Learn About The Plan & Our Approach

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The City has been making progress on the actions outlined in Destination 2030, Decatur’s Strategic Plan. As part of this momentum, the City is launching a Comprehensive Plan “Check-In” to help guide future growth and development.

The process for this comprehensive plan update will focus on eight elements:

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Land Use

Housing

Historic Resources &
Arts & Culture

Climate

Economic Development

Community Facilities & Services

Open Spaces & Natural Resources

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Project Timeline

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FAQs

  • A Comprehensive Plan is a long-range plan that sets goals for a community's physical development, covering areas like land use, transportation, economic development, housing, and other topics.

  • A comprehensive plan is the community's roadmap for Decatur’s future. It helps guide decisions on land use and development over the next 20 years, with a special focus on what should happen over the next 5. It also sets direction for key topics like transportation, housing, and anything else important to that city’s residents and stakeholders. The plan brings together ideas from past studies. It adds new policies shaped by community input to create a clear, shared vision for Decatur's growth.

  • This plan will focus on eight elements:

    • Land use

    • Transportation

    • Economic development

    • Housing

    • Community facilities and services

    • Historic and cultural resources

    • Open spaces and natural resources

    • Climate

  • Destination 2030, adopted in 2021, was a 3-in-1 planning effort that combined the City’s Strategic Plan update, Comprehensive Plan update, and LCI Plan update. This effort is concentrated on updating the City’s Comprehensive Plan, which the Georgia Department of Community Affairs requires updating every five years. This plan update will continue to align with the six core themes from Destination 2030.

  • We'll have multiple opportunities throughout the plan process to get your feedback. Check out our "Engage" page for upcoming meeting dates and other ways you can get involved!

Check out Destination 2030

Click on the cover image to read the previous plan, which was adopted in 2021. Let’s check in: are we headed in the right direction? Have our needs changed over the last five years? Let us know by submitting a comment.

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What has the City accomplished since 2021?

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