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| Athens-Clarke Greenbelt | The 1999 Comprehensive Plan, for Athens-Clarke County and the City of Winterville, called for the designation of "areas that are predominantly rural in character as a boundary for limiting expansion of urban development." To achieve this goal the plan emphasized that it was desirable "for agricultural areas on the periphery of the urban area to remain as productive agricultural lands by using techniques such as transfer of development rights, conservation easements and open space subdivisions." This idea, of a ring of protected greenspace around Athens, has come to be known locally as the "greenbelt." At present the greenbelt area is zoned for a ten acre minimum lot size, but a conservation subdivision can be done at one unit per five acres. Nonresidential uses are possible, but severely limited. The current regulations have, in general, prevented sprawl-type development from occurring in the greenbelt. | Rick Cowick Senior Planner Planning Department, Athens-Clarke County 706-613-3515 |
Urban Growth Boundaries |