OPINION — Mayor Kim Learnard is back at it. Yes, she wants more apartment units on prime real estate near the Ga. Highways 54-74 intersection.
We keep calling Learnard out on her efforts, but she keeps denying them, and then she is exposed again.
PTC landmark site in the crosshairs
The city government has discreetly notified the public about a proposed apartment complex on the 39-acre Crowne Plaza site on the peaceful wooded Aberdeen Parkway. Residential neighborhoods and well-appointed office buildings abut the site.
The city scheduled a meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, September 23, at City Hall for a “public discussion” on the rezoning request to allow the apartment complex on Aberdeen Parkway.
Mind you, this is the same Mayor Learnard who previously said she has no intention of adding more apartment units to the city (a statement she made after voting to add stacked multi-family units on Highway 54). Learnard’s actions speak louder than her words. Never trust her.
[Here are Mayor Learnard’s own words in an email to a fellow council member Oct. 20, 2023 just prior to a city election 11 months ago: “Apartments: Other than senior living at Somerby and Hearthside, no apartments have been built in more than 20 years. No apartments are planned. No apartment proposals are in the pipeline. Nobody on Council and nobody running for Council wants more apartments in Peachtree City. Two years ago, I enumerated the number of apartments in Peachtree City at 1,760 units; that’s approximately 14 percent of our households. The national average is 15 percent. You might say we are at equilibrium. No apartments are coming to Peachtree City.” [https://thecitizen.com/2023/10/20/mayor-kim-learnard-lays-down-the-law-to-councilman-holland/]
If you live off the parkway or drive on it, I strongly suggest you attend. If you are tired of the attempts to force more apartments into the city, you must attend.
The site currently houses a hotel and conference center and is an excellent location for a revenue-positive, high-salary corporate headquarters campus.
After the city government sacrificed some of our prime corporate locations on MacDuff Parkway for more residential and multi-family developments, you would think preserving the Aberdeen Parkway site for revenue-positive corporate development and higher-paying jobs would be a no-brainer.
Don’t let them lie to you
Know your history. Our citizens moved to Peachtree City for a reason, and most are determined to save our high quality of life from unscrupulous out-of-town real estate developers.
In the late 1990s, during the Bob Lenox administration, out-of-town real estate firms began to want to overload Peachtree City with apartment complexes. The citizens rebelled, and the Lenox crew aptly responded with a moratorium on apartment complexes. The moratorium and its philosophy stood for over twenty years. I gladly defended it during my administration of the city.
Around 2018, developers wanted to construct big-money Peachtree City apartment projects, and our real estate agent Mayor Vanessa Fleisch, was all too happy to give them everything they wanted. Fleisch proclaimed that we were “being stuck in our ways” and that our ultra-successful community needed to listen to her friends in the development industry. They even proposed a crazy, extensive multi-family complex at the end of our local airport runway.
The Fleisch administration terminated the moratorium and began pushing the horrific Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) plan to add thousands of stacked multi-family units in the city. Many of those proposed complexes would have been on protected greenbelts and replaced city parks and recreation facilities.
The LCI plan was a major wake-up call for local citizens to start getting vocal.
I exposed the LCI plan in The Citizen, which received nearly 7,000 reads and directed a lot of righteous anger at the city government (see https://thecitizen.com/2020/11/01/lci-meeting-insult-to-peachtree-city-residents/). Learnard attended the meetings on the LCI and never uttered a word of disapproval.
At the August 18, 2022, city council meeting, the Learnard administration decided to alter our future land use plan through the state’s mandated comprehensive plan review process to include more apartments all over the city. This puts us in legal jeopardy when a developer applicant files a plan that adheres to the new plan (see: https://thecitizen.com/2023/05/30/opinion-tell-mayor-council-stop-the-dense-residential-growth/).
It was also reported that Learnard received in-kind campaign contributions on two different occasions, October 5, 2021, and November 21, 2021, from the local business owner and real estate developer requesting a zoning change to build multifamily housing. I verified both campaign functions on Learnard’s campaign Facebook page, which now serves as her mayoral page.
