Decatur City Commission to Adopt Strategic Plan and Amendments to Unified Development Ordinance – Decaturish

Decatur, Georgia – The Municipal Commission of Decatur will meet on Monday, October 18 at 6.30 p.m. for a working session and at 7.30 p.m. for the ordinary session. Meetings are held in person at Decatur Town Hall, 509 N. McDonough Street, as well as at Zoom.

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The meeting will also be webcast live on the city’s website.

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During the working session, the municipal commission will hear a report from the Decatur fire and rescue service.

At the regular meeting, the Municipal Commission will consider adopting the strategic plan. Following a public hearing, the Planning Commission recommended approval of the strategic plan.

The strategic plan is the document the city will use as the basis for how Decatur sees and responds to challenges and opportunities. The document serves as a guide for the city to plan its priorities, policies and projects. It is updated every 10 years. During this process, the city is also updating its overall plan and liveable hubs initiative, according to the city’s strategic plan website.

The city is required by the Atlanta Regional Commission and the state’s Department of Community Affairs to update its strategic plan every 10 years in order to participate in, among other things, state transportation subsidy programs.

The city has also updated the City’s Liveable Centers Initiative plan and its overall plan simultaneously during the strategic planning process, both of which must be updated every five years.

Director of Planning and Economic Development Angela Threadgill and TSW’s team of consultants presented the draft strategic plan to the city committee on August 16. wanted more ambitious clean energy and equity goals, the consultants said.

The draft strategic plan 2030 focuses on six areas: equity and racial justice; climate action; civic trust; affordable housing; mobility and economic growth. Equity and racial justice was a topic that became a general theme of the project. Climate change is another broader topic that has emerged from the public participation process.

“The public has really told us that you can’t talk about mobility without thinking about affordable housing, and you can’t talk about affordable housing without thinking about equity. So it’s all kind of interconnected, ”TSW’s Woody Giles said.

The Municipal Commission will also consider changes to the City’s Unified Planning Ordinance that would affect cottage court building types and accessory housing units and will aim to facilitate the development of these housing types in the city. .

One set of amendments would allow DSUs to be built on the site of a single-family home that are in RS-17 zoning districts, as they are already permitted in R-85, R-60, and R-50. Secondary suites would be permitted on the same lots as condominiums or townhouses. There are about 55 detached single-family homes in the RS-17 districts, Threadgill said previously.

The changes related to chalet land development would increase the number of land eligible for chalet land and allow more but slightly smaller chalets to be built, Threadgill said.

The city’s Department of Community and Economic Development also recommends removing the development limit of nine and letting the overall zoning category that the lot is in set the maximum number of units each site could have.

Additionally, the city board will consider approving task orders for design budgets of $ 300,000 each and task orders for engineering services for stormwater infrastructure projects on Derrydown Way, Park Drive. and South Candler Street, North Decatur Road and Ferndale Drive, and Brower Street and McClean Street. .

The City Council will also discuss repairs to the conference center parking lot pump and a project budget of $ 22,000. The board of directors will consider awarding a contract in the amount of $ 21,005 to Mallory and Evans Service Company for the replacement of two water pumps in the parking lot of the conference center.

Writer Cathi Harris contributed to this story.

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