Alternatives for Coastal Development: One Site, Three Scenarios: Project Partners

Alternatives for Coastal Development: One Site, Three Scenarios

Project Partners

Georgia Coastal Management Program

Administered by the Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Resources Division, the Georgia Coastal Management Program's mission is to work for the benefit of Georgia's present and future generations to balance economic development in Georgia's coastal zone with preservation of natural, environmental, historic, archaeological, and recreational resources in the eleven-county coastal area. The program's outreach and education staff provides technical assistance and educational materials to local governments and citizens via the Coastal Ark. Designed as a mobile training and education platform, the Coastal Ark is outfitted with computers and resource mapping software, data, and tools. It will take the "One Site, Three Scenarios" project on the road as well, providing the project's visual aids, methodologies, and project results to local planners and decision makers to aid them in analyzing, visualizing, and making decisions about local growth and development options.

Georgia Conservancy

Georgia Conservancy is a statewide environmental organization with a mission to make sure that Georgians have healthy air, clean water, unspoiled wild places, and community green space now and in the future. The Conservancy's Coastal Program supports and participates in the development of policies and programs that help protect and preserve the state's coastal resources as well as the wildlife that depend on them to live. The organization plans to use "One Site, Three Scenarios" in its "Blueprints for Successful Communities" program. The Blueprints program seeks to raise awareness about sustainable development among specific audiences (bankers, developers, local officials, etc.) by providing education and technical assistance.

Georgia Department of Community Affairs

The Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) serves as an advocate for local governments, providing comprehensive planning, technical, and research assistance to communities. The department's planning tools offer myriad benefits for promoting strong, healthy local governments and communities. Local governments are encouraged to use planning to promote orderly and rational physical development so that the community remains physically attractive and important natural or cultural resources are protected. DCA staff provided scenario design expertise and support on indicator development for the "One Site, Three Scenarios" project, which will serve as an additional educational tool that the agency can use to help local governments strengthen their planning efforts.

City of St. Marys

The 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.

Acknowledgements

Special 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.

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