You're missing my point on TDK. If you go back and look, I never said I opposed the road. I just said that I think that people are over estimating its value.

Residential properties with good schools and good road access fill up quickly. If Pathway builds Summer Grove II on the other side of TDK and the other developers follow suit, how are those homeowners going to get on I-85? They'll do it just like the adjacent Senoia homeowners do - get on Hwy. 74. Does that help the 50 percent of us that commute to Atlanta and beyond every day? More people bring more crime. More cars bring more traffic accidents and more congestion.

I'm just being realistic. Show me an expanded or widened road in a good residential or commercial area in Metro Atlanta that still has good traffic flow after five years. In Cobb, many years ago, we had a lot of open farm land on I-75. Then they built a shopping mall on Barrett Parkway. Next came high density residential (apartments and 1/4 and 1/2 acre lots). The county commission and the chamber of commerce said that more capacity was needed on Barrett Parkway to ease the new traffic congestion. It was going to solve all our problems. They added more capacity and what happened? Four more large commercial developments moved in and several more large residential communities were built. The result was traffic congestion was worse than before.

Based on 50 plus years of observation, I say wait and see if the residential developments don't start springing up like crazy when the road access is extended. I could be dead wrong, but that's the way I've seen it happen for decades.

As far as the Pathway profit margin, look at what they sold their Hwy. 74 road frontage lots (pure highway frontage) for and you'll see why they simply waited until the FAA deadline to create more pressure to get an outragous price. They were in the driver's seat all the way. Logsdon was under so much pressure to build the road, he'd given them anything they wanted.

Here's a question that I can't find an answer for: Who is paying to move the holes for the golf course? Pathway just supplied the land as far as I know, so who's got the tab on moving the dirt, sod, irrigation, etc.?

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I think it will also benefit the Braelin Shopping Center, and hopefully, help with the traffic to/from Coweta on HWY 54. I've often said on here, that the Coweta folks, especially Senoia, could get out of hand with annexing/zoning, but there's not much we as Fayette Voters can do about it.

Cobb/Fulton have always had trouble with the access back and forth over the Chattahoochee River, Line Creek , though smaller is the same problem for us here.

I still don't think we'll see anything close to the growth that Cobb experienced in our area.

As far as profit made, who is to determine how much is too much? Or not enough?

It seems we agree more than we disagree on this.

I agree with you, G35 Dude, on the congestion problem. Although just wait until they start widening Hwy. 74, we'd all better carry some prozac in the glove compartment! If we thought that the Hwy. 54 construction tied us in knots, just wait.

We get back to the saying, "You can't put 10 pounds of sugar in a 5 pound bag." Look at the traffic in the Thomas Crossroads area, and they don't have sewer and have to build on bigger lots. Their traffic is picking up because the areas around them are adding more new homes.

Harold Logsdon is not a slow growth advocate. To the contrary, he has and is pushing several projects that will lead to rapid spikes in residential growth. This does not work in our favor. Senoia wants to add more houses and is trying to figure out how to do it. Let's pray that Eric Maxwell doesn't go on a development rampage like Logsdon has.

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In reading on here, apparently 3 laning 74 is in the cards. You're right, in the short term, the 2 laning project from 54 to Crosstown will be a bear.

Thankfully, I have Peachtree Parkway as an alternate.

Uh oh! You made me think about what the alternative routes will be. Let's get some speed humps on Peachtree Parkway and Robinson Road right away - could you imagine?

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