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April 17, 2008
ALPHARETTA - North Fulton residents did their part to help create a Blueprint North Fulton during an interactive public meeting Wednesday night.
The North Fulton Community Improvement District (CID) decided it needed a master plan to set priorities after contributing $2 million to the completion of Westside Parkway south from Sanctuary Parkway to Mansell Road. That's a good return on their investment, according to Ann Hanlon, executive director of the North Fulton CID.
Spending money wisely is a hallmark of the group, which is a self-taxing authority. Properties owners in the commercial corridor along Ga. 400 from Mansell Road north to McGinnis Ferry Road agree to pay more taxes to raise funds for transportation infrastructure projects that will help their businesses. The corridor includes land in Roswell, Alpharetta and Milton.
The stakeholders at Wednesday's meeting included local homeowners, city officials, council members, commercial property owners and developers. They were tasked with identifying what they like about the three nodes in the CID area, which were designated as:
• North Point, from Mansell Road north to Kimball Bridge Road.
• Old Milton, north from Kimball Bridge past Old Milton Parkway to Webb Bridge Road.
• Windward, north of Webb Bridge to McGinnis Ferry Road.
The participants also labeled what changes they wanted to see in land use and designated new roadways and trails.
The CID's consultants, with Urban Collage in the lead, will take the information gleaned from these meetings, and come up with priorities for the self-taxing authority to spend the approximately $2.4 million it raises each year.
- www.northfulton.com
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