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Alternatives for Coastal Development: One Site, Three Scenarios
Project PartnersGeorgia Coastal Management Program
Georgia Conservancy
Georgia Department of Community Affairs City of St. MarysThe City of St. Marys is the local government authority over the actual project site under development in Camden County, Georgia. The mayor and city officials reviewed initial project plans and hosted a meeting with the project team to meet with the actual project site developer and environmental engineer. Bobby Marr of the city's Department of Public Works provided local cost information used in indicator calculations for the scenarios. AcknowledgementsSpecial thanks are extended to the following individuals knowledgeable about the actual project location in St. Marys: Don Parris, early project manager for actual development at the project site, provided input and perspective during project conception. Peter Langham, landscape architect on contract with site developer, Land Resources Companies, provided valuable perspective at the project team's June 2002 workshop. Project engineers also provided several spatial data layers for the project location, which aided in depiction of a real geographic base for this project's three hypothetical scenarios. Thanks are also extended to the following individuals for essential advice, comment, and feedback during development of this project: David Hart and Tom McClintock of the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant and Land Information Computer Graphics Facility, respectively, provided insight and advice on 3-D visualization software and the development processes. Denise Grabowski of Lott + Barber Architects provided planning expertise and contributed significantly to scenario design, indicator development, and product review. Susan Crow of the University of Georgia Carl Vinson Institute of Government contributed significantly to design of the conservation scenario and development of project indicators. John W. Cheek, of Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Inc., contributed significant design expertise for the new urbanist scenario. Terry DeWan and Associates provided comment and feedback on the initial scenario designs. Lee Sutton of Georgia NEMO and Dr. Karen Payne of the University of Georgia reviewed impervious surface estimates for land uses, which were used for the impervious surface indicator calculation and as input to the SGWATER module. Vince Graham, developer of I'On in Charleston, South Carolina, reviewed the economic calculations and assumptions used to derive estimated net revenues for the scenarios. Dr. Laurie Fowler of the University of Georgia Institute of Ecology provided review comments on additional economic considerations for the conservation scenario. |