Current Status
Study complete.
Project Overview
The transit Supportive land use study explores the potential for higher-density, multi-family residential, commercial, or mixed-use developments that are typically common in transit-oriented development (TOD) patterns. To assist Clayton County’s transit projects in the federal process, MARTA, Clayton County, and local jurisdictions need to work together to implement the Big Five: Density/Intensity, Mixed Uses, Walkability, People-Friendly Design, and Managed Parking.
Clayton’s future high-capacity corridors (SR 54 and SR 85) are not “transit- friendly” in terms of land use or zoning. Currently these communities have:
- Low density
- Single/homogenous uses
- Poor walkability
- Suburban-style site design oriented to car
- Over-abundance or surface parking
Image description: The graphic above takes each of the Big Five concepts and shows an image of where Clayton County currently is and where they want to go. For Density/Intensity, there are images of a single-family home and gas station located off a main highway (where we are) and images of multiple homes together side-by-side and a mixed use, multi-story building (where we want to go).
Resources/Documents
In 2022, the MARTA team coordinated with jurisdictions in South Fulton County and Clayton County to develop amendments to their comprehensive plans. These amendments included language to allow for zoning of land uses that support transit in their geographic areas. Recommendations to the amendments for each jurisdiction is listed below:
Completed Milestones and Next Steps:
- In 2022, three jurisdictions have implemented land use and zoning amendments in their comprehensive plans
- Continue coordination with jurisdictions
- Have all jurisdictions along Southlake BRT and SR 54 implement all zoning changes by Summer 2023
Stay Informed
Please submit comments regarding the project to:
Sidney Douse III
Director of Policy Planning
sdouse@itsmarta.com