neighborhood • Condition of roads • Most loved places • Ruins of the Judge 35 years ago, now I’m - Baker Hill, Boulder were Margaret William A. Wilson afraid to leave my Park Drive, and Fain Elementary house - built circa house others School, Boulder 1856 (demolished • The KKK passed by 2015) • Youth truancy Park neighborhood, our house in May 1961 Herbert Greene • Atlanta Center for from the American • Tire and trash Nature Preserve, Medical Research Legion. The American dumping Wildwood Building Legion is now run by neighborhood, African Americans Oakcliff neighborhood, and Collier Park

57 Survey Results

An online survey was available Most respondents believe that • Invest in the community’s from March 26th, 2019, through NPU-H is heading in the right main corridors and encourage Friday, May 10th, 2019. Paper direction, and that it is a good housing, retail, and other surveys were offered at the place for residents to live no types of commercial Kick-off Meeting and Design matter their age. It’s seen as a development on vacant and Workshop, and also available at good place to raise a family, and underutilized properties. the City of Atlanta Department of most agree that there are enough City Planning office for people to senior services and programs. • Foster community pride. complete. However, respondents are While this appears to be an agreed-upon goal, common A total of 38 surveys (paper and divided about the quality of youth services and youth programs. planning tactics to encourage online responses) were received. ownership suggested in The survey included questions Respondents had a wide range the survey, such as creative about how respondents currently of opinions about whether the placemaking; encouraging view the NPU-H area and the community has a strong identity, dense, walkable communities; vision for NPU-H in the future that it feels safe, that it has good branding and marketing; and, regarding quality of life, housing, access to health services, and supporting community events/ transportation, and jobs and that the community has good gatherings, did not receive businesses. The survey also asked connections to parks and nature. significant support. about the types of development that are appropriate in NPU-H Quality of life feedback shared • Preserve and improve the and which goals the NPU-H by most respondents includes: community’s parks, recreation, Master Plan should prioritize. • NPU-H needs better and cultural spaces. The infographics on the following access to healthy foods and Housing feedback shared by pages illustrate the survey results. different places for shopping, most respondents includes: eating and drinking, and entertainment. Respondents • Renovate existing houses and suggest that perhaps the encourage greater options community can attract a for housing, especially for quality, affordable grocery affordable options. store, such as Trader Joe’s or • Promote transit around Aldi. new and existing housing • NPU-H needs fewer fast development. food and discount stores, Transportation feedback like Family Dollar and Dollar shared by most respondents General. includes: • Improve public safety and • Fix the community’s roads. address vacancy and blight. • Improve busy intersections.

89% of survey takers indicated • Invest in bike lanes, sidewalks, that they live in an NPU-H crosswalks, and street lighting. neighborhood.

58 My Vision for a Higher Quality of Life in NPU-H...

#2 #1 Improve Public Safety Increase local My Vision for Transportation in access to NPU-H... healthy foods #3 Address vacancy & blight Fix streets & intersections Invest My Vision for Jobs & Businesses in in street NPU-H... lighting Diversify #1 the types #1 of local businesses #2

Attract & retain living My Vision for Housing in NPU-H... Renovate existing wage jobs #2 houses Add Help affordable entrepreneurs housing #3 start local business #1 #3 Encourage housing diversity #2

59 Survey Results

What do you think about the NPU-H Study Area?

It has a strong It’s a good It is heading It has senior It has good community place to live in the right services & transit service identity programs & raise a direction family

It is not clean, Does not have good It does not have Not a lot of attractive, or sidewalks, bike great access to places for well-maintained routes, or roads fresh, healthy shopping or foods entertainment

My Vision for development in NPU-H.... Build More Keep Same Build Less • Sit-down Restaurants • Gas stations & car repair • Discount Retail shops • Grocery Stores • Warehousing & industrial • Local Retail Shops • Medical Facilities

60 “I would like to see more stores owned by local residents and incentives for locals to open a business.”

Jobs & Business • Prioritize neighborhood Development feedback focused development, such includes: as retail, sit-down restaurants, grocery stores, coffee shops, • More should be done to and medical facilities. diversify the types of local businesses. • Support local entrepreneurs and start-ups, teachers, • Improve the look of police, and firefighters. storefronts. • Attract and retain living wage • Economic development jobs for residents. priorities should have a “people” focus. • Improve education opportunities for young • Build more offices and hotels. adults.

Which goals should the NPU-H Community Plan prioritize?

Highest Priorities • Invest and maintain the community’s main corridors and local streets. • Preserve community’s parks, recreation, and cultural spaces. • Improve the “look and feel” of the community. • Encourage housing development on vacant, underutilized properties.

61 Design Workshop

The Design Workshop was held on Saturday, May 4th, 2019, at the C.T. Martin Recreation Center from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Invest Atlanta presented information on the Tax Allocation District, and the planning team presented results from the previous steering committee and public meetings, analysis on crime, demographics, and code enforcement in NPU-H, and shared the draft Vision Statement Presentation during the Design Workshop (TSW, 2019) and Project Goals. The attendees participated in multiple input Developer Wish List activities: Activity at the Design • Visual Preference Survey Workshop (TSW, 2019) (VPS) & Concept Drawing Table for potential redevelopment sites. Images for three potential redevelopment sites were shown to gather input on how the built environment should look if the sites are

redeveloped. The planning Wish Developer List team used the input to sketch preliminary ideas for potential This activity redevelopment sites. informed the Redevelopment • Developer Wish List - Criteria in Participants voted for Chapter 4. items in a list of criteria for redevelopment projects, resulting in a bar chart noting priorities (right). • Streets and Access - This activity asked about current Top Items on the Wish List • Create a local hiring program transportation experiences, preferred experiences for • Housing for all ages and • Architectural excellence the future, and inhibitors to incomes • Increase street and private those experiences now. In • Quality restaurants and property lighting addition, a “Build Your Own grocery stores • Add bus shelters, benches, or Streetscape” activity allowed • Creative methods to collect other amenities on MARTA attendees to design an ideal and store stormwater routes street for Fairburn Road. 62 VPS & Redevelopment Site Concept Plans - Top Images MLK, Jr. Drive & Bolton Road & I-285 Fairburn Road & Fairburn Road Benjamin E. Mays Drive

2-Story Mixed-Use Cottage Court Houses Horizontal Mixed-Use

Missing Middle Housing Park / Neighborhood Square Small Single-Family Houses (Ryan Terry)

How do you get to your Streets & Access destinations today? Current & Preferred • The vast majority (31) take Experiences Getting to their cars Destinations • 1 takes the train, and one 1 bikes Journey Mapping Activity (TSW, 2019) What discourages you from Sidewalk-Oriented Retail taking a preferred mode? • Needed services are too far away (13) • Crime / safety (8) • Trash / cleanliness (8) • Lack of sidewalks (7) How do you want to get there in the future Small Pocket Parks • Most people want to WALK (16) Photo credits: Images of preferred • Only 2 want to drive development types from TSW architectural and planning image library • Others want to take the (TSW). All photos taken by TSW staff bus (5) or train (5) except where specifically noted on the photo.

63 Public Open House - July 2019 A Public Open House was held • Development Policies • Fairburn Road Street on Thursday, July 25th, 2019, at and Recommendations - Sections - Final draft concept the C.T. Martin Recreation Center Participants voted about drawings for changes to from 6:30 - 8:30 PM. The planning whether the draft versions of Fairburn Road were displayed team presented results from the these policies was correct, and participants could previous steering committee and and if not, to provide note whether they were public meetings, draft vision and suggestions. These were appropriate or not. goals, draft concept plans for the refined based on the results three potential redevelopment of the Developer Wish List Because of the extended time nodes, draft concept drawings from the May Workshop and for Q&A, few people voted for Fairburn Road street sections, June Steering Committee on the exercises or filled out and the Redevelopment Criteria. meeting. comment forms. The comment The majority of the meeting forms noted that a little over half • Redevelopment Node was spent answering individual who completed them support Concept Plans - Final draft questions from the attendees or somewhat support the vision, concept plans were displayed directly after the presentation; goals, principles, and concept with character images and however, the activities below plans. Many were undecided, and Development Policies that were available for voting and the street sections for Fairburn they address for each of the comments after the Q&A session. Road received less agreement. three redevelopment nodes: The Q&A session resulted in the Some of the comments included: Adamsville Village, Doctors’ final plan document name: NPU-H Memorial Park, and Bolton • Support for the street lighting Master Plan. Road. Participants voted on on Fairburn Road; • Vision, Goals, and Principles how well the plans met the • Concerns about bike lanes; to determine if these were vision established throughout the final version. the planning process. • More green space is needed.

Example of one of the boards for public feedback at the meeting.

64 Plan Reset & Approval - 2020

June 2020

• Steering Committee meets to review report draft and final recommendations on June 25, 2020 via video conference call. • Additional residents added to the Steering Committee July 2020

• Steering Committee provides additional comments on report. Report draft revised and re-submitted. • AgLanta attends July 9, 2020 NPU-H meeting to discuss potential and on-going partnerships for community gardens and urban agriculture. • City of Atlanta posts the full report draft on the project website for public review and comment. August 2020

• City of Atlanta presents the final recommendations at the August 6, 2020 NPU-H meeting. • Steering Committee provides additional comments on report. Report draft revised. September - November 2020

• City of Atlanta presents final recommendations at September 3, 2020 NPU-H Meeting. • City of Atlanta presents the final recommendations at the September 10, 2020 NPU-H Meeting for a vote • NPU-H Vote on Ordinance to adopt plan - November 5, 2020 • CD / HS Public Hearing on November 30, 2020 • CD / HS Committee Meeting Vote on December 1, 2020 December 2020

• City of Atlanta presents final master plan to City Council on December 7, 2020, for a vote and adoption into the CDP. • Final NPU-H Master Plan document submitted.

65 Doctor’s Memorial Park (TSW, 2019) Recommendations

66 Chapter 3

Vision & Goals Framework Plan Public Safety & Quality of Life Concept Plans Typical Street Sections

67 Adamsville Regional Health Center (TSW, 2020) The Vision Atlanta City Design: Aspiring to the beloved community.

Equity Progress Ambition Access Nature

City Design Core Values The NPU-H Master Plan’s Vision, and associated Goals and Principles share the Atlanta City Design’s 5 Core Values.

Vision Statement: Create a “vibrant and safe community for the NPU-H neighborhoods by offering diverse housing options, thriving businesses, accessible transportation, connections to nature, and a high quality of life for all.

68 NPU-H Goals & Principles Create a high quality 1. Engage local educational partnerships with community of life for all residents organizations, non-profits, and recreation centers to increase the 1 quality of education for people of all ages 2. Encourage developers to provide usable green space in all redevelopment and use green infrastructure where possible 3. Attract a diversity of businesses that meet the needs of the community, including daily needs shopping and a variety of restaurants 4. Increase access to healthy, fresh food through redevelopment, community partnerships, and urban food gardens 5. Take a proactive stance on public health and mitigate the negative impacts of industries on Fulton Industrial Boulevard 6. Maintain parks and offer programming for residents of all ages

Focus redevelopment 1. Implement strategic rezoning that benefits residents and meets the on priority vacant goals set forth in this plan 2 properties and 2. Determine development criteria for priority redevelopment sites abandoned structures 3. Promote redevelopment of key commercial nodes and aging apartment complexes 4. Minimize flooding by maintaining natural terrain and using best practices for stormwater management

Promote inclusiveness 1. Foster aging in place through design and policy recommendations for all people 2. Increase the rate of homeownership in the community 3 3. Promote awareness of existing and future homeownership programs and bill assistance programs 4. Promote home rehabilitation programs and alternative energy sources to mitigate the cost of living for current homeowners 5. Engage renters in the community and encourage them to stay 6. Preserve naturally occurring / subsidized affordable housing units 7. Preserve the character of the single-family areas

Improve the 1. Enforce zoning, building codes, and public safety cleanliness and 2. Prevent dumping of trash, illegal parking, and illegal land uses appearance of 4 3. Improve City of Atlanta responsiveness to code violations properties, streets, 4. Establish community clean-up initiatives and parks 5. Promote community pride and ownership

Improve mobility by investing in existing 1. Integrate the Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and Fairburn Road corridor 5 infrastructure, projects into this plan increasing safety 2. Slow traffic and make major corridors walkable and safe and security of 3. Promote walkability by expanding the network of safe sidewalks transportation modes, 4. Add street lighting to low lit areas 5. Improve access to existing parks for all modes of transportation and expanding transportation options.

