Respect the office of mayor

Mayor Harold Logsdon was elected by a majority of the electorate, so we should give him the respect the office demands. We have lost all civility in today’s society.

I don’t appreciate the scheming with TDK and the Development Authority anymore than the next guy. However, calling a mayor an “idiot” or “moron” is not good form.

I think adding more big box-type stores is an absolutely horrible idea and the westside plan could be a lot less dense. They are already knocking down all the tree buffers next to the highways, so let’s not make it worse. Name calling does nothing to resolve these serious problems.

Our former mayor, Steve Brown, seems to be the only person willing to discuss the issues based upon realistic claims. If Mayor Brown were wrong, I think you would see the current mayor or the developers offering some reasonable points as to why we need TDK, more big boxes and a very dense westside. The only defense given from the development crowd for the development blitz is more name calling.

The local voters should not be kept in the dark on these issues. The last-minute meetings do nothing to promote voter confidence. If no one can give a compelling reason to proceed with TDK, the Westside and more big boxes, they ought to be abandoned.

Development

Submitted by Don Rehwaldt on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 1:11pm.

The proposed development of "West Village" and its 1239 homes, the probable annexation of unincorporated land into Peachtree City, the possible lifting of the moratorium on aparting building in PTC and the future development of over 2000 acres on Hwy 54 is spelling doom for Fayette County residents. Thanks to GRTA and ARC and the current leadership in the County and the cities and towns, Fayette county citizens will be experiencing similar wild growth that people have moved here to avoid. Instead of two acre minimum lot sizes, the Fayette County residents will be experiencing half acre lots and apartments, four lane Sandy Creek and Tyrone Palmetto roads, crowded schools, lack of sanitary sewerage, unprotected creeks and water supplies, high taxes and an ever increasing traffic load on Georgia Hwy 74. If this is what people moved to Fayette County for, so be it! If you'd like to see another Memorial Drive as in Dekalb County, Pleasant Hill and it surroundings in Gwinnett County, so be it! If not, now is the time to let your elected officials know that you expect better than this.

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Loopie Chicken Little

Submitted by Robert W. Morgan on Thu, 01/04/2007 - 7:07am.

Calm down please. The sky is not falling, the world is not coming to an end. The growth will be too much for some, not dense enough or profitaable enough for others, but it will be controlled and managed.

30 years of Peachtree City growth and all we have to complain about so far is some future traffic, for which we have widened some roads and are in the process of widening others. No, we are not going to be the next Memorial Drive or the next Riverdale as the naysayers have been predicting since 1980 everytime someone built a commercial building.

We are not going to turn into Gwinnett County either - we do not spend enough locally, nor do we have anywhere near the population to support or encourage that type of retail to build here.

The McIntosh project is going to add some people over 10 years, although I seriously doubt it will be as many as proposed because of sewer issues, but all those homes will do is add traffic to 4 and 6-lanes roads which can handle them. At least we are not Henry County where they have 3 times the growth rate and hardly any road improvements to keep up with the growth.

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