It is the mechanism by which local commercial property owners advance needed public infrastructure projects that enhance property values as well as the greater community.Ĭobb DOT, the Cumberland CID, the Georgia Department of Transportation, and ARCADIS The Cumberland Community Improvement District (CID), Georgia’s first CID, is a public-private assessment district in northwest Atlanta. Construction is proposed to begin in early 2021 will cost $2 million and fully funded by CID. The project will include a lane reconfiguration, trail striping, enhanced Bob Callan Trail access point, pedestrian lighting, landscaping, and will be a 10-foot-wide multi-use trail. 4 miles to the completed half-mile section along Akers Mill Road and Cobb Galleria. The Akers Mill Central Trail segment will add an additional. The Akers Mill Central Trail improvements will complete the Akers Mill Road Trail system. The eastern portion intersects with the Bob Callan Trail, which provides a southern connection on a paved trail that meanders through the contoured banks of the Rottenwood Creek and provides access to the CRNRA’s Palisades Trailhead at Paces Mill.Ī multi-use trail, Akers Mill Trail weaves through Cumberland, Cobb’s central business district, connecting 32 million square feet of commercial space with 1,200 acres of pristine national parkland at the CRNRA’s Cochran Shoals Trailhead. The eastern portion of the trail runs along I-285 across the street from approximately 5,000 community residents. The western portion features pedestrian lights and street furniture for walkers and bicyclists to use. The Akers Mill Trail provides the critical east/west connection for the Silver Comet connector trail and the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (CRNRA), and is split into the eastern and western segments tied together by the Rottenwood Creek Trail. Special Assessment: Community Improvement Districts Source: Credit to Cumberland Community Improvement District Project NameĪkers Mill Central Trail Improvement ProjectĬumberland Community Improvement District I just stay on Atlanta Road and have ridden it all the way into Atlanta without problem.The trail weaves through Cumberland, Cobb’s central business district, connecting 32 million square feet of commercial space with 1,200 acres of pristine national parkland at the CRNRA’s Cochran Shoals Trailhead. Once you get on the trail, it is excellent if a bit dirty at times until Windy Hill Road where it again truncates and you have to cross over for another mile of road until the trail picks up again in Smyrna-you may again decide to stay on the road as it is good four lane and the trail not very wide or smooth when you do pick it up. The portion along Atlanta Road once you get to it behind Dobbins is very nice but there is no easy way over the 120 Loop/South Marietta Parkway and for some reason the Confederate cemetery is now entirely fenced without an easy entry so you can not cross over to West Atlanta Street (a much better biking road than Atlanta Road) without risking your life to West Dixie-and by then you will just stay on Atlanta until you pick up the trail in another half mile or so and worst part behind you. This is why you will see so many bikers staying off the trail and biking Kennesaw Avenue itself and straight into Marietta-people tend to take the best route. Seems obvious to take the most efficient and already heavily used route along the sidewalks rather than extending an extra mile to behind Kennestone. Why the trail does not continue along Kennesaw Avenue into Marrietta is beyond me except for the political reality of not disturbing the nicer older homes' already existing sidewalks to make them multi-use paths. Here is where the trail design belays the strong bias towards recreational and wandering trails designed for a pleasant roll rather than transportation and commuter routes designed to move people efficiently. The trail is still being developed from Roselane to Atlanta Road behind Dobbins AFB. The plan is to run along Campbell Hill to Church through downtown Marrietta and then along Atlanta Street towards Smyrna. There is still a gap from where the trail turns to the east from Kennsaw Avenue and Tower and extends to Roselane but not yet beyond. See The Mountain to River Trail is planned to extend to the River (and Smyrna) and much of that route is complete along Atlanta Road but not all. The trail also extends to the NW along Old 41 to Barrett Parkway where it joins the Noonday Creek trail extending from Burnt Hickory along Barrett all the way to Bells Ferry Road between East Piedmont/Barrett and Chastain Road. Very nice trail from Kennesaw National Battlefield Park to almost Kennestone Hospital area.
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