project: PALMETTO LIVABLE CENTERS INITIATIVE STUDY
date: 2008 – 2009
location: PALMETTO, GA
client: CITY OF PALMETTO
contact: TERRY TODD, CITY ADMINISTRATOR
Located about 30 miles southwest of Atlanta, Palmetto is a charming small town with lush vegetation, a wide array of historic homes and a small Main Street with significant potential.
Working with the Atlanta Regional Commission, The City of Palmetto and the citizens of Palmetto, Urban Collage completed an LCI study for the City’s Downtown area in December 2008. The plan outlines strategies for adding new historically-compatible mixed-use alongside the downtown’s old retail storefronts, includes market-based concepts for new housing within the downtown, identifies areas for new open space throughout the study area and provides a circulation framework of bike lanes, trails and pedestrian amenities connecting future development.
The study products also address connectivity issues, including street-specific recommendations for potential streetscape improvements, concepts for reconfiguring existing streets, the addition of new streets, and strategies for improving connections between either side of the city’s historic railroad corridor.
As the city begins to enact policies to implement the LCI plan, Palmetto is now poised to set a precedent for smart-growth policies and historic preservation initiatives in the face of growth pressures common to much of Metro Atlanta.