69 A Roadmap to Use these Recommendations FROM VISION

Framework Plan Callout potential redevelopment sites & priority corridors

Node 1: Bolton Road

Strategic Future Land Use Changes Node 2: & Adamsville Proactive Village Re-zoning on Key

Example Concept Plans Example Concept Vision that Support the 74 to 79) (Pages Properties

Node 3: Benjamin E. Mays & Fairburn Road NPU-H

70 TO ACTION

Redevelopment Criteria Hold redevelopment projects to high standards

A. Jobs & Businesses These two elements work B. Housing together to ensure future C. Building Design growth & development result in a vibrant and safe D. Transportation & Parking community E. Open Space & Sustainability When a developer wants to re- zone and redevelop a property, the community has a list of criteria they can use to work with the City.

RESIDENT EMPOWERMENT

71 Framework Plan

The Framework Plan establishes intersection. This area has plaza, playground, and parking, priority redevelopment areas commercial uses built in suburban but no buildings enclose the within NPU-H and key corridors patterns - retail buildings with park, and it is difficult to cross to improve in order to implement large parking lots in front, many the streets to get there. This is the Vision and reach the access drives to individual an opportunity to increase park Goals listed on pages 68-69. businesses, disconnected usage and the perception of Priority Redevelopment Sites residential areas, and closed-off security by orienting new mixed- are identified to show where apartment communities. During use buildings toward the park. infill development should be the public meetings, participants The Atlanta Center for Medical encouraged. Many of these are repeatedly identified this Research and Fulton County located along Fairburn Road intersection as an opportunity DFCS create a large campus of or Bolton Road. Another site is for improvement with mixed- office space and parking lots. the former Bankhead Courts use development, more housing Adjacent, smaller building types housing site. This list is not a options to reach a variety of and a variety of land uses can comprehensive, but they are incomes, ages, and lifestyles, effectively blend this site into underutilized or vacant sites, and a large park. The concept the surrounding residential either identified through public plan on page 79 shows how neighborhoods. The concept plan feedback or analysis. this area could be redeveloped on page 81 recommends offices, with sidewalk-oriented, mixed- residential units, a connected Concept Plans use development, increased street network, pocket parks, and In order to show how the retail options, multiple housing some retail that can be used by Redevelopment Criteria in options, streetscape changes existing and future residents. Chapter 4 could be implemented to Fairburn Road, more multi- on the priority redevelopment family housing options, and sites or other sites within Streets a central green space that As noted in Chapter 1, the NPU-H, three concept plans ties together retail buildings street network in NPU-H is were developed (pages 76 to 81). and multi-family residential disconnected and suburban in These are ideas for how the sites communities. Some existing nature. The Atlanta Department could be redeveloped, but do not commercial buildings along MLK, of Transportation (formerly guarantee that development will Jr. Drive that currently front the Department of Public Works) is occur or will occur the way it is street are preserved and infill currently working on corridor shown on the plans. is recommended around them. improvements for MLK, Jr. Concept Plan 1 - Bolton Road Existing businesses can also lease Drive, as indicated in blue is located in the northern part or acquire new space in the new on the Framework Plan, and of NPU-H near the Fulton buildings. Fairburn Road, as indicated in County Airport and I-285. This Concept Plan 3 - Benjamin green. These improvements plan considers the existing E. Mays & Fairburn Road is are integrated into the concept residential uses on Bolton Road centered on the intersection, plan for Adamsville Village and and provides a mix of housing which is where the Doctor’s detailed on page 82. Fairburn types and some mixed-use Memorial Park is located. Public Road is identified as a High development that could include feedback supported office Injury Network in the Atlanta office and retail uses. buildings, small pocket parks, Transportation Plan (page 82), is planned as an on-street bicycle Concept Plan 2 - Adamsville retail, and many housing options network, and connects many of Village is centered on the MLK, for this node. The park has been the priority redevelopment sites. Jr. Drive and Fairburn Road recently constructed with a lawn,

72 Bolton Road Mixed-Use Node

Adamsville Village

Benjamin E. Mays & Fairburn Road Node

1” = 2500’

DRAFT 0’ 1250’ 2500’ 5000’

73 North Public Safety & Quality of Life

While the analysis (pages 26- 27) shows that building code Example Redevelopment Criteria (Ch.4) that Address Public enforcement calls in 2018 were Safety and Quality of Life Recommendations spread throughout the NPU, there are concentrations in the C.1 Design with crime prevention and informal supervision in mind. northern section straddling C.8 8. Provide proper levels of lighting to ensure real and perceived Bolton Road, and at MLK, Jr. security, based on CPTED principles (Table 4-1 in the appendix) Drive and Fairburn Road. Many C.9 Use full cut-off lighting fixtures to prevent unnecessary glare in of the issues run along the adjacent areas Fairburn Road and MLK, Jr. Drive Corridors. Some of the areas C.10 Provide security cameras that connect to Atlanta Police Department precincts with the highest concentration of code enforcement issues are D.2 New developments along a MARTA bus route should coordinate also aligned with the highest with MARTA to provide a trash cans and a new shelter, or add a shelter, to an existing bus stop concentrations of reported crime, notably at MLK, Jr. Drive D.3 Provide adequate street lighting on all streets to ensure real and at Fairburn Road and Fairburn perceived security, based on CPTED principles (see appendix) Road at Benjamin E. Mays Drive, E.5 Design public spaces to be integrated and activated by their and the nearby apartment surroundings by being surrounded by streets or buildings complexes. In addition to the CPTED principles outlined in corridors should ensure that glare with a fine that is increased each the Redevelopment Criteria, is reduced for pedestrian visibility time the property is cited. The this plan also recommends and safety. Benjamin E. Mays property owner of record at the some overarching methods to Road should be studied for street time would be notified of fees improve code compliance and light coverage and prioritized and increases. crime rates. However, design for if lighting is insufficient. Other public safety is evolving as local public streets, such as Boulder Georgia Power & APD police department reforms occur Park Drive and Bolton Road, Coordination across the country. Relying on should also have adequate The City could facilitate redevelopment only can result in lighting. coordination between the Atlanta piecemeal results, but the City, Police Department and Georgia Georgia Power, and Atlanta Police NPU-H Public Safety Power to ensure that broken or Department can coordinate on Chairperson burned-out light fixtures are fixed larger efforts. Per the NPU by-laws, NPU-H promptly. could appoint a volunteer Street Lighting designated public safety Community Clean-up Prioritize MLK, Jr. Drive, Benjamin committee chairperson that E. Mays, and Fairburn Road for Initiatives would update the City of Atlanta street light improvements. The NPU-H could organize community or Atlanta Police Department City currently has streetscape clean-up initiatives, which could about code complaints and projects in progress for both be a potential partnership with issues with street lights from MLK, Jr. Drive and Fairburn Road, the Keep Atlanta Beautiful other residents. NPU-H residents and these include new street Commission. This partnership, also suggested creating a BACE lighting. However, as lights go also supported by DPW, would (board, authority, commission, out or are damaged, they should provide supplies for the clean-ups etc.) to investigate the idea of be fixed as soon as possible. In and can help with tire removal repeat offenders being penalized addition, any lighting on these and other recycling. 74 1” = 2500’

DRAFT 0’ 1250’ 2500’ 5000’

75 North Bolton Road Mixed-Use Node Bolton Road Mixed- includes residential and live/ in-place. Additionally, landscape Use & Residential work units fronts a new green buffers for I-285 and the Fulton- EEK space, with on-street parking County Airport-Brown Field are CR This concept plan blends the Y on proposed new streets, and preserved. existing residential uses on ND parking behind new mixed-use A Bolton Road with a mix of housing New streets with on-street S buildings. Multi-family units are types and some mixed-use parking connect to Bolton Road, • located around the new green development that could include forming a street grid on both space in stand-alone buildings office and retail uses. At the sides of the street, which can be and above commercial (retail Design Workshop, participants expanded for future development and office). Townhouses, live/ supported 1-2 story mixed-use as needed. All residential and work units, small single-family development, sidewalk-oriented commercial units are accessed houses, and cottage court retail, missing middle housing, by vehicle with alleys and rear houses overlooking green space cottage court housing, and small parking lots. Trails could be extend to the north, connected pocket parks for this node. All of built along Sandy Creek on the by proposed new streets and these elements are represented land owned by Fulton County, alleys. The mix of housing types in the concept plan to the right. providing more recreation are intended to serve a diversity options, access to nature, and Mixed-use development that of residents and support aging- connectivity. Key Elements

Mixed-Use Infill Example Redevelopment Criteria (Ch.4) Met by Bolton • Commercial (retail and office) Road Mixed-use Node Concept Plan in mixed-use buildings around a large green space A.3 Provide space for small, local businesses, rather than large or • Shared parking between uses national chains, through multiple techniques B.4 Provide a mix of housing types and units that accommodates a Housing Options diversity of people • Residential units adjacent C.1 Design with crime prevention and informal supervision in mind to existing multi-family and C.6 Completely screen parking from view with active uses or single-family residences landscaping • Many housing types: single- D.1 Design internal streets to slow traffic, prioritize pedestrians, and family houses, townhouses, include all modes of transportation multi-family units, live-work, D.4 Use shared parking agreements to encourage the best use of cottage courts parking within a development or with adjacent properties Connected Streets D.5 Construct on-street parking on at least one side of all new • New streets create a street streets grid promoting connected E.5 Design public spaces to be integrated and activated by their developments surroundings by being surrounded by streets or buildings • Alleys provide access to E.9 Ensure that required open space is publicly accessible and large residential units enough to be usable

76 Cottage Court Houses facing into green space EEK & existing forest CR Y Cottage Court Houses (TSW) ND A S Potential for Green Town- • trails along Alley space Sandy Creek houses

Buffer New Street

Alley-loaded Single-Family Houses (TSW) Alley- loaded Potential for trails single- to and along Sandy Town- family Creek houses Town- New Street Alley Buffer Live/ houses New Street houses New workStreet

Multi- Single-family family P units houses I-285

Bolton Road Multi-family units Existing Mixed-use: New Street single-family commercial & Green residential residential P space New Street Mixed-use: commercial & New Street residential

New Street Multi-family Two-Story Mixed-Use (TSW) units P Legend: Parks/Open Space Existing Buildings Single-family/Missing middle housing DRAFT Proposed Buildings (white boxes) P Parking **NOTES: These concept plans are illustrative only. It is intended to show one option for long-term development that 1” = 300’ meets many of the criteria in Chapter 4. All development must conform to zoning. 0’ 150’ 300’ 600’ Existing businesses can be added into new buildings. 77 North Adamsville Village MLK, Jr. Drive & that street lighting is improved Additionally, a large, shared Fairburn Road where necessary along this street. civic green is recommended to This concept plan is The Fairburn Road street section directly connect the apartment approximately the boundaries of is re-designed to accommodate community to the retail on MLK, the Adamsville Village from the pedestrians and cyclists (page Jr. Drive. This green space can Hollowell / MLK TAD, created in 82). be used for markets, community events, or as a gathering space. 2006. This concept fits many of While this plan is focuses Retail buildings east of Fairburn the criteria set forth in Chapter on mixed-use development Road on MLK, Jr. Drive are 4 for future development and ideas, it also aims to preserve preserved, and additional infill re-zoning projects. At the public existing buildings, businesses, mixed-use and multi-family workshop, attendees noted that and affordable housing. The buildings are recommended mixed-use development and plan to the right shows some between them and around them. a neighborhood square were of the existing buildings at Finally, housing options for a needed in this area, in addition Fairburn Gordon Apartments variety of ages and incomes, to a mix of housing options. The as renovated, and some new such as multi-family units, senior City’s current MLK, Jr. Drive buildings are added to increase housing, cottage houses, and corridor project is shown along the number of units. the street, and it is recommended single-family houses, are included in this plan. Key Elements

