Alpharetta Posts Rucker Road Meeting Video, Presentation Online

Staff expect to make the same presentation to City Council during a workshop meeting in May.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The City of Alpharetta's James Drinkard, Assistant City Administrator, sent out this message today following the Rucker Road Corridor meeting Monday night. Included in this message are links to the video from the meeting, the presentation slides and handouts available at the meeting. Thank you to everyone who participated in our recent series of public design meetings focused on planning the future of the Rucker Road Corridor.  The ideas and comments provided by participating residents was of tremendous benefit to our engineers as they created draft concept designs for the roadway. If you were unable to attend last night’s meeting during which those future design concepts for the Rucker Road Corridor were revealed, you can …

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Alpharetta Unveils Rucker Road Corridor Designs Tonight

Residents of local neighborhoods are again asked to comment, this time on how well the city has addressed their concenrs.

Alpharetta's Engineering and traffic planning staff have created a draft design plan for Rucker Road after hearing from residents in neighborhoods along the street how the road should look and function. Tonight at 7 the city will unveil the designs and ask if they've addressed residents' concerns. In February the city held several meetings for residents who live in neighborhoods along the Rucker Road corridor.  Those sessions were designed for them to share ideas and concerns for the corridor. City staff listened to learn how they could design the roadway so that it better meets their needs.  Most of the road is lined with residential neighborhoods, but it has become a major connecting route for Roswell and Cherokee motorists on their way …

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Bob Pepalis

2:08 pm on Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Cross sections for the Rucker Road corridor were unveiled, and residents told city staff how close they got to what the neighborhoods wanted. This story was posted today about the meeting: http://patch.com/A-3ZDg   more ›

Alpharetta to Present Plan for Rucker Road Corridor

The city's staff has taken public comments to meld into a draft plan that will be revealed and discussed on April 29.

What did Alpharetta's staff make of local residents' ideas for the Rucker Road Corridor? A draft design will be brought back before the community on April 29 to see what weeks of work has developed. In February you took the time to participate in a series of meetings held by the City of Alpharetta for citizens who live in neighborhoods along the Rucker Road Corridor," said Assistant City Administrator James Drinkard in a release today. "You will recall that those sessions were designed for you and your neighbors to share your ideas and concerns for the corridor and for us to listen and learn so that we could design the roadway in a holistic manner that better meets your needs." Rucker Road Draft Plan Monday, April 29, 7 p.m. Alpharetta …

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Alpharetta Neighbors Make Dangerous Bridge Crossing on Foot

Rucker Road lacks sidewalks in key locations, so pedestrians have to step into traffic if they are on the wrong side of a bridge on the way to school or Crabapple stores.

Local residents again told Alpharetta city staff that Rucker Road needs to remain a two-lane road with residential characteristics. That might be a tough challenge for what has long been a major connector for Cherokee and Roswell residents on their way to and from work in Alpharetta or even Gwinnett. On Feb. 26 the city held its final of three interactive public information meeting with neighborhood residents. Now city staff will take the input from them and try to turn it into a concept design for the entire road from Wills Road to Houze Road. Rucker Road has been on Alpharetta and Fulton County's plans for years. With new cities and annexations Fulton no longer has an involvement in North Fulton roads. But parts of the road are in …

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Alpharetta Council Gives Rucker Neighborhoods, Developer Time

A rezoning application for a 20-home subdivision off Rucker Road was tabled Monday night.

A developer and residents of two Rucker Road subdivisions have been given a chance to work out their differences about a zoning case before Alpharetta City Council votes on the proposed new subdivision. David Hole, representing the development company he and his father own, presented a plan to build 20 homes on the 13 acres of the Cromen Ferguson property on Rucker Road. This is much less dense than the original 37-home subdivision originally proposed, and the 30-home plan the Alpharetta Planning Commission recommended be denied for zoning. Rucker Road residents in this and other neighborhoods might want to attend tonight's public information meeting in which they can help plan the future for Rucker Road. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at …

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Alpharetta Asks for Rucker Road Input One Last Time

The Tuesday public information meeting gives local residents another chance at giving city staff direction in designing road improvements.

The city of Alpharetta will host the third and final meetings asking residents to help design Rucker Road improvements on Tuesday, asking: Residents at the first meeting told city staff to keep the road two lanes and to improve intersections with left turn lanes to avoid dangerous passing on the right in right turn lanes. The meeting will be held: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m. Alpharetta City Hall 2 South Main Street Since TSPLOST failed at the polls last year, the city has to rely on its own funding sources to improve the road, which connects Crabapple Road on one end to Old Milton Parkway on the other. Don't come expecting to see proposals by engineers, consultants or city staff. The time is set aside for local residents. Alpharetta Assistant…

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Alpharetta Residents Say Keep Rucker a Two-Lane Road

The city asks local residents for their vision of the street.

A handful of Rucker Road area residents told Alpharetta city staff they want the road to remain a two-lane road during a public, interactive meeting on Feb. 11. This was the first of three interactive meetings in which the city asked residents to give their vision of road improvements. No concept plans were created for them to view. City engineers will design a concept plan based on what the public wants, which will be presented sometime in March to see if they got it right. The next public meeting will be Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. at the Crabapple Government Center. A third meeting will be held Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. at Alpharetta City Hall. Rucker Road has become a major connecting road with much through traffic from Cherokee …

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W. Beck

4:57 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Hell, it is 6 lanes when the name changes to Old Milton and the same amount of cars are traveling E/W on it.   more ›

Alpharetta Residents Can Plan Rucker Road Improvements Monday Night

City residents will have three chances to offer their ideas to improve traffic and the appearance of Rucker Road this month even before engineers get started with their notions.

Alpharetta Wants Rucker Residents to Help Improve the Road

City residents will have three chances to offer their ideas to improve traffic and the appearance of Rucker Road this month even before engineers get started with their notions.

How would you make improvements to pedestrian, bicycle and vehicle traffic on Rucker road? What other changes would you make? The city of Alpharetta announced in a news release today that it will host a series of meetings for citizens who live in neighborhoods along Rucker Road for the purpose of learning: Since TSPLOST failed at the polls last year, the city has to rely on its own funding sources to improve the road, which connects Crabapple Road on one end to Old Milton Parkway on the other. Don't come expecting to see proposals by engineers, consultants or city staff. The time is set aside for local residents. "These sessions are designed for you to share your ideas and concerns and for us to listen.  Because you live along Rucker Road…

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