The Sandy Springs City Council has approved spending $1 million to have engineering consultant Heath & Lineback Inc. complete preliminary plans and other documents and prepare final construction plans for the Ga. 400 Multi-Use Trail.
Sandy Springs will be responsible for constructing the northern 1.8 miles of the trail within its boundaries, and Atlanta, for the southern 0.5 miles in Buckhead, officials said.
The Ga. 400 trail would parallel its namesake highway, connecting at Loridans Drive on the south with the PATH400 trail — which in turn is to connect with the Atlanta Beltline — and Johnson Ferry Road on the north and the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Ga. 400/I-285 interchange reconstruction project.
A Heath & Lineback timetable has the trail ready to go to bid in March 2022.
In related action, the Sandy Springs council approved applying to the Atlanta Regional Commission for federal funds for the city’s part of the trail, passing a resolution committing it to a local match of $3.8 million for federal funding of about $15.3 million.
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