Mixed-Use Infill • Commercial space for retail Example Redevelopment Criteria (Ch.4) Met by and office Adamsville Village Concept Plan • Buildings located closer to the streets A.3 Provide space for small, local businesses, rather than large or • Green space in private national chains, through multiple techniques developments and public B.2 Preserve existing and subsidized multi-family, affordable housing space between developments units by renovating existing units and replacing others at a 1:1 ratio. • Parking moved to the rear B.3 Provide housing for seniors. Housing Options B.4 Provide a mix of housing types and units that accommodates a diversity of people • Senior housing: assisted and independent living options C.1 Design with crime prevention and informal supervision in mind. D.1 Design internal streets to slow traffic, prioritize pedestrians, and • Renovated apartment include all modes of transportation buildings D.4 Use shared parking agreements to encourage the best use of • New multi-family buildings parking within a development or with adjacent properties • Single-family houses E.5 Design public spaces to be integrated and activated by their • Cottage-style houses surroundings by being surrounded by streets or buildings

78 400 scale

I-20

Legend: Parks/Open Space Existing Buildings Single-family/Missing middle housing Proposed Buildings (white boxes) P Parking

Potential for additional housing & re-design

Park / Civic Green (TSW) Multi-family Green space units w/ parking preserved due FB.1 under (topography to topography Fairburn Gordon allows) & stream Apartments: Most buildings preserved & renovated. Single- Commercial (office or Fairburn Road New buildings with more family units added. houses P retail) Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive Gas station P oriented to New Street the street 8 units/flr 12 units/flr 8 units/flr DaVita 10 units/ Bakers 10 units/flr 4/flr flr Ferry Planet New Dialysis Fitness retail Bakers Ferry Road Existing 5/flr building 10 units/flr Connects New to Wisteria Office retail P Park / Civic Green Lane building New connects apartments Senior and retail housing retail AT&T building P New retail Senior Mixed-use buildings housing:

Wisteria Lane Wisteria (retail & cottages residential) Existing P building

Multi-family units Fairburn Road Fairburn

FB.2

Missing Middle Housing (TSW) 2-story Mixed-Use (TSW)

**NOTES: These concept plans are illustrative only. It is intended to show one option for long-term development that 1” = 400’ meets many of the criteria in Chapter 4. All development must conform to zoning. 0’ 200’ 400’ 800’ Existing businesses can be added into new buildings. 79 North Benjamin E. Mays Drive & Fairburn Road

Benjamin E. Mays and In this plan, mixed-use transition between the offices Fairburn Road development that includes and the existing single-family This concept plan blends the residential units with rear neighborhoods. In the northwest existing residential and office parking directly fronts the corner of the concept plan area, a uses along Fairburn Road by Doctor’s Memorial Park, creating 1.6-acre green space is preserved concentrating development the potential for a small park and used as a park because of around the Doctor’s Memorial expansion, shared parking the floodplain and stream. agreements, and retail serving the Park and connecting new streets New streets connect to Richard adjacent senior and multi-family to existing streets or driveways. Allen Boulevard and Fairburn communities. At the Design Workshop, Road, all of which include street participants supported 2-3-story Multi-family units that connect trees, lighting, sidewalks on both office buildings, mixed-use to the existing apartment sides, and at least one side of development, sidewalk-oriented community west of Fairburn on-street parking. These streets retail, missing middle housing, and Road (Elite at City Park), can connect to existing driveways small pocket parks for this node. townhouses, and alley-loaded and potential future development single-family houses act as a south of the Atlanta Center for Medical Research. Key Elements

Mixed-Use Infill • Office infill around the Atlanta Example Redevelopment Criteria (Ch.4) Met by Center for Medical Research Doctor’s Memorial Park Node Concept Plan and Fulton County DFCS • Mixed-use fronts the Doctor’s A.3 Provide space for small, local businesses, rather than large or Memorial Park national chains, through multiple techniques • Shared parking between B.4 Provide a mix of housing types and units that accommodates a existing and new office on diversity of people Richard Allen Boulevard C.1 Design with crime prevention and informal supervision in mind. Housing Options D.1 Design internal streets to slow traffic, prioritize pedestrians, and • Residential units adjacent include all modes of transportation to existing multi-family and D.4 Use shared parking agreements to encourage the best use of single-family residences parking within a development or with adjacent properties • Many housing types: single- D.5 Construct on-street parking on at least one side of all new family houses, townhouses, streets multi-family units E.5 Design public spaces to be integrated and activated by their Connected Streets surroundings by being surrounded by streets or buildings • New streets connect to E.9 Ensure that required open space is publicly accessible and large enough to be usable existing parking lot driveways and streets 80 300 scale

Elite at City Small Pocket Parks (TSW) Park Apartment 2-3 Story Offices (TSW) Homes

Green space Connects Connects preserved & to parking to parking used for park lot lot due to stream Fairburn Townhouses P Townhouses Multi- family Multi- family units Fairburn Road units Atlanta New Street

New Street Handicap New Street Manor Offices Single- P Offices P family Offices houses Richard Allen Blvd. Offices Summerset Assisted

New Street New Street Living

New Street Benjamin E. Mays Drive Potential street extension Entrance drive Doctor’s moved Atlanta Fulton Memorial Big Bethel Center for County Park Village Medical DFCS Research Potential park expansion Mixed-use: Mixed-use: office & retail & residential residential

P

Railroad Tracks

Sidewalk-oriented Retail (TSW) Horizontal Mixed-Use (TSW) P

Legend: Parks/Open Space FB.2 Existing Buildings Single-family/Missing middle housing Proposed Buildings (white boxes) P Parking

**NOTES: These concept plans are illustrative only. It is intended to show one option for long-term development that 1” = 300’ meets many of the criteria in Chapter 4. All development must conform to zoning. 0’ 150’ 300’ 600’ Existing businesses can be added into new buildings. 81 North Typical Street Sections

Throughout this process, Fairburn items were common preferences: widths, and zoning districts will Road was used as an example • Buffered bike lanes affect the exact configuration for how major corridors could be • Street trees and tree buffers of any streetscape. In order to reconfigured to accommodate accommodate bike lanes, tree cars, buses, pedestrians, and • Narrower travel lanes lawns with street trees and cyclists. Although Fairburn Road (currently the lanes are 14’ to street lights, and sidewalks on is shown, these community 15’ wide) both sides, a central median was preferences and street sections • Wider sidewalks not provided in these options. can be applied to other streets • Central medians Two options for cyclists are in the area that may need provided to show how it can improvement, such as Boulder New Street Sections change with different ROW Park Drive, Bakers Ferry Road, The current right-of-way (ROW) widths: sharrows painted in car Collier Drive, and others. Atlanta widths and conditions constrain lanes and two-way bike lanes. Department of Transportation streetscape improvements, but Sidewalks are provided on both has a current streetscape project more could be implemented sides with better buffers between to improve Fairburn Road (see if additional ROW is acquired. pedestrians and cars. appendix for more details). Utility poles, varying ROW

The Atlanta FB.1 Fairburn Road | North of MLK, Jr. Drive, Transportation Plan Facing North *Actual dimensions may vary depending Fairburn Road is currently on zoning district and ROW widths identified as a “High Injury Network” in the Atlanta Transportation Plan. These are roadway segments where investments in safety improvements can reduce fatal and injury crashes in the City. This street connects a large part of NPU-H from north to south and includes multiple nodes of activity and a range of Existing* development types. The Atlanta Transportation Plan marked Fairburn Road to be an “On- Street Bike Network,” which are core bicycle connections along the city street network. Community Preferences As shown in Chapter 2, the Design Workshop included a “Build Your Own Streetscape” exercise where participants could design their preferred versions Proposed* of Fairburn Road. The following 82 Green Infrastructure order to mitigate stormwater Where feasible, green run-off issues. These measures infrastructure, such as stormwater have been taken in other planters and permeable pavers , such as in the car lanes, should be added and Midtown. into street improvements in

MLK FB.1

FB.2

1” = 10’ Build Your Own Streetscape Activity at the Design Workshop (TSW, 2019) 0’ 5’ 10’ 20’

FB.2 Fairburn Road | South of MLK, Jr. Drive, Facing North

*Actual dimensions may vary depending on zoning district and ROW widths

Existing*

*Actual dimensions may vary depending on zoning district and ROW widths

Proposed*

83 Adamsville Green Senior Apartments on MLK, Jr. Drive (TSW, 2019)

Implementation

84 Chapter 4

Priority Projects Proposed Future Land Use Proactive Rezoning Redevelopment Criteria Long-Term Initiatives

85 Priority Projects

Many projects could occur as charts on pages 96 to 99 show Committee and Chairperson for a result of the concept plans the recommended zoning, should NPU-H or create a BACE (page and Redevelopment Criteria set a developer initiate a rezoning 74), and start the conversations forth in this plan. It is important application for redevelopment. for a partnership between to reiterate that concept plans All rezonings outside of the Georgia Power and the Atlanta shown in Chapter 3 are one idea proactive rezonings listed Police Department. for how future development should be developer-initiated. could look and function to meet This will give the community At the April 2019 monthly this plan’s vision. Individual the opportunity to review meeting, NPU-H residents private development will occur development proposals and voted to add a Quality of as the market allows, but the deliberate with developers to Life Element to the City of City of Atlanta and NPU-H ensure that their proposals are Atlanta CDP legislation based can encourage redevelopment consistent with the plan’s vision. on Section 6.3013 of Article through public-private B (see the appendix). As the partnerships, incentives, and Public Safety & City updates the CDP in 2021, Redevelopment Criteria for what NPU-H can provide this research Quality of Life and background and use it as a residents want (see pages 100 Chapter 3 listed a variety of guide to craft and update policy -103 for more detail). The priority recommendations for improving contributions in the CDP (current projects listed below are the first street lighting, lighting on private policies in the appendix). steps for promoting appropriate properties, and code compliance redevelopment. issues. The two priority projects City of Atlanta are to add adequate street Proactive Rezoning lighting on Fairburn Road and Streetscape Projects The future land use categories Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive The streetscape enhancement shown in this master plan are as part of the Streetscape projects are part of the Renew broad. A variety of zoning improvements projects listed Atlanta effort and are currently districts could be compatible with below. The other immediate in progress for MLK Jr., Drive, these categories and result in actions that the City of Atlanta Fairburn Road, and a public art buildings with the recommended and NPU-H can take are to gateway at MLK, Jr. Drive and scale and character; however, the appoint a volunteer Public Safety I-285.

Short-Term Implementation Projects

Project Name Timeline Responsible Party

Future Land Use Changes and Proactive Rezoning (see pages 88 to 93) 0 to 1 year City of Atlanta

MLK, Jr. Drive Streetscape & Lighting Improvements (see page 46) In progress City of Atlanta

Fairburn Road Streetscape & Lighting Improvements (see page 82) In progress City of Atlanta

Appoint an NPU-H Public Safety Committee Chairperson or create a 0 to 1 year City of Atlanta, NPU-H BACE

Start partnership between APD and Georgia Power 0 to 1 year City of Atlanta

Use Quality of Life Recommendation during the City’s CDP Update 1 year NPU-H, City of Atlanta

86 Proposed Future Land Use

This Master Plan recommends so that when developers choose these parcels is MRC-1 or MRC- amending the City of Atlanta’s to redevelop and / or rezone the 2, which are mixed-use districts Comprehensive Development property, the City of Atlanta and that would allow development Plan (CDP) Future Land Use neighborhoods have a starting similar to what is shown on the (FLU) Map for key parcels in point. When this occurs, the concept plan on page 79. Parcels the three concept plan nodes developers must also coordinate that are indicated for Proactive to align the FLU map with the with the community and the City Rezoning by the City of Atlanta vision established during this to ensure that their development are mapped on pages 94 to 99. planning process. These nodes plan adheres to the agreed-upon are the focus because the public Redevelopment Criteria on pages engagement process identified 100 to 103. them as priority locations for In addition to the parcels listed redevelopment. The map and in the chart, many parcels in the chart on the following pages Adamsville Village (Martin Luther shows the location, address, King, Jr. Drive and Fairburn Road) parcel number, current and Node already have a FLU of MU proposed FLU, and current - Mixed-Use; however, the zoning and recommended zoning. The is currently C-1 Commercial. recommended zoning is indicated The recommended zoning for

Planet Fitness on MLK, Jr. Drive at Fairburn Road (TSW, 2019)

Much of the land is zoned to accommodate auto-oriented suburban-style development, which does not meet the criteria on pages 100 to 103 or the vision established in this master plan.

