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The mission of the Beautification Department is to provide the City of Newnan, its citizens, and visitors with efficient and effective maintenance and enhancement of the City’s parks, public grounds, and road right-of-ways.

Mike Furbush

The Beautification Department, established in 1998 under the direction of the City's Landscape Architect, Mike Furbush, is responsible for a wide range of tasks related to the growth, development, and maintenance of the City of Newnan. As a branch of Community Development, the Beautification Department has a dual purpose. The first and most labor intensive is to provide the City and its citizens with efficient and effective maintenance and enhancement of the City's parks, public grounds, and road rights of way. The second is to provide standards for the preservation of trees as part of the land development process; to prevent the unnecessary mass grading of land without provision for replacement of trees; and to protect trees during construction whenever possible in order to enhance the quality of life within the City of Newnan.

The Beautification Department was created to preserve, heighten, and embellish the natural beauty of the City of Newnan. Using four crews, totaling eleven employees, the department is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the City’s parks, public grounds, and road rights-of-way. Our primary tasks include, but are not limited to, 1) mulching, trimming, maintaining, and planting trees, shrubs, and flowers; 2) mowing, fertilizing, and edging grassed areas; 3) picking up litter and debris; and 4) providing an overall well maintained and appealing appearance to the City. The Beautification crews are responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of seven parks within the City of Newnan, including Temple Avenue Park, C. J. Smith Park, Cranford Park, Lynch Park, Ray Park, Westgate Fields, and South Street Park. The crews also maintain several tracts that have been set-aside for recreational purposes, but have yet to be formally developed as parks. In addition to the City’s parks, the crews are also responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of numerous sites that serve as public grounds within the City limits including the City Administration Building, the Public Safety Building, the Fire Stations, the Historic Downtown Business District, the Verona Rosser Center, the Main Street Office, the Oak Hill Cemetery entrance and walls, and the City owned parking lots. The maintenance and enhancement of several large road rights-of way projects, as well as numerous smaller right-of-way accounts, also fall under the responsibility of the Beautification crews. Some of the larger projects include the City’s portion of Bullsboro Drive, the Temple/Clark Corridor, Newnan Crossing Boulevard and Newnan Crossing By Pass.

The Beautification Department is also responsible, under the City’s Landscape and Tree Preservation Ordinance, for the construction plan review, construction plan approval, and site inspection for all new construction projects as they relate to tree preservation, tree protection, and landscaping. The City Landscape Architect performs all these site development type tasks as part of the interpretation, implementation, and enforcement of the aforementioned ordinance. The City Landscape Architect serves as the City’s liaison for the City Council appointed Parks Commission, Tree Commission, and the Farmer Street Cemetery Commission, as well as serving as the Project Manager for the three extensive Streetscapes construction projects that the City has been involved in since 1998. The Historic Downtown Streetscapes Project and the Temple/Clark Corridor Improvement Project have recently been completed and the Greenville Street Corridor Improvement Project is currently in the final design stages.