I called the Peachtree City Planning Department on Monday and was told the proposed big boxes would not be on the Planning Commission agenda Monday night. As it turns out, they were. Shame on me for believing the Planning Department and not attending the meeting! I wonder how many others were given false information and made the same mistake?

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For those who voted for Steven Boone in the last election, you can go back to sleep, there’s nothing we can do about it now. Vote him out the next time around. He cares not why his constituents say, sad.

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Steve Boone’s vote in favor for what amounts to almost four townhouses per acre shows a reckless disregard for our community. Wasn’t this the guy who ran on a quality growth campaign? Didn’t he say he wanted to uphold Peachtree City’s development standards? I’ve been told that Boone is the mayor’s lap dog, but even the mayor couldn’t vote in favor of this stinker. Boone’s support of TDK is even more wacky because he can’t give you a single positive reason for building the “Road to Devastation.” His votes make no sense at all which is reason to worry. We need to get full disclosure on whether the councilman has a business relationship with any of the development interests. Steve Rapson didn’t support TDK. Steve Rapson always voted against large, problem causing multi-family projects. Steve Rapson opposed big box blight. We made a huge mistake putting Boone in office. Steve Boone is pro-high density housing, pro-traffic congestion, pro-big box development and anti-Peachtree City standards. He should have run for the city council in Riverdale.

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I can’t agree more with the townspeople begging the city council of PTC to hit the brakes on the out of control growth. Anyone who went to Monday’s planning commission meeting would have traumatized by the development projects on the table for passage. The Levitt and Sons and John Wieland neighborhoods proposals for annexation have greater density than the AMLI apartments off of Crabapple Road. What is the city council thinking? This annexation and horrible TDK road are bringing us right in line with Henry County standards. If you haven’t gone over there lately, go take a look at their clogged roads. Their planning commissioners kept approving horrible stuff and look what happened. Two big box stores were also introduced and one was for a Lowe’s to go across the street from the Home Depot on Ga. Highway 54. People, this is insanity! Steve Brown had to remind the Planning Commission we had a law on the books regarding big boxes. Many of us got up and demanded that they follow the big box law and not weasel around it. One man stood up and said there is a coalition of homeowners associations being formed to fight the outrageous stuff Mayor Logsdon and his crew are pushing. Count me in and tell us how we can help.

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It’s so aggravating how the city council in PTC is trying to run circles around the local homeowners with these development scams. Everybody is getting sick and tired of hearing the council say how concerned they are only to watch them throw in another big box store or build thousands more houses with annexation. Our beautiful tree-lined city has always been a special place to live. We don’t like having heavy traffic. We didn’t move here to be close to massive retail developments. The pro-development bunch is set to ruin everything that makes us unique.

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What kind of sick joke is the city council playing with TDK? The road was a bad idea from the start. GRTA (Grim Reaper Transition Authority) and the Coweta County Commission are rubbing our faces in our own destruction. Logsdon talks about the pounding we’re going to take but he keeps building the road. Wake up, mayor. Cindy Plunkett is right about getting out now while we still can.

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Steve Brown needs to shut up and get out of the way. Who cares if Brown has good ideas or not? If the voters wanted to see Brown’s protectionist policies, they would have put him back in office. The people elected Harold Logsdon, and if he says build TDK, then we should do it. Those new big box stores would also be a benefit to our city. We have no right to restrict local developers from developing their land.

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As a daily commuter to Atlanta via Ga. Highway 74, I dread the day when the TDK Extension and the McIntosh Trail complex in Coweta are built. At 6:15 in the morning, Hwy. 74 is already congested. Just imagine what traffic will be like at 7:30 with 40,000 more cars traveling north. Traffic will be backed up to the golf course to ramp onto the interstate. PTC is known nationally as a planned community and for being a great place to live. It is rather difficult to see any strategic planning” by the mayor and city council. Please tell me why Coweta should receive all the tax revenues (property and sales) and Fayette has to spend our tax dollars to build a road that only creates hardship and frustration for Fayette citizens. The TDK Extension should not be built until Hwy. 74 is widened all the way to the interstate. By the way, that is not scheduled until 2025.

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Why does our city council think we need additional big box stores? I keep trying to think of what we did to deserve this kind of degradation. TDK is awful. It’s like we’re being punished.

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Pardon us if a few of the PTC city council members are offended by the local citizens being suspicious of their actions. In September 2006 Council member Boone said about TDK, “From what I know I’d say ‘scrub it.’” Now he’s one of the biggest supporters of the Coweta nightmare. In August Mayor Logsdon complained about Coweta’s proposed McIntosh Village and said, “We wouldn’t annex anything that dense.” But the mayor still wants to build TDK. Both the mayor and council member support the extra-high-density westside annexation. The two guys keep propping up their weak arguments even though public opinion is very negative. Yeah, we’ve got reasons to be suspicious. We look like total fools for building TDK knowing Coweta needs it to cram their huge developments down our throats. Coweta Commission member Poole made that known.

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Will Lowe’s and Kohl’s bring enough water to fill Huddleston Pond? Boy, what a sorry statement about “Beautiful Peachtree City.”

