PROJECTS

City of Milton, GA Bike and Pedestrian Plan (2007)

CQGRD worked in conjunction with Georgia Tech's City and Regional Planning Program and the Center for GIS to produce a Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan for the newly established City of Milton, GA. This plan proposes a network of multiuse trails to connect Milton’s neighborhoods with its parks, schools, libraries, stores, sports facilities, and other public spaces.

View the Milton Trail Bike and Pedestrian Plan (2007) page.

Atlanta BeltLine Health Impact Assessment (2007)

The Atlanta BeltLine would convert a 22-mile span of freight railway into a transit and trail loop, surrounded by parks and residential and commercial development. When we start a new development project, are we building a healthy place? How do we understand the health impacts of a new development? To answer these questions for the Atlanta BeltLine redevelopment project, CQGRD conducted a Health Impact Assessment (HIA). A HIA is a collection of procedures and tools by which projects, policies, and programs can be evaluated based on their potential effects on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population. While the HIA tool is widely used abroad, the BeltLine HIA is one of the first conducted in the United States.

View the Atlanta BeltLine HIA project (2007) page.

Community and Environmental Scan and Assessment: Atlanta Regional Freight Mobility Plan (2007)

This study involves data collection via surveys and interviews of freight stakeholders, identification and assessment of existing and future freight movement, development of freight-supported land use guidelines, evaluation of environmental and social impacts related to freight movement and development of strategies, and recommendations to proactively address freight and goods movement needs and challenges in the Atlanta region. CQGRD's contribution examines five existing or emerging freight corridors designated by the Atlanta Regional Commission. The resulting study measures community and environmental impacts, both specific to certain freight areas and seen across all areas, and provides ways to best mitigate these impacts while ensuring continued freight mobility.

View the Freight Mobility Plan (2007) page.

A Time for Leadership: Growth Management and Florida 2060 (2006)

A Time for Leadership presents a new growth-policy framework based on “the four Ps”: patterns, preservation, passages, and places. A Time for Leadership builds on the 2003 report by the Florida Chamber Foundation entitled New Cornerstone, which called for a shift from growth management to growth leadership.

View the Florida Coast project (2006) page.

Metropolitan Atlanta: Alternative Land Use Futures Project (2003)

Completed in February 2003, the project was designed to inform the ongoing regional discussion on land use issues and a growing population. It was undertaken in response to the low-density development that characterized the region's growth patterns in the 1990s. The project constructed and tested three distinct alternatives to future land use planning, including focusing on corridors, centers, or environmental sensitivity.

View the Alternative Land Use project (2003) page.

PROCEEDINGS

Mayors' Megaregion Meeting Series (2009)

In August 2009, CQGRD, along with the Cities of Charlotte and Atlanta, hosted the first of a series of meetings entitled the Mayors' Megaregion Meeting. The meeting came in response to The Case for a National Infrastructure: the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion in the Global Economy forum hosted by CQGRD in March 2009. About 40 selected leaders from the business, civic, government, and academic communities in the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion (PAM) attended the meeting in Charlotte to discuss the topics of infrastructure needs, improved communication, barriers to success, and a leadership structure for this emerging PAM group. Additional meetings have been planned for the future.

View the Mayors Megaregions Meeting Series (2009) page.

The Case for a National Infrastructure Policy: The Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion in the Global Economy (2009)

In March 2009, CQGRD and its partners hosted a forum on megaregions that brought together leading government (local, state, regional, and federal), business, education, and other concerned residents to discuss the challenges and opportunities posed by the megaregion concept. While keeping in mind the need for a national infrastructure policy, the role of the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion (PAM) in the global economy was the focus of the forum. The forum gave participants a chance to engage in the discussion of the emergence of megaregions and PAM from a multi-level perspective and determine what the next steps for advancing megaregions concept as a whole.

View the PAM Megaregions Forum (2009) page.