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Provide gateways into Lawrenceville to improvesense of placeThe City has made strides to start developing a clearerboundary between unincorporated Gwinnett County and theCity Limits, especially along Scenic Highway, where newsignage has been installed and the City worked hard toinclude a landscaped median in the widening of theroadway several years ago. The City should develop a setof guidelines for strategic gateway nodes into Lawrencevillethat would provide landscaping, signage, and other featuresto provide a clear delineation between the county and theCity, as one measure of increasing (or reclaiming) the senseof place.3.8 Transportation3.8.1 Transportation IssuesStreet connectivityOne of the biggest issues in Lawrenceville is the lack ofconnectivity of many local streets. This was most recentlybrought to light in the Downtown Master Plan, completed in2005, which showed a number of streets from the original“grid” of Lawrenceville that were never completed or havebeen abandoned in the past. Additionally, the presence ofAerial view of the westernedge of Lawrenceville – notethe lack of connections acrossthe railroad tracks and theend of the traditional gridpattern.the CSX tracks and a ridgeline cuts the downtown area offfrom the business and neighborhoods north of the tracks.There are only four north/south connections in the areanear the downtown, so connectivity between the traditionalCity of Lawrenceville 3 - 16Comprehensive Plan 2030Adopted VersionCommunity Agenda 6 October 2008
downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods is minimized,together with the tremendous traffic congestion on themajor roadways, making the lack of local street connectivitymore dramatic.Furthermore, in keeping with the “cul-de sac community”trends, neighborhoods of Lawrenceville that were developedin the late 1960’s to early 2000’s, were built withoutvehiclular or pedestrian interconnectivity. Although stubstreets were required in many of these projects, adjacentvacant tracts were developed without connecting the twoneighborhoods together in most all cases, unless the newtract was an extension of the subdivision. Therefore thelifestyle of the newer communities was oriented around theindividual “subdivision” and not around the neighborhood(i.e., pre WWII and immediately post WWIIneighborhoods), with its different architectural style and itsdifferent lifestyles.Aerial view of subdivisions inLawrenceville – note the lackof connections betweendevelopmentsIncreasing traffic congestionLawrenceville is crisscrossed with several state highways(SRs 120, 20, 124) and US 29 which have developed fromstagecoach routes, trails and local streets to multi-lanethrough routes. The traffic congestion in Lawrencevilleduring the weekday, like most other cities in themetropolitan Atlanta area, becomes nearly unbearable, andwas one of the most frequently-cited complaints of theonline survey participants. Improvements made to theroadways in the past have been designed to quickly speedtraffic through the community, which has made much ofLawrenceville, less of a destination and more of a “place toCity of Lawrenceville 3 - 17Comprehensive Plan 2030Adopted VersionCommunity Agenda 6 October 2008
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This Future Development Map will be
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