I can hardly keep up with everything that is being shoved down our throats these days with shopping centers we don’t want, road extensions we don’t want, and now the West Village annexation and its potential impact on our city.

For those of you who have not attended all the meetings required to keep up with the development in this town, let me tell you my view of the proposed annexation of the West Village that the City Council will vote on Thursday, May 3.

What is done?

On April 9, the Planning Commission voted 4-0 to annex the West Village into PTC and to add 699 55-and-older homes, and 495 single family homes in an area now zoned for one house per every two acres.

In exchange for annexation at this density the developers (Wieland, and Levitt and Sons) will build MacDuff Parkway’s extension and bridge to align with Kedron Drive North.

The developers will also have to agree to pay a proposed impact fee to include monies for a West Village fire station, and subsidiary funds (11 percent of total cost) for the planned BSC expansion. A financial impact study was presented that made financial “guesstimations” from construction to 80 years from now.

What is not done?

No water/sewer impact study was presented. No data as to the effect all of this added sewage will have on the already taxed Line Creek was presented. No school impact study was presented. No traffic (residential mixed with cut-through) impact studies were presented, with respect to Ga. Highway 74 and North Kedron Drive, and the proposed newly extended MacDuff Parkway. Very little golf cart access is planned.

I am aware that this issue has been on the table and off the table so many times over the last 10 years or so. Maybe we thought it would just go away again. But folks, its time is here. It is not going away this time.

There were a handful of citizens in the planning commission meeting on April 9; three or four of us stood up and voiced our objection to annexation at this density. Two or three members of Centennial stood up as advocates of the MacDuff parkway extension for their community. That was it.

Where is everyone? This is a big deal, and once we annex and approve this onslaught of density, there is no going back. There are no do-overs. If we do not hold Council accountable for the impact annexing this property at this density will have on our quality of life, we will reap what we don’t sow.

The list of “What is not done?” above is my list, and I am sure it is not complete. This entire list would be less necessary if council required a lower density of homes in this annexed area. I believe annexation at this density is a recipe for disaster. It adds approximately 1,200 new homes where it is now zoned only for 430; 2,400 additional drivers; and the potential for a conservative 1,000 new children into our school system, all sandwiched between both highways 54 and 74, with a nice new road to connect it all. Yikes!

Make no mistake about it: Everyone will be impacted by this annexation if it is approved as planned. Anyone who lives in PTC, shops here, commutes through here, and goes to school here will feel it. We have to stand up and let it be known why we object to this plan.

Represent your interest in keeping PTC great. Come to the meeting on May 3, 7 p.m. at City Hall and urge the council to send this plan back to the planning commission asking for lower density before they vote.

Don’t let Council approve this plan as it is. They are hoping that you will be too distracted by TDK, big boxes and the looming Coweta County development and let this one slide by. Don’t let that happen.

The real representatives of Peachtree City are its citizens. Show yourselves.

Beth Pullias

Peachtree City, Ga.