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Park returned in
2003
By LINDSAY BIANCHI
Special to the Citizen
The year 2003 will be remembered
in Fairburn as the year the city got its park back.
Duncan Park finally reopened
last year after legal wrangling between the city and Fulton County. The
two sides finally agreed the city would lease the park from the county
for five years at $1 a year. The park closed in 2002 after Fulton County
and Fairburn officials could not agree over who should pay for the park’s
operations.
Other actions that occurred
in the city last year included:
- Passing a watershed protection
ordinance. The ordinance requires that all streams, bodies of water,
detention and retention areas, 100-year flood plains, wetlands or other
state waters, and their required watershed protection buffers, which
are included on a tract of a proposed development project or adjacent
to such tract, shall be platted and dedicated to the city as permanent
open space.
- Participation in a traffic
summit concerning Ga. Highway 74. Peachtree City Mayor Steve Brown called
the meeting in the summer and representatives of five local governments
sat down together to try and find a solution to the increasing traffic
problem on the highway. The road runs from south Fayette County to Interstate
85, and is becoming more and more clogged. During the meeting, Fairburn
city administrator Jim Williams offered his view of Fairburn's portion
of the road.
“We’ve always looked
at this corridor as commercial, but well-done and well-planned commercial,”
he said. Some of the other leaders said Fairburn had definitely cornered
the market on gas stations.
- Increasing the salaries
for the mayor and council. The mayor’s salary was increased to
$3,000 per year, while council members salaries were raised to $1,500
a year.
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