Chamblee54

It is the next day. Yesterday was the most controversial election in a long time. T-SPLOST lost. And the City of Brookhaven is going to happen. Neither event is the end of the world.
The transportation initiative was poorly planned. The sales were worse. PG has an unlisted number, and still received over a dozen robocalls for T- SPLOST.
Atlanta has long had an economy based on growth. This means building stuff on cheap land, and getting jobs to move here. This type of growth is not sustainable. The growth industry has long worked on the model of putting up the buildings first, and building roads later. Sooner or later, the cheap land is going to run out.
Another issue is water. Five years ago, there was a drought. The fishwrapper printed charts showing how many days until the water ran out. One day, there will be another drought. The next time, the Governor praying for rain might not help. Unless a dependable source of water can be found (and this includes east Alabama and northwest Florida), then all the roads and trains will do nobody any good.
DeKalb County will still be supplying the water for Brookhaven. If the overall supply runs out, then this fancy new city will be a ghost town.
Chamblee54 has been critical of the marketing for the proposed new city. That DeKalb County has room for improvement has not been in question. While there are doubts about this new city, the voters have spoken. It is going to happen.
The ethics complaint against DeKalb County should be withdrawn. If it was wrong for the County to interfere in the election, then it was also wrong for officials from Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, John’s Creek, and Chamblee to promote the new city. PG is not a lawyer, and may be technically wrong on this, but if it wrong for one side to use government resources, then it is should be wrong for the other side. PG suspects this complaint was an election gimmick, and will never be dealt with.
There is talk about using the empty Kroger on Peachtree Road as a city hall. There are concerns about locating this facility at a clumsy intersection, with a lot of traffic.
Locating city hall at Peachtree and North Druid Hills would be ironic on several layers. (The story you are about to hear happened a few years ago. PG may have some of his facts wrong.)
At one time, John Portman wanted to build a supercenter in downtown Brookhaven. It would have high rise office towers, and a big hotel. The residents of Brookhaven fought this, and it was not built. The shopping center with the Harris Teeter/Kroger was built on part of the land that would have been occupied by the center.
One of the residents fighting the plan was Tom Cousins. In the recent election, Mr. Cousins was a major contibutor to No City Brookhaven. PG suspects that Mr. Cousins may have been correct in opposing the new city. The voters have spoken, and they disagree.
The fashion police are looking for J. Max Davis . He talked to a reporter, on camera, wearing shorts. His shirt tail was exposed. As a public service, this should not happen again.
There was one nasty surprise at the polls yesterday. According to this map, PG lives in the 4th Congressional District. The ballot yesterday said he is in the 6th district. This means that PG is represented by the evil Tom Price, instead of the merely goofy Hank Johnson.
PG usually finds more action on the Republican primary ballot. In the 4th district, there was a competitive race. If a significant portion of the district was kept from voting in the Republican race, then this may be a problem.
Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library.”