City of Lawrenceville Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee

Examples of multi­use path – PATHDeKalb County.Gwinnett County. This facility is 162 acres in size, with a22-acre lake, surrounded by open space, five picnicpavilions, a 0.8-mile paved multipurpose trail, twoplaygrounds as well as seven baseball/softball fields, and afootball field overlay. The park also features a communitycenter with two classrooms, a dance/aerobics room, a largecommunity room and a double gymnasium. The tenniscenter has eight lighted courts. An outdoor leisure poolfeatures three lap lanes, a large slide and other water playfeatures. The City also has Park West on Five Forks-TrickumRoads, which is operated by the Boys and Girls Club ofGwinnett County; Bartow Jenkins Park, a passive parklocated on Lawrenceville Highway (US 29); and BaggettPark, an undeveloped +/-18-acre park located at theintersection of US 29 and Sugarloaf Parkway.The City is crisscrossed with easements, streams and othergreen spaces that could be preserved as passive spaces ordeveloped into multi-use trails or “pocket parks” to bringrecreational opportunities closer to the neighborhoods andto reduce the number of vehicle trips, which should aid inreducing congestion.Desired Development Patterns• Preservation of parks and greenspace for alternativetransportation, environmental education, andconservation is a priority for the City of Lawrenceville.• The creation of new parks and greenspaces toaccommodate the growing population of Lawrenceville,with an emphasis on pocket parks and passiverecreational opportunities.• To encourage the development of a series of pocketparks adjacent to, or nearby existing residentialdevelopment, especially the “Post War”, “First Boom”and “Second Boom” neighborhoods, where recreationalamenities were not installed when the subdivision wasdeveloped.• To encourage private investment and further publicinvestment to develop a series of multi-use trails to tieinto existing streetscapes to connect neighborhoods withdowntown.Recommended Development Strategies• Perform a study to identify potential sites for pocketparks and connecting multi-use trails and to determineCity of Lawrenceville 2 - 34Comprehensive Plan 2030Adopted VersionCommunity Agenda 6 October 2008