Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 3, Issue 3

149 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 of those metal pipes only lasted about 30 years. If that’s going into your private business parking lot, that’s one thing because 30 years might be the life of your business, but for our city streets we have to have it last for 100 years.” The city is also working on a downtown master plan, which will aim to address growth, revitalization, and sustainable development in Winder’s core. They are using input from the community to identify areas that could use improvement. Work has already started, including updates to the city’s streetscapes and sidewalks. “We have done a lot to make downtown better,” Maynard says. “Downtown looks good, it looks better than it’s ever looked in my life. When I was growing up in the ‘60s, all the old storefronts were covered up in a shiny plastic kind of material to look modern and at some point in time people started taking that off and exposed what was left. So, it really does look a lot better than it did then.” WINDER , GEORGI A