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Related: Windy Hill Macland Connector Info
Community Development
Planning Division
191 Lawrence Street
Marietta, GA 30060
(770) 528-2018
(770) 528-2161 fax
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Macland Road Corridor Study
Public Design Workshop - Wednesday Oct. 17
Background
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Study Maps: |
In January of
2007, at the Board of Commissioners Management Retreat, there
were discussions concerning the need to be proactive regarding
development on Macland Road. Macland Road is a less developed
corridor that serves as a major east-west transportation route
for residents of western Cobb County and Paulding County. Given
the stage of development existing in this area, there is a
real opportunity to impact future development patterns. It
is important to plan for land use transportation linkages that
will improve transportation efficiency while establishing a
framework of land use changes that will add to the area’s quality-of-life
rather than replicating standard suburban residential patterns.
There are four main reasons for the creation of this study
document.
Transportation Improvement Project (TIP) to
widen the western portion of Macland Road from two (2) lanes
to four (4) lanes to increase roadway capacity. |
Primary ZoningPDF
682kb
Existing Land Use PDF
674kb
Future Land Use PDF
669kb
Developments in Progress PDF
621kb |
TIP project to design and construct the Windy Hill connector,
a new east-west route from Macland Road to Windy Hill Road. This
would facilitate traffic movement and provide better access to
I- 75/I-285 for western Cobb County/Paulding County commuters.
Create a land use scenario that
will assist in improving transportation-land use connectivity,
protect stable existing neighborhoods, and ensure quality new
development along the corridor.
Proactively plan for new
growth by ensuring a sufficient mix of land uses and develop
some basic architectural styles that will enhance this area’s
sense-of-place
History
Creek and Cherokee Indians moved north and inhabited what is
now Cobb County around 1600 A.D. They dominated the area until
The Treaty of 1819 forced the Native Americans back across the
Chattahoochee River. Villages in and around present day Cobb
County were points for trade and negotiations between the Indians
and pioneers. As settlers continued to move into the area they
set up homes and farms.
In 1831, one such settler, David Newton McEachern from Cabarrus
County, North Carolina came to Georgia and established his first
tract of land and later extended it to one thousand acres. Tenant
farmers called the area “Mac’s Land”, which evolved into “Macland,”
the namesake of Macland Road as well as the community of Macland
located at the intersection of Macland Road and Lost Mountain
Road. The historic Macland community is the only community along
its entire length.
Macland Road saw no changes in its first 20 years of existence.
Once it was commissioned in 1962, the rural corridor was fully
paved and extended from U.S. 278 in Paulding County east to Powder
Springs Road. Today, Macland Road remains twolane from Paulding
County to Lost Mountain Road, where the two-lanes widen to a
four-lane, median divided highway. Through the years, development
for the most part has been limited to corner stores and large
lot subdivisions; however with the inventory of undeveloped land
dwindling in other parts of the county, the need for large vacant
properties is threatening to replace the rural character of the
corridor with a more urbanized lifestyle. For the purpose of
this study we will be concentrating our efforts on the Cobb County
portion of Macland Road which is approximately seven (7) miles
in length from the Paulding County line to the terminus at Powder
Springs Road.
Location
Macland Road is located in the mid-western
portion of Cobb County, in the northwest portion of the Atlanta
metropolitan region. Within the near vicinity of Macland Road
are two neighboring counties, Douglas County and Paulding County,
as well as three of Cobb County’s six cities, Powder Springs,
Austell, and Marietta. The entire corridor is located within
unincorporated Cobb County, approximately one and a half (1.5)
miles southwest of Marietta and one (1) mile directly north of
Powder Springs. Based upon political boundaries established via
information provided in the 2000 decennial census, Macland Road
is a line of demarcation between Commission Districts 1 on the
northern half of the corridor and Commission District 4 on the
southern half of the corridor. Other important features in this
area include the southern tip of the Kennesaw National Battlefield
Park, and two main creeks that feed the Chattahoochee River basin;
Noses Creek and Mud Creek.
Planning Study Area
The Macland Road Corridor, for the purpose
of this study, is defined as the Primary Study Area or the parcels
directly and indirectly served by Macland Road from the Paulding
County line to Powder Springs Road. The total length of the study
area is approximately seven (7) miles. The width of the study
area is roughly a quarter of a mile on the north and south side
of Macland Road equaling a total width of one-half of a mile.
The Primary Study Area has no main point of central tendency
due to the lack of development along the corridor. The Block
Group area serves as the Secondary Study Area and was developed
to compare and contrast Demographic, Economic and Land Use data
of the community against the Primary Study Area and Cobb County.
Figure 1 shows the study areas and how they are geographically
related to Cobb County.
Community Input
Open House
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Ron Anderson Recreation Center
(located in Wild Horse Creek Park)
3820 Macedonia Road
Powder Springs, GA 30127 |
Please come to the Macland Road Corridor Study Open House. The Public Open House meeting will be held at the
Ron Anderson Center from 6 to 8 on Wednesday October 17, 2007. The Planning Division staff will reveal a draft
of recommendations that were developed based on the communities feedback from the August public meeting and
the September public design workshop. You will have to opportunity to review the recommendations and make further comments.”
Open House Flier |
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