At the June 16, 2022, city council meeting, Learnard refused to recuse herself and moved forward to vote on the contributor’s development.
Learnard’s behavior was so problematic that a citizen went to the public microphone, looked directly at the mayor, and asked if there was “anyone who had an ex-parte relationship with the applicants” for the rezoning, and if they did, they “should recuse themselves.” This citizen went so far as to name some of the alleged in-kind offerings to Learnard’s campaign without mentioning the mayor’s name. (See: https://livestream.com/peachtreecity/councilmeeting/videos/231682386).
The mayor just sat up on the dais, cold and unmoved, and did not disclose anything. No doubt she knew the campaign disclosure law and was even given a second chance to divulge the contended financial relationship at a public meeting. She chose silence and got the job done, voting for her campaign contributor (see: https://thecitizen.com/2022/09/12/mayor-was-deciding-vote-to-ok-rezoning-for-unreported-campaign-contributor/).
The trickery was enhanced by the creation of a low-to-the-ground, almost clandestine, political action real estate front group disguised as a group of concerned moms called “Plan for PTC” (see: https://thecitizen.com/2021/07/28/plan-for-ptc-pac-funding-candidates-intent-on-remaking-peachtree-city/). This group supported the construction of more stacked multi-family complexes.
All of this is on the public record. Learnard keeps issuing statements of denial, but we have read the public record and know the truth. She refuses to reinstate the moratorium on stacked multi-family complexes even though she admits we currently have more units than many Georgian cities as a percentage of total residential dwellings.
Now, Mayor “No Apartments” Learnard is at it again, this time on Aberdeen Parkway near the Highways 54-74 intersection. Learnard claims the new apartments are for seniors, but you cannot believe a word she says, and we do not need them in that location.
Apartments are not like single-family homes
Apartment complexes are businesses similar to office complexes. Nearly all apartment businesses are owned by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), and the owners might live in other parts of the country or the world and never actually visit the complexes. They do not care about our community, just the profits.
The office complex market is currently in a destructive down cycle. Apartments go through the same cycles.
REITs are all about profitability and tax advantages. Apartment businesses are susceptible to housing and economic cycles. During down leasing cycles due to the economy or overbuilding leading to overcapacity, cost-cutting can affect the maintenance schedules of apartment complexes, causing blight.
Down cycles can also lead to lower standards for filling vacant units, especially in older apartment businesses. When the standards decline, bad things can happen, as recently witnessed when local police upended an embedded criminal enterprise, investigating several units of a local complex.
While rental houses can sometimes become destructive in a subdivision, the local government can more easily isolate them and control the situation. However, when tenant leaseholder problems occur in apartment complexes, the trouble can quickly get out of hand.
I have many stories about local tenant issues and Section 8 problems I have dealt with, and maybe another column in the future.
To be clear, no one is saying we should not have apartments in our local cities. Overbuilding is a critical issue and a significant risk to the city. The problem is that Peachtree City and Fayetteville do not recognize the scale of our multi-family market and the extent to which overcapacity exists.
Pushing low-income housing
Mayor Learnard, continuing her “deny and press on” strategy, has issued a one-sided low-income housing survey on social media. This is the direction the developer-friendly political action committee Plan for PTC, a Learnard ally, wanted to pursue.
The Learnard administration, a big proponent of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), went on a fishing expedition with a community survey designed to gain support for adding more low-income units in the city.
Entitled “New survey for Peachtree City residents,” the survey probes the community for acceptance of low-income housing development and people of “all backgrounds.”
I contacted Council Member Suzanne Brown, and she did not know that the city was sending out the survey. Apparently, the effort is subverting at least some city council members, and city staff do not have to seek approval from the elected officials before launching such rubbish.
The survey also asked for the respondent’s email address. Guard your safety and identity, and never give your email address or other personal information to the survey contractor Zencity.
Time to act
Email the entire city council with this email address: council@peachtree-city.org.
Tell the city council you want no more new multi-family complexes.
Tell the city council to use that fantastic site for a revenue-positive, high-salary, and less disruptive corporate campus.
