2015 Proposed Cities (Roswell, Alpharetta, College Park: live, fences, residential)

[KittyAtlanta]

Originally Posted by Tryska

So This happened at the East Point Council Meeting last week. 3 State reps showed up to duke it out about the "City of South Fulton"

I'm kinda pissed that they wasted East Point's time on something the City has no say in, and I'm pissed at some of East Point's council-people for not being smart enough to pick up on that.

The shenanigans start at 17:25

Video Outline - City of East Point, Georgia

East Point...oh my. I lived there for 37 years, in the same house and have moved (14 mos. ago), as I could no longer abide the p_ss poor government. Can't sell my house as the neighborhood has tanked. Oh happy day!!!

[HayateWind]

Originally Posted by bu2

From the article:
Currently, four possible cities --LaVista Hills, South DeKalb, South Fulton, and Tucker-- are under consideration by the Georgia General Assembly. But it does not appear any of those cityhood bills will be considered until 2016.

"It is my intent that we try and do it the right way with a two-year study," Rynders said.

Maybe this is for the best. This all seems incredibly rushed anyway, and will give the majority of working people time to think about this and how cityhood is going to affect their lives.

[LynnHarris]

House Bill 165 calls for a referendum on forming the City of South Fulton next November. If voters in unincorporated Fulton decide to form the city, they’d elect a mayor and city council during the 2016 presidential primary.

A previous version of the bill – filed before the current legislative session – called for a vote on cityhood in March.

Under HB 165, the new city would include all remaining unincorporated areas of Fulton County as they exist 90 days prior to the election – a move that will give existing cities time to annex some areas, if they choose. Currently, the unincorporated area covers about 105 square miles bounded roughly by Atlanta to the north, Chattahoochee Hills to the south, College Park to the east and Douglas County to the west. More than 90,000 people live in the area..."

Full Story: New south Fulton bill pushes cityhood vote to November | www.ajc.com

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by LynnHarris

House Bill 165 calls for a referendum on forming the City of South Fulton next November. If voters in unincorporated Fulton decide to form the city, they’d elect a mayor and city council during the 2016 presidential primary.

A previous version of the bill – filed before the current legislative session – called for a vote on cityhood in March.

Under HB 165, the new city would include all remaining unincorporated areas of Fulton County as they exist 90 days prior to the election – a move that will give existing cities time to annex some areas, if they choose. Currently, the unincorporated area covers about 105 square miles bounded roughly by Atlanta to the north, Chattahoochee Hills to the south, College Park to the east and Douglas County to the west. More than 90,000 people live in the area..."

Full Story: New south Fulton bill pushes cityhood vote to November | www.ajc.com

Hope Atlanta, Union City, and Fairburn start cleaning up their boundaries ASAP.

[bu2]

Window closing on annexation, cityhood legislation - Decaturish

....
If you don’t have decisions made within a week or two time will just run out before this Legislative session,” Holcomb said. “If we’re going to see anything, it will be within the next two weeks.”
There’s still some speculation about who the sponsors for the various proposals will be.
State Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver has said she would be introducing Decatur’s proposal, assuming it will be introduced. There’s no word on who Avondale Estates sponsor might be, and no sponsor confirmed for the Together In Atlanta proposal. The most likely candidate for Avondale Estates annexation legislation would be state Rep. Karla Drenner, D-Avondale Estates, but she has not made a firm commitment to doing so. Her reluctance is understandable. It did kind of blow up in her face the last time she introduced a bill on Avondale’s behalf.
Greenhaven’s sponsor is expected to be state Rep. Pam Stephenson, D-Decatur. Jason Lary, with the city of Stonecrest, said state Rep. Dar’shun Kendrick, D-Lithonia, and state Rep. Tonya Anderson, D-Lithonia, will be the cosponsors of that cityhood bill. State Rep. Billy Mitchell, D-Stone Mountain, previously sponsored a placeholder bill for Tucker and is expected to sponsor it again.
Negotiations around LaVista Hills appear to be the key sticking point at the moment.
LaVista Hills map overlaps with the Together in Atlanta annexation proposal. Currently there are negotiations going on behind the scenes to resolve those boundary disputes. Decaturish has also learned that legislators are carefully considering whether to move ahead with annexation bills this year and introduce cityhood bills next year, or try to resolve the border disputes this year.

[Tryska]

Originally Posted by Gulch

Hope Atlanta, Union City, and Fairburn start cleaning up their boundaries ASAP.

What do you mean?

[jero23]

Originally Posted by Gulch

Hope Atlanta, Union City, and Fairburn start cleaning up their boundaries ASAP.

Atlanta is already on it on...

This is the foolishness like last time it will likely fail again...

[jero23]

Originally Posted by Tryska

What do you mean?

This isn't nothing but Roger Bruce's attempt to incorporate areas that areas basically surrounded by those cities. He doesn't want the existing municipalities to annex anything. However, he doesn't realize the constituents in these areas are either happy with status quo, desiring to be annexed by the municipality closest to them (such as Union City, Fairburn, Palmetto, East Point, etc.), or be annexed into the City of Atlanta.

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by Tryska

What do you mean?

Union City Map

Fairburn Map

Lots of unincorporated islands and bizarre shapes in south Fulton.

[Tryska]

Originally Posted by jero23

This isn't nothing but Roger Bruce's attempt to incorporate areas that areas basically surrounded by those cities. He doesn't want the existing municipalities to annex anything. However, he doesn't realize the constituents in these areas are either happy with status quo, desiring to be annexed by the municipality closest to them (such as Union City, Fairburn, Palmetto, East Point, etc.), or be annexed into the City of Atlanta.

And they are all stirring the pot with Citizens and Council people in East Point. I kinda wish we'd annex the whole thing just to shut up the noise.

Originally Posted by Gulch

Union City Map

Fairburn Map

Lots of unincorporated islands and bizarre shapes in south Fulton.

ugh! I had no idea there were little internal pockets. What's in those areas that they haven't been annexed already, I wonder?