Don't build TDK Blvd. and ruin rural Coweta

Don't build TDK

Blvd. and ruin rural Coweta

It is rare that I write my

concerns to the newspaper, as I usually present them in person at the

Peachtree City Council meetings. However, since I will not be able to

attend the meeting March 15 at 5:30 p.m., and since I feel that it is

important for the citizens of Peachtree City to understand what is being

proposed, I hope that you receive this in time to print it before that

meeting.

I wish to express my emphatic

objection to the extension of TDK Boulevard into what is now a rural part

of Coweta County, opening it to development and changing its nature forever.

It has become clear to everyone

that one of the biggest threats to the pleasure of living in Peachtree

City has become the increase in traffic, especially along the Ga. highways

74 and 54 corridor and most urgently at the Hwy. 74-54 intersection. It

is, therefore, unbelievable and unconscionable that a project is in the

works that will, without a doubt, add to the present traffic nightmare

there.

When I first objected to the

creation of this road, I was told that it would give access from Coweta

County to the PTC industrial park, thus relieving Hwy. 54, as though all

of the commuters who will use the road will have the industrial park as

their destination.

When I asked one of our hired

transportation experts from Dames and Moore about the potential of this

road, he confirmed my concerns.

The high density residential

development that will inevitably occur (speculators are already buying

land there in anticipation) as a result of the creation of this road will

negatively impact Peachtree City highways 74 and 54, as all the many new

residents, and others, use it to access Hwy. 74 and go north to get to

the Home Depot, the Wal-Mart, the shopping centers, the restaurants, Interstate

85, etc., greatly exacerbating, rather than alleviating, traffic problems.

Despite the strong opposition

to the impact that Wal-Mart and Home Depot would have on our city, citizens

were told that we have to accept it, because we could not have legally

denied them. I am now asking that this road, that would increase that

impact, NOT be built.

Phyllis Aguayo

Peachtree City