Tell Mayor Learnard that you want the 20-year moratorium on multi-family complexes reinstated, no excuses.
And remember that three of the city council seats are up for grabs in November 2025.
[Brown is a former mayor of Peachtree City and served two terms on the Fayette County Board of Commissioners. You can read all his columns by clicking on his photo below.]
While the media tries to distract us with pet stew, the real question is how is it that 20,000 Haitians ended up in a city of 60,000 where prior to their arrival, less than 5% of the residence were foreign born. In another story from Dayton reports that a voter registration form was submitted in Creole which led to an investigation which revealed the illegal forms were being distributed by the Clark County Public Library near Springfield Ohio. It seems strange that naturalized citizens would need a translated registration form since mastery of English is one of the requirements for naturalization.
(thepostmillennial.com/illegal-voter-registration-forms-in-haitian-creole-distributed-by-library-in-springfield-ohio)
I feel like Steve asked Kim out once and was rejected. Homeboy’s got a lot of words and, sadly, we keep reading them. Maybe we can start a thread of other things to do versus read Steve Brown vitriol? But hey, it gets clicks!
Ask the fine folks in Springfield Ohio how quality of life is now that Biden shipped 20k illegals there…
Well, at least they have a new culinary treat in town: dog and cat stew!
Stranger, your seemingly innocuous quip that you served up, perpetuate misinformation on legal documented immigrants here in this country while also promoting stereotypical myth(s) upon an ethnic group. It wasn’t that long ago we scorned those wetbacks, jigs, dagos, polacks, nips, krauts, ragheads, zipper-heads, spades, peckerwoods, wops, spics, micks, rooskies, heebs, chinks, tontos, etc. for their blending into our national cultural mix.
You know those ethnic groups that weren’t welcomed here into this country in the first place and more specifically, into our neighborhoods; on a fear of not just being culturally different from us … but would take away the local jobs and drain many resources. But let’s not kid ourselves either, these aforementioned ethnic groups did build, serviced and feed this country through their own hard labor, while of course others greatly benefitted.
How dare you defend the human worth of an immigrant! Our great orange leader tells us that anyone not born in the U.S.A. is by definition a murderer, rapist, and vile character. They are to be feared and scapegoated for every societal ill. They have no redeeming qualities; and, of course, they are pet eaters.
We must shun them all to make America great again. Put on your red hat and get with the hate program. What are you, a Marxist of something?
Doon / Fiction – Get off your false morality high horses and back to reality. Trump and Republicans favor LEGAL immigration, not the open borders for the 10,000,000+ unvetted illegals to flood our country thanks to Biden / Harris. What other country in the world is so lax with defending its sovereignty and enforcing immigration laws? None, yet you act as if choosing who enters the US or not is a novel and racist idea.
The Biden / Harris open border has brought us horrendous sex trafficking, 100,000+ fentanyl deaths per year, more crime and a national security risk of terrorism that FBI Director Wray calls “flashing red lights”. Do you want four more years of this?
The US is also $35,000,000,000,000 in debt – – bankrupt if not for the ability to print money – – and now owes over $1,000,000,000,000 a year in interest payments. We struggle to pay for our own disabled citizens, veterans and retirees, and yet you’re good with giving out billions in taxpayer-funded housing, food, healthcare, phones, education, cash vouchers, etc. to people who should not be here? And adding another 10,000,000 or more if Harris gets elected? Go ahead, make sense of that for us.
Fiction may joke about illegals eating dogs and cats, but can he think through what illegals will do when the free stuff goes away because we can’t afford it? Or would he prioritize illegals over citizens? It’s past time to get real policy answers from Harris, and to do some critical thinking before we vote.
Penny – I’m sorry that you don’t like dog and cat stew, but Congress must fix the border issue by changing the asylum laws. Other actions are merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic – looks good, but does nothing to plug the gapping iceberg hole.
The orange guy’s fantasies about pet stew demonstrate how unseriousness he is about any meaningful improvements. But I’ll have to give it to him, this is a novel grievance.
