Cumming officials finishing up new 20-year plan

Cumming City officials plan to send the city’s updated 20-year plan off to state and regional officials for their approval later this month.

Planning and zoning director Scott Morgan said the document spells out population, employment, housing, transportation and other needs and trends through 2037. He said the most significant change in the five-year-update involves a proposed suburban mixed-used-zoning category, in addition to the current multi-use designation. Morgan said that change would pave the way for single-developer, self-contained live-work-work-play developments such as Alpharetta’s Avalon. He said there are a number of larger tracts of undeveloped land in the city where such a large-scale project could be situated.

Morgan said following vetting by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs and the Georgia Mountains Regional Commission, the document will come back before the City Council for adoption in April or May.