The land has already been acquired (i.e. money spent) for the FAA grant. BTW that was to add to the airport's safety area by increasing the "protected" land under the airport's ownership.

In other words, that deal was done a while ago and the land is in the airport's hands now.

Most of the east side of Coweta is against the huge McIntosh development as well. Thank goodness this has gotten blocked!! Looking forward though, a better access to Hwy. 85 would be to widen Hwy. 154 - where of course the Coweta Commission just okay'd another Wal-Mart- ugh.
Fischer Rd. isn't a great choice because it is a 10 mile hike, more residental right at the road side, and a lot more widening then Hwy. 154. Of course this would go right past Commissioner Paul Poole's cattle ranch and home....hmmmmmm.....

For ALL of Fayette County.

The answer to why Sonny Perdue hasn't canned King Roy's Democrat created GRTA is because he loves big government programs and the control they wield. What do you expect from a re-hashed & re-labeled Democrat political hack?

Did I sound like Bas?

Seriously... all I can say is Yippee!

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"That man was Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney Scott Ballard".

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Sen. Seabaugh to the rescue? I ain't buying that this is over. Rutherford did the right thing, yes. Logsdon couldn't stop the road cancellation so he voted no, so as not to be the only obvious developer supporter (which is what he is). Robemudcat Morgan would cheer Harold if he hit his hindquarters with both hands.

This story is far from over. There is too much big money in support of this to take one council vote lying down. State Sen. Mitch Seabaugh is well connected to the Coweta developers. So is Congressman Westmoreland. Westmoreland wants to be Governor. Mitch wants to go to Congress. Mitch has been mental about making this road happen. The developers have millions of dollars. All of these good ole boys love each other. If they get the most powerful agency in the state (DOT) behind this, the PTC Council will be forced to say "Sorry folks we fought the good fight but we lost. Re-elect us anyway." Remember when the PTC Council voted on the Dev Auth issue and then State Rep. Westmoreland ignored it and passed local legislation to trump the council vote ? This party is far from over.

Don't believe the hype from RobeMudcat W. Morgan on TDK. I believe they said the road is on "hold" which means it can come back at any time. I love the part about the city council "unofficially" signaling the Fayette County Commission (oh how weak). Why wouldn't the city officially tell the county commission?? This is another smoke screen! Coweta County will make all kinds of promises and then everyone will jump back into action building the extension.

The Direct PAC guys are claiming that Mayor Logsdon is not in the developers' back pockets and the TDK vote proves it - give us all break! He tried to hold the vote up. The mayor’s fondness of lying means we shouldn’t believe a word the guy says (Do the Direct PAC guys remember “I will reduce the budget and roll back taxes,” I sure do.)

This is just an election ploy by by Direct PAC on behalf of Stuart Kourajian and Judy Rutherford to get the voters to believe they mean no harm. If they want us to believe them, they ought to kill the project. No votes for Stuart and Judy until they officially kill the TDK project.

The question was how the lunatic fringe would respond to a 5-0 vote against TDK. Good answer and totally in keeping with your character. Good job and thank you for your contribution to a high-minded debate.

This Council has been ripped to shreds on here for this very issue. The facts came out about Coweta's intentions, and they acted.

One other thing this article doesn't mention, how will this impact Lowes and it's "want" to be at the TDK and 74 area? I would think from Lowes thinking, that interchange just became less inviting.

Our city council did the right thing because of the scathing letters and e-mails they recieved. For a change they listened to the "little people".

Listen to the people. They did.

Dead guy.

Mayor Logsdon didn't want a vote taken at tonights meeting. He had wanted to wait for the court to make a decision first. On that note I'm inclined to agree with him.

Credit, if credit is due, should go to Mrs. Rutherford for her persistence in wanting to put an end to this ordeal.

Actually her motion was much more succinct than Mr. Kourajians'. Mrs. Rutherford simply said something to the effect that, "Peachtree City has no intention of pursuing the TDK extension at this time."

Two points of interest. First Mr. Kourajians' motion includes language that stipulates action on the part of Coweta County; "Adequate road improvements be made to I-85". Secondly, it was stated that construction of the road must "start" by some date in 2009.

As I don't have a copy of the actual closing documents I don't know the answer to this but I was under the impression that the road construction to the Pathways property had to be completed by a certain date in 2009.

If anyone has the 'dirt' (pun intended), please provide answer.

Don't have it in front of me but I'm awfully SURE the contract for the TDK Right of Way from (insert your own Pathway subsidiary here) calls for the land to revert if the road is not complete.

I'll see if I can remember to look it up tomorrow. I've got a copy of that contract laying 'round somewhere.

Also, I'm certain that someone said the Pathway subsidiary could build a driveway to TDK even if the city/county doesn't extend TDK. So that much-rumored convention center, whatever it is could still conceivably happen, much as the long-awaited Lake McIntosh could conceivably happen.

Appreciate the insight. A court decision would be better then PTC could possibly dodge the GRETA bullet that is sure to come.
Nevertheless the story did say the vote was 5-0 and that means something. Congrats to all of you.

The Pathways deadline is Dec - moved from October, but that is meaningless. All Mitchell wants is a free road to his hotel on lake McIntosh and will do anything - including extending the deadline to get it.