Letters to the Editor

Citizens fought Kroger and won; now fight Kohl’s

Tue, 09/18/2007 - 3:41pm
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The Peachtree City mayor, council and many citizens fought the proposed leasing of the Kroger store to Goodwill and won. Bravo!

What a relief to know that our elected representatives have some compassion and respect for the community they represent and are willing to fight for it. Thank you, Mayor Logsdon, for stepping up to the plate.

Now, if only we could apply this attitude to what else is happening to our once fair little city. The development that is going on in this town has my head spinning. It is with great trepidation I pick up the weekly Citizen and read what is happening next. Honestly, it leaves me sick to my stomach.

It really saddens me to drive around this town and see more and more land being cleared for more and more shops, for people to buy more and more stuff. Come on, enough is enough. We do not need to sell city land to big box bully developers to build more.

I am in total agreement with Cal Beverly’s assessment. It is wrong, wrong, wrong! It is wrong for this city, its citizens, its way of life. Wildlife is suffering too. They are losing their habitats at an alarming rate. I shudder to think what a Kohl’s and all that goes with it will do to Line Creek and all its inhabitants.

Please, open your eyes, PTC mayor and Council, and stop this big box development before it is too late. You are helping to destroy a way of life that was the main attraction for most of us to move here.

Jacque Solsvig

Peachtree City, Ga.

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Please open your eyes and don't believe everything you read
Submitted by mg30269 on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 9:15pm.

It sounds like you are a young person. I would invite you to attend a few Council and Planning Commission meetings in order to understand the process of governing a little better. Mr Beverly has yet to show up for one of the meetings where this Kohl's issue has been discussed but saw fit to write a scathing opinion piece. If you read the paper the day after a meeting, you might disagree with what is written since it may not match what was said. This is not the case all of the time, but enough to cast doubt on its reporting. In addition, you might want to read a little document called the US Constitution, perhaps get to understand some basic law, such as property rights, and understand the difference between an Opinion piece versus a news article.

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Property Rights?
Submitted by skyspy on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 9:29pm.

That's just it, this developer doesn't own all of the land that he needs to pull this off. To top it off he has low-balled the city on his bid to purchase the property he needs to pull this off.

This past week the cops had yet another drug sting at mcBULLY's big box. While I'm grateful that the cops have a place to bust drug dealer low-lifes, we don't need anymore big boxes.

It may come as a shock to you, but Mr Beverly has the same opinion of developers, liars, and mcBULLY that the average PTC citizen has. We like him, and he is speaking for the rest of us. He writes in a way that is much more eloquent, but it gets our message across. He is writing about what the average citizen is thinking. Have you not looked at the polls? 75% of the citizens in PTC don't want kohls, we don't want mcBULLY either. We will boycott kohls, just like we have kroger.

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