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Residents urge bike and pedestrian improvements, raise annexation and homelessness concerns at Cobb County meeting
Summary
During public comment at the March 25 Cobb County meeting, residents pressed the board to implement bicycle and pedestrian policies from a 2010 plan, complained about encampments and trash downtown, and raised worries about annexation stipulations and traffic impacts from planned housing.
Residents used the meeting’s public comment period to press the Board of Commissioners on pedestrian and bicycle safety, neighborhood annexation and development stipulations, trash and encampments, and local recycling services.
Sam Foster, a resident who said he has spoken at the last two meetings, asked the board to adopt elements of Cobb County’s 2010 Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Plan. Foster recommended three policy actions: add bike lanes when roads are resurfaced, require pedestrian connectivity between new developments, and add bike-parking requirements to the county zoning code so long-term and short-term bicycle parking is provided at new developments and public buildings.
Rosser Sutherland described persistent trash and shopping carts outside the old Defects building on Fairgrounds Street and said he…
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