Greenspace Program
Senate Bill 399 created the Georgia Greenspace Program. The purpose of this legislation is to assist rapidly developing counties and their municipalities to preserve 20 percent of the their land area as permanently protected greenspace. Fayette county is eligible for this program and has elected to participate. The City of Fayetteville, the City of Peachtree City and the Town of Tyrone will participate in the program with the county.
The goal of the Fayette County greenspace program is to permanently protect approximately 25,367 acres. This permanently protected greenspace will be used to achieve to the goals outlined in Senate Bill 399.
The goals of the program are:
- Water protection
- Flood protection
- Wetlands protection
- Reduction of erosion
- Protection of riparian buffers
- Protection of archaeological and historic resources
- Provision of passive recreation
- Connection of existing or planned greenspace areas
The Greenspace Program document is available in PDF * format for viewing and printing. Due to the size of this document, we have broken it into sections for faster download.
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Cover and Table of Contents * (24 KB PDF)
Fayette County Greenspace Program * (174 KB PDF)
Appendix A * (38 KB PDF) Letter of Intent
Appendix B * (43 KB PDF) Summary of Public Meeting
Appendix C * (1.15 MB PDF) Resolutions
Appendix D * (2.58 MB PDF) Letters from Non-participating Municipalities
Appendix E * (18 KB PDF) Current Future Land Plans
Appendix F * (338 KB PDF) Community Greenspace Program Vision Map
Appendix G * (38 KB PDF) Summaries of County and Municipal Policies, Rules and Regulations Used to Protect Greenspace
For additional information please call 770.460.5730 Ext. 5160.