Regarding the article in The Citizen dated Jan. 13: “Using golf carts in PTC just got pricier.”
To the Peachtree City Council:
As a neighbor of PTC who has enjoyed the use of and paid for access to the PTC golf cart path system for several years, I’ve been reluctantly paying my $60 per year licensing fee for several years in order to have this privilege.
With the recent decision by Fayette County to also assess me a fee not to use any path in Fayette County, which our neighborhood does not have access to, but only to allow me to travel on the streets of my subdivision a short distance to access the PTC path system, I find this latest fee increase — let’s just call it a tax, that’s what it is — to be the straw that’s going to break this camel’s back.
A 66 percent increase is unreasonable, and will cause this golf cart owner to sell our golf cart, thereby depriving PTC of the revenue they’re hoping to gain by this decision.
It’s past time for Fayette County to unite in the promotion of an ecologically-friendly form of transportation by passing laws that encourage golf cart use, not discourage it by additional taxes on top of all the other taxes I pay as a U.S. citizen and resident of Georgia.
Enough is enough. This is an optional form of transportation for many, and to penalize it is short-sighted.
For sale: 2001 Ez-Go TXT. Excellent condition.
Allen Watson
Fayetteville, Ga.
