Atlanta forum residents, where do you live? (Sandy Springs, Roswell: homes, neighborhoods)

[netdragon]

I refused to vote in the other poll because it used the useless terms ITP/OTP. As a Smyrna resident, I want to point out that I-285 is not a perfect circle. We're closer than many ITP areas to midtown/downtown. North Buckhead, for instance. So that's a red-herring on a poll.

In leiu of my ATP post, how about this instead:

• Core - e.g. West End to Edgewood, Berkely Park to Langford Pkwy. MUST be same street grid as downtown.
  Inner suburbs - e.g. Buckhead, Brookhaven, Decatur, Austell, Smyrna, Sandy Springs, Forest Park, Druid Hills, Dunwoody, Vinings, Doraville, Tucker, East Point, College Park, etchttps://pics3.city-data.com/forum/
• Outer suburbs - e.g. Roswell, Marietta, Lake City, Fairburn, Conyers, Stone Mountain, Stockbridge, Union City, Morrow, Alpharetta, Kennessaw, Norcross, Duluth, John's Creek, Sandtown, Powder Springs, Douglasvillehttps://pics3.city-data.com/forum/
• Exurbs - e.g. Cartersville, Canton, Woodstock, Cummings, Suwannee, Gainesville, McDonough, Peachtree City, Covington, Carollton, Villa Rica, Dallas, Emerson, Newnan

[aries4118]

Between Inner Suburbs and Outer Suburbs, there should be another category called "Middle Suburbs" or something.


A lot of your examples in Outer Suburbs are not "Outer" at all.


And--a lot your examples in the Exurbs are really Outer Suburbs; some may even be considered Middle Suburbs.

[AnsleyPark]

I would think that Druid Hills is pretty "core". Can't really imagine referring to it as "suburbs". I think, too, that much of Buckhead is "core" and not "inner suburb". Certainly the Buckhead business district along Peachtree would be part of the core. Atlanta's longitudinal configuration makes it difficult to define areas by how far they are from, say, Woodruff Park. I tend to consider anything along Peachtree up to perhaps Phipps as part of the core.

[cqholt]

I think the inner core should include all intown, streetcar suburbs. Eg: Candler Park, Grant Park, Decatur, Druid Hills, Morningside.
Downtown has 2 street grid patterns. Fairlie-Popular is 45 degrees from the rest of Downtown.

[JPD]

Core, although your stipulation that it has to be on the same street grid as downtown doesn't make sense.

[AnsleyPark]

No, it doesn't. If that were the case, the population would be very small in the "core". I consider myself in the core, but my neighborhood is in an area of midtown with absolutely NO street grid. More like a bowl of spaghetti...

[ChefRamsey]

We already have this thread.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by cqholt

I think the inner core should include all intown, streetcar suburbs. Eg: Candler Park, Grant Park, Decatur, Druid Hills, Morningside.

Seems like the "inner core" would include all the early streetcar suburbs. For example, the trolley went to Buckhead in 1907 and resulted in a huge boom in neighborhoods along Peachtree such as Garden Hills, Brookwood, Peachtree Hills, Buckhead Village, Peachtree Battle, Haynes Manor, Ardmore, West Paces Ferry, etc.

Other early suburbs linked to the streetcars include Lakewood, Maddox Park, Emory. East Lake, Capitol View, Oakland City, etc.

Ansley is correct that for the past century Atlanta's core has really been a linear one centered around Peachtree.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Seems like the "inner core" would include all the early streetcar suburbs. For example, the trolley went to Buckhead in 1907 and resulted in a huge boom in neighborhoods along Peachtree such as Garden Hills, Brookwood, Peachtree Hills, Buckhead Village, Peachtree Battle, Haynes Manor, Ardmore, West Paces Ferry, etc.

Other early suburbs linked to the streetcars include Lakewood, Maddox Park, Emory. East Lake, Capitol View, Oakland City, etc.

Ansley is correct that for the past century Atlanta's core has really been a linear one centered around Peachtree.

I completely agree with adding those to the list of inner core. Buckhead should be inner core too, it was just developed into estate homes for the rich so there are large plots.
Inner Core= early streetcar suburbs?

[Zanarkand A East]

I'm guessing East Atlanta is core? I mean the parts outside of the Village, which clearly is.