Emory Village will soon look very different. The Georgia Department of Transportation has approved plans for traffic improvements and a road diet along North Decatur Road . These traffic-calming measures were among the recommendations in the Emory Village Revitalization Plan.

Throughout the development of this plan, the Alliance to Improve Emory Village and its professional consultants have incorporated public input received at various community workshops in order to reflect the values and concerns most important to the community at-large. Following the release of the Emory Village Revitalization Plan, the AIEV coordinated the translation of the vision and values embodied in the plan into specific strategies and actions designed to achieve the community’s vision for Emory Village.

DeKalb County is now securing the right-of-way to move forward in 2007 with competitive bidding for the traffic, pedestrian, and related public improvements in Emory Village. We anticipate construction will begin in spring 2007. Soon, new roads, bike lanes, sidewalks, lighting, a public park and plaza, and related public improvements will add to the traffic and pedestrian improvements expected with the creation of a traffic roundabout at the intersections of North Decatur Road, Oxford Road, and Dowman Drive (main entrance to Emory University). The plaza at the front of Everybody’s Pizza will be expanded and a generous public plaza is planned for the area adjacent to the Chevron Station. Emory University is giving land to make that green space more inviting to the public.

Artist renderings of the planned public improvements and the potential for private redevelopment in Emory Village can be seen by clicking on the links below.

Emory Village Roundabout

Emory Village Roundabout/Piazza

Emory Village View from Glenn Church Steeple

Roundabout Looking Down South Oxford Road

View into the Village from North Decatur Bridge

To ensure that future private redevelopment in Emory Village is cohesive and consistent with the vision articulated in the Emory Village Revitalization Plan, the AIEV has worked with neighborhood residents, Emory Village businesses, Emory University, professional planners, architects, urban designers, and zoning lawyers to draft a new zoning overlay district and design guidelines that will help shape future development in Emory Village. These two documents ensure that Emory Village is redeveloped in a manner compatible with the revitalization plan, which envisions Emory Village as a safe, walkable, compact, economically viable mixed-use community.

For an overview of what the zoning overlay and design guidelines will accomplish, click here.

To review in detail the proposed zoning overlay and design guidelines, click here.