City of Lawrenceville Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee

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community focal points should be attractive, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly places where people choose to gather for shopping,dining, socializing, and entertainment.Transportation Alternatives – Alternatives to transportation by automobile, including mass transit, bicycle routes, and pedestrianfacilities, should be made available in each community. Greater use of alternative transportation should be encouraged.Regional Identity – Each region should promote and preserve a regional “identity,” or regional sense of place, defined in terms oftraditional architecture, common economic linkages that bind the region together, or other shared characteristics.Heritage Preservation – The traditional character of the community should be maintained through preserving and revitalizinghistoric areas of the community, encouraging new development that is compatible with the traditional features of the community,and protecting other scenic or natural features that are important to defining the community’s character.Open Space Preservation – New development should be designed to minimize the amount of land consumed, and open spaceshould be set aside from development for use as public parks or as greenbelts / wildlife corridors. Compact developmentordinances are one way of encouraging this type of open space preservation.Environmental Protection – Environmentally sensitive areas should be protected from negative impacts of development,particularly when they are important for maintaining traditional character or quality of life of the community or region. Wheneverpossible, the natural terrain, drainage, and vegetation of an area should be preserved.Growth Preparedness – Each community should identify and put in place the pre-requisites for the type of growth it seeks toachieve. This might include infrastructure (roads, water, sewer) to support new growth, appropriate training of the workforce,ordinances and regulations to manage growth as desired, or leadership capable of responding to growth opportunities andmanaging new growth when it occurs.Appropriate Business – The businesses and industries encouraged to develop or expand in a community should be suitable forthe community in terms of job skills required, long-term sustainability, linkages to other economic activities in the region, impact onthe resources of the area, and future prospects for expansion and creation of higher-skill job opportunities.Employment Options – A range of job types should be provided in each community to meet the diverse needs of the localworkforce.Housing Choices – A range of housing size, cost, and density should be provided in each community to make it possible for allwork in the community to make it possible for all who work in the community to also live in the community (thereby reducingcommuting distances), to promote a mixture of income and age groups in each community, and to provide a range of housingchoice to meet market needs.Educational Opportunities – Educational and training opportunities should be available in each community – to permitcommunity residents to improve their job skills, adapt to technological advances, or to pursue entrepreneurial ambitions.Regional Solutions – Regional solutions to needs shared by more than one local jurisdiction are preferable to separate localapproaches, particularly where this will result in greater efficiency and less cost to the taxpayer.Regional Cooperation – Regional cooperation should be encouraged in setting priorities, identifying shared needs, and findingcollaborative solutions, particularly where it is critical to success of a venture, such as protection of shared natural resources ordevelopment of a transportation network.City of Lawrenceville 2 - 39Comprehensive Plan 2030Adopted VersionCommunity Agenda 6 October 2008
3: Issues andOpportunities3.1 IntroductionThis section provides an updated list of Community Issuesand Opportunities identified from a review of the analysis ofCounty/Cities Joint Community Assessment, the SteeringCommittee meetings, online surveys and throughdiscussions with elected officials, City staff, and residents aspart of public meetings described in the CommunityParticipation Program.The report organizes the issues and opportunities by themajor topics defined in the State of Georgia Department ofCommunity Affairs’ (DCA) Local Planning Requirements. Theassessment topics are:• Population• Housing• Economic Development• Natural and Cultural Resources• Community Facilities and Services• Transportation• Intergovernmental Coordination• Land Use3.2 Population3.2.1 Population Issues and OpportunitiesContinuing Population GrowthThe U.S. census estimated the 2005 population to be25,764. This figure is projected to increase to 42,301 by2030. This figure equates to a 66% growth rate during theperiod or an average of 2.64% annually. Given that there isa scarcity of vacant land within the City of Lawrenceville,densities will have to increase to accommodate these newresidents.City of Lawrenceville 3 - 1Comprehensive Plan 2030Adopted VersionCommunity Agenda 6 October 2008
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