Looking Forward: Money and a Plan to Revitalize Snellville

Straight from the City of Snellville's website. This is incredible news, and the study is quite old, but now the gears are starting to move.

Councilman Tom Witts summed it up for me: "Think about what could be done to the area from the closed Ryan's, going straight back to the closed Walmart, and all the area between those two locations. You gotta believe!" 

The vision of a downtown Snellville as a place where people walk and shop at a leisurely pace, traffic jams are unheard of, and travelers on Highway 78 stop to visit might seem elusive now.  But things are changing in Snellville.  The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) awarded Snellville a $75,000 Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) study grant to help revitalize the Snellville community.

The Livable Centers Initiative program provides planning and implementation funding for communities that demonstrate significant effort and commitment to developing innovative plans for the improvement of their town and activity centers.  Snellville joins eight other areas around metro Atlanta in

receiving one of these popular, sought-after planning grants awarded by ARC each year.  Though $75,000 alone will not be enough to create a new downtown, Snellville will have access to another $350 million in competitive federal funding available to cities participating in the LCI program.

Now that Snellville is part of the LCI program, the city can be more specific in directing growth and improving the traffic problems along Highway 78 and Ga. 124. According to Snellville’s comprehensive growth plan, the reconfiguration of that intersection is “the biggest single issue affecting the future of Snellville.”

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Check out more about the Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) on this page of Snellville's website.

I'll have more information about how you can get involved soon.