Alpharetta ponies up for transportation plan

City Council approved Sept. 2 funding its share to create a comprehensive transportation plan for North Fulton.

Six of North Fulton's cities will pay a combined $250,000 match of the Atlanta Regional Commission's (ARC) $1 million contribution to the plan. Amounts paid by each city are determined by population, using 2007 estimates by the ARC. (See accompanying table.)

The ARC designates dollars for each county in the metropolitan area, said John Moskaluk, director of Public Works and Engineering. With all of North Fulton now incorporated, this year the ARC separated it from the rest of Fulton County in its planning. In the past, the ARC partnered with Fulton for all parts of the transportation plan in the county.

"The particular study is going to look at the North Fulton region, so it is going to look at the cities here," Moskaluk said.

He confirmed for Councilman John Monson that the North Fulton committee will be headed by Johns Creek. Moskaluk will be Alpharetta's representative in that group.

Data developed by the ARC in this plan can be used for other studies by Alpharetta, he said, including the city's planned growth study. It will also dovetail with Livable Community Initiative studies at North Point and downtown Alpharetta, he said.

"I suspect we'll start seeing results from the project somewhere at the end of 2009," Moskaluk said. "There is no schedule at this point, nor a schedule when this project will be started."
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