Fiction – Yet again, you ignore relevant questions and cannot refute the logic or facts I present. Instead, you deflect with falsehoods.
The present illegal immigration crisis is a direct result of Biden / Harris rescinding border policies that worked under Trump, and not enforcing immigration laws on the books. We have the same asylum laws now that we had under Trump, yet millions more illegals have crossed into our country under Biden / Harris than did with Trump in office.
Border Czar Harris should be held accountable for the massive dereliction of duty that is her border record. And you should have to go stand in the corner until you can tell the truth.
Hi Penny. I hope you are well. We have had this discussion before. You advocate for better cobweb cleaners while I think it best to kill the spider.
At least be honest enough to laugh at the pet-eating farce the orange guy keeps repeating. He’s even in the polls, so I don’t know why he is resorting to nonsense.
I must admit that politics will never be this much fun when it goes back to normal people making policy arguments.
Enjoy your football Saturday.
Fiction – changing our asylum laws will do nothing to prevent millions of illegals from crossing the US border, do nothing about the millions of illegals who are already here living off us taxpayers, and do nothing if we continue with the Biden / Harris administration’s unwillingness to enforce immigration laws. To use your analogy, these are the spiders, not cobwebs.
You have been bamboozled by Democrats to look at the shiny object over there (asylum laws), while they play half of America for fools into thinking Harris will be any different in the future than she and Biden have been on border policy.
Look at the national security crisis Biden / Harris have caused. Millions of military-aged men, many from countries that hate the US (including Russia, China, Venezuela, Iran and other middle east nations), have entered the country and are free to go anywhere. Keep in mind that fewer than 30 Saudis overstayed visas and caused 9/11.
I’ve done business in, and traveled to China. The Communist Party controls everything there, so answer this – – why are they sending tens of thousands of their men here? Why does Harris think it’s a good idea to let them in unvetted?
When we vote for President, we are hiring someone with a set of policies who is sworn to protect our nation, its people and our national values. We are not deciding the invitation list to dinner at our house, yet that is exactly how Democrats want voters to decide this election. On border security alone, Harris is unfit to lead our country.
Penny – We just disagree on the ultimate fix for this immigration problem.
I’ve noticed that you keep avoiding the pet stew claims. I don’t blame you. Like claiming that Mexico will build a border wall for us, inflation is at an all time high, or that crime has dropped in the rest of the world, it is just nonsense.
If I agreed with every single policy of the orange guy, I could not possibly vote for him because he is attempted to subvert the Constitutional transfer of power. You seem to be able to overlook this, but it is a bridge too far for me.
Enjoy your football Sunday.
Stranger, it’s odd that Two-Center speaks like a former fiscal conservative by invoking the national debt into a political discussion, but his chosen candidate cannot. His candidate in fact cannot speak in any of those former conservative political terms that for example recognized legal immigration versus illegal. Even foreign policy matters say on Russia-Ukraine (silence) are cringe worthy for Reaganites to digest. But he is an orator of missing neighborhood pets, debatable death by shark or boat batteries and insights into the fictional mastermind character, Hannibal Lecter.
Nah, I’m convinced that today’s former conservative movement is nothing more than a cult of truth-denying, authoritarian-embracing and fear-mongering radicals giving allegiance to a former TV-reality guy who was a questionable real estate developer and an unsuccessful business entrepreneur (stock symbol DJT). Why the allegiance? Sadly this new GOP MAGA party wants to be entertained with some tough talk rhetoric behind some mindless gibberish, rather than being enlightened on policy matters.
Doon – The fact that the GOP has no relationship to Reagan’ party is an inconvenient truth. Another hallmark of Reaganomics was free trade which has completely gone out the window.
The orange guy’s apologists rarely attempt to make a positive case for him; but rather, they merely vilify the other team. It is clear that his appeal is simply that he hates the same people that his voters hate, and he spares no lie or exaggeration to scapegoat them.
Thus, we get pet stew.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Fiction – we disagree on the fix for the Biden / Harris illegal immigration crisis because Harris has no fix, and you have no answers to my questions or facts, just deflection and tired old “Trump is bad” personal attacks.
