The "Tools

for Design and Decision Making Workshop" is designed to give community

leaders, planners and elected officials tools they can use to maintain

community livability in the face of rapid growth.

Rapidly growing

counties in the metro Atlanta region have confronted a wide array of challenges

in the last decade. Fayette County was no different as its population

grew 46 percent during the 1990s.

Fayetteville

and Peachtree City have been awarded grants from the ARC's Livable Centers

Initiative to study how to integrate growth on Ga. Highway 74 with existing

town center growth in Peachtree City, and to promote quality development

and improved transportation access while preserving the historic character

of Fayetteville.

The event will

also feature keynote speaker Peter Katz, a nationally recognized urban

theorist and founder of the Congress for New Urbanism.

The workshop

will focus on four different areas of community planning: Housing and

Neighborhoods, Community Building, Environmentally Sensitive Planning

and Transportation Choices. A variety of topics from those areas will

be discussed in 17 different sessions during the entire day on subjects

such as:

Effective

Public Involvement in the Community Planning Process;

Mixed-use

Development;

Water Conservation;

Bike Pedestrian

Planning; and

Crime Prevention

and Safety.

The workshop

will run from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Charles Loudermilk

Conference Center on 40 Courtland Street in Atlanta. The cost is $75 for

individual registration and $60 for students and groups of five or more;

the price includes a luncheon.

For more information

or to register, contact ARC organizer Kellie McDonough at [email protected]

or call 404-463-3212.

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