LIVABILITY

A rare mix of cosmopolitan convenience and rural beauty, the Clayton combination brings a broad range of inquiries from people who want to know where the living is good. The answer is found right here.

THE WHOLE MARKET… Well-maintained housing for modest income earner plus growing stock of upscale homes equals residential variety that's hard to match.

PARKWAY PRIDE... Proper planning, longtime ban on visual pollution stirs a move towards creation of metro's most beautiful roadways.

FINE AND FUN ... Cultural complex/conference center at a key population point offers fine arts and old-fashioned fun to residents and visitors.

MAJOR MEDICAL ... A health-care system of competence, compassion and one-on-one compatibility that recalls the care of a country physician in yesterday's America.

GREENSWARDS GALORE... Full-range of outdoor recreation, including a five-star golf-tennis resort, parks, bike trails, and the increasingly popular (and well-promoted) Reynolds Nature Preserve.

A COMPLETE MENU ... The focus of metro dining shifts south, as offerings at Clayton restaurants range from down home eggs and grits to haute cuisine.

CURTAIN GOING UP! … Live theater, year-round, adds a dramatic dimension to Clayton life.

CELEBRATE! ... Clayton's calendar is crowded with fun filled county-wide events.

 

GOVERNANCE

Government thrice-blessed-with vision, with a con­science and with the capability to put them together in a plan partnered with business and the community at large.

SINGLE-SOURCE SERVICES ... Common-sense consolidation of public functions, providing efficient, effective services responsive to public needs.

PLANNING IS PARAMOUNT ... Clayton-wide plan­ning for maximum use of resources at most desirable level of liveability and at lowest cost. A Land Use Plan and a Building Code that all Clayton residents can live with and enjoy, protected by greenspace that they can love.

ONE-STOP HELP ... Social service agencies - backed by government and citizen alike - provide equitable assistance from campus-like cluster of offices in a single location.

CHILDREN ARE IMPORTANT ... Young people with special needs are cared for by concerned adults in appropriate environment.

CALLING ALL CLAYTON ... Building community consensus and complementing metro media, in­county channels of communication reach the majority of all residents through strong print and broadcast operations.

RIDING THE CREST ... An informed, active voter turn out that beats the national average.

 

EDUCATION

From "pre-kindergarten" to post-grad, Clayton schools shine forth from state-of-the-art facilities - extending to all a fantastic opportunity to excel.

TOPS IN TUTELAGE ... Nationally recognized elementary, high schools, and college get A+ for quality of students, teachers, and administrators - ranging from test scores to teacher pay to overall performance.

ACCEPTED AND SUPPORTED ... Clayton edu­cation counts high with the folks who count most, thanks to local promotion of our schools' climb to the top.

TAILORMADE ...Clayton's state college leads as a center of academic quality and innovative responsive­ness to citizens' needs.

VO-TECH VIGOR ... Offering "learning for life" AND "learning for livelihoods," vocational and technical programs respond to aspire youngsters, leisure-laden elderly, and the suddenly unemployed.

MOUNTING CONCERN ... Plaudits pile up as county's long-promised program for the handicapped draws inquiries, observers from across the nation.

THE NATURE OF THINGS ... Nature-sensitive awareness built into the total education experience, sparking in our children the realization that today's actions have consequences for tomorrow.

 

TRANSPORTATION

With Clayton a one-of-a-kind mix of worldwide gateway and regional interface, the going here is always good.

MEGATRANSIT... From civilized sidewalks along surface streets, to parks beside our roads, to con­venient, efficient, economic links to metro transit -the word for ground movement in Clayton is "quality" (the kind that counts when business comes for a closer look).

MACRO-AIR ... World-champion Hartsfield still on top, and no challenger in sight -gives Clayton the edge of convenience for travelers.

MICRO-AIR ... Pocket airport - with "new traffic" capability and superior technology, draws a rising number of small business jets, general aviation craft.

MOVING ACCORDING TO PLAN ... Hub system speeds traffic of all modes, inspires orderly develop­ment along transportation corridors. (It all started on paper years ago.) Intra-county link-up between major commercial, cultural. service points. Mt. Zion inter­change completed. Second perimeter highway aids southernmost traffic.