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Originally Posted by afonega1
Whats an MPO?
Metropolitan planning organizations. They are charged by law to do the road & transit planning for urbanized areas. RPOs are for areas classified as rural.
[quote=urbanmyth;28376358]There are 110 cities and villages in the MSA, but over two thirds of the residents live in unincorporated portions of the region’s 20 counties. Only three cities have over 50,000 residents, but 14 of the counties have over 50,000 residents in unincorporated areas.
With Atlanta as well as Charlotte, both cites are covered with trees, known as urban forests so it is difficult to judge development by satellite image unless very close in. All I am saying is based off this image one can clearly tell Atlanta is split between multiple counties while Charlotte is concentrated in one. Also interesting to notice is what is going on outside of the beltways of each city. The configuration of roads can really speak volumes about an area.
It's challenging to quantify, or even qualify, an argument about patterns of development using these aerials. However, seeing that Charlotte is concentrated in one county vs. sprawling out over many is the point of the thread?
Patterns of development are not all that different really. When it comes to what you've just cited, this is a function of laws of annexation (NC has some of the most liberal in the nation) as well as county size--Georgia has relatively small counties, and a lot of them. There are a lot of cities consolidated with their counties in Georgia--Augusta, Columbus, Athens, Macon, etc.--but because the county boundaries are pretty small to begin with, the populations aren't all that high. And even then, without respect to county borders, NC's second-tier cities are genuinely larger than Georgia's when going by urbanized area population.
The patterns of development are very different. This is the point of the thread. Atlanta, GA's metro is considered a poster child for sprawl, disconnected and automobile dependent development. It may be changing but you can't even get people to vote to pay for road improvements in the Atlanta metro. Charlotte area residents voted by over 70% - twice - to levy a tax on themselves to pay for mass transit. This is a place Atlanta, Georgians enjoy looking down their noses at?
...Georgia's county-cities are among the biggest, land area, municipalities in the country.
[quote=urbanmyth;28376358]There are 110 cities and villages in the MSA, but over two thirds of the residents live in unincorporated portions of the region’s 20 counties. Only three cities have over 50,000 residents, but 14 of the counties have over 50,000 residents in unincorporated areas.
OK, Thanks. I thought it would be a concept to ask something that's actually related to the thread topic.
Really? How's that? How many regional transportation planning organizations are there in the metro Atlanta Georgia area? What difference would it make? Traffic engineers and planners have been kind of late to the party in terms of changing the patterns of development.
But, we digress...The point of the thread is how Charlotte is avoiding becoming like Atlanta, GA and what is there left to be done? The OP references transportation in the context of development. Since development follows transportation, knowing what works and doesn't work are fair questions. How many MPOs or RPOs in a region...you didn't make the link so its not really related to the thread.
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