Sixty years after Leon Eplan and Ansley Park pioneered the very concept of a neighborhood plan, we once again step up with a renewed community-focused plan for conserving our beloved neighborhood. The Ansley Park Conservation Study has been approved by the APCA Board of Directors and is now making its way through the city approval process with a targeted City Council adoption in September.

An updated neighborhood plan once again serves as a unifying statement on the smart growth aspirations for conserving the best of Ansley Park in an ever-changing midtown Atlanta. Additionally, the Conservation Study will also require ongoing commitment and resources to execute many of the recommendations. So, while our planning work is complete for now, we will need to keep those sleeves rolled up and keep working together to put planning into action. Find your voice in the plan, and plan how you will contribute to its implementation.

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 1, 2025

Last year, the Ansley Park Civic Association retained TSW Engineering to update the Master Plan for the Ansley Park neighborhood. The study provided both policy and project recommendations developed during the public engagement process.

The Built Environment Committee is now working to begin to implement these recommendations with an initial focus on crosswalks and intersections, sidewalks, streetscapes, and parking. We hope to:

1. Improve and install new crosswalks throughout the neighborhood. Beyond improving pedestrian safety, crosswalks can also use materials and textures, such as stamped pavers, that add character to a neighborhood.
2. Develop an approach to install new sidewalks and repair or improve existing sidewalks where needed. Although the City of Atlanta owns the sidewalks on public streets, each property owner is responsible for the upkeep of sidewalks in front of their property. A neighborhood- wide approach is needed to determine consistency of repairs and to recommend materials that require less maintenance.
3. Make improvements to rights-of-way and streetscapes to reduce speeding, discourage additional cut-through traffic, improve pedestrian connectivity, and create additional greenspace. These intersection and streetscape improvements are designed to be either tactical or quick-build. Tactical designs can be built quickly and cheaply; as a result, they are often used to “test” ideas before committing to a major public works investment.
4. Improve parking. Standardize and simplify parking rules throughout Ansley, including a neighborhood-wide parking permit system, update parking signs, and identify zones where paid parking should be added.

The goals of this follow-on effort are twofold: (1) prioritize the transportation improvements for the neighborhood using cost/benefit analysis, and (2) provide schematic designs for those improvements.

The Built Environment Committee has engaged TSW to create the schematic designs. By December 2025, we hope to have a document we can use to garner city support, solicit contributions, and finally realize these improvements.

Four of our neighbors will oversee subcommittees to work with TSW on each task:

Crosswalks and Intersections: Ryan Davian
Sidewalks: Kim Wilson
Parking: Catherine Lampley
Streetscapes including bike lanes: Mike Messner

Please reach out to Built Environment at environment@ansleypark.org if you would like to participate on one of the subcommittees.

–Mike Messner, Built Environment Chair