Sandy Springs’ median detached-home sale price reached $975,000 in 2025, up about 50% from 2020, according to exhibits prepared for the city’s Oct. 29 comprehensive plan workshop.

The Public Meeting #3 exhibits brought housing affordability, road safety and infrastructure needs into focus as residents helped shape the city’s “Next Chapter.”

The workshop at the Conference Center at City Springs sought input on both the comprehensive plan and recreation and parks master plan. Officials aim to adopt both in June 2027, Appen Media reported.

The housing exhibits put the median detached-home sale at $649,250 in 2020 and $975,000 in 2025. About 21% of detached sales in 2025 exceeded $1.5 million, while 11% fell below the 2020 median.

Attached homes sold at lower prices but also became more expensive. Their median sale price rose from $240,000 to $320,000 over the same period, an increase of roughly 33%.

The city’s housing stock grew 17% between 2010 and 2024, reaching 55,203 units, according to the exhibits. Household growth outpaced that expansion, reducing the ratio of housing units to households from 1.16 to 1.07.

Planners are considering policies that would direct major housing developments toward transition and redevelopment areas, expand choices for middle-income households and concentrate much of the new supply in mixed-use districts. Those ideas remain under discussion.

Transportation exhibits identified another costly challenge: 108 miles of priority sidewalks with an estimated construction cost of $450 million. An 18-mile group of high-priority projects would cost about $70 million.

The materials list $16 million for the Capital Sidewalks Program and another $4 million for sidewalks in Year 2 of TSPLOST. Those allocations should be understood alongside the broader, long-term construction estimate.

Road safety is also a focus. According to the exhibits, Roswell Road accounted for 33% of surface-street crashes, followed by Peachtree Dunwoody and Abernathy roads at 9% each and Hammond Drive at 8%.

The city’s online workshop activities invite residents to comment on proposals including safer crossings, increased sidewalk funding, a Complete Streets approach and potential microtransit around Perimeter.

Residents who missed the workshop can review the materials and contribute feedback through the project website.