Local Planning Assistance
Planning Information & Resources | Contact Information
What makes a community unique? What does visioning have to do with community? As the Cheshire cat says to Alice in Wonderland, "if you do not know where you are going, any old road will get you there." So it is with a community. Without a vision for what the community can be, it doesn't really matter what it becomes. But successful communities are those that have articulated a vision and pulled together to make that vision a reality. A community vision, whether simple or involved, can be a motivator throughout the community, as long as it is created with inclusion in mind.
Planning and Implementation
Tools and Resources
Publications
Why Do We Plan? (PDF)
Planning for Quality Growth: Principles, Objectives, and Goals (PDF)
Local Planning
Requirements (PDF)
Requirements for a Partial Update to the Comprehensive Plan (PDF)
State Planning Recommendations
Quality Community Objectives Local Assessment (PDF)
Planning for Community Involvement (PDF)
Discovering and Planning Your Community Character (PDF)
Character Areas: Techniques & Guidance (PDF)
Visualizing Character Areas (PDF)
Plan Preparation Tools
Quality Community Objectives Assessment
Short Term Work Program Tool
Selecting a Plan Preparer (PDF)
Plan Implementation Tools
Selling Planning and Quality Growth
Resources
A tool that provides the statistical data and mapped elements required for the production of the Community Assessment's Data Appendix
Directory of County Planning Officials (PDF)
Directory of City Planning Officials (PDF)
Georgia's Best: Examples of Planning and Quality Growth
Good Plan ExamplesRules & Regulations of PQG
Programs linked to Qualified Local Government Status
Contact Information
Georgia Department of Community Affairs
60 Executive Park South, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30329-2231
For more information about Planning and Quality Growth, please contact the Office of Planning and Quality Growth at 404-679-5279.
