Change was

the operative word in Senoia in 2002.

In January,

Mayor Dianne Cleveland, along with new councilmen Robert Belisle, Bill

Wood and Pat Tunnell took over the reins at City Hall.

The new regime

promptly imposed a moratorium on all development until the middle of May.

The city already

had a moratorium on any development that featured an "open"

or green space zoning, but the council decided a total moratorium was

in order.

Also at the

beginning of the year after nearly three months of community furor, the

resolution came quietly in the saga of the "Blue House."

The City Council

voted unanimously to allow Chuck Smith to sell his home for $1 and let

BellSouth use the property for expansion of its facility in the growing

east Coweta town.

Belisle's initial

motion stipulated the house could not be moved until BellSouth had submitted

a site plan for its structure and a foundation was built to place the

Blue House on solid footing.

Later in the

year, Cleveland announced that Richard Jewell has been hired as a patrolman

for the city.

Jewell came

to fame during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta when some media outlets tried

to cast him as a suspect in the Centennial Olympic park bombing.

Since then,

Jewell has received settlements from some news organizations who were

quick to judge and has started putting his life