The mayor and the City Council of Loganville were unable to get into the move last Thursday with a coherent approach for downtown Bürgersteig installation. Instead, they had the idea stranded in a political tangle about the costs and the development of the city center in the city center.
City Councilor Branden, Whitfield, chairman of the Council's Economic Development Committee, brought the Bürgersteig idea to the Council's working session. For the voting meeting on Thursday, Whitfield brought a first proposal for the installation of a sidewalk along the Covington Street between Broad Street and the CS Floyd Road, the CS Floyd Road to the Pecan Street and from there into the line street. But Whitfield also said he was ready to accept the installation of the sidewalk installation that the Council could approved
“I know it is difficult to go to the city center because I do it a lot. It's not safe,” Whitfield told his colleagues.
A baseball stadium for the cost of installing the sidewalk, including the installation of curbs and gutters for proper drainage, at least some council members were set in an immediate program of downtown Bürgersteig in the city center. According to the figures from the city manager Danny Roberts, the cost of installing a sidewalk is around 170 to 180 US dollars per linear foot. At this speed, the installation of a quarter mile sidewalk would cost more than $ 200,000.
Mayor Skip Baliles, an advocate of the sidewalk in the city center, suggested that the city's reserves could be used for an initial phase of the city center.
“I just hate talking and nothing to do,” Balile told the Council. “We are not here to step down the can.”
However, the city councilor Lisa Newberry rejected the idea of using reserve funds for sidewalks.
“I don't think the spirit of the reserves is for it,” said Newberry, suggesting that reserves should be retained for urgent city needs.
Newberry claimed that the city had to set a clear direction for the renovation in the city center before the assignment of funds for certain projects is considered.
“I don't have the feeling that we have a plan,” she said. And Newberry added, the sidewalks in the city center are not necessarily an infrastructure priority in all of Loganville.
“You hear people who want to become sidewalks, I hear people who want to repair potholes,” said Newberry to Whitfield.
The city councilor Patti Wolfe suggested that the city officials should focus on the broader topic in order to bring more residential and business development to the city center of Loganville before dealing with certain infrastructure requirements such as sidewalks.
Wolfe suggested that the city's attitude for residential and business development in the city center could be part of the city's reeduction of the city's zoning regulations, which is currently being considered by the Council.
The Council recently set up a moratorium on reconciliation and annexation inquiries in order to maintain a professional planning service company in order to conduct the community when the zoning regulations are transferred.
“The problem of the sidewalk will be there,” suggested Wolfe. “It doesn't go anywhere.”
“It never has,” creep Whitfield.
The city councilor Anne Hunsinger, who agrees to the wish of Whitfield for a walk -in inner city, nevertheless suggested that a program in downtown from downtown seems out of reach.
“I think it's time to see that it will not happen because we cannot come together as a council,” said Hunsinger. Hunsinger was also surprised by the high projected costs for the installation of sidewalks in the city center. When the discussion continued on Thursday without signing, the council would move forward in the city center on sidewalks, and Baliles asked whether a member of the council was willing to submit an application. Balile remarked the lack of action as nothing.
“What I hear is a can that goes down the street,” he said.
In other promotions on Thursday, the Council unanimously rejected a number of sewing and converting the Uprise development based in Loganville, which had plans for a mixed development on almost 60 hectares in Tuck Road and Tom Brooks Road. The project called Brooks Landing was developed to have divided 99 single -family houses, 60 townhomes and 16,000 square meters of commercial space into the same buildings. 25 Tomorrow of the tract should have remained undeveloped.
In its unanimous coordination on Thursday, the council rejected an application for relief that would have consolidated a mix of agricultural, business and commercial zoning classification in the planned urban village classification of the city.
The proposal was confronted with a slight opposition on Monday at the non -voting meeting on Monday, with only a few symptoms of the residents nearby, that traffic is already in the area and that the development could adverse the wild animals on and near the tract.
Also on Monday, Whitfield was less than impressed by the project's location plan. He pointed out that townhomes, single -family houses and trading buildings were in various areas of the tract instead of being mixed during the entire development.
“For me, this only looks like a neighborhood with a commercial top,” said Whitfield on Monday and suggested that the project “did not hit what a PUV should intend.”
The votes of the council on Thursday came with little fanfare without the application from Newberry that the
Rezonation and annexation requests are rejected.
In other zoning campaigns on Thursday, the Council voted 3-2 for reconciliation, which was requested from his existing classification of residence by the men's restorations based in Marietta for almost 10 acres in Pecan Street, which would have approved the construction of 44 Townhomes.
Wolfe, Newberry