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Gas Station / Convenience Store Dead… and Almost Gone
The proposal to build a gas station and convenience store at Rosebud Road and Old Loganville Road is dead and nearly gone, thanks to your effort and involvement.
According to our group’s coordinator, Allen Richards, the attorney for the applicant told the Planning Commission at last night’s meeting that the applicant had decided to withdraw the request to rezone the property due to the community’s opposition. The applicant asked the Commission to issue a “denial without prejudice,” which it did.
A recommendation of “denial without prejudice,” if accepted by the County Commission next Tuesday night, will mean that this application is denied, but the one-year waiting period before another application could be filed on the same property is waived. The property owner could, in essence, file another rezoning application tomorrow, although this would be highly unlikely.
Thank you to the folks who emailed the Planning Commission and also attended the two meetings. Often, we lament that our appointed and elected representatives do not hear us, and that emails and phone calls are just a waste of time. To the contrary, our representatives in District 3 are very responsive to your correspondence, as was evidenced by this case. If you sent an email, made a phone call or attended one of the hearing nights, you were instrumental in ensuring that this bad development was rejected.
I do not anticipate that there will be any need to attend next week’s Board of Commissioners’ meeting, unless you want to express your opinion that the proposal should receive a flat denial and that the one-year waiting period should be honored.Â
I would recommend, however, that you send District 3 Commissioner Mike Beaudreau and the other County Commissioners an email asking that they affirm the planning staff and Planning Commission’s recommendation of denial. You can do this easily by sending a single email to commishes@aboutgwinnett.com. Be sure to reference RZC2007-00045.
That address again: commishes@aboutgwinnett.com
YOUR ACTION PLAN
- Send an email to the Board of Commissioners at commishes@aboutgwinnett.com
- Tell at least one new neighbor about the Rosebud Coalition and www.rosebudga.com
Filed under: Growth & Development
Mr. Griggs,
You don’t think you will be able to stop everything around this South Rosebud cluster. Who do you think you are, when you can’t even pay taxes in our County!
You live in a APT.not even in our district. You WILL she the day care come in, and further more a gas station or some kind of business. This area is very congested and you would have to live hear to know it. You come and pick up 2-3 garabage pails a week and let me know this area is getting run down. Yes, we would have loved for it to stay the way it was 25-28 years ago. But the change is happening. When you build low income homes this is what happens. Your newletter stating corner of Rosebud and Loganville a Dead Deal. Just keep on watching it’s NOT!
You need a Life more than getting into everyone else
business.
This area has been my home and that of my grandparents, parents, brother and sister for over 10 years. Obviously, I am much more `invested` in this community than are you.
If you had a better argument, I hope you’d offer it. By `attacking the messenger,` you prove that you have nothing but selfishness as your motivation.
Nothing prevents you from selling your property and moving to an area about which you care. But do not belittle those who want to make sure that, when you leave, you do not leave your `trash pile` for us to clean up.
The people who oppose bad development in the Rosebud community have decided to stay and fight, not chicken out and abandon the community as you have obviously chosen to do.