Citizens/Homeowners in Opposition to:
"Georgia Creek"
a Planned Development
(commercial / professional with residential)
*before you leave*
Please e-SIGN the PETITION
Come back soon! For the Audio from Aug 27th's Planning Commission Meeting. "We were there!"
Changes from that meeting to the "plan", etc.
We VERY MUCH need your support, your neighbors petition signatures, prior the Council's first "vote".
New! Audio from the Aug 18th Public Hearing
SOON! Audio from the Aug 27th Planning Commission Meeting
This is a work-in-progress page. Bear with us please!!!
(New here? Scroll down to "What is this all about?")
** LATEST INFORMATION LINKS **
How does the rezoning process work?
Link to the History 'as we know it' of this Rezoning
Link to SITE PLAN of the NEW project - Intersection of West Georgia and Rocky Creek Roads (Adobe PDF)
Link to the Developer's description of the NEW commercial/residential project (Adobe PDF)
Link to the Rezoning Information for this NEW project (NEW Docket # - CZ-2008-53) (Adobe PDF)
IF you missed the PUBLIC HEARING on Aug 18th,
we have an AUDIO recording of the meeting.
Very, Very Important: Click Here - Please Sign the NEW petition.
If you signed the old petition for CZ-2008-35, please SIGN this NEW petition as well.
The prior signatures 'don't count' because the developer withdrew that version of the rezoning. This petition is for the NEW docket, CZ-2008-53. (53 is the current one, 35 is the old, withdrawn, docket.)
We'll deliver the signatures to County Council! It made a huge difference in opposing the LAST attempt at rezoning!
WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?
A commercial developer wants to rezone some of the large plots of land at the intersection of West Georgia Road and Rocky Creek Road
(37+ acres) into a "Planned Development".
It's actually a SECOND attempt!! Prior objections helped stop it once.
But it's all a "new ball game" now.
This is a Zoning classification that can (and in this case does) include Commercial, Professional and Residential all into one "development". It's "all or nothing" approval.
Do you want Drive-Thru 'restaurants' (aka, think one or more Mickey D's or similar), plus another neighborhood of unsold lots reducing our property values further, AND a block of 'professional' offices {professional is very vague!} ?
How about the street lighting and the garish neon signs 24x7 ?
Right in the middle of the residential West Georgia and Rocky Creek corridor.
Every bit is all allowed under a "PD = Planned Development".
Some feel it's "commercial" rezoning in disguise.
Think Fairview before it became "Fairview".
Think "Woodruff" before it became ... well...
'If you give a mouse a cookie'....
This is a *NEW* version of a previous proposed rezoning. - see the link below for the 'history' of this rezoning and opposition)
The old rezoning request was CZ-2008-35, the neighborhood opposition
was apparent then.
This new one is CZ-2008-53 -- ANOTHER attempt at the same thing. This time the developer is more obstinate.
(Unfortunately, it means the grassroots objections also have to start all over again!)
The Public Hearing that was held on August 18th was the ONE and ONLY time the County Council will publically 'listen' to verbal input from the public. Seems strange, but true. Now that it's past, other methods still are available. YOUR SUPPORT STILL COUNTS! Please sign the petition!
At this stage, individual letters can be sent to the planning commission AND the County Council, petitions gathered, and contact to the county council members is also possible. (Fred Payne is the council person for the area being rezoned.)