Dunwoody's $404.5 Million Master Plans

$36 Million Dunwoody Village Master Plan

Look up Dunwoody Village Master Plan on the City of Dunwoody website. Click on Community Development, click on Dunwoody Village Master Plan and click on Documents. Click on Action Plan. The Plan was developed to satisfy LCI goals to encourage more walking and less driving. This is the suburbs and driving is how we get our errands done. We also don’t use MARTA, shuttles or bikes, unless it’s to walk or bike to get a frozen custard at Village Burger with the kids. We go to get groceries or hardware or a hair cut or get our shoes fixed. The 5 Year Action Plan shows $36 million in city costs to transform Dunwoody Village into a MARTA, bike and walking friendly shopping center. Also see Georgetown's $38.6 Million Master Plan.

Carbon Tax

We think the need to reduce our “carbon footprint” is a scam perpetrated by UN Agenda 21 to promote their goal to become our “One World Government”. As crazy as that sounds, we know that George HW Bush approved the adoption of UN Agenda 21 for implementation in the US in 1992 and we’ve seen strange things happening ever since. We don’t understand how this hoax could impact our city council to allow this scam to influence them to spend our tax dollars on these plans, other than bribes in the form of federal grants. The Stakeholder input was handled using the Delphi Technique, where the facilitators “guide” the answers.

ARC & MARTA

The Atlanta Regional Commission, an unelected government body, whose very existence usurps city and county sovereignty, wrote the outline for this plan. It’s important to defeat the T-SPLOST in July 2012 to reject this new unaccountable layer of uninvited government. MARTA spends $750 million a year to run empty buses and trains and only takes in $120 million a year in revenue. The rest comes from tax subsidies. It is a failed business model and will be bankrupt unless the T-SPLOST passes. The Federal government is broke, but keeps spending on this “transformation’ of our society to a ‘One World Government” model. All Federal Department Mission Statements include man-made climate change mitigation as its main priority.

UN Agenda 21

This is a “One World Government” model with open borders, no private property and a global population reduction from 8 billion to 500 million. Whoever survives will live in Transit Villages around public transit. The EPA, DOT and all other federal agencies are using the extra $2 trillion we gave Obama to jam this through.

How It Works in Free Markets

When Publics replaced our old grocery store, they tore down the old store and built a bigger one. When Walgreens moved in, they did the same thing. I think that’s how it works. The anchor stores build what they want and the small shops rent whatever space is available.

Now we get in our cars and do errands that involve a trunk-load of groceries with stops to pick up other things. We don’t ride our bikes to the store, because our groceries don’t fit on our bike. We are in the suburbs and that’s how it works. We don’t think we would walk or bike to Dunwoody Village except for a family bike outing or to walk up to see the July 4th parade.

Regency, the owner of the Dunwoody Village property has no interest in the Dunwoody Village plan and I don’t blame them. Eventually, the city Land Use Plan and Zoning could remove private property rights from owners. Anchor stores would relocate and “there goes the neighborhood”.

Live, Work & Play Failures

When I attended the first Dunwoody Village public meeting, we were asked to look at pictures and vote on which ones we liked best. I saw a picture of a development I had visited in Davidson NC. It was a brand new Live Work & Play development built by the City of Davidson, with federal funds and it was empty, except for an ice cream parlor. There were empty shops with empty apartments overhead and they were empty because the rents were too high. They are still empty. There are also several failed finished projects in Atlanta.

Retired Housing

I doubt retirees will want to rent apartments above retail stores in a shopping mall that required an enormous amount of money to build. Only retail tenant owners and their employees would have any reason to live there and my guess is, they won’t. To make sure retirees do move there, I’m sure the city could find some way to revoke their driver’s licenses.

Transit Oriented Development

UN Agenda 21 describes how we must be moved to Transit Villages, into apartment units, built next to public transit. Sounds like the MARTA plans at PCID ? Yep. Sure does. We must be moved from our farmland so the UN, our “Global Government” can control our food supply. They will make a grab for our water and air and the right to tax us soon for the use of these resources. The Federal government is promoting “Regional Commissions” to replace our cities, counties and states. The EPA wants control of all water supplies, not just navigable waterways. It’s all happening now.

Bond Funds

Bonds are cited as funding sources along with federal funds. Bonds cost double. You pay off principle and interest and fees. Indebted cities are going bankrupt. It’s all happening now.

Building Construction Expense

Nowhere does it mention that the owners of the Dunwoody Village property would have to tear down and rebuild Dunwoody Village in order to conform to the city plan. The cost of demolition could be $3 million and the cost of constructing what’s in the plan could cost $100 million plus loss of revenue and the cost of new tenant recruitment. It is far cheaper for everybody to let free enterprise continue as it has. City planning of shopping centers is too totalitarian to work in a free suburban economy.

Sovereign Debt

Federal grants consist of borrowed and printed money. Our government, at all levels, is on a spending spree fueled by Obama-money and artificially low interest rates. Eventually we will have to pay the piper with inflation as the federal government debases the currency. That will cause prices to rise and our cost-of-living with it. Our city councils plans are in full agreement with this spend and default plan. Why would the US government commit financial suicide ?

The Debt Wall is the point at which there are no buyers for US debt, the federal government runs out of cash and has to cut spending. This occurred a few months ago and the Federal Reserve stepped up to buy US debt. Prior to that, the Fed bought toxic mortgage-backed securities from Fanny and Freddie. There is a point the Fed has to stop printing money and buying debt. We have implemented the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) strategy concocted during the Cold War. Instead of nuclear bombs, our government debt will destroy us.

End Game

China is already planning to move plants and offices to Idaho and Utah. They are also interested in the Great Lake states. Will this land belong to the Chinese government ? Whoever owns your debt can take your property if you can’t pay your debt. Everywhere else in the US, Immigrants who can buy houses in the US are granted visas.

Environmentalism

The EPA is quickly becoming the owner of our water and our air. The EPA is declaring private property as wetlands and prohibiting the “owners” from building homes. It is also enforcing regulations that are closing food production operations. Dams are being demolished, so rivers can flow unencumbered because of environmentalism. California farmers had their water taken away by the EPA because a tiny, useless fish downstream needed the water. These farms are closed and worthless. The endangered species list grows every year to the point where their food sources are being depleted. These are also our food sources. Environmentalism is the excuse being used to put us in a totalitarian box.

$404.5 Million City Spending Plans So Far

So far, the city has planned to spend $66 million for parks. $100 for multi-modal roads, bike lanes and sidewalks. $100 million for street milling and resurfacing and $36 million for Dunwoody Village Plan. The Georgetown Plan costs $38.6 million. That’s $340.5 million with an additional $64 million in Park Bond interest and fees. That’s $404.5 million in spending and debt expense so far. Annual city revenue is $21 million a year. The city would need to spend $20 million a year for the next 20 years, just on the projects I found on their website. They will probably want to pass Bond Issues for $340.5 million, so we can have an actual debt of $681 million. Debt Service on that puppy would be $34.1 million a year.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader