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DEL.ICIO.USLet 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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By Tony Green
October 11, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this
As a current and long term resident and property owner in the unincorporated area of Alpharetta (as well as a rare bird as a native of Atlanta), now part of the new Johns Creek, as well as now starting a business in the area, I am a strong proponent of the USPS taking the effort to properly make the changes and recognize the inclusion of residences and businesses that sit within the new boundaries of Johns Creek. I won’t belabor all the reasons that our new city as well as the new city of Milton sought this independence and control over the utilization of our own tax revenue as it has been recorded in many articles. The success of the freedom of speach and choice that has been recognized from the very beginning of the committee working to start the effort and ushering it to completion and success cannot be ignored by an organization such as the USPS.
Legislated municipalities of a state should be recognized and honored by all, especially the USPS. We should work through all our legal contacts to assure this recognition happens.
Tony Green Alpharetta GA, soon to be Johns Creek GA.