87 Proposed Future Land Use

Bolton Road Node

Current Proposed Current Proposed Justification # Location FLU FLU Zoning Zoning

1 0 Bolton Road NW MDR - MU-MD - RG-3 MRC-1 or Land is vacant; Parcel # 17 026800010943 Medium- Mixed-Use MRC-2 to create a Density mixed-use node Residential as requested by community

2 1020 Bolton Road NW MDR - HDR - High RG-3 MR-4A Land is Parcel # 17 02680003083 Medium- Density vacant; to (multiple) Density Residential accommodate Residential multi-family and townhouse units

3 1004 Bolton Road NW MDR - HDR - High RG-3 MR-4A Land is Parcel # 17 026800010505 Medium- Density vacant; to Density Residential accommodate Residential multi-family and townhouse units

4 974 Bolton Road NW MDR - MU-MD - RG-3 MRC-1 or Land is vacant; Parcel # 17 026800010752 Medium- Mixed-Use MRC-2 to create a Density mixed-use node Residential as requested by community

5 950 Bolton Road NW MDR - MU-MD - RG-3 MRC-1 or Land is vacant; Parcel # 17 02680004059 Medium- Mixed-Use MRC-2 to create a (multiple) Density mixed-use node Residential as requested by community

88 Bolton Road I-285

1” = 300’

Existing FLU with Recommended 0’ 150’ 300’ 600’ Changes 89 North Proposed Future Land Use

Adamsville Village Node (MLK, Jr. Drive & Fairburn Road)

Current Proposed Current Proposed Justification # Location FLU FLU Zoning Zoning

6 3669 Martin Luther King, SFR - Single- MDR - RG-2 and RG-3 or Preserve Jr. Drive SW Family Medium- C-1 MR-3 naturally- Parcel # 14F0015 LL0801 Residential Density occurring and MU- Residential affordable Mixed-Use housing; zoning and land use are split on the parcel

7 3620 Martin Luther King, SFR - Single- MU-MD - C-1 and MRC-1 or Zoning and land Jr. Drive SW Family Mixed-Use R-4 MRC-2 use are split on Parcel # 14F001400010461 Residential the parcel and MU- Mixed-Use

8 3650 Bakers Ferry Rd SW SFR - Single- MDR - MR-3-C MR-4A Adjacent to MU Parcel # 14F0014 LL0588 Family Medium- and SFR; serve Residential Density as a transition Residential with multi- family units

9 3640 Bakers Ferry Rd SW SFR - Single- MU-MD - C-1 and MRC-1 or Zoning and land Parcel # Family Mixed-Use R-4 MRC-2 use are split on 14F0014 00040153 Residential the parcel and MU- Mixed-Use

10 3620 Bakers Ferry Rd SW SFR - Single- MU-MD - C-1 and MRC-1 or Zoning and land Parcel # Family Mixed-Use R-4 MRC-2 use are split on 14F001400040138 Residential the parcel and MU- Mixed-Use

11 34 Fairburn Road SW SFR - Single- MDR - RG-2 Keep as-is Parcel is Parcel # Family Medium- or rezone vacant; to allow 14 024300030484 Residential Density to MR-2 or for multi-family Residential MR-3 units

12 38 Fairburn Road SW SFR - Single- MDR - RG-2 None Preserve Parcel # Family Medium- naturally- 14 024300030476 Residential Density occurring Residential affordable housing

90 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive

Fairburn Road Fairburn Gordon Apartments DaVita Bakers Ferry Dialysis Bakers Ferry Road

AT&T Fairburn Road Fairburn

1” = 400’

Existing FLU with Recommended 0’ 200’ 400’ 800’ Changes 91 North Proposed Future Land Use

Benjamin E. Mays & Fairburn Road Node

Current Proposed Current Proposed Justification # Location FLU FLU Zoning Zoning

13 501 Fairburn Road SW O-I - MU - O-I MRC-1 or Focus mixed- Parcel # Office / Mixed-Use MRC-2 use around 14F0012 LL0408 Institutional Doctor’s (This parcel spans across Memorial the concept plan area line) Park; improve connectivity 14 475 Fairburn Road SW O-I - MU - MD O-I MRC-1 or and use on Parcel # Office / Mixed-Use MRC-2 land between 14F0012 LL0325 Institutional developments

15 3711 Benjamin E. Mays LDC - Low- MU - MD C-1 MRC-1 or Align FLU Drive SW Density Mixed-Use MRC-2 and Zoning; Parcel # 14F0012 LL0368 Commercial land use is (This parcel spans across and MDR currently split the concept plan area line) - Medium- on the parcel; Density preserve Residential housing

16 490 Fairburn Road SW LDC - Low- MU - MD C-1 MRC-1 or Focus a Parcel # 14F0012 LL0259 Density Mixed-Use MRC-2 mixed-use Commercial node around Doctor’s 17 0 Fairburn Road SW LDC - Low- MU - MD C-1 MRC-1 or Memorial Park Parcel # 14F0012 LL0382 Density Mixed-Use MRC-2 Commercial

18 550 Fairburn Road SW O-I - MU - MD O-I-C MRC-1 or Parcel # Office / Mixed-Use MRC-2 14F0012000 10083 Institutional

19 0 Fairburn Road SW O-I - MU - MD C-1 MRC-1 or Parcel # 14F0012 LL0374 Office / Mixed-Use MRC-2 Institutional

20 0 Fairburn Road SW LDR - Low- MU - MD RG-3 MRC-1 or Parcel # 14F0011 LL0086 Density Mixed-Use MRC-2 Residential

21 500 Fairburn Road SW LDC- Low- OS - Open C-1 None To align parcel’s Parcel # 14F0012 LL2495 Density Space current use as a Commercial park with FLU

92 Existing FLU with Recommended Changes

Elite at City Park Apartment Homes

Fairburn Road

Fairburn Townhouses

Atlanta Handicap Manor

Richard Allen Blvd. Summerset Assisted Living

Benjamin E. Mays Drive

Atlanta Big Bethel Center for Doctor’s Village Medical Memorial Research Park

Railroad Tracks

1” = 300’

0’ 150’ 300’ 600’

93 North Proactive Rezoning

To ensure that future code requirements without development meets the vision of consulting the community or this this plan, the City of Atlanta will plan. By proactively rezoning proactively rezone key parcels these sites, the community’s in the concept plan nodes. This preferences can be added into will require an additional public the zoning conditions, and the process, during which the City zoning and CDP will match. The and NPU-H can add conditions recommended rezoning on these to the new zoning on the sites. properties is medium density These conditions will be derived mixed-use, or a MRC-1 or MRC-2 from the Redevelopment Criteria. zoning designation. The public The key numbers as indicated on process will determine which the following maps differ from the zoning designation is preferred numbers for the proposed Future and which conditions to apply Land Use changes because not all to the properties. The map and properties in each node will be chart on pages 96 to 98 indicate proactively re-zoned. which parcels should be rezoned. Adamsville Village Benjamin E. Mays (MLK, Jr. Drive & Drive & Fairburn Road Fairburn Road) All of the properties in this node, Proactive rezoning in this node except for Doctor’s Memorial focuses on properties currently Park and the property with zoned C-1. Because of this, all Atlanta Handicap Manor are of them are listed with one recommended to be rezoned identifier, but each address and to MRC-1 or MRC-2 in order to parcel number is included. Many create a mix of uses around the of the properties in this node are park. This rezoning will also align currently zoned C-1 - Community with the proposed FLU. Both Business Commercial, which the zoning and CDP will need allows typical suburban style to be updated to reflect these commercial development. Much changes. The public process of the existing commercial between the City of Atlanta and development in this area is built the neighborhoods will determine that way - low-density retail which zoning designation is with surface parking between preferred and which conditions the street and the building. The to apply to the properties. The zoning on these sites does not map and chart on pages 98 to 99 align with the Future Land Use indicate which parcels should be designation in the CDP. rezoned. Today, a developer could obtain a permit and build on a property meeting the current

94 Current office development at Doctor’s Memorial Park (Benjamin E. Mays Drive and Fairburn Road). The concept plan recommends integrating other uses around the existing buildings (TSW, 2019).

Current commercial development at Adamsville Village (MLK, Jr. Drive and Fairburn Road) with expansive surface parking in front of the buildings (TSW, 2019).

95 Proactive Rezoning

Adamsville Village Node (MLK, Jr. Drive & Fairburn Road)

Current Proposed Justification # Address Parcel # Zoning Zoning

1 0 Bakers Ferry Road SW 14F001400010461 C-1 on all MRC-1 or Community 0 Delmar Lane NW 14 024300070167 parcels. MRC-2 prefers 0 Fairburn Road SW 14 024300030732 Some are mixed-use 0 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14 024300070126 split with development. 0 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14 024300070415 R-4 and RG- Redevelopment 0 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14F001400010545 2, as shown Criteria on 0 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14F001400010321 on the map. pages 100 to 176 Fairburn Road NW 14 024300090454 103 should be 184 Fairburn Road NW 14 024300090447 considered 2 Fairburn Road NW 14 024300030609 in rezoning 3 Fairburn Road SW 14F001400010651 process. 3500 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030294 3509 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14 024300070100 Zoning and land 3534 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030773 use are split on 3537 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14 024300070407 some parcels. 3541 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300070373 3550 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030682 3552 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030674 3553 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300070068 3558 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030690 3561 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300070324 3566 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030716 3599 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300070316 3601 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300090017 3604 Bakers Ferry Road SW 14F001400040146 3610 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010511 3611 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300090439 3615 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010701 3615 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010693 3617 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010412 3620 Bakers Ferry Road SW 14F001400040138 3620 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010529 3640 Bakers Ferry Road SW 14F001400040153 3640 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010198 3650 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010339 3657 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010354 3660 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010446 3665 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F0015 LL0793 3690 Adamsville Drive SW 14F001400010644

96 Adamsville Village Node (MLK, Jr. Drive & Fairburn Road)

Current Proposed Justification # Address Parcel # Zoning Zoning

1 0 Bakers Ferry Road SW 14F001400010461 C-1 on all MRC-1 or Community 0 Delmar Lane NW 14 024300070167 parcels. MRC-2 prefers 0 Fairburn Road SW 14 024300030732 Some are mixed-use 0 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14 024300070126 split with development. 0 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14 024300070415 R-4 and RG- Redevelopment 0 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14F001400010545 2, as shown Criteria on 0 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14F001400010321 on the map. pages 100 to 176 Fairburn Road NW 14 024300090454 103 should be 184 Fairburn Road NW 14 024300090447 considered 2 Fairburn Road NW 14 024300030609 in rezoning 3 Fairburn Road SW 14F001400010651 process. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive 3500 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030294 3509 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14 024300070100 Zoning and land Fairburn Road Fairburn Gordon 3534 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030773 use are split on Apartments 3537 MLK, Jr. Drive NW 14 024300070407 some parcels. DaVita Bakers 3541 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300070373 Ferry Dialysis 3550 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030682 Bakers Ferry Road 3552 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030674 3553 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300070068 3558 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030690 3561 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300070324 3566 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300030716 3599 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300070316 AT&T 3601 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300090017 3604 Bakers Ferry Road SW 14F001400040146 3610 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010511 3611 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14 024300090439 3615 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010701 3615 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010693 3617 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010412 3620 Bakers Ferry Road SW 14F001400040138 3620 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010529 3640 Bakers Ferry Road SW 14F001400040153 3640 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010198 3650 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010339 3657 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010354 3660 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F001400010446 3665 MLK, Jr. Drive SW 14F0015 LL0793 Fairburn Road Fairburn 3690 Adamsville Drive SW 14F001400010644

