The panel recommends improvements to turn roads into landscaped avenues,
friendly to pedestrians and bicyclists.
Peachtree Road recommendations include reducing speed, widening
selected areas to create three lanes in each direction and a center landscaped median that
provides left-turn lanes at intersections, and building sidewalks of at least 10 feet in
width with well-defined crosswalks for pedestrians and bicyclists. From Buckhead Village
to Roxboro Road, the panel recommends renaming the street Peachtree Parkway and including
tree-lined public promenades on both sides.
Lenox Road recommendations include widening to four lanes with
left-turn lanes, making outer lanes 14 feet to permit them to be shared by bicycles and
reducing the design speed from 35 mph anywhere that speed would require violating the
existing landscape.
Piedmont Road recommendations include installing a landscaped median
and sidewalks between between Peachtree Road and the Buckhead Loop.
Roxboro Road recommendations include enlarging the median to create a
significant parkway and permitting an underlying stream to be developed into a water
garden.
Buckhead Loop recommendations include better landscaping and replacing
the chain-link fencing with berms, plantings and attractive walls.