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City planning staff updates council on Athens 2040 progress as population outpaces projections
Summary
Planning staff told the council Athens has reached about 32,000 people—five years ahead of projections—and reviewed housing, zoning and a transportation plan that drew more than 1,000 survey responses.
Erin Chitwell, the city planning staff member who presented the Athens 2040 comprehensive-plan implementation update, told the City Council that Athens’s population reached about 32,000 in 2024, roughly five years ahead of prior projections, and highlighted housing, zoning and transportation actions the city is pursuing.
“By 2024 our population is at about 32,000,” Chitwell said, noting that the city had been projected to reach that figure around 2030. Chitwell summarized early implementation steps including enforcement of updated residential building-material standards, annual plan updates to the planning commission and a zoning-audit process that has informed an…
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