Garden City Comprehensive Plan

We need your input and comments on the future of Garden City!

Plan 2040 is Garden City's principal long-range guiding document. It is designed to formulate a coordinated, long-term planning program to maintain and enhance the health and viability of the community as a whole. It will be used by local officials as a guide to help make policy decisions regarding the community's growth and development for the next twenty years. Please review the draft Chapters or "Elements" of Garden City's Plan 2040 document and give us your comments. The draft eight Elements for Garden City are:

  1. Community Profile
  2. Community Goals
  3. Economic Development
  4. Land Use
  5. Transportation
  6. Housing
  7. Natural Resources
  8. Quality of Life

How: To provide feedback the following methods are available:

  • Go to Comprehensive Plan 2040 - Garden City.
  • Email your comments to the MPC staff at plan2040@thempc.org.
  • Call 912-651-1480 to leave comments on an answering machine.
  • Leave site specific comments on "Ideas" or "Problems" at the Comprehensive Plan 2040 - Feedback.
  • Mail comments to:
    • Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC)
      Attn: Garden City Comp Plan Comments
      110 East State Street
      Savannah, 31401
  • In-person feedback can be made onsite at the MPC by making an appointment 24 hours in advance. Please call 912-651-1480 to request an appointment.
  • Visit the Comprehensive Plan 2040 - Get Involved to see our upcoming meetings as well as access all any materials and presentations from previous meetings.

General Requirements for Comprehensive Plans

The Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) requires that communities throughout the state complete and maintain a Comp Plan to direct future growth and development. The Comp Plan is required to address a set of minimum requirements that include the identification of community goals, needs and opportunities within the community, and a community short term work program (STWP), which identifies the specific action items the City plans to undertake to achieve the established goals, address the documented needs, and maximize opportunities for community success.

The City recognizes the importance of having a Comp Plan that enhances the quality of life of its residents and businesses within the community while at the same time provides guidance for future growth. The City also understands that our existing character and future growth plans must be balanced to address the different visions that individual stakeholders have for the future of the City. It was the City's intent, with assistance from our invited stakeholders, to build upon the process utilized for the 2008 Garden City Comprehensive Plan, and other recently developed data, to produce an updated Comp Plan with the assistance of community stakeholders. By conducting an active public participation program the City staff and elected officials have a better understanding of the community's overall vision and perspective to provide us the necessary tools to continue to move the city in a positive direction.

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