Click here to read the article about Chastain Park in the Buckhead Reporter.
The Chastain Park Conservancy announces that it has chosen a team to prepare a Master Plan for Chastain Park, the largest park in the City of Atlanta. The team is led by the Atlanta office of EDAW, a prominent international landscape architecture and planning firm, and will include Kimley-Horn & Associates, Inc., who will head up the traffic management and parking component of the planning. Additional consultants will lend expertise on park operations, architectural design standards and stakeholder involvement. The last comprehensive Master Plan approved for Chastain Park was completed in 1984; an update to this plan was done in 2003, though never fully approved by the City.
The eight-month study, which will set a long-term vision for the park, will begin with extensive information gathering efforts among park stakeholders, neighbors, City of Atlanta representatives, and the diverse group of park patrons who actively visit Chastain Park. The effort will be led by a committee of the Conservancy board which includes Ed Castro, J.P. Matzigkeit, Ray Mock, and Justin Wiedeman. The Conservancy seeks to develop a comprehensive vision for the entire park--restoring and protecting its appearance as a historic and green oasis—as well as recommendations regarding land use, programming, architectural and maintenance standards and ways to alleviate recurring traffic and parking concerns and improve pedestrian safety.
Unique among Atlanta parks, Chastain has a great diversity of offerings, with venues including a horse park, historic golf course, pool and tennis facilities, arts center, ball fields, gymnasium, walking trails, picnic areas and one of Atlanta's most popular and long standing concert venues. The Chastain Park Conservancy was formed in 2003 to restore, enhance, maintain and preserve Chastain Park, and to serve as a forum for all of the park’s stakeholders. Since inception, the Conservancy has completed many projects aimed at making the park safer, cleaner and greener. In 2006, the Conservancy and the City of Atlanta entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to formally establish the Conservancy’s role in maintaining and preserving Chastain Park.
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