What we WANT is: annex for single family housing for whatever price the market will bear, and build a road out the back to 74 and to Coweta County. Build a bridge over the railroad and four-lane it now! Make the developer do this, now. This is what we want.

The area will be developed anyway without our input. Lets be proactive and annex the area. If the county builds it it is landlocked and we will have to provide all the services. Lets dictate the way it is built and reap the benifits of impact fees and developer incentives. Irregardless it will be built with or without our input.

I bought a home in the west village that would be effected by the annexaction personnaly. My property backs up to the undeveloped land. This was the reason I bought the property. I love the woods, the deer in my back yard every mornig, etc. Let's put the road through to help ease traffic on 54 near MacDuff. But, please let me have my privacy in my back yard and enjoy the peace and quite.

If you think that the undeveloped land behind your house will stay that way, you are really living in dreamland. It will be developed, either under the auspices of Fayette County or Peachtree City. I do believe that PTC would do a better job of protecting the existing PTC residents than Fayette County. Therefore, I think that it should be annexed and properly zoned and then when it is developed it will be done in the best interest of PTC residents, including those who back up to the property. Otherwise, when it is developed, Fayette County Commissioners with make the density and quality decisions, not PTC.

I would like to see the property developed in tune with the existing PTC area. The area WILL be developed, why not exert our control over the area and make it great part of PTC?

The fact is that the 960 acres in question is zoned 2 acre and 5 acre RESIDENTIAL lots in the County, who gives no indication of wanting to rezone it. I still believe it should stay exactly what it is zoned---it's not a bad thing. I don't buy your argument that we need to make it look like PTC---it will look like it or better all by itself if we simply let the market command what kind of construction goes in.

Alas, I am a major has been---but dang it I still believe we should leave it alone.

Hi Dan,

Thanks for caring enough to make a run for it. I couldn't support you based upon your platform, but I still respect you for at least trying.

That being said, when you drive through the county and look at the 2 acre and 5 acre lots, there is no consistency in the look. You'll find a 2000 sq.ft. ranch style house next to a 5000 sq.ft. Victorian style house. The inconsistency is not attractive and the control that the city could exert would be more uniform styles of housing. Look around ArdenLee and you don't see such a mixture of housing styles.

With this being developed in the city, the city staff has oversight on what is going on and how. Do you trust the County to control the developments or do you prefer the City? If you trust the County so much, why did you buy within city limits?

The annexation should happen and for the multitude of reasons that have been laid out previously. The county simply cannot service the bubble of land and the city can.

I would not object to dividing the property up with the City of Tyrone. Work out a suitable arrangement and they can assist in building the bridge over the railroad tracks. A road could be stubbed from the northern sector of the counties property into Tyrone giving yet another point of ingress and egress.

By developing this property within the cities and not the county, we have flexibility, and yes; control.

Once again, I respect you for at least running. The simple fact that all candidates but you, and maybe Pizza Boy; were for the annexation should speak volumes.

Dana Kinser

It was my understanding that a school was to be built on this land? Is this still happening?

John Wieland has agreed to donate the land to build a school. Wieland agreed to do this if the land is annexed by the city. At this present moment, only 360 acres are under consideration. John Wieland bought this land from Pathway communities some time ago. The additonal 600 acres is land north of the 360 acres. It is privately owned. As far as I know, there are no immediate plans to add this to the current annexation proposal.

David Downing