Beth Pullias would crush every single developer lackey that sits on our current council - -any of them, but especially the telephone lineman. She is a homeowner association president in a big neighborhood. I hope she does run. You developer jock sniffers are gonna get put in your place this next round of elections. The city is about 80% against the terrible West Annexation, as a poll showed. Just because the Centennial people wanted it does not mean the rest of our city does. Those people bought homes backing up to RR tracks(!!!), so their judgement on development is sure suspect.

Why don't you go back and study your MLS book for a while.

Well then TDK foe, if what you say is true Beth should run for Mayor and beat "the lineman" which is the left's new nickname for Harold Logsdon.

80% against West Village annexation cites the wrong % and the wrong poll question. Nevertheless, that vote is done. If Beth or you or Dan Tennant or anyone else wants to run for office - please do - and please be prepared to tell us (the stupid uneducated and uninvolved voters) what you would have done if faced with the same challenges.

One could question the judgement of anyone buying a house on the westside. Railroad tracks are only part of it - but Centennial people did and so did those in Planterra, Wynnmeade and Cedar Croft.

By the way, what is an MLS book?

...at a minimum: a massive PUBLIC park, complete with a state-of-the-art pool (with competition and recreation sides) for ALL city residents, a huge senior center, a recreation center for kids (with BB courts and volleyball courts), and then give the City the left over 90 acres near the tracks as permanent open space (with trails, of course). All would have been dedicated for public use for city residents and turned over to the city. They could pass this cost along in their $400 BILLION development!!

What did those developer shysters have to give us to get PEACHTREE CITY (pure gold for real estate) as their mailing address? Basically nothing. Don't tell me about the bridge - - they had to do that to sell their houses.

Sounds real nice, but sure hope you don't run for mayor TDK Foe.

The resulting tax increase would result in a new echelon of sticker shock. Don't you remember last year PTC considered CLOSING DOWN a pool (Clover Reach).

You want a fatcat park with recreation et. al. go see Kenwood Park in north Fayette when they're done. Hope the new commissioners dial that project back to something more reasonable in scope.

Please tell me what, in Fayette County, costs $400 BILLION.

I don't think all of Atlanta is worth $400 BILLION.

My bad, Mr. Bad, you are correct: I was thinking about the $0.4 billion value when I typed that!! The homes at $350k each will total $400 million. I don't think that includes the senior village, though, so it might be more.

My point still stands...we should have gotten more from the developers for their right to annex in to our fantastic city!
I am actually not against annexing the land over there, as Tyrone would have done so eventually, but as Ms. Pullis basically said, we could have done much better.

The developers are trying to make money - -fine, this is what the free enterprise system is all about - -but we just should have gotten some more nice things for our city. We do need developers (and these companies will probably build some beautiful homes - -I do like the classic look of the other houses that have been built over there in the past). Most of us all live in homes built by some developer at some time, but we need ever vigiliant council members looking out for us so as to negotiate the best deal possible for the rest of the city. I hope Beth or someone like her eventually represents PTC.

However, in this case it is the staff - not council that negotiates this. When Jim Williams left no one picked up the role of extracting favors and contributions from developers. Sure, mayor and council are ultimately responsible, but they need to have a strong staff in place that gets these contributions done before the public hearings. They do not have that now.

They probably don't need the recreation since both Levitt and Wieland will build their own, but they sure could have gotten more than just the bridge - which is significant, but certainly a requirement to sell the homes. Maybe the city could have asked for a performing arts center that would serve everyone in the city.

If you read the posts, news articles and the meeting minutes on this particular CC meeting. You will see that the City Council renegotiated this deal right there on the spot rather send it back to the planning commission.

As per Citizen article:

“Wieland reduced its plan by 20 homes after some council members initially balked over density. In the same light, Levitt was having similar problems at the outset when it initially offered to reduce its density by 20 units — but no more — as the project would become financially unworkable due to the cost of the bridge according to Levitt attorney Kathryn Zickert.

Never mind that on top of all the drama added to the issue by both sides, council at times struggled with the interpretation of Roberts Rules of Order and several failed motions on the Levitt annexation and rezoning.

I agree with you as far as it "should" have been staffs responsibility to do this before a vote was taken but for some reason City Council took it upon themselves to negotiate this.

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