New Year for South Fulton

What are your expectations for South Fulton County? The housing market has slowed and growth has slowed. New schools are in the works. Are there any new parks in the works to help relieve the overcrowded parks? Work is underway to get the youth crime under control.

Rep. Roger Bruce has dropped a bill that will allow unincorporated South Fulton to keep its Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) contributions. That could put another $10.5 - $12 million in South Fulton budget. Otherwise, the money benefits the rest of Fulton County through the General Funds budget.

WalMart of Hwy 92 in South Fulton?

Of all the uninspiring things that could have been thrown at us in South Fulton is another WalMart. There are two others in South Fulton, Old National Hwy and Union City. Now with in it's infinite wisdom Union City strikes again. This time by approving the zoning for another one across from the Parkway Village on 92 and the Parkway. Now tell me why we need another Sam Walton store in South Fulton?

Unincorporated South Fulton!!!

Now that we've voted to remain unincorporated how do we improve upon what we have?

Incorporation Fails

The effort put forth to form a city of South Fulton went down without much of a fight in the end. What happened? Let's talk about it.

South Fulton -- Decision Time

With the passage of HB725 and SB301 South Fulton residents are poised to cast their ballot for or against incorporating a new city and opening up Fulton Industrial Blvd. Unfortunately the vote will not take place until this fall. Thanks to the governor. Several scenarios could play out.

1) If the city and Fulton Industrial district are approved there's going to be a race for mayoral and council. At that point old and new leadership may emerge to carry forth the birthing of the new city. The learning curve will be steep.

2) If the city vote fails FIB is supposedly off the table.

3) If the city vote fails will annexations eat up what remains of unincorporated South Fulton County.

It's close to decision time in South Fulton County. What do you think?

Incorporation is the way to go

If you believe in creating two new cities in South Fulton County this is where you can have your say.

Remaining Unincorporated

The future of South Fulton is remains up in the air. There is one thing we know for sure, Chattahoochee Hills will not create its own city. They are asking to be annexed by Palmetto. For areas not adjacent to any city annexation may not be an option. The remaining options are voting for incorporation of a new city in June of 2007 or no voting for a new city and remain unincorporated. Remaining unincorporated has become the option most folks don't want to talk about. There are various opinions on what happens if South Fulton remains unincoroporated. What are your thoughts?

Schools in South Fulton

For a number of years parents in South Fulton have fought with the Fulton County Board of Education over the treatment and lack of resources that are allocated to the schools in South County. As the BOE continue to pay lip service to serving S Fulton they are planning to come to us to support a third Special Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST III). Last year, they turned down a Lease Purchase funding option that is typically used by larger schools systems like Gwinnett. Lease Purchase is a loan process where the board pays off the lease of the schools over a number of years. At this point would you support a SPLOST III for more construction of schools or would prefer the board go back to review and adopt the Lease Purchase option?

South Fulton Blog

South Fulton is facing major changes in the next 18 months. I'm inviting you in to talk about those changes and what you think of them. Whether you're an annexation advocate, cityhood champion or for remaining unincorporated I would like to hear from you.