Friday, April 6, 2001
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Friday, April 6, 2001 |
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DOT sweetens tax vote By JOHN
THOMPSON
Senoia's rapid development came to a screeching halt Monday night when the City Council voted down three rezoning requests for new subdivisions. With a packed City Hall, Councilmen Robert Hannah, Dianne Cleveland and Darren Ratajski said no to subdivisions on Rockaway Road and one on Ga. Highway 85. The subdivisions would have added more than 200 homes to the rapidly growing city on lots as small as a quarter acre. Councilman Pam Youngblood and Mayor Joan Trammell voted for the rezonings and after the votes, Trammell let her feelings be known. (See related story.) At last week's public hearings, numerous citizens denounced the ideas for the subdivisions and said they did not want any more traffic on Rockaway Road or homes on small lots. The meeting was one of the testier ones in the city in the last few months, with Hannah and Trammell scrapping on several issues. The first debate occurred when Senoia Tree Commission Chairman Mary Provost asked the council to approve developer David Lindsay as a member of the commission. Hannah said he had a problem with Lindsay clear-cutting a new commercial development on Ga. Highway 16, adding he thought there was supposed to be a natural buffer left at the site. City Administrator Leonard Thompson said he had talked with Lindsay and the developer had pledged to place bigger trees on the site. "But didn't we require a natural buffer?" Hannah questioned. Thompson said yes, and Trammell said the information was available to any councilman who came to City Hall and asked for it. "I do come up here," said Hannah. Hannah also questioned whether the city planned to provide sewerage to anything outside the city limits. When Trammell said that was never in the plan, he said he just wanted to make sure that comment was in the record. The meeting ended quietly, with all the councilmen heading their separate ways.
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