Just wait 2 weeks. It will all become clear.

But I doubt if Sandy Sue nor Save Our City will apologize.

In the very near future it will become more clear to those who can read between the lines. TDK will be in jeopardy, and it will cost the city but the payoff will be huge.

For the record SS and SOS, the standard of proof among Fayette citizens is very high. Until you come up with some concrete proof, we don't want to hear your constant whining.

The only fun thing any politician can do with his campaign money is throw a big party. Harold did; big whoop! Jealous you didn't get invited? Or maybe you're just in the "out" party with Steve "gimme a Walgreen's" Brown.

Have you checked out the donation records for Harold Logsdon? Can anybody tell me if it is true that a family of non-Peachtree City residents donated money to Harold Logsdon's mayoral campaign? Does this family own a large tract of land that is adjacent the proposed TDK bridge?

Inquiring minds want to know!

How do 3,000 homes (as sated in the article) produce 60,000 extra cars? This seems like "fuzzy math" to me. Maybe I missed something. Explain.

quit whining

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The pre-figuring numbers are never correct, not even the state employees numbers.
However if there is anything the average citizen does worse than run a small business, it is math! Not just the math, but the logic associated with estimating.
The quantity of houses in one little area, or even two or three areas, have less to do with the traffic pattern than does the need and convenience of the road. Another major thing usually not even thought of by unimaginative people is the service vehicles that might use the road. Tractor and trailer rigs would have a ball going from I-85-S to say, Clayton County.
Also, ten years of construction in that part of Coweta county would mean thousands of trips, no, tens of thousands, by cement trucks, building supply trucks, new store stocking trucks, etc. Multiply that by the ten years it will take to built most of it!
Does anyone who gives it thought think that this road won't be extended to I-85 eventually? And, to I-75 the other way? Of course it will.
Peachtree City has about ten more years of decent living, and then maybe ten more of survivability, and then it won't be any better place to live than any other Atlanta surrounding community.
It would take several real miracles and many leaders with excessive courage in our local government to stop it from happening, and we don't have them! The fact is we fall into two categories: those who want the money to build it all, and those who haven't got a clue.

"Coweta Developer Tom Reese spread the plans out on the dining room table at his south Coweta County home, eager to show a visitor the most ambitious project he's ever undertaken."

"The drawings show dozens of shops along a 40-foot-wide cobblestone walkway. Thousands of homes fronting crisscrossing streets. Big swatches of green space and small pocket parks. Parking hidden in alleyways and behind shops and offices. Reese said children could walk or ride on trails to a new elementary school, on 25 acres he plans to donate." Aww---ain't that nice... a whole 25 acres!!! wooowoohhhhooo out of a $1.5 billion project - - what a guy!!

"Is it my legacy?" he asked. "I hope it is."

The 61-year-old founder of Reese Developers wants to build a 1,597-acre community called McIntosh in east Coweta County that would be a major departure for a lightly developed, but fast growing, area of the Southside.

Unlike the typical Coweta subdivision, where each house is on 1.6 acres with a septic tank, McIntosh would be URBANlike: 3,164 homes, 946,050 square feet of retail space, 119,650 square feet of office space and 399 acres of open space.

Concrete trucks commonly splatter "fresh mud" (as they say)...and you can be sure the TDK-Mutt Highway to Hell will fully blessed with ample amounts of droppings of this stuff (love it when it cures...bump bump!!). The TDK-Mutt Highway to Hell/Highway 74 intersection is truly going to be one horrific sight. Large rigs jammed with sod, building materials, pre-fab roof trusses, and brick loads, STRAINING to make a tight turn, belching smoke and making some serious noise. Oh yeah, baby...we'll be luvinit!! Thanks to our THREE Benedict Arnolds (and future City of Mcintosh residents): HAROLD "Financial Expert" LOGSDON, "Sweetness and Light" RUTHERFORD, and STEVE BOONE (BTW, is this guy actually alive or do they prop up something embalmed?).

You are really obsessed with this McIntosh village thing. If it bothers you so much - and so much more than anyone else on here, why don't you just move? If you think all that construction and traffic will hurt housing values - move now before prices fall.

If you don't want to move, we will assume you don't actually care about what you are complaining about , but rather the sellout of our politicians to developers. If that is the case, then you are probably planning to run for office against them. If so, we need to hear that now so we all know your real motivation.

To make it clear, if you are concerned about value - move. If you are running for office - tell us. That way we'll know which trash can to file your hate filled garbage in.
meow

Did Tom Reese's family donate to Harold Logsdon's campaign? Do they live in PTC? If not, what could have motivated them to give money in an election that doesn't affect them...hmmm. Is this worthy of an ethics complaint...or is this worthy of something more extensive?

BTW, I want a fairly detailed synopsis of the stunning bomb you dropped about Mayor Brown asking for a condo from a major developer. Is this tape recorded? Is this a "he said she said" scenario? Inquiring minds wants to know!

If you are curious, call the Fayette County Board of Elections.
When I was there, I thought we should scan all of the candidate's disclosures of donations, and then place them in PDF files on the public website. Maybe sometime in the future that will happen.

Some information they did put online, but most of the candidate info is still kept in a folder behind the front desk.

You have the right to review it. Just go ask.

Did the Coweta land owners actually donate to Logsdon's campaign?

You'll be 10 years ahead of your game.

Hey SLUF: before you open your big mouth (or blog) and demonstrate your total ignorance, try reading something. The City of Mcintosh is only one of SEVERAL projects that will use the TDK-MUTT Highway to Hell. We get 44k just from this one development (remember, we are talking about TRIPS PER DAY - -Google it). There are thousands more from other 2 major developments.

"The third project, currently under consideration by GRTA, is the McIntosh Trail Village project in unincorporated Coweta County.

This development encompasses 1,600 acres, and includes 3,000 single-family homes, 164 live/ work residential units, 946,050 square feet of retail, and 119,650 square feet of office space. The proposal shows primary access onto McIntosh Trail and the TDK Boulevard extension for the estimated 43,953 automobile trips per day by 2016."

Hey, I like this one. A swinging bridge would be cheap, and fun. No horses, motorcycles, or ATVs though.
Maybe even a rope anchored ferry would be neat? Pull yourself across?
The million dollar one at Best Buy (not now used by the way) is not necessary at TDK.
Maybe we could move the "unused one" that crosses 74N just up from the big nursery. It has already sold the houses for the developer!

If he gets two lanes, he will get four eventually.

These are crocodile tears. Though I am all for orderly planned expansion and development, I believe this is a political move by the mayor to "show" he's doing something. He should be showing the necessary leadership to manage growth in PTC and surroundig areas. We are not a bubble anymore, we are being engulfed by greater Atlanta and by sticking our heads in the sand we're losing the opportunity to lead and manage change and expansion (roads, transit, ligt rail, etc). We need to decide if we want to seriously lead or suffer imposition and decisions made by others for us.

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Making you think twice......

This PR move by Harold and the shill response by Robert W. Morgan sound like a poorly orchestrated Rogers and Hammerstein play. Sober? Hey, it’s a comedy. Wait for Mudcat and DIRECTPAC to praise Lunkhead Logsdon as a visionary. Logsdon had an infinite number of opportunities to incinerate the whole TDK project but sat on his hands. (Musta had a straw for his brew). Harold has delivered the Holy Grail to the developers and this bridge nonsense is a bunch of window-dressing crap. Harold had to get a signed permission slip from Group VI before making these statements, since they know that Coweta will tell us to stick it, yet again. Morgan is either blindly loyal or just blind.

And, you well know that, don't you?