Doon –give the case for Harris’s policies, as she has only talked in broad generalities in the two times she has appeared for questions. Harris has done no press conferences yet at all because she cannot function without a script. Like Fiction, you need to focus on the policies of the candidates that matter.
I think the pet story is a bit of a tangent, but it’s a brilliant PR move. It gets you and other progressives to finally talk about the illegal immigrant crisis, and thus reminding others about how bad it is, so mission accomplished.
Trump has a plan to address our national debt by reigning in the size, scope and spending of the federal government, which has exploded under Biden / Harris, and by growing the economy. Harris only promises higher taxes, price controls and to give away more taxpayer-funded “free stuff”, like paying off student loans.
Here’s another topic for you: last Thursday DOJ released crime statistics that show violent crime was up 37% from 2020 to 2023, rape is up 42%, robbery is up 63%, and stranger violence is up 61%. Tell us how Harris’s weak-on-crime, defund the police, no cash bail policies, and Open Border for illegal immigrants, Venezuelan gangsters, and cartel drug dealers will be better for Americans in the next four years.
Hi Penny – So pet stew is a “brilliant PR move” that stokes hatred for the black Haitians in Ohio, threatens the public offices with bombs, and closes the schools. I’d hate to see one of the orange guy’s PR moves that went awry.
You really can’t make this up.
02, I dispute your data on violent crime. I previously reported, “”
Crime in the US fell significantly in 2023, according to new FBI data, with a 13% decline in murder and drops in reported violent crime and reported property offenses. Both robbery and aggravated assault dropped by 5% from 2022, the FBI data shows, while all violent crime declined by 6%. However, the statistics are based on figures collected from only 79% of law enforcement agencies in the US. Experts have previously warned that data can be “patchy” given inconsistency in reporting by the local agencies who supply the numbers.”
As an update, “Quarterly Uniform Crime Report data for the nation are derived from National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) reports voluntarily submitted to the FBI.
The FBI Quarterly Uniform Crime Report data release for Quarter 1, inclusive of January through March 2024, was made available on June 10, 2024. This report is based on data received from 13,719 of 19,268 law enforcement agencies in the country.”
I think I can also dispute your economic data, it just takes more time to again beat a dead horse. I recommend you do some research, your figures just don’t add up to any degree of accuracy.
Doug – you need to keep up with data and facts. From KOMONews 9/13 (New DOJ crime data appears to support Trump’s debate claims about high crime rates), the Washington Times 9/13 (Data backs up Trump on crime increase, violence up under Biden-Harris administration), the New York Post 9/14 (Violent crime has increased under Harris-Biden admin — after ABC’s David Muir disputed Trump’s claim that crime is ‘through the roof’: DOJ report) and from JustTheNews 9/12 (DOJ releases 2023 crime statistics, Trump campaign fact checks ABC) the DOJ updated crime numbers show crime is not down under Biden / Harris.
The New York Post cited total instances of reported violent crime from the DOJ report — including rape, robbery and aggravated assault — is up from 5.6 per 1,000 in 2020 to 8.7 per 1,000 in 2023.
The FBI numbers you used are old and are voluntary submissions that get low participation (credit to you for also pointing this out). “In 2022, less than half of the police departments in the country gave the FBI complete crime data reports”, according to KOMONews. “Some major U.S. police departments, including in New York City and Los Angeles, fail(ed) to comply with the FBI’s changed method. This meant that urban areas, where crime is more prevalent, were left out of the statistics.” Washington Examiner 9/11 (ABC News debate host claimed crime is down using incomplete data)
So again: last Thursday DOJ released crime statistics that show violent crime was up 37% from 2020 to 2023, rape is up 42%, robbery is up 63%, and stranger violence is up 61%. Tell us how Harris’s weak-on-crime, defund the police, no cash bail policies, and Open Border for illegal immigrants, Venezuelan gangsters, and cartel drug dealers will make life better for Americans in the next four years.
And since you are completely vague in whatever economic data you dispute, it is up to you to do the research and come with a logical case. Otherwise, you’re just another one-note piano with no substance.