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In a letter to the editor on Jan. 10 a guidance counselor at Sandy Creek High School appears to be trying to convince the public of something. Because of a personal experience I see through this letter as an attempt to cover something up. My child, my family and I personally suffered the most damaging and destructive action at the hands of officials of that school that I have ever experienced in my entire life. It literally tore my family apart and lost my child to me forever. The basis of it all was an accusation of wrongdoing that later investigation proved to be completely false. There were suspicious aspects of the alleged wrongdoing from the beginning and the “fair minded” staff would not even listen. At the time of the incident the attitude of school officials was ”guilty” from the start and a very vigorous effort was made to inflict as much damage on my child as possible. The results destroyed my family and caused an exceptionally intelligent and happy child with a once bright future to abandon all efforts to get an education. Where were these paragons of virtue that uphold such high standards of fairness and impartial treatment when this was happening?

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All the comments about a certain high school staff and faculty has prompted me to share a funny one. Not sure if we are all talking about same high school or not. This particular high school in south Fayette County has an administrator who is always bundled up on cold days when our school has a fire drill. She is standing in the doorway all wrapped up in warm clothing as students, faculty and visitors file by her and out into the cold. Students and faculty do not have time to get a warm coat or scarves and she thinks it is funny that we are cold. What a joke this person is. Not so funny that all of us have to clear the building and she and some of her friends and folks are standing with her and out of the wind.

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What is the status with Fayetteville and Sunday alcohol sales? Since 1996 local government has had the choice to allow for the sale of alcohol on Sundays. Little by little, local governments are coming into the 21st century and bringing this decision to the people. What is the delay? It can’t be for religious reasons. Church and state have been separated, there’s no prayer in schools, and the 10 Commandments have been taken out of government buildings. Government can’t be recognizing Sunday as a religious day, correct? From a monetary standpoint, how much are our local restaurants losing in sales? We have a wide variety of local and national chain establishments now. Where is their voice? Stop penalizing the citizens and forcing our dollars to Peachtree City, Riverdale, Morrow, Jonesboro, and every other surrounding area of Atlanta and put this decision in the hands of the voters.

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There are serious problems at the Piedmont-Fayette Hospital cafeteria. The new facilities there are top-notch. Too bad they did not carry over to the cafeteria. First of all, it is not customer-friendly. Cash only is the payment mode. Sometimes one does not have cash and needs to use a debit card. I have seen people get their meals come up to the cashier assuming that cards would be accepted and find out differently. They had no cash with them. There is no variety in menus. In the old facility there were sometimes three entrees from which to choose. You are lucky to have two now. The grill and other sections are closed many times and nothing hardly on salad bar. Breakfast foods are cold even at 8 a.m. I had the opportunity to hear this: One of the workers asked the manager about posting the menu for that particular day. His response was that he was not going to post one for that day. At one time many older couples came by from church on Sunday to have lunch. That has almost ceased. I urge you to contact hospital management and express your concerns about this cafeteria.

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To the irresponsible, pompous, arrogant joker in the black 350 (I believe a 4X4) Ford pick-up truck with USMC on the rear window. You were trying to get to the Hockey Rink during the road race this past Saturday morning while runners were crossing the street at the entrance to the Kedron Field House. I believe your license plate has a WX on it. Thanks for the clown act, but if you have to imitate the hind end of a donkey, could you do it on your own time, in your own home and around your own family? I would rather my family not have to witness your childish behavior or your lack of respect for traffic officers and road race participants. So you were inconvenienced and had to wait a few minutes. Your temper tantrum wasn’t amusing. You set a terrible example for the many children who saw it. Who do you think you are? What makes you think your cause is more important than the safety of others, especially when there are children involved? As for me and mine, we would have been happy to see you in the back seat of the officer’s cruiser on the return run.

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Today I watched a 400-pound woman waddle out of a barbecue joint to her car parked five feet from the door. I have no idea why she’s so big.

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How could they not allow a child care center on Rockaway Road? They have a doggie daycare center on that road. So, what would be the difference? More people need a child care center than a doggie care center.

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Why is Black History Month in February? February only has 28 days. Why not January? January is the month when we celebrate birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. January begins as Kwanzaa is ending. Would not January be a more suitable month for us to celebrate Black History Month?

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During the Christmas holidays I had the most humiliating and disgusting experience of my life while clearing security at the Atlanta airport. I’ve gone through security at dozens of airports but nowhere was I made to feel like a criminal the way I was in Atlanta. I am a retired federal law enforcement officer and I know a good deal about airport and port security. I seriously question the ability of the security personnel at the Atlanta airport. They seem to get great pleasure out of humiliating and verbally abusing passengers. That seems to be more important to them than security. I wonder just how safe it is to fly out of that airport?

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What with the Prez drawling, “Y’all come for the guest-to-citizenship party,” and the Governator inviting all illegals in Cal-eeee-for-neee-A to get free healthcare, that fence looks more cost-effective every day.

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If we are a nation of many cultures and peoples, can anyone out there,explain to me why on language links on government Web sites – the White House, Nancy Pelosi, etc. – have only “en Espanol” as an alternative language link? What about the many others who may only know a little English?