I urge everyone to get out to vote on December 6th for Mike Davis for Mayor and Terry Nall for City Council Rep. Their victories are critical to the future of the Council. Without them we would not have the fiscally conservative voice we need to moderate the overreach we saw when the Council voted 6 to 1 to place the Park Bonds and the Redevelopment Referendum on the ballot.
The strings attached to the federal grants the City has received contain wasteful, impractical requirements that could all go away after November 2012. The Council needs to drop the “group think” and engage in cost benefit analysis on every item.
The council needs to understand that Dunwoody is divided into two parts, PCID and the subdivisions.
PCID wants a high density transit village surrounding the MARTA stations. They support the very expensive multi-modal designs in our current Master Plans.
The subdivisions need their roads, intersections and sewers fixed and maintained and don’t need multi-modal transit improvements. If we don’t get this change on the Council, we will continue to have a Council that pretends these differences don’t exist.
The council can satisfy the needs of both groups, but that involves handling PCID as its own entity and not imposing their wishes on the rest of Dunwoody. The current council did not do this; they approved plans that impose expensive PCID multi-modal changes outside PCID.
The Redevelopment Referendum that was approved by the voters will be a source of problems in future years. We need Mike and Terry to keep the council from wasting money on boondoggles.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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