1” = 400’

Existing Zoning with Recommended 0’ 200’ 400’ 800’ Changes 97 North Proactive Rezoning

Benjamin E. Mays Drive & Fairburn Road Node

Current Proposed Justification # Address Parcel # Zoning Zoning

2 501 Fairburn Road SW 14F0012 LL0408 O-I MRC-1 or Focus mixed- (This parcel spans across the MRC-2 use around concept plan area line) Doctor’s Memorial 3 475 Fairburn Road SW 14F0012 LL0325 O-I MRC-1 or Park; improve MRC-2 connectivity and use on land between developments

4 3711 Benjamin E. Mays Drive 14F0012 LL0368 C-1 MRC-1 or Align FLU SW MRC-2 and Zoning; (This parcel spans across the land use is concept plan area line) currently split on the parcel; preserve housing

5 490 Fairburn Road SW 14F0012 LL0259 C-1 MRC-1 or Focus a MRC-2 mixed-use node around 6 0 Fairburn Road SW 14F0012 LL0382 C-1 MRC-1 or Doctor’s MRC-2 Memorial Park

7 550 Fairburn Road SW 14F0012000 10083 O-I-C MRC-1 or MRC-2

8 0 Fairburn Road SW 14F0012 LL0374 C-1 MRC-1 or MRC-2

9 0 Fairburn Road SW 14F0011 LL0086 RG-3 MRC-1 or MRC-2

98 Existing Zoning with Recommended Changes

Elite at City Park Apartment Homes

Fairburn Road

Fairburn Townhouses

Atlanta Handicap Manor

Richard Allen Blvd. Summerset Assisted Living

Benjamin E. Mays Drive

Doctor’s Atlanta Memorial Big Bethel Center for Park Village Medical Research

Railroad Tracks

1” = 300’

0’ 150’ 300’ 600’

99 North Recently Renovated Affordable Metropolitan Gardens Apartments (TSW, 2020) Redevelopment Criteria Empowering NPU-H community members to have a say in the future growth and development of their neighborhoods.

The Redevelopment Criteria requirements of zoning, but could which NPU-H Master Plan Goals are items that are community become rezoning conditions. and Atlanta City Design Core preferences for future growth Values are met by each criteria. and development. Some, Although the land use All of them meet the following indicated with a star, could be recommendations of this NPU-H Master Plan Goal: B.2 requirements for a developer plan take economics into Determine development criteria to rezone a property, and they consideration, there may be cases for priority redevelopment sites. are negotiating tactics that the where a developer requests NPU can use during the rezoning rezoning to a density, height, or approval process. Developments use that is different from what is that are consistent with these recommended. In these cases, considerations and the City’s the applications should only be Comprehensive Plan should be approved when they express prioritized. Negotiations between exceptional commitment to the the NPU and developers should considerations below. emphasize these considerations, The Redevelopment Criteria which go beyond the chart is divided by category, and

100 A. Jobs & Businesses

NPU-H City Design # Redevelopment Criteria Goals Core Values

Create permanent (not just construction) jobs at a variety of wage A.3, B.2 Ambition, Progress, A.1 levels that meet a living wage and accessible to nearby residents Equity with a variety of education levels

A.3, B.2 Ambition, Progress, A.2 Offer jobs to local residents first Equity

Provide space for local businesses rather than large or national A.3, B.2, B.3 Ambition, Access, chains through one or more of the following techniques: Progress, Equity 1. For redevelopment sites with existing small businesses, offer commercial spaces to those existing businesses first 2. Offer commercial spaces that will be affordable to small A.3 businesses 3. Provide spaces with month-to-month leases, pop-ups, and co-working spaces 4. Complete basic improvements (HVAC, drywall, electrical, etc.) before leasing to reduce the cost of tenant improvements

Lease space to quality grocery stores that offer fresh food and A.3, A.4, A.5, Access, Equity A.4 produce for customers with a variety of income levels B.2

Lease space to quality restaurants (sit-down, fast-casual, and fine A.3, A.4, B.2 Access, Equity A.5 dining) for customers with a variety of income levels B. Housing

NPU-H City Design # Redevelopment Criteria Goals Core Values

Ensure that at least 20% of multi-family residential units in new B.2, C.5 Equity B.1 developments are accessible to those earning 50-80% of area median income (AMI) or lower

Preserve existing and subsidized multi-family, affordable housing B.2, C.5, C.6 Equity B.2 units by renovating existing units (where the units cannot be preserved, replace them at a 1:1 ratio)

B.3 Provide housing for seniors (55+ units, assisted living, etc.) B.2, C.1, C.5 Equity

Provide a mix of housing types and unit sizes that accommodates B.2, C.1, C.2, Equity B.4 a diversity of people (studios, shared living, three-bedroom units, C.4, C.5, C.6 tiny houses, cottage courts)

Potential Rezoning Criterion

101 C. Building & Site Design

NPU-H City Design # Redevelopment Criteria Goals Core Values

C.1 Design with crime prevention and informal supervision in mind B.2, C.5, E.4 Equity, Progress

C.2 Promote stormwater management best practices A.2, B.2, B.4 Nature, Progress

Use high-quality facade materials, such as brick, stone, and new B.2 , D.5 Progress C.3 durable, environmentally-friendly materials

C.4 Encourage public art that involves local artists B.2, D.5 Equity, Progress

Achieve green architectural excellence, meaning that the building B.2, D.5 Progress, Ambition, C.5 design meets or exceeds the aesthetic, environmental, and Nature ecological standards of the NPU

Completely screen parking from view with active uses or B.2, D.1, D.5 Progress, Nature C.6 landscaping and include green infrastructure features

C.7 Preserve historic buildings or structures B.2, C.6, D.5 Equity

Provide proper levels of lighting to ensure real and perceived B.2, D.5, E.4 Equity C.8 security, based on CPTED principles (CPTED Guide) Table 4-1

Use full cut-off lighting fixtures to prevent unnecessary glare in B.2, D.5, E.4 Equity C.9 adjacent areas

Provide security cameras that connect to Atlanta Police B.2, D.1, D.2, Equity C.10 Department precincts D.5, E.4

C.11 Place recycling and trash receptacles abundantly to reduce litter Progress, Nature D. Transportation & Parking

NPU-H City Design # Redevelopment Criteria Goals Core Values

Design internal streets to slow traffic, prioritize pedestrians, and B.2, E.2, E.3 Access, Equity, D.1 include all modes of transportation Progress

New developments along a MARTA bus route should coordinate B.2, E.2, E.3 Access, Equity, D.2 with MARTA to provide a trash cans and a new shelter, or add a Progress shelter, to an existing bus stop

Provide adequate street lighting on all streets to ensure real and B.2, E.4 Access D.3 perceived security, based on CPTED principles (see guide above)

Use shared parking agreements to encourage the best use of B.2 Access D.4 parking within a development or with adjacent properties in mixed-use nodes and developments.

D.5 Construct on-street parking on at least one side of all new streets B.2, E.2 Access

102 Encourage developers to offer transit discounts or incentives to B.2 Access, Equity D.6 tenants or residents E. Open Space & Sustainability NPU-H City Design # Redevelopment Criteria Goals Core Values

Use high reflectivity roof materials, solar panels, or green roofs on B.2, B.4 Nature E.1 multi-family or commercial developments

Encourage building design to meet a minimum of LEED Silver or B.2, D.5 Nature, Progress, E.2 similar certification Ambition

Generate energy on site from renewable sources, such as solar B.2 Nature, Progress, E.3 panels Ambition

Use stormwater best practices to collect and filter rainwater, B.2, B.4 Nature, Progress, E.4 including pervious materials, bioswales, and planters, particularly Ambition along streetscapes

Design public spaces to be integrated and activated by their A.2, B.2 Nature, Progress, E.5 surroundings by being surrounded by streets or buildings Equity, Access

E.6 Use native, adaptive, or edible plant species in landscaping A.5, B.2, B.4 Nature, Equity

Use creative methods to reuse stormwater, HVAC condensate, and B.2, B.4 Nature, Progress, E.7 recycled gray water on site Ambition

Educate building occupants on sustainability – signs, materials, A.1, B.2, D.5 Nature, Progress, E.8 events, recycling programs Ambition

Ensure that required open space is publicly accessible and large A.2, B.2 Nature, Equity, E.9 enough to be usable Access

Encourage open spaces and parks to include community food A.5, B.2, B.4 Nature, Equity E.10 gardens and garden centers

Potential Rezoning Criterion

103 Long-Term Initiatives

Many projects could be retain well-paying jobs and new sidewalk, lighting, and safety implemented as a result of the businesses to the area, including improvements. Boulder Park NPU’s efforts. It is important opportunities for small business Drive, Bakers Ferry Road, and to reiterate that the concept owners. Collier Drive could be other plans in Chapter 3 are only one priority streets to redesign. idea for future development Housing Finally, the City and NPU-H can that meets the plan’s vision. In addition to providing incentives partner with MARTA to ensure Private development will occur for developers to add affordable that bus stops are improved as as the market allows, but the housing options, and requiring new development occurs. City of Atlanta and NPU-H different types of housing options can encourage appropriate through the Redevelopment Open Space & redevelopment through public- Criteria, NPU-H and the City can Sustainability private partnerships, incentives, partner with Invest Atlanta and The Department of Parks and and the Redevelopment Atlanta Housing to determine the Recreation can work with NPU-H Criteria. It will be key to develop best way to develop properties to ensure a regular maintenance partnerships with agencies that they own in the area. schedule in parks, expand can help with implementation, programming for residents of all such as Invest Atlanta, the City Building & Site Design NPU-H and the City can work ages, and make sure that lighting of Atlanta Departments of Parks together to establish architectural and other security measures and Recreation, Transportation, and design standards for new make the parks safe. As new and Public Works, Georgia Power, buildings in key areas of the NPU, public spaces are created in Atlanta Housing, Fulton County, and ensure the preservation redevelopment projects, the community organizations, the of historic buildings. NPU-H City should coordinate with Atlanta Regional Commission, can also work with the City of developers to ensure that they and MARTA. Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs are usable, accessible, and These proposed initiatives, to hire local artists for pieces secure. Food access, community projects, and ideas are organized in parks, public spaces, and gardens, and stormwater into the same categories as the redevelopment projects. management were key topics the Redevelopment Criteria. The list Steering Committee discussed. is intended to provide some ideas Transportation NPU-H can create a coordinated for how the major goals of this Transportation projects, including approach to community gardens plan can be accomplished and streetscape improvements, like through multiple partnerships resources for partnerships and lighting and seating, should be described on page 107. information. Many of the ideas identified. Projects can be added have similar timelines; members to the TSPLOST list, the City Other Initiatives Other initiatives and projects that of NPU-H will need to determine and NPU-H could determine address the goals of this master the capacity they have to work on a location to apply for an plan could include community the projects and prioritize the key Atlanta Regional Commission clean-up initiatives, public health initiatives and partnerships they planning grant in order to make improvements, educational want to pursue. transportation improvements funding available, or the partnerships with community Jobs & Businesses Department of Transportation organizations, and building NPU-H and the City of Atlanta can prioritize certain projects on relationships with residents to should continue to work with key corridors, such as Fairburn encourage them to stay and be Invest Atlanta to attract and Road and Bolton Road, for part of change in the community.

104 *Note: This list is a menu of items that NPU-H can prioritize and select projects for implementation based on the greatest need.

