Fayette County Comprehensive Plan
In 1989, the Georgia General Assembly passed the Georgia Planning Act, which established a coordinated planning program for the State of Georgia. This program provides local governments with opportunities to plan for their future and to improve communication with their neighboring governments. The Planning Act also assigns local governments certain minimum responsibilities to maintain "Qualified Local Government" (QLG) status and, thus be eligible to receive certain state grants, loans, and permits.
The cornerstone of the coordinated planning program is the preparation of a long-range comprehensive plan by each local government in the state. This plan is intended to highlight community goals and objectives as well as determine how the government proposes to achieve those goals and objectives. It is intended that the comprehensive plan be used to guide local government decision-making on a daily basis.
To maintain its QLG status, a local government must:
- Prepare and adopt a comprehensive plan that conforms to the "Minimum Standards and Procedures for Local Comprehensive Planning", which specify items the plan should address
- Adopt and implement regulations consistent with the comprehensive plan and the Minimum Standards
- Update the Short Term Work Program (STWP) and the Capital Improvement Element (CIE) annually for the imposition of Impact Fees (the STWP identifies and schedules specific activities to be undertaken over a five year period to implement the plan)
- Update the entire plan at least every ten years
Fayette County has complied with the requirements of the Planning Act to maintain its QLG status. The Fayette County Comprehensive Growth Management Plan was adopted in December, 1991.Over the years this plan has been amended as necessary to maintain the county's QLG status. The plan was recently amended and adopted on April 22, 2004, and is now called the Fayette County Comprehensive Plan.
On July 26, 1996, following the review and approval of the updated STWP, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) extended Qualified Local Government status to Fayette County through February 28, 2001. This deadline was subsequently extended to February 28, 2007 in order to take advantage of the data available through the 2000 Census.
For information on any of these areas, please contact the Planning Department at 770-460-5730 Ext.5421.
Fayette County Comprehensive Plan Document
This document is available in PDF format for viewing and printing.
Due to the size of this document, we have broken the document into individual files for download.
- Table of Contents * ( 86 KB PDF)
- Introduction * ( 49 KB PDF)
- Population Element * ( 215 KB PDF)
- Housing Element * ( 103 KB PDF)
- Community Facilities and Services Element * ( 151 KB PDF)
- Natural and Historic Resources Element * ( 950 KB PDF)
- Economic Development Element * ( 116 KB PDF)
- Transportation Element * ( 55 KB PDF)
- Land Use Element * ( 266 KB PDF)
- Short Term Work Program * ( 21 KB PDF)
- Capital Improvement Element * ( 90 KB PDF)
- Land Use Plan Map * ( 2 MB PDF)
The complete document is available for download . You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view or print the document:
Fayette County Comprehensive Plan :
Complete Document * (6.5 MB)