You speak of crime rates (2-center) but overlook the most egregious, with members of the MAGA Republican party attempting to overturn election results across multiple states and then ultimately trying to overturn national election results on January 6th. That is thee crime statistic that is way up and through the proverbial roof that would do the most harm to this country.
Fact – Violent crime is currently at a 50 year low, and is lower than in 2020, the orange guy’s last year in office. Politifact, Snopes, etc. all fact checked this during the debate. Only in Fox world is crime raging, Haitians eating pet stew, a tariff isn’t a tax, insurrectionists who attempt to overthrow the election are political prisoners.
It must be exhausting to constantly deny reality just because your standard bearer is unmoored from any semblance of facts.
Doon – As predicted, you and Fiction have nothing of substance to respond to the questions, facts and logic I have laid out on the abysmal dereliction of duty that is our open border under Biden / Harris. Instead, you can only yell “what about January 6?”, the go-to for any progressive who has nothing else to say.
January 6 was a horrible event, a couple of hours of rioting by people who trespassed where they shouldn’t have gone. They have been severely punished. It should never have happened, but it also was not the “insurrection” as Democrats portray in order to keep folks who don’t know better in a tizzy.
Fiction – Nay nay. Crime cannot be at a 50 year low because it is up big in the Biden / Harris term (see above). Since the debate happened BEFORE the DOJ issued the crime statistics that I quoted for you from multiple sources, whatever Snopes or Politifact used (you don’t offer a citation) by definition is outdated. And if it is the same FBI data Doug used, re-read how flawed it is above.
I choose to focus on the major national issues of the economy, inflation, the border, crime, national debt and foreign policy, not get distracted with political fluff you toss about as if it was somehow important to our country’s future. Feel free to take any of the national issues and make the case for Harris.
Mr. Tucker – Don’t believe Fox-world’s wild claims. Just go to Politifact, and you’ll see how they are cherry-picking the data. Violent crime is very low currently, and migrants are among the least likely to perpetrate any crimes because they don’t want to be deported.
Like pet stew, windmills causing cancer, massive election fraud, and all the other foolishness the orange guy invents, exaggerated violent crime figures are nonsense.
Trump voters have to defend his foolish pronouncements so they can look at themselves in the mirror while enabling this convicted felon who attempted a coup d’etat in 2021. It must be exhausting.
Fiction, you left out a few… like “Bidenomics is working”, “Our borders are secure”, “There is nothing wrong with Joe’s cognitive abilities” and “Kamala was never named the boarder Czar”, nor did she have anything to do with it.
HI Lulu – If you read my posts, you’ll notice that I have not advocated for Ms. Harris. Politifact has much to say about her as well.
However, she has never attempted to overthrown election results and remain in power, and she has never been convicted of a felony. I recognize that these are subterranean bars, but the orange guy can’t even crawl over these.
I see him as a comic figure and often laugh at his latest antics, but he is characterologically unfit to lead an HOA, much less our country.
STF (somewhere down this thread), I am only yielding to Georgia crime data. I’m too lazy to research the numbers. Nationally, violent crime rates are improving. I expect what once seemed white-collar crimes to become common if Humpty-Dumpty gets elected. We have already seen what has happened to the former Republican Party and even some of the sellouts in Georgia.
Doug – It is amazing that the orange man is even considered for office again. Not even one living former President or Vice President endorses him – not from his party or even from his administration. This level of disrespect is unprecedented and should communicate to anyone who has a pulse that he is unqualified.
STF, to be more specific … 100+ GOP National Security officials from the administrations of Reagan, both Bush’s and Trump (himself) have signed an open letter endorsing Harris and basically categorizing DJT as “unfit to serve.” Unfit for a litany of reasons.
And from an economic standpoint, drilling down on unemployment, why is it hard for many overall to grasp that the orange man (as you call him), is trying to get his old job back after being fired (for cause) four years ago?
Looking over his resume you can clearly see that he’s been living off of MAGA welfare and sentiment the last four years with the clear aim of postponing retirement so as to avoid further personal litigation and possible jail time. Even his references don’t pan out from those that worked for him.
