The Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission serves as our state designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). We recognize the importance of providing a wide range of opportunities designed to involve the public in every step of transportation planning. Our approach is demonstrated by our comprehensive planning slogan: Shared Visions - Planning Smart Choices. Providing strategies to highlight the importance of community planning and attracting a diversity of interest and participation will not only yield a comprehensive analysis of transportation issues but will also promote community pride and ownership of the process.
Growth allocations By Traffic Analysis Zone
Growth Allocations by Traffic Analysis Zone-2035
Section 1: Introduction
This report has been prepared in conjunction with the MATS Transportation Plan Update. The
purpose of this report is to allocate future growth to each of the individual Traffic Analysis Zones
(TAZs). that make up the MATS Planning Area. Overall growth forecasts of population,
households and employment were presented in the report entitled Development Trends and
Land Demand Analysis, prepared previously for the Plan Update.
As part of the Transportation Plan Update, both the Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning
Commission and Jones County have examined their Land Ue Plans and considered the impact
of future growth on their respective areas, extended out to the year 2035. Thus, the allocations
in this report, which in essence reflect future residential, commercial, industrial and pUblic land
use change over the next 25 years, are based on sound land use planning and each
jurisdiction's vision for the future.
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Development Trends And Land Demand Analysis
Projected Growth and Land Development to the Year 2035 in the MATS Planning Area: Macon-Bibb County/Jones County, Georgia Introduction This report has been prepared in conjunction with the MATS Transportation Plan Update. The purpose of this analysis is to provide realistic forecasts of residential and nonresidential growth and change in the MATS Planning area. These forecasts are then used to estimate the amount of land that will be needed to accommodate new residential, commercial and industrial uses between now and the planning horizon of the Transportation Plan 2035. This analysis provides an estimate of the net land that actually will be used by new development and the amount of land that will need to be identified for future development on the year 2035 Future Land Use Map. When the Future Land Use Map is prepared, consideration will be given at that time to land availability, attractions for and constraints to development, and the goals and objectives of the Transportation and Land Use Plans. Generally, it is important to identify more land for future land uses than the market will actually absorb in order to provide for the inefficiencies of the land development process and to provide for a variety of free-market choice. This analysis estimates net land demand in two broad categories: Residential uses, including single-family houses, duplexes and multi-family units that will be needed to accommodate future household growth. Private sector nonresidential uses, such as retail stores, offices and industries that will be needed to accommodate future employment growth. Importantly, these estimates and forecasts reflect past population and employment trends within the context of a national econometric model. In other words, the figures present a future view of Macon-Bibb County that assumes that things will continue into the future somewhat as they have in the recent past, buffeted by the local economy’s share of national trends. Read more
Macon Area Transportation Study By-Laws
The Macon Area Transportation Study is the body responsible for review and approval of the Metropolitan Planning Organization’s goals, objectives, plans and programs developed by the Technical Staff at the direction of the MATS Policy Committee.
The Macon Area Transportation Study has responsibility for insuring that the Study Area Transportation is kept up to date, that timely reports are made to inform the public the progress of the Plan, that a complete and Unified Planning Work Program is developed for all aspects of MATS, and that the respective agencies, jurisdictions or commissions are kept informed of the progress of the Transportation Plan.
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