Buckhead CID Expands Its Focus in 2013

The Buckhead Community Improvement District, which helps with Buckhead's community and transit planning and improves roads, plans to expand its boundaries this year to include the property area bounded by Roswell Road, East Andrews, Paces Ferry Place and Irby Avenue.

The CID has already identified approximately $2 million worth of improvements, which the CID could undertake, in the area once business owners there choose to enroll as members of the CID.

According to a post on the Buckhead CID's website, "enrollment is currently underway and seems quite promising."

This won't be the first time the district boundaries have been expanded. In 2005, it expanded its boundaries to include the area around the Peachtree Road, Roswell Road, East and West Paces Ferry roads intersection.

In addition to adding more property to the district, the CID is making other changes in 2013:

• CID will partner with property owners in the triangle block bounded by Peachtree Road, Bolling Way and East Paces Ferry, as well as with property owners on the block along Roswell Road from West Paces Ferry up to Irby Avenue, on sidewalk and streetscape projects.

• • construction along the Roswell Road block will be coordinated with construction on new hotel
  • CID will build new streetscapes around Charlie Loudermilk Park and improve landscaping around the park
  • CID is examining ways to to improve traffic flow in the Village area around Charlie Loudermilk Park

• Along Peachtree Road, between Buckhead Avenue and Sardis, the Buckhead CID has been working to address missing or broken streetlights.
• The CID is examining different concepts to address mobility in the area where the original Peachtree Road transformation began originally– along Peachtree Road between Maple and Pharr Road.
  • The CID's goal is to approve a plan and began implementation of a "minimally disruptive" solution later in 2013 with "heavier construction" for the block between Shadowlawn and Maple taking place in 2014.

"All of these initiatives are designed to create a more walkable, hospitable urban environment and to handle automobile traffic appropriately, compatible with the principles contained in the new zoning established for the area in late 2010," according to the CID's recent post.