We have two gigantic retail

establishments that have combined revenue that far exceeds the gross national

product of many countries around the world and we are being asked to scrape

together the funds in their stead.

Anything that is performed

with taxpayer funds to benefit a project where the developer refuses to

sign developer agreements, refuses to obtain permits, fails to move traffic

signals as promised and is past due on payments owed to the city is bordering

on administrative negligence.

Let's all insist on equal justice

and fairness to all. The City Council needs to give a definitive opinion

on whether the big box developer is in compliance or not with our ordinances.

If the developer is ruled to have no vested rights as our ordinance clearly

states and is made to reapply to the city, then we need to begin looking

at our traffic funding options. However, for the City Council to not make

such a determination would be a complete disregard of their duties and

a slap in the face of their constituents.

Every family living in every

village in Peachtree City would likely never receive as much freedom from

the restraints of the law as this out-of-town developer has acquired.

There are literally thousands of local citizens wondering if someone is

being paid off to look the other way. How can we explain it when certain

government officials publicly state their opposition to a project and

yet allow a total mockery of our ordinances and development agreements

to occur? Shakespeare himself could not pen a more fanciful tragedy than

the one we have been witnessing over the past two years.

I can only imagine what sort

of battles we will have to fight over the Kedron Village big box site

and its accompanying problems. For those living in Kedron, we can only

hope that the back-room deals will be extinguished once and for all before

a site plan is entered for that property.

Steve Brown

Peachtree City

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