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Publications

Publications are organized by:
ASSISTANCE
PLANNING
QUALITY GROWTH
IMPLEMENTATION
REGIONALISM

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ASSISTANCE

• Funding Sources for Quality Growth
• Glossary of Planning and Quality Growth Terms 
• Quality Community Objectives Local Assessment  
• Quality Growth Assistance Menu: Technical and Financial Resources 
• Quality Growth Resource Teams: Providing Specialized Attention to Your Community’s Needs 
• Quality Growth Resource Team Reports 
• Quality Growth Training Opportunities 

PLANNING

• Discovering and Planning for Community Character 
• Georgia's Future: Beyond Growth Strategies (PDF)
• Planning for Community Involvement 
• Planning for Quality Growth: Principles, Objectives, and Goals 
• Planning Press Kit
• Preparing Short-Term Work Program Updates for Local Governments 
• Selecting a Plan Preparer 
• Character Areas: Techniques and Guidance
• Visualizing Character Areas
• State Planning Recommendations 
• What is Quality Growth?
• Why Do We Plan? 
• Directory of County Planning Officials (PDF)
• Directory of City Planning Officials (PDF)

Rules, Regulations, Requirements:

• Local Planning Requirements 
• State Planning Recommendations 
• Map of County Planning Levels 
• List of Government (Municipality) Planning Level Designations 
• List of Government (County) Planning Level Designations
• Environmental Planning Criteria
• Georgia Planning Act
• Requirements for a Partial Update to the Comprehensive Plan

QUALITY GROWTH

• What is Quality Growth?
• Overview of Georgia's Quality Community Objectives

        Quality Growth Grant Program Products:

• Alternatives to Conventional Zoning 
• Alternatives to Conventional Development Choices
• Athens-Clarke County Unified Government: The Feasibility of a Transferable Development Rights Program
• City of Clayton Quality Growth Code Project
• Review of Existing Codes 
• Flood Damage Prevention-sample ordinance 
• City of Cornelia
  • Local Downtown Historic District Designation Report
  • Quality Growth Audit 
• City of Dalton: Infill Development Guidelines and Codes

• City of Duluth: Fiscal impacts of Quality Growth-A Guidebook for Elected Officials
• City of LaGrange: Dixie Mill Redevelopment Project
• City of Marietta: Residential Infill Development Overlay District Ordinance
• City of Rome: South Rome Redevelopment Master Plan
• City of Zebulon: Zebulon Tomorrow: A Vision for the Future
• Crawford County Comprehensive Land Development Regulations
• Crawford County Ordinance Recommendations 
• Comprehensive Land Development Regulations 
• Design Guidelines 
• Planned Unit Development Ordinance 
• Lumpkin County: Land Use Planning and Citizen Involvement Case Study 
• Town of Sharpsburg Master Plan
• Sharpsburg Zoning Ordinance 
• Environmental Control-sample ordinance
• Illicit Discharge-sample ordinance 
• Soil Erosion-sample ordinance 
• Stormwater Management Ordinance-sample ordinance 
• Planned Traditional Neighborhood District-sample ordinance 
• Tree Preservation and Protection-sample ordinance 

Regional Growth Management Initiative Products:

• Bartow County, Floyd County, and City of Rome: Highway 411 Corridor Management Plan

• City of Walnut Grove: Downtown Development Overlay District
• White County: Hillside and Mountain Protection Ordinance Example
• Sign Control Along Rural Corridors Guidance Manual

• Strip Corridor Revitalization Guidance Document  

IMPLEMENTATION

• Alternatives to Conventional Zoning 
• Alternatives to Conventional Development Choices
• Quality Growth Assistance Menu: Technical and Financial Resources   
• State Planning Recommendations 

Impact Fees:

• Georgia Development Impact Fee Act 
• Best Practices Toolkit - Impact Fees
• Impact Fees-Georgia's Comprehensive Requirements-Volume Two 
• Guide to Preparing Annual Updates of the Capital Improvements Element

Environmental Planning:

• Part V Environmental Planning Criteria 

REGIONALISM

• Annexation: Putting the Pieces Together 
• Annexation Arbitration Process Timeline
• Regional Planning Requirements: DCA Rules 110-12-6
• Regionally Important Resource Fact Sheet 
• Rules for Mediation of Inter-jurisdictional Conflicts 
• Rules for Regionally Important Resources 

Developments of Regional Impact

• Development of Regional Impact Rules-Effective January 1, 2005
• Development of Regional Impact Map-Effective January 1, 2005
• Changing the Rules for Developments of Regional Impact  

Regional Commissions:

• Regional Commission Directory
• Regional Commission Boundaries Map 

Service Delivery Strategy:

• Charting a Course for Cooperation and Collaboration 
• Service Delivery Act 
• Revising an Existing Service Delivery Strategy 

Presentations

Discovering Your Community Character (Georgia Planning Association Fall 2005 Conference) 

Developments of Regional Impact Program Changes (Georgia Planning Association Fall 2005 Conference) 

What is Quality Growth? (2003) 

Selling Planning and Quality Growth: Understanding How Planning Benefits Your Community

Defining Character (2007)

 

Past PQG Workshop Products

 

Contact Information

For more information about Planning and Quality Growth, please contact the Office of Planning and Quality Growth at 404-679-5279.

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