On Monday, July 8, the Rockdale City Council adopted the new Rockdale Mid-Century Comprehensive Plan, wrapping up 15 months of work by the planning team and the community. This new plan looks at how Rockdale can responsibly grow through the year 2050.
“A comprehensive plan takes a big picture look at a city and thinks about how to grow the community,” said Rockdale City Man-ager, Barbara Holly, who is also a certified urban planner. “Through this process, we try to think about what kind of community we want in the future and what we need to do to get there.”
“The Mid-Century Comprehensive Plan has many different components,” said Rockdale Mayor Ward Roddam. “We begin with a community vision, an analysis of where we currently are, and subject areas that we need to work on.”
Because a comprehensive plan is so high level, some readers may feel that there are a lack of specifics.
“A comprehensive plan can be described as a community master plan — a plan to do more plans,” Holly said. “The Parks Master Plan goes into details on improving our parks and we worked on a good future land use plan. Other items, such as a utility master plan, can be done later to get more specific on how to improve the utility system.”
The firm Freese & Nichols was the lead entity on the comprehensive plan process; Ash+Lime assisted on community outreach and downtown analysis. The city assembled a Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC) consisting of Doug Williams, Angela White, Brian Wallis, Elissa Benford-Roberts, Justin Roman, Brett Boren, Barbara Holly and Mario Caesarez.
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