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WHO SENT ME THIS SPAM E-MAIL? From: "JMac Info" Date: 2006/07/17 Mon PM 07:15 EDT (I'll make my apologies up front - you're not on any list, this is a one-time email & you won't get anything else regarding politics again unless you've asked for it. I hope you're voting tomorrow &, of course, I hope you're voting for Greg Dunn. Thanks for your patience & understanding & if you don't vote, don't care or you're not voting for Greg I truly apologize for including you in this list! Sometimes it just gets to me when there's a lot of negative, inflammatory and erroneous information being tossed around... Janet) Eric's Error #1 A. Greg does not support the land use plan and lower density because he voted for sewer for a subdivision on the edge of Peachtree City. B. Eric also says HE (Eric) would have voted for sewer for the Heritage Church and would vote yes on sewer to any church. (Two debates and his first letter to the Editor which is now posted on Eric’s website.) THE FACTS: A. Georgia state law requires that any subdivision within 500 ft. of a sewer line with the capacity and with the permission of the owner (in this case Peachtree City - and they said they would allow it) must be allowed to hook into the sewer. The subdivision was about 2 feet from the sewer line. Anyone, including Eric, who was on the County Commission would not have been able to stop that one. B. If Eric voted to allow sewer to the Heritage Church he would then HAVE to allow sewer for any development in the unincorporated county. The law does not allow exceptions to be made for Churches. The Heritage Church is about 2,500 feet from the closest sewer line. If the County Commission had voted to extend sewer to the Church they would not have a leg to stand on when it came to saying no to any other entity (Wieland, other developers, etc.). Eric is a lawyer, he KNOWS you can't make exceptions like that and then expect to uphold the land use plan in court. As you know, the County Commission turned Heritage Church down. They would like to have been able to help them out, but they knew they would then have to allow everyone else to do the same thing. Eric’s Error #2 A. Eric cites the vote by the County Commission to zone the 124-acre tract on Redwine Road for 1 – 2 houses per acre as an indication that the County Commission is not supporting the Land Use Plan and that they are for higher density. B. Eric says the County Commission was WRONG to turn down 3,000 homes on less than 800 acres of buildable land. That is close to FOUR (4) houses per acre. THE FACTS: A. The Redwine acreage was land used for 1 – 2 acre lots. It is surrounded completely by homes on 1-acre lots. It is in an area that is completely residential. A high quality subdivision with 59 homes in the $400,000 plus range will be going on that 124-acre piece of property. That is 2.1 houses per acre (somewhat less when you take into consideration roads, common area, etc., but still well within the Land Use Plan). B. The development Eric says Greg & the County Commission should have approved for 3,000 homes on less than 800 acres would have irrevocably made the Land Use Plan completely irrelevant and un-defendable. You cannot make exceptions and expect to uphold the Land Use Plan successfully (as the current County Commission has done) in court. As a lawyer, Eric knows you cannot defend the rules if you break the rules. If the County had allowed those homes to go into the middle of the county as Eric would have liked, the County would have had to change sixteen (16) laws currently on the books, including some environmental laws. The group wanted to put a golf course on wetlands. As the development sat almost in the exact center of Fayetteville, Peachtree City and Tyrone, it would not have been long before developers would have targeted the entire area radiating out from the 3,000 acres. Currently the County Commission receives a high number of requests for developments with similar density. If they allow one, regardless of how nice it might have been to have the Del Webb development, they then have to allow all. These are just a few of the contradictory statements and 
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