Outside of Metro Atlanta, what other part of GA would say is the best, textbook example of "Suburban Sprawl?" (Columbus: parking, trees)

[Southern Soul Bro]

Outside of Metro Atlanta, what other part of GA would say is the best, textbook example of "Suburban Sprawl?"

[ArmyBrat619]

I would say Warner Robins since it technically has no downtown or center and then it would be Augusta. Most of the growth in the Augusta area is still suburban sprawl.

[Fountain-of-youth]

Warner Robins
Augusta
Macon
Columbus
Savannah

[WanderingImport]

Definitely Warner Robins.

There are plenty of good examples of suburban sprawl in any of the major or even minor cities/towns throughout Georgia. Heck, Albany has suburban sprawl, albeit small, into Lee county.
Augusta has sprawl well into Columbia county.
Columbus into Harris county and Russell county, Alabama
Savannah has it into Effingham and Bryan counties
Athens into Oconee county.
Chattanooga’s sprawled into extreme northwest GA.
One could even argue Jacksonville is sprawled into extreme southeast GA

[SavannahLife]

Pooler. It's chopped down every tree down to a twig to create massive sprawling parking lots that are empty almost all of the time, for strip malls. They could have crafted something special, and built around larger trees or kept blocks and little clumps to make pocket parks like in town in Savannah.

[urbandevelopment]

Columbia County Georgia/ Grovetown area.Nothing bud sprawl

[GA Survivor]

Originally Posted by SavannahLife

Pooler. It's chopped down every tree down to a twig to create massive sprawling parking lots that are empty almost all of the time, for strip malls. They could have crafted something special, and built around larger trees or kept blocks and little clumps to make pocket parks like in town in Savannah.

I agree with most of what you said except the empty part. I don’t really know where all the people come from that are out there!

[ArmyBrat619]

Originally Posted by urbandevelopment

Columbia County Georgia/ Grovetown area.Nothing bud sprawl

Exactly! And that's pretty much where all the new growth in the Augusta area is centered. It's like the movie Groundhog Day.. same bad planning over and over. Also what they call Evans Town Center isca joke. It takes more than a performing arts center to make a town center. Even downtown Augusta is just one long strip (Broad Street). Go a block or two off the main street and there is nothing but vacant lots and parking lots. Yeah Pooler is textbook suburban sprawl but at least urban Historic Savannah makes up for it. Heck even Macon at least has a downtown that stretches beyond just one main street.

[EscAlaMike]

Originally Posted by WanderingImport

One could even argue Jacksonville is sprawled into extreme southeast GA

What? Where?

If you're talking about Kingsland, that sprawl is oriented toward Kings Bay Naval Base and even St. Marys to a lesser extent, and has little to no connection to Jacksonville.

[AllUsGreat29]

Augusta no other way to say it