Tyrone Town

Councilman Ronnie Cannon wishes the Fayette County Commission would listen.

In recent letters,

the commission threatened legal steps to prevent a proposed sewerage deal

with Tyrone and Fairburn from coming to fruition.

Tyrone is buying

Fairburn's excess wastewater capacity to provide sewerage to the John

Wieland planned unit development on Ga. Highway 74 and a proposed office

park by Richard Bowers, also on Hwy. 74.

Fayette officials

worry about Tyrone allowing residential development on the busy state

highway, but Cannon said that has never been in the town's plans.

"We've

always said that sewer is only going to be provided to those projects.

The only other project that was discussed was the Sandy Creek treatment

plant, but the school board maintains they cannot afford that. We do not

want to sewer any residential development," he said.

One of the

reasons the town wants to provide sewerage to the Wieland development

is that initial plans called for the homeowners association to have its

own sewer plant.

Cannon is concerned

that homeowners should not be in charge of a system that is close to many

of Fayette and Coweta counties' water sources.

The town also

would like to see the huge office park developed by Richard Bowers.

"Doesn't

the county realize what a big tax benefit this would be?" He said.

Cannon said

developers have approached Tyrone officials about residential development

on Hwy. 74, but they were turned down.

"We could

have let Truett Cathy and J.T. Williams develop 800 acres years ago, but

we turned them down," he said.

Cannon believes

the sewer agreement with Fairburn will be allowed.

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