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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Let Johns Creek have its own address?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A recent article in the Journal-Constitution about the future of the PGA at the Atlanta Athletic Club says, “When the best professionals in the world return to Duluth for the tournament in 2011, they’ll find the course they left behind has grown a few more teeth.”
The course isn’t in Duluth, nor is the surrounding area.
And yet a mile down the road from the course the reference to Duluth can be found again. A sign at a Home Depot store reads “Welcome to Duluth.”
Neither place has ever been in that city. Both places are in the part of unincorporated north Fulton that will become the city of Johns Creek on Dec. 1. This identity problem is pervasive in the nascent city. All of the hundreds of businesses and more than 60,000 residents currently have Alpharetta, Duluth or Suwanee addresses. How will this change with incorporation? Possibly not at all. The prized Johns Creek address (cityhood promoters have constantly touted the area as having higher household incomes than neighboring cities) will not appear anywhere unless some changes are made.
The cause of this confusion is that addresses are provided by the U.S. Postal Service. USPS agency spokesman Michael Miles stated (see the Aug. 15 Q&A item in the AJC) that no decision had been made on possible changes to mailing addresses for Johns Creek residents, and cautioned that “ZIP codes don’t necessarily reflect municipal boundaries.”
But in this case, it would be fairly easy for the codes to accurately reflect the new Johns Creek boundaries. Read the full article from Northside Opinion page.
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