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Friday, November 24, 2006
End run on Roswell in annexation effort
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Did you hear about Milton’s annexation vote for the Arnold Mill Road area? Add your reaction below.
Here is staff writer Paul Kaplan report on Milton’s Thanksgiving surprise for Roswell:
At a hastily called meeting in the middle of the night, the fledgling city of Milton snookered the powerful city of Roswell this week.
Roswell had scheduled a pair of meetings early next week to annex nearly 300 acres of prime northwest Fulton County land, but the Milton City Council beat Roswell to the punch.
With the help of property owners, Milton approved its own annexation in two meetings a few hours apart. The first was held late Tuesday afternoon. The second meeting started a stroke after midnight, to satisfy a legal requirement that Milton hold the annexation meetings on separate days.
That secured for Milton a prized 307-acre section of land that abuts both cities, including more than half of what Roswell had planned to annex next week.
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Tour de Georgia skips Alpharetta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The 2007 Tour de Georgia won’t end in Alpharetta this time. The six-stage cycling race will come into metro Atlanta through Hall County and Stone Mountain on its way to a finish close to the Georgia Aquarium, at Centennial Olympic Park downtown.
Will Northside miss it? Did you go to any of the recent Tour de Georgia events in Alpharetta and Cumming? Should the Convention and Visitors Bureau lobby to get it back in 2008?
Read the full story by Michael Pearson here, and add your thoughts below.
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Neighborhood Buyout: Would you sell?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The AJC’s Christopher Quinn writes about the Heritage Glen subdivision, near the intersection of Johnson Ferry and Roswell Roads in the heart of East Cobb. It’s across Roswell Road from the upscale Avenues of East Cobb and close to a new shopping center where a Trader Joe’s will be the anchor. [Click here to read Christopher Quinn’s story]
A development team has offered to buy the 26-year-old subdvision to replace it with million dollar homes.
About 20 families don’t want to sell, despite what other neighbors call a generous buy-out offer. The debate is getting personal.
Think about your own neighborhood, or ones nearby. If you were faced with an offer to buy your neighborhood to replace it with a new commercial development or more expensive homes, how would you decide whether to stay or go? What do you think you would do if you lived in this East Cobb neighborhood.
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