Long Term Plans

Lake and Wetlands Maintenancve and Repair

The Lake and Wetlands form a beautiful natural environment that can be enjoyed in many ways by residents and members of our neighboring communities. It is also a complex water control system that is subject to weather events and normal deterioration that requires specialized care and maintenance. In 2024 several of the components of the system have broken down and need repair. As we work to bring the system back to working order, the city is undertaking to formalize and document the design of the system as well as the maintenance requirements going forward.

October 2024 Memo re Wetlands Management Strategy

2021 Comprehensive Plan Update

Every five years, the City updates our Comprehensive Plan. The last was in 2016. The Steering committee with the assistance of the Atlanta Regional Commission has completed the 2021 Comprehensive Plan Update.  

Public input was recieved via a new survey tool provided by the ARC as well as by two public meetings held on-line.

Council voted to adopt the Final Report in a resolution adopted on 10/12/2021.

Rockbridge Road Economic Development Plan

In September of 2018 an Economic Development Task Force was formed by the Mayor and Council. In April, 2019, after several months of study, numerous site visits to other municipalities and collection of public input through a comprehensive survey, the task force presented to the Mayor and Council an Economic Development Vision and Plan.

The task force further developed a plan for initiatives to be undertaken during the 12 months starting July 1st, 2019 and running through June 30, 2020.

In September of 2019 the task force was transitioned into Rockbridge Opportunities Kick Start or "ROKS". This permanent group will move forward with the implementation of the 2019 / 2020 plan and develop a new plans to be implemented each year moving forward.

2020 Rockbridge Road Expansion

The Rockbridge Road Expansion is a joint project of GDOT and the Dekalb Transportation Dept. They are represented by Atlas Technical Consultants, Inc. or "Atlas", who does management of SPLOST projects for Dekalb County.

Go to the 2020 Rockbridge Road Expansion page for more information. This page will be updated throughout the life of the project whenever significant events or milestones occur.

Annexation Plans

Update: In 2018 Council determined that rather than concentrating on annexation we would put that energy into improving the Rockbridge Commercial Corridor. All annexation plans except for tw properties on Rockbridge road were tabled for the foreseeable future.

In April 2017 after conducting two Town Hall meetings to discuss the pros and cons of annexation, a Work Group was formed of residents and Council members to make a recommendation to Council on how to proceed. The Work group presented a three phase plan to Council at the August 14th meeting and at the August 29th meeting the Annexation Plan and Map was approved unanimously.

Starting in Q1 of 2018 we will begin an Annexation Study for the 1st phase mapped out in the plan, with the intention of getting legislative support to present a bill to the 2019 Georgia Legislative Session.

Annexation Plan and Map

2016 Comprehensive Plan Update

2016 Comprehensive Plan Update