The Cumming City Council has approved transmitting the city’s 20-year comprehensive plan to state and regional officials for review. It’s a required five-year update that stretches until 2037 and forecasts land use, housing, transportation and employment trends and needs.
In the land-use category, Planning and Zoning director Scott Morgan said the document proposes creation of a new mixed-use category in place of the current multiple use designation. The change could clear the way for self-contained live-work-play developments such as Alpharetta’s Avalon. It also forecasts that office-commercial multi-story land use will increase by 215 acres and that commercial land use will jump by 334 acres in the next two decades.
In the transportation category, city planners said that while a number of arterial roads have already been improved, Kelly Mill Road would be recommended for future upgrading.
Following vetting by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs and the Georgia Mountains Regional Commission, the document will come back before the council for adoption later this spring.
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