Devlopment tsunami coming

I’ve read everyone’s comments on this web site for four months. Up to now, I’ve had no desire to make any public comments.

I’m really worried about the future of Peachtree City right now. What’s going to keep our roads from bogging down like every other city? I agree with Spear Road Guy: “I think there is such a thing as developer greed. For example, asking for 750 units on property that is zoned and land planned for 150 homes. That would be taking advantage of the city and its residents.”

Read the Citizen’s Coweta news and you’ll see that Rapson and Brown were right on the real reason the developers were behind the TDK extension: “It’s going to be awhile before there is any resolution to the ongoing dispute between Coweta County and Sharpsburg over Pathway Communities’ plan to annex 480 acres of land for a huge development ... Pathway plans to build a residential and commercial community with approximately 760 single-family homes and 80 townhomes, along with 100 units for assisted living. He said homes will range in style from turn-of-the-century to traditional and priced from the high $100s to over $300,000. Other features of the development include a 22-acre commercial center. The commercial area will front on Ga. Highway 54 and may feature a grocery store, drug store, day care center and restaurant to serve the Sharpsburg area” (“County calls for mediation with Sharpsburg,” Thu, 08/17/2006). In all seriousness, is there any resolution for the huge Coweta developments that will help Peachtree City? I seriously doubt it. We’re about to get murdered by a tsunami of development. Pathway is just the start.

What does everyone else think?

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I think they need their own road.
Submitted by McDonoughDawg on Tue, 08/22/2006 - 8:57pm.

North to interstate 85. Fisher Road would be fine with me, get it 4 laned ASAP...

As a PTC and Fayette resident, I'm not sure how much control, if any we have.

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Submitted by Spear Road Guy on Tue, 08/22/2006 - 7:54pm.

Gee whiz, blogger Jones was talking about a tsunami, but I didn't know he was giving the weather report for today. Let's see, 4,000 homes (so far) on the TDK extension, another 2,500 from Pathway just to the west, hey that's only 13,000 cars!

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Should PTC get bigger?
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Submitted by ExExPatriot on Mon, 08/21/2006 - 10:32pm.

Development is great for the developer and can be great for home values if kept in certain limits.
But, as I see it, PTC currently has many homes for sale - do we really need more?


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ExExPatriot Hits The Bullseye
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Submitted by Spear Road Guy on Tue, 08/22/2006 - 11:30am.

I agree with ExExPatriot. The developers work solely for their own enrichment, driven by a profit motive. No, Mudcat, I'm not condeming all developers as some truly look at how they can work with and improve the community via their projects.

The government, however, has a different set of priorities. They are responsible for road, water, sewer, public safety and so on. It should be the government's position to protect that infrastructure for the good all the citizens. No, that doesn't mean bar the door and no one else can enter.

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You are a bit late to the party - Jones
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Submitted by mudcat on Mon, 08/21/2006 - 6:10pm.

The development "tsumani" has already happened and it started 25 years ago. It is in fact almost over, but the few remaining propery owners are now ready to cash in. Pathways has a few big money parcels, but they are mostly gone. Cowen and Farr are holding some, but nothing that would change things dramatically.

The big winners are you and I. That's right - you and I and all the other homeowners in PTC. The astounding increase in value of our houses/investment in property is a direct result of what the "greedy developers" have done. If you don't like that - sorry, but it is a fact.

Get over the "greedy developer" thing - you and I are the same. We invest and benefit because we invested in the right place at the right time.

And "development" is not a dirty 4-lettered word, but it does have 3 "e's" in it, jones.
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Over?
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Submitted by PTC Guy on Mon, 08/21/2006 - 6:35pm.

Where do you get that idea from?

Thre is pleny of vacant land in the County to keep building and building and building until full.

Plenty of cities, singular and plural, grow until their counties are nothing but solid buildings.

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Mudcat Confusion
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Submitted by Spear Road Guy on Mon, 08/21/2006 - 8:07pm.

I agree with PTC Guy, Mudcat has been hitting the catnip a little too hard. If all we had to worry about was in only in Peachtree City, we'd be puuurr-fect. I think we'd all better worry about what happens in Coweta County as it will have a major impact on us all.

What is the astonishing increase in home value talk? My friends in Cobb and North Fulton are seeing a much stronger increase in value.

Mudcat thinks all developers are puuurr-fect. No wonder I'd rather have a dog.

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1979??
Submitted by skyspy on Sun, 08/20/2006 - 7:05pm.

Thats a good one. I was told in 1999 that the city would be closed to further development and that all home prices would triple......Can't these developers go to Montana?? Or somewhere else, where they have the room and water??
Ok, I went toooooo far on that one did'nt I?? The common sense police will come and put the stop to all of the suggestions.

What is this about a lawsuit? Who promised them they could develop here? Just because they bought property close to a city they think they have a birthright to develope it??? Wow, hmmmmm.....ok....on that line of thinking I should be able to build a high rise condo on the one acre I own here. I mean after all I bought property here I should be able to profit from it;.....if I use the same line of "reasoning" umm "logic" yeah thats it I'll just call myself a developer and bully my way into it.

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