Jobs & Businesses

Project / Initiative Timeline Partnerships

Partner with Invest Atlanta to bring well-paying, living wage, 2-5 years; City of Atlanta, Invest permanent jobs to the area through incentives and other programs on-going Atlanta, NPU-H

Partner with Invest Atlanta to support and encourage more local, 2-5 years; City of Atlanta, Invest small businesses and provide small business loans on-going Atlanta, NPU-H

Continue discussions with Invest Atlanta and the Office of Housing & On-going City of Atlanta, Invest Community Development about the opportunities / potential funding Atlanta, NPU-H available from the MLK / Hollowell TAD

Consider a partnership with the Reinvestment Fund / Equity ATL On-going NPU-H, City of Atlanta, Collaborative to help with small business support Equity ATL Collaborative

Expand the iVillage @ MLK Program (pilot project currently at H.E. 0-1 year NPU-H, City of Atlanta, Holmes MARTA Station) to the Adamsville Village node to support Invest Atlanta small businesses and entrepreneurs

Coordinate with Worksource Atlanta to make their youth and adult 0-1 year; on- NPU-H; Worksource workforce training and GED training programs available going Atlanta

Coordinate with Worksource Atlanta to make their Summer Youth 0-1 year; on- NPU-H; Worksource Employment Program available. going Atlanta

Establish a State Opportunity Zone at MLK, Jr. Drive and Fairburn 1-2 years City of Atlanta Road (Adamsville Village) to stimulate jobs and investment with Department of Planning, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA). Ensure Invest Atlanta; Georgia that investment also includes community assistance institutions, DCA educational facilities, and opportunities for entertainment.

Housing

Project / Initiative Timeline Partnerships

Partner with Atlanta Housing to determine the best way to redevelop 2-5 years; City of Atlanta their properties in NPU-H to support the community. on-going Department of Planning, NPU-H, Atlanta Housing

Consider a partnership with the Reinvestment Fund / Equity ATL On-going NPU-H, City of Atlanta, Collaborative to help with affordable housing development. Equity ATL Collaborative

Consider working with Atlanta Neighborhood Development 2-5 years; NPU-H, City of Atlanta; Partnership (ANDP) for affordable housing. on-going ANDP

Coordinate with Invest Atlanta to encourage developers to 2-5 years; City of Atlanta, Invest build affordable housing similar to the Adamsville Green Senior on-going Atlanta, NPU-H Apartments, which Invest Atlanta helped develop.

Work with Invest Atlanta to educate residents about the home 0-1 year; on- City of Atlanta, Invest repairs, homebuyer assistance, and training programs in order to keep going Atlanta, NPU-H legacy residents in their homes and neighborhoods.

105 Building & Site Design

Project / Initiative Timeline Partnerships

Review and revise NPU-H’s CDP design-focused policies (in 0-1 years City of Atlanta appendix) to reflect this Master Plan and include green infrastructure, Department of Planning, such as green roofs, food access, environmentally sustainable NPU-H materials, stormwater mitigation, and green energy standards.

Explore interest in neighborhood design guidelines, with a potential 2-5 years City of Atlanta SPI Overlay district, for the residential portions of NPU-H. Department of Planning, NPU-H

Update lot standards and other design standards during the 2-5 years City of Atlanta forthcoming Atlanta Zoning update. Department of Planning, NPU-H

Work with Office of Cultural Affairs to bring more public art to the 0-1 years; City of Atlanta Office of area in parks, public spaces, and redevelopment projects. Potential on-going Cultural Affairs, NPU-H first locations: Georgia Power property, open space near Cascade Skating, and the bridge over I-28 .

Apply for an ARC Community Development Assistance Program 1-2 years NPU-H, City of Atlanta (CDAP) grant to work on specific placemaking recommendations. Department of Planning

Work with property and business owners and the Office of Housing 1-2 years NPU-H, City of Atlanta and Community Development to improve building aesthetics Office of Housing through the Storefront Facade Improvements program. Potential and Community first buildings: historic buildings in Adamsville Village the community Development; property wants to preserve. and business owners

Host education sessions and virtual or in-person tours of other On-going NPU-H; City of Atlanta neighborhoods in Atlanta to understand how they have attracted Office of Design investment and preserved their history and character. Historic Preservation Studio, Department of Planning, Urban Design Commission

Consider designating a historic district to preserve eligible residential 3-4 years NPU-H; City of Atlanta neighborhoods or designate specific buildings or sites as historic or Office of Design as a landmark through the Office of Design Historic Preservation Historic Preservation Studio. This will require significant time and commitment from the Studio; Urban Design community. Potential first projects: ranch houses in Collier Heights, Commission former Judge William Wilson House site and grave site.

Transportation & Parking

Project / Initiative Timeline Partnerships

Identify potential TSPLOST projects (trails, streets, sidewalks, bike 2-5 years City of Atlanta DOT, lanes). Potential streets: Boulder Park, Bakers Ferry, Collier Drive. NPU-H

*Note: This list is a menu of items that NPU-H can prioritize and select projects for implementation based on the greatest need.

106 Determine if an LCI corridor study is appropriate, and apply for the 2-5 years City of Atlanta DOT, grant. NPU-H

Identify locations for bus stop improvements and coordinate with 2-5 years City of Atlanta DOT, MARTA as redevelopment occurs. NPU-H, MARTA

Examine existing bus routes and community circulators to improve 2-5 years City of Atlanta DOT, overall service and on-time performance in the neighborhoods. NPU-H, MARTA Advocate for a new MARTA rail station within the NPU to help alleviate car traffic and provide better transportation access.

Apply for a City of Atlanta Placemaking Grant to help improve 2-5 years City of Atlanta DOT, safety on streets and public spaces. Much of NPU-H falls within the Department of Planning, Equitable Target Area. This is a community-led initiative and can Office of Design, NPU-H include wayfinding elements. Streets around Doctor’s Memorial Park may be good candidates.

Launch an Atlanta Main Street Initiative for Adamsville Village and 2-5 years NPU-H, City of Atlanta participate in the Main Street Fellowship. This is a community-led Department of Planning, initiative and can include wayfinding elements. Atlanta Main Street

Open Space & Sustainability

Project / Initiative Timeline Partnerships

Expand parks and recreation programming offerings for residents of 2-5 years City of Atlanta Parks & all ages at local parks and recreation centers. Recreation, NPU-H

Identify streets that need better stormwater management to reduce 1-2 years City of Atlanta flooding. Work with the Department of Watershed Management Department of to meet the criteria for green infrastructure, such as pavers (like in Watershed Management, Summerhill), stormwater planters (like in Midtown), or others. Office of Resilience, NPU-H

Apply for an ARC Community Development Assistance Program 1-2 years NPU-H, City of Atlanta (CDAP) grant to work on specific stormwater management issues. Department of Planning

Apply for an ARC Community Development Assistance Program 1-2 years NPU-H, City of Atlanta (CDAP) grant to work on specific food security issues. Department of Planning, Atlanta Local Food Initiative

Coordinate community garden and food access efforts. Work with 0-1 years; NPU-H; AgLanta; Office Young Generation Movement (YGM), AgLanta, Park Pride, and the on-going of Housing & Community Office of Housing and Community Developmentto implement urban Development and Office agriculture, community gardens, or farmers markets in appropriate of Resilience; Atlanta parks, vacant properties, and other locations. Local Food Initiative; YGM

*Note: This list is a menu of items that NPU-H can prioritize and select projects for implementation based on the greatest need.

107 Open Space & Sustainability, Continued.

Project / Initiative Timeline Partnerships

Create a vacant properties analysis to find properties suitable for 0-1 year City of Atlanta to additional community gardens or urban farms. Use this analysis to conduct analysis; NPU-H apply for an AgLanta Grows-A-Lot project. AgLanta also has a list of and City to apply for grants from other organizations on their website. grant

Identify a fresh food community liaison in NPU-H to coordinate with 0-1 year NPU-H, City of Atlanta AgLanta Department of Planning and Office of Resilience, AgLanta

Schedule an education session at an NPU-H meeting with AgLanta Completed NPU-H; AgLanta; Roots / the Urban Farm at 3301 Collier Drive to learn about volunteer and July 2020; Down educational opportunities at Farm Awry and Gratitude Botanical. on-going Another option is an education session and partnership with Roots Down for urban agriculture.

Apply for Park Pride’s Park Visioning Program for Wilson Mill Park or 2-5 years NPU-H other green spaces in the area (these plans were created for Collier Park in 2006 and Herbert Greene Nature Preserve in 2009).

Acquire additional greenspace. The Urban Ecology Plan identified 5-10 years City of Atlanta NPU-H as having substantial forested areas. These areas can be acquired with Tree Preservation Fund and be developed with trails for public use.

Identify locations where street trees are needed, organize volunteers, 1-2 years; NPU-H; individual and coordinate with Trees Atlanta through their Neighborhood Tree on-going neighborhood groups; Planting Program. Tree Atlanta uses recompense funding to plant Trees Atlanta trees.

Educate residents on home renovations with green energy options, 1-2 years; NPU-H; City of Atlanta such as wind and solar power, and environmentally sustainable on-going materials, such as hempcrete and others, to save money on utilities.

*Note: This list is a menu of items that NPU-H can prioritize and select projects for implementation based on the greatest need.

108 Other Initiatives

Project / Initiative Timeline Partnerships

Create a community clean-up program; consider a partnership with 0-1 year; on- NPU-H; Keep Atlanta the Keep Atlanta Beautiful Commission to obtain supplies and other going Beautiful Commission; assistance or work with YGM to schedule clean-ups. Department of Public Works; YGM Atlanta

Mitigate public health risks by making contingency plans for public 0-5 years; NPU-H, health concerns and to reduce the impacts of industry along Fulton on-going HERCULES Community Industrial Boulevard. Engagement Core

Create educational partnerships with community organizations, 0-5 years; NPU-H, City of Atlanta non-profits, schools, and the Department of Parks and Recreation to on-going Parks & Recreation, offer classes in specific topics, professional education, and workforce Community or Technical training. colleges

Participate in the APS Facilities Master Plan to determine future use 0-1 year NPU-H; Atlanta Public of Margaret Fain Elementary and GA Towns Elementary schools. Schools

Start a community outreach group that builds relationships with 0-5 years; NPU-H homeowners and renters to encourage them to stay in their on-going neighborhoods and participate in neighborhood efforts.

*Note: This list is a menu of items that NPU-H can prioritize and select projects for implementation based on the greatest need.

109 Herbert Green Nature Preserve (TSW, 2019)

Additional Information

110 Appendix

CPTED Guidelines Codes Violated CDP Quality of Life Proposal NPU-H Health Survey Fairburn Road Project NPU-H CDP Policies

111 Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Lighting Guidelines

The International CPTED Association published guidebooks for different elements of CPTED. The Excerpts on the following pages are part of the Lighting guidebook. The first chart shows lighting design ideas and what they accomplish, while the second chart describes the appropriate lighting levels in foot-candles (FC) for different land uses and conditions. More information can be found at: https://www.cpted.net/E-guidebooks

112 113 114 115 Codes Violated NPU-H residents described multiple codes that are violated frequently through a number of issues, listed on page 26 under Public Safety + Code Violations. Recommendations in Chapters 3 and 4 provide ways to address some of the issues, and the list below contains the specific codes that the behaviors violate. • City of Atlanta Ordinance - Chapter 74 Environment; Article V Nuisances; Sec 74-164 • City of Atlanta Ordinance - Chapter 74 Environment - Article V Nuisances; Sec 74-172 • Sec. 16-28A.009. - Prohibited signs • Sec. 16-28.013. - Parking and/or storage of certain vehicles prohibited or limited in specified districts... • Sec. 16-28.008. - Required yards and open space, detailed limitations on occupancy • Sec. 26. - Rooming Houses, Boarding Houses, Residence Hotels, Single Room Occupancy Residences and Buildings with Special Uses.

116 NPU-H CDP Quality of Life Proposal & Vote

VOTE “yes” FOR A QUALITY OF LIFE PLAN ELEMENT Residents of NPU-H are being asked to vote for adding a Quality of Life Plan Element to the city of Atlanta’s Comprehensive Development Plan. The motion would be, but not limited to - - (1)Add public health, welfare, public safety, added traffic congestion to an already heavily congested area conditions to proposed land use legislation so that NPUs may address these concerns when asked to support or not support land use legislation. (Note: The current official list of conditions for NPUs to consider for land use change legislation are fencing, buffering, number of trucks, curve cuts, d-cell lanes, operations time and idling time.)

(2)Add a new plan element entitled, “Quality of Life” to the Atlanta Comprehensive Development Plan. A new Quality of Life Plan Element would address, but not be limited to, concerns when proposed land use legislation might infringe on health, welfare, environment, traffic congestion, air pollution and other health and welfare and concerns.

