With little regards to the future of Peachtree City, the Peachtree City Council is going to allow the TDK Boulevard Extension to connect thousands of new homes in Coweta County and allow tens of thousands of additional cars to flow through our streets and change our lives forever. The City Council has been tight-lipped and has not offered any press releases, resolutions, and not even a huff or puff to stop this project. Look at what is happening, or not happening, now.

The City Council is passively allowing our benevolent Peachtree City to change into another sprawling metro Atlanta congested town. What’s next — MARTA? Is that what we should be planning for in the future? MARTA buses and rails to come to PTC to help resolve gridlock traffic issues when an additional 80,000 cars are trying to commute? Six lanes on Ga. Highway 74 South will flow into four lanes north of Hwy. 74, all racing to get to I-85.

CNN’s Web site has a story on the hot markets in housing and where to buy. Although the Atlanta area is good, there is a passage that tells the reader, “Expect to see the greatest appreciation along Atlanta’s southern perimeter fringes, particularly in and around Peachtree City.” Is this our future?

Ok, folks, remember this during the next election and when traffic is an issue. Without any evidence of a struggle to stop the extension of TDK Boulevard into Coweta County and support massive development, I can only conclude that Mayor Harold Logsdon (hlogsdon@peachtree-city.org), Judi-ann Rutherford (jrutherford@peachtree-city.org), Stuart Kourajian (stuartk@peachtree-city.org), Steve Boone (sboone@peachtree-city.org), and Cyndi Plunkett (cplunkett@peachtree-city.org) are in favor of this ridiculous project and are doing nothing to stop it.

Act now for yourself and for our city by contacting the council and tell them to, “Just stop it.”

Richard Spain
Peachtree City, Ga.