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Old 08-04-2012, 10:50 PM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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I went to the Macon forum and found out the scoop, also googled and got the Macon paper's blurb on it. Very exciting. More Georgia cities and counties should consolidate.... specifically smaller sized counties with only one major town. Like Griffin/Spalding, Conyers/Rockdale, Douglasville/Douglas, Cumming/Forsyth, Dawsonville/Dawson...

Savannah should annex larger portions of Chatham, but a city with so many more incorporated towns already in existence makes this a more difficult proposition. Garden City, Port Wentworth, Pooler, Thunderbolt, Tybee Island, etc, etc... gets messy in a situation like this.
Saint Marks, you are dead-on correct about the reasons why Savannah-Chatham consolidation is a near impossibility. However, what a lot of people don't know is that huge chunks of unincorporated (and largely undeveloped) West Chatham have been annexed into Savannah in recent years. If you go to Wikipedia and look at the city limits map for Savannah, you'll see that the city actually extends way out I-16 south all the way to Bryan County, and includes thousands of acres within a PUD named New Hampstead. Before the recession, the city and private developers built collecter roads and utilities and laid out zoning throughout this vast expanse or rural pine forests -- room enough for 20,000 housing units and 40,000-plus new residents WITHIN the City of Savannah. The housing bubble stalled development, but it is now slowly getting underway, finally. A brand new high school (New Hampsted High) will open there this fall, with other schools, shopping centers and amenities either planned or under construction. This, along with the booming residential neighborhoods in nearby Pooler and Port Wentworth, are the now and future "high growth" areas of Chatham
County -- think Florida-style developments with wide landscaped boulevards and a range of dense tract houses built around tropical lagoons. It will happen -- it IS happening.

In 20 years, Savannah's population could easily top 200,000 and Chatham's 400,000.
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