Wonder just how many of those 100+ National Security Experts were among the 51 that signed the 2020 paper claiming the Biden Laptop was Russian Disinformation.
The TDS is strong with this one.
Lulu – I guess “de-nial” is not just a river in Egypt.
For Fiction’s national 50 year low as reported by the Biden administration, comparing the 3rd year of the Trump administration to the 3rd year (latest on record) of the Biden administration as reported for Georgia (gbi.georgia.gov/services/crime-statistics), violent crime has increased by 35.3%. Of that murder has increased by 48.9%, rape increased by 90.8% but on the sunny side, robbery is down by 24.4%. Crime rates are reported on a per capita basis per 100,000.
2019 2023 Increase
Violent Crime 251.3 339.9 35.3%
Property Crime 1723.7 1770.6 2.7%
Murder 4.7 7.0 48.9%
Rape 21.7 41.4 90.8%
Robbery 54.4 41.1 -24.4%
Aggravated Assault 170.5 259.6 52.3%
Check out the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (Crime Data Explorer (CDE)). You can find it at “cde.ucr.cjis.gov” Your data seems inconsistent with with this.
The only thing inconsistent with my data from the GBI and your data from the CDE is that the CDE tool only covers years until 2022. And even that shows a rise in violent crime in Georgia between 2019 and 2022.
Homicides 2022 733
Homicides 2019 91
Rape 2022 3,531
Rape 2019 1,015
Ag Assault 2022 19,914
Ag Assault 2019 4,025
I will yield to you, To Sir. Georgia isn’t a very safe place to live.
I hope everyone has seen the clip of J.D. Vance blaming Harris supporters’ “extreme rhetoric” (particularly calling the orange man a “fascist”) for the assassination attempts. Then immediately showing the orange guy call Biden and Harris “fascists” in 10 clips from his recent campaign speeches.
Of course, the attempts on 45’s life are vile and I condemn them profusely, but this hypocrisy is priceless. For you in Fox-world, I fear you will never see it in the silo, but google the clips for a grand laugh.
Truth is always stranger than fiction!
This issue should be up first and foremost at the upcoming Turks and Caicos Team Building retreat.
I have a hunch this is done to publicly demonstrate exactly what this proposal contains. Apartments, sure, but at a very high standard(my guess would be monthly rentals beginning at around $6K). Clientele to be active fifty-five and older and no kids. Further to renovate an aged hotel/conference center and to add substantive commercial within its boundaries. The number of apartments will be limited as well. Lastly since the property is in receivership this could be a substantial and worthwhile investment in our city. Wouldn’t it be worth simply listening to the proposal?
Mr. King – How dare you bring rationality into this discussion! We only deal with grievances here.
My apology Fiction, but every once and awhile the bovine excrement from our most prolific “editorialist” just has to be challenged.
if Kim is being truthful and she really just wants PTC and it’s citizens to consider putting in SENIOR apartments at this location, I would also be ok with it being put up for vote.
Make them nice enough so the Venezuelan and Haitian gangs will want to take over the management… Something to look forward to, thanks to no border enforcement for the last 3 1/2 years.
Oh come on Steve, you would think a former mayor, such as yourself, would know how the process works. You are once again way off base, this has not even gone before the Planning Commission yet, much less the City Council. Your weird obsession with Kim Learnard is really creepy.
Makes reference to in-kind campaign contributions by local developer. On October 5, 2021 a gathering of supporters was held. There was no charge for the room, for 47 years we have never charged to use a room. That was in-king contribution! On November 21 another gathering was held and we donated 5 cheese pizzas.
Loves to blow things out of proportion.
True, most of us do not want more apartments or multi-family housing in Peachtree City. False, the city receiving a rezoning request to allow apartments and scheduling public discussion of the rezoning request does not mean the Mayor is supportive of more apartment units. To me, it’s democracy at work. The Mayor and the City have a legal and ethical obligation to act on rezoning requests, especially when received from owners of local properties.
I agree, Doug. Sounds like they are simply adhering to standard procedures.