(3)A Quality of Life Plan Element would also address, but not be limited to, constituents reporting dilemma. Currently, citizens are bounced around from one department or another trying to report minor offences or violations. It is confusing because it’s unclear what department enforces what offense or violation. Constituents are repeatedly told to contact another office. This is stressful and frustrating. Because of this situation, minor offenses and violations continue for years. (Examples of minor nuisances are (but not limited to) parking violations, license tag violations, dogs barking on the premises of vacant properties; loud boon box noises, children playing in the street after 11pm, individuals repairing vehicles and conducting businesses, portable basketball stands in residential neighborhoods.) Q&A’s Why should you vote in NPU-H meeting to add a new plan element to the Atlanta Comprehensive Development Plan? It will start the process to add it to the Comprehensive Development Plan and notify the Atlanta Office of Zoning that NPU-H residents want future land use legislation to consider public health, welfare, public safety, etc.

What is the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) and why is it important? A county or city/town must be chartered in the State of Georgia. The CDP is legislation that is required of all Georgia cities (towns) and counties to maintain their charter status and to received state funding. Every four to 5 years each local government in Georgia must update their Comprehensive Development Plan and submit that plan to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA). The CDP is comprised of plan elements. Counties and cities/towns must update and address each plan element, specifically, land use, housing, transportation, economic development, community goals, needs opportunities, community program, broadband and capital improvements. The CDP legislation is important because the plan elements affect your life, wellbeing, workplace, living quarters, and the use of the land where you live.

Why does Atlanta need a Quality of Life Plan Element? To address health, welfare and public safety added traffic congestion in the Comprehensive Development Plan; address citizen reporting of nuisance violations and offenses to the proper city office or department. In addition, the city of Atlanta has never had a Quality Of Life Plan Element in its Comprehensive Development Plan.

If a Quality of Life Plan Element is so important, why hasn’t the city of Atlanta added it in the past? No official, NPU or official body has ever chosen to add Quality of Life to the CDP and Atlanta officials in past administrations have been primarily concerned with development, developers, massive growth rather than residents’ health, welfare, added traffic congestion, reporting nuisances in residential areas..

Is a Quality of Life (QOL) Plan Element unusual for a Comprehensive Development plan? No. Gwinnett County has QOL codes; the city of Buffalo NY has QOL codes; the city of Snellville has a QOL plan element in their CDP. 117

What happens next if NPU-H votes to support a Quality of Life Plan Element? NPU-H Chair would send a recommendation to the Office of Zoning and Development including the results of the vote, documentation & the Office of Zoning & Development would review the package and determine the next step. 1 of 2 VOTE “yes” FOR A QUALITY OF LIFE PLAN ELEMENT Residents of NPU-H are being asked to vote for adding a Quality of Life Plan Element to the city of Atlanta’s Comprehensive Development Plan. The motion would be, but not limited to - - (1)Add public health, welfare, public safety, added traffic congestion to an already heavily congested area conditions to proposed land use legislation so that NPUs may address these concerns when asked to support or not support land use legislation. (Note: The current official list of conditions for NPUs to consider for land use change legislation are fencing, buffering, number of trucks, curve cuts, d-cell lanes, operations time and idling time.)

(2)Add a new plan element entitled, “Quality of Life” to the Atlanta Comprehensive Development Plan. A new Quality of Life Plan Element would address, but not be limited to, concerns when proposed land use legislation might infringe on health, welfare, environment, traffic congestion, air pollution and other health and welfare and concerns.

(3)A Quality of Life Plan Element would also address, but not be limited to, constituents reporting dilemma. Currently, citizens are bounced around from one department or another trying to report minor offences or violations. It is confusing because it’s unclear what department enforces what offense or violation. Constituents are repeatedly told to contact another office. This is stressful and frustrating. Because of this situation, minor offenses and violations continue for years. (Examples of minor nuisances are (but not limited to) parking violations, license tag violations, dogs barking on the premises of vacant properties; loud boon box noises, children playing in the street after 11pm, individuals repairing vehicles and conducting businesses, portable basketball stands in residential neighborhoods.) Q&A’s Why should you vote in NPU-H meeting to add a new plan element to the Atlanta Comprehensive Development Plan? It will start the process to add it to the Comprehensive Development Plan and notify the Atlanta Office of Zoning that NPU-H residents want future land use legislation to consider public health, welfare, public safety, etc.

What is the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) and why is it important? A county or city/town must be chartered in the State of Georgia. The CDP is legislation that is required of all Georgia cities (towns) and counties to maintain their charter status and to received state funding. Every four to 5 years each local government in Georgia must update their Comprehensive Development Plan and submit that plan to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA). The CDP is comprised of plan elements. Counties and cities/towns must update and address each plan element, specifically, land use, housing, transportation, economic development, community goals, needs opportunities, community program, broadband and capital improvements. The CDP legislation is important because the plan elements affect your life, wellbeing, workplace, living quarters, and the use of the land where you live.

Why does Atlanta need a Quality of Life Plan Element? To address health, welfare and public safety added traffic congestion in the Comprehensive Development Plan; address citizen reporting of nuisance violations and offenses to the proper city office or department. In addition, the city of Atlanta has never had a Quality Of Life Plan Element in its Comprehensive Development Plan.

If a Quality of Life Plan Element is so important, why hasn’t the city of Atlanta added it in the past? No official, NPU or official body has ever chosen to add Quality of Life to the CDP and Atlanta officials in past administrations have been primarily concerned with development, developers, massive growth rather than residents’ health, welfare, added traffic congestion, reporting nuisances in residential areas..

Is a Quality of Life (QOL) Plan Element unusual for a Comprehensive Development plan? No. Gwinnett County has QOL codes; the city of Buffalo NY has QOL codes; the city of Snellville has a QOL plan element in their CDP.

What happens next if NPU-H votes to support a Quality of Life Plan Element? NPU-H Chair would send a recommendation to the Office of Zoning and Development including the results of the vote, documentation & the Office of Zoning & Development would review the package and determine the next step. 1 of 2

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ealth and Welfare regarding land use oning is recommended by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs in the oning rocedures a CGA b Adoption of hearing policies and procedures and standards for eercise of oning poer public health, safety, morality, or general welfare . . egislatie findings . public health, safety, and welfare. . . . Ac Appointment of disinterested special master if goerning authority unable to attain a uorum health, safety, morality, or general welfare .

ealth and Welfare is recommended by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs Board in the Board’s Georgias uality Community becties Recommendation 10 reads . to improve public safety; promoting programs that foster better health and fitness .

... . . “In 2002-2006, some of the highest percentages of deaths due to major cardiovascular disease were in central and south Fulton. By 2007- 2011 the percentages of deaths due to major cardiovascular disease increased and some of the highest percentages were again in central and south Fulton. By 2012-2016 the percentages of deaths due to major cardiovascular disease decreased to a level better than the 2002- 2006 level yet some of the highest percentages were again in central and south Fulton” Number of Discharges by Census Tract of Residence, Fulton County, Asthma, 2007-2011 Asthma analysis Adamsville Area Map: “There were more roughly 1½ times more hospital discharges for asthma in central and south Fulton than the in other parts of the County. “

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of NPU-H Health Survey In 2010, NPU-H residents conducted a Health Survey, as described on page 31 in the Public Health section. ThePrevious following Plans pages and show Projects the original survey questions. Paper Survey 1 of 4

2010 NPU-H Health & Environment Paper Survey Grant funded by Community Foundation of Greater Metropolitan Atlanta Neighborhood Fund January-June 2010

Purpose Why Was the NPU-H Survey Needed? Highest rate of child asthma in Fulton County in 2010 Three (3) dialysis clinics are in high demand from Southwest Atlanta residents NPU-H borders the Fulton Industrial Boulevard Corridor where there is a documented high particulate emissions. FIB is the largest trucking corridor in the Southeaster U.S. and the second largest trucking corridor in the U.S. Residents’ health is a priority No previously documented surveys in NPU-H geographical area Residents felt they are a forgotten community.

Background Our community with collaboration from the Centers for Disease Control, Fulton County Health Services conducted a community based environmental health assessment study to create an accurate and verifiable profile of the community's environmental health status. Using the Protocol for Assisting Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE-EH) guidebook as the framework for the project, we completed 4 of 13 task required for completion. To accomplish task 5, we sought funding to conduct a community awareness campaign by hosting a series of movie nights/days to view presentations about air, water, personal health, violence prevention, safety, litter, food, etc. to collect data on community concerns, knowledge, attitudes, behavior, and perceptions. At the conclusion of this task we will have created a manageable list of issues. We located funding to complete Task 5 and move forward to complete the project by December 2010.

Schedule February 16, 2010 – Jackson Memorial Church – 1:00pm-3:00pm February 23, 2010 – Jackson Memorial Church – 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. February 25, 2010 – Mays High PTSA meeting 7:00pm-8:30pm March 1, 2010 – Darnell Senior Center after luncheon Movie/Survey & Popcorn 12:30pm-1:30pm March 4, 2010 – NPU-H Meeting at the Darnell Center - 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. March 6, 2010 – Adamsville Recreation Center Open House 12:00-4:00pm March 20, 2010 – Adamsville Beautification Fair 11:00am – 2:00pm at Zion Hill Baptist Church April 1, 2010 – NPU-H Monthly meeting at the Darnell Center – 7pm – 9pm April 3, 2010 – Adamsville Health Fair at Recreation Center – 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. April 5, 2010 – Darnell Senior Center Movie Survey during Lunch – 11:30am-12:30pm April 15, 2010 – Big Bethel Homeowners Association – 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. April 17, 2010 – Adamsville Earth Day Clean Up assemble at Collier Plaza – 10am – 2:00pm April 23, 2010 – Jackson Memorial Church – 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. May 2, 2010 – Celebrity Cook-Off by the Adamsville Business & Community Partnership at Adamsville Recreation Center – 2:30pm – 4:00pm

Survey Design Team and Co-coordinators of Survey Events Cathy Richards Michelle Uchiyama Vernelle Cowan

Tené Traylor Program Officer The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Jessica Daniels Assigned Community Coach The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

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The Atlanta Department of portions of the east and west traffic signal at Mays Crossing and Transportation (DOT) and Renew side of Fairburn Road from Mays Fairburn Road is currently being Atlanta are leading an effort Crossing to Benjamin E. Mays replaced and upgraded under a to improve the Fairburn Road Drive, whereby bike traffic on separate contract. streetscape to make it safer the west side will crossover to for pedestrians, cyclists, and the east side of the roadway at The slides on the next page are drivers, as a result of the Atlanta Mays Crossing connecting to a pulled from the July 2019 update Transportation Plan completed 10 foot multi use path. The multi presentation. in 2018. The goal is to make use path heading north begins at Fairburn Road a “Complete Mays Crossing and terminates Street.” at Boulder Park Drive. The dedicated bike lanes on the east The July 2019 presentation and west side of the roadway noted the following design will continue from Boulder Park criteria: Drive to Martin Luther King Jr. • Provide opportunities for Drive. New concrete sidewalks multiple users will be constructed on the west • Maintain curb lines where side of the roadway along with possible new curbs in various sections on • Improve safety along the both sides of Fairburn Road. The corridor while improving roadway will be resurfaced and accessibility have new curb ramps, decorative • Use rectangular rapid flashing retaining walls where needed, beacons (RRFB) for safe new street trees and pedestrian pedestrian crossings LED lighting, new street signs • Improve infrastructure and pavement markings along (consider green strategies) with several pedestrian hybrid • Improve aesthetics beacon devices at mid block crossings. In addition, the The same presentation noted project will implement drainage the following scope for the improvements to facilitate proper project: The Fairburn Road drainage to help alleviate the Complete Street project consist flooding occurrences of the of the redesign of the Fairburn past. In 2017 and 2018, on certain roadway for approximately segments of the roadway the 2.1 miles from Martin Luther pavement was resurfaced due King Jr. Drive south to the city to the deteriorated pavement limits near Cascade Road. The condition and could not wait improvement will incorporate a for the implementation of this road diet narrowing the existing improvement. Therefore, the traffic lanes. The project will have current design took into account 5 foot dedicated bike lanes on of the resurfacing work. The

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�et�een �e�i�� �ensities �evelop�ent alon� �oll��oo� �oa� �orri�or to e�istin� sin�le �a�il� resi�ential neighborhoods using mid to low-rise mixed-use development.

����� �n�o�ra�e t�e �tili�ation o� �n�evelope� lan� alon� t�e ��a�a�oo��ee �iver �or a par�� �i�e trail an� �iver�al� Atlanta � �ile �reen�a� ��i�� �o�l� in�l��e Atlanta �n��strial �ar�� ��a�a�oo��ee �ri�� an� ��lton �o�nt� properties.

����� �n�o�ra�e pe�estrian �o�ilit� �� �o�pletin� t�e si�e�al�s t�ro��� ����� an� �p�ra�in� an� a��in� �ross- �al�s. ��prove pe�estrian a�enities s��� as street trees an� �i�e si�e�al�s to ��rt�er en�o�ra�e pe�estrian travel. �n�o�ra�e sa�e an� responsi�le �rivin� pa�erns t�ro���o�t t�e ����� t�ro��� i�ple�entation o� tra�- �� �al�in� �eas�res an� en�or�e�ent o� spee� li�its.

����� �is�o�ra�e in�ll �evelop�ent t�at is not �o�pati�le �it� t�e e�istin� ��ara�ter o� t�e nei���or�oo� �e.�. rear or si�e�o��t�e��o�se �rive�a�s� �ara�es or �arports� lot �overa�e� �oor�to�area ratio� ��il�in� �ei��t� an� �all� fence height of nearby homes.) NPU-H����� �ontrol t�e �evelop�ent Policies o� ��sinesses� s��� as li��or from stores an� non�ta� �ontri��tin�2016 entities. CDP G-17: Open space land use that preserves for Public Park, cemetery, or greenspace the following: Gun Club Park, Gun �l�� �an��ll an� t�e ol� �in�� s��ool site. NPU-H Policies

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���� �reserve t�e sin�le��a�il� resi�ential ��ara�ter o� ����� in all nei���or�oo�s espe�iall� t�e �arroll �ei��ts� Fairburn Heights, Adamsville, and Boulder Park Neighborhoods.

���� �n�o�ra�e in�ll �evelop�ent t�at is �o�pati�le �it� s�rro�n�in� �ses.

H-3: Middle to high income housing is encouraged to establish a more diverse housing market in NPU-H.

���� ��pport an� en�o�ra�e �artin ��t�er �in� �r. �rive an� �air��rn �oa� are areas �evelope� �or ��lti�a�il� ��ellin�s� �i� �se �evelop�ent� an� s�pportive �o�sin�.

���� �o� in�o�e �o�sin� �onstr��tion is not en�o�ra�e� ��e to t�e lar�e vol��e o� �no���pie� lo� in�o�e sin�le an� ��lti��a�il� ��ellin�s t�at ��rrentl� e�ist in �����.

���� �n�o�ra�e ��lti��a�il� �evelop�ent o� ��� a�res or �ore s��� as apart�ents� ��ple�es� senior �a�ilities to in- �l��e a se�tion o� �reenspa�e � pla� area� e�orts s�o�l� �e �a�e to in�l��e o�t�oor ��iet spots �it� �en��es for residents, with walking trail for larger developments

���� ��pport t�e preservation an� t�e �evelop�ent o� senior �o�sin� �nits an� parti��larl� a�or�a�le �o�sin� �nits along Fairburn Rd.

�esi�ential � �n�evelope���a�ant

���� �n�o�ra�e ne� �o�sin� �evelop�ent t�at is �o�pati�le �it� t�e ��ara�ter o� e�istin� nei���or�oo�s to repla�e the blighted development areas, and accelerate the razing of structures on the following sites: 914 Bolton Rd ��� ��� �olton �� ��� ��� �olton �� ��� ���� �olton �� ��

Commercial - Industrial

���� �e�a�ilitate an��or repla�e t�e e�istin� ol�er �o��er�ial ��il�in�s ��ere appropriate on �ar�n ��t�er �in� �r. �r. �et�een ����� an� �est to Atlanta �it� li�its� �it� t�e �elp o� t�e e�istin� �ollo�ell��.�.���A� an� �nvest Atlanta initiatives.

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����� �nco�rage diversit� o� co��ercial ��sinesses on M.L. King Jr. Dr s�c� as grocer� stores� �ve�star resta�rants� �ig� end �o�ti��es to co�pli�ent t�e senior �ig� rise c�aracter �o�sing along t�is corridor.

����� ��pport �ni�ed develop�ent o� t�e �da�sville co��ercial area and its associated co���nit� �acilities �it�o�t encroac�ing into ad�acent residential areas.

����� �nco�rage t�e develop�ent o� o�ce�instit�tional �ses along Martin L�t�er King Jr. Drive �ro� t�e �da�sville co��ercial area to t�e e�isting co��ercial �se at t�e ����� interc�ange �it�o�t encroac�ing into ad�acent resi- dential areas.

����� �nco�rage t�e re��oning �ro� ���� to Mi�ed �se Develop�ent �ro� on Martin L�t�er King Jr. Drive �ro� �olton �oad to ��lton �nd�strial �o�levard �it�o�t encroac�ing into ad�acent single �a�il� residential areas.

H-14: Discourage shabby un-kept commercial storefronts. Encourage adding when possible, greenery such as grass, �o�ers and or s�r���er�.

����� �nco�rage ne� ��siness �it� accepta�le store�ront designs according to g�idelines identi�ed in t�e ������ �d- a�sville ���� �o�pre�ensive Develop�ent Master �lan

����� Maintain t�e �o�ndaries o� co��ercial� ind�strial� and instit�tional �ses �it�o�t encroac�ing into lo��densit� residential areas.

����� �onsolidate strip co��ercial �ses in order to create a �ni�ed develop�ent �aving a �ini��� n���er o� c�r� cuts and turn lanes.

����� �etain ind�strial �ses. �rovide landscaped or arc�itect�ral ���ers to �ini�i�e t�eir potential i�pacts on ad�a- cent residential areas.

����� �reserve� protect� and �aintain �ood plain areas in t�eir nat�ral states

����� �nco�rage developers and private o�ners to install side�al�s t�ro�g�o�t ����� ��ic� �ill eli�inate residents� especially children walking in the street.

����� ��pport t�e preservation and t�e develop�ent o� senior �o�sing �nits and partic�larl� a�orda�le �o�sing �nits along M.L. K Jr Drive.

Transportation

����� �nco�rage additional stor� drains on streets ��ere street �ooring occ�rs d�ring �eav� rain.

����� �nco�rage t�e creation o� t�rn lanes on �a�or t�oro�g� �ares �M. L. King Jr. Drive� �air��rn �oad� �olton �oad� �o�lder �ar� Drive� �a�es �err� �oad� Del�ar Lane� at all intersections.

����� �nco�rage t�e creation and designation o� �i�e Lanes on �a�or t�oro�g� �ares �M.L. King Jr Drive � �air��rn Road).

����� �nco�rage t�e creation o� ��s �top Lanes in �ront o� s�opping areas� apart�ent co�ple�es� c��rc�es� �edi- cal �acilities� and ot�er properties ��ere large n���ers o� riders �a� load and �nload t�e ��s on M.L. King Jr. Drive and Fairburn Road; shall be included in the development plans of all new retail/commercial projects and ��lti�a�il� �o�sing co�ple� in �����

����� �nco�rage t�e �it� to install pedestrian crossings e��ipped �it� co�nt do�n signals� �rig�t street lig�ting� and �ell de�ned crossing �al�.

����� �nco�rage t�e �it� to install Tra�c �al�ing tec�ni��es and devices in co���nit� areas ��ere tra�c violation iss�es are creating pro�le�s �or co���nit� sa�et� and �ell��eing.

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����� ������t an� �nc���age c�nnectiv�t� s�c� as ma��e� ���tes, ��s ���tes, �al��ng �at�s t� ��e �eltl�ne a�ea ��� ����ng, �al��ng an� �t�e� lan� �se activ�ties ��� ����� ���c� �s ��ts��e �� ��e �eltl�ne �es�gnate� ge�g�a���.

Planning and Urban Design

����� �n ne� �evel��ment �� �e��evel��ment �� ����e�ties g�een s�ace �s enc���age� ��� �la� a�ea ��� �am�l�es.

����� �n m�lti�am�l� �evel��ment, a c�mm�n�t���am�l� activ�t� cente� �s enc���age� t� all�� ��� �es��ents t� ��st small events, meetings, etc.

����� �es��ential �� ��mme�c�al �evel��ment t�at st��s �� alte�s t�e nat��al ��� �� �ate� �n c�ee�s, st�eams, �� la�es is not encouraged.

����� �e� �evel��ment ��t� t��ee st��� ��mes t�at ��se t�� st���es a��ve t�e nea�est ��mes ��t��n ��� �a��s �� t�e new development is not encouraged.

����� �e� �evel��ment �el�� st�eet level t�at ��ll �e����e se�age t� �e ��m�e� �� t� t�e ma�n se�age l�ne �s not encouraged.

�lann�ng an� ���an �es�gn��a��s �ec�eati�n � ��lt��al ��a��s ������nati�n

����� ��st���c ��ese�vati�n �e��cati�n �� t�e ����s, ����s � ea�l� ����s ���t���nt� �� ����� �s enc���age� �n t�e form of workshops, digital records, family roots study, and street history of the NPU-H geography and nearby neighborhoods.

����� �nc���age c�mm�n�t� cente� an� �ec�eati�n cente� �evel��ment �� ��� ac�es �� m��e �ncl��e a secti�n �� g�eens�ace � �la� a�ea. �en��� �ac�l�ties � e���ts s���l� �e ma�e t� �ncl��e ��t���� �enc��s�����et s��t ��� residents. Walking trail(s) would be encouraged for larger developments.

H-36: Encourage the maintenance of public and private greenspace areas

����� ������t �nstallati�n �� �ell�l�t, sa�e �e�est��an �al��a�s an� �at�s a���n� ��t� �� �tlanta �a��s, ���l�c �ac�l�ties.

�at��al �es���ces an� ��st���c �es�gnati�ns �g�een s�aces, �etlan�s�

H-38: Protect and enhance natural resources and historical sites:

• �t�� ����ngs � ���l�e� �a�� ���ve, ���l�e� �a�� �e�g�������� � �an� ��t ������ � �a�cel � ������� ����� • �at�m �a�e � ���l�e� �a�� ���ve, ��ls�n ��ll �ea���s �e�g�������� �an� ��t ������ � �a�cel � ������� ����� • �e��e�t ��eene �at��e ��ese�ve � ���l�e� �a�� �e�g�������� �an� ��t ������ � �a�cel � ������� ����� • �at��al ���l�e� ��c� ga��en ��a�e� ��lls �e�g�������� �an� ��t ������ � �a�cel � ������� ����� • Bethlehem UMC Church Cemetery on 4195 Bakers Ferry Road, Wilson Mill Meadows Neighborhood - Land Lot ������ �a�cel � ������� ������ • Mayson Church Cemetery on Hollowell Parkway - Bankhead-Bolton Neighborhood - Land Lot 17-261 - Parcel � �� ����������� • �t ���n ��ss��na�� �a�tist ����c� �emete�� ��amsv�lle �e�g��������, �a�����n �� �an� ��t ������ � �a�cel � �� ����������� • �e��g�a ��tan�cal �a��en ���st���cal s�te� � ����s �ec�eati�n �en�e � �a�e�s �e��� �e�g�������� � �an� ��t 14F-51 (and LL 23 in Fulton County) • ��e ���ge ��ll�am �s���� ��ls�n ���se ���st���cal s�te� � ����entl� ��������t ��g� ���ns, a g�eens�ace ��� ��e ���ge ��ls�n ���se an� �a��ens, ��� �a�����n ��a�, �a�����n��a�s �e�g�������� � �an� ��t ������ � �a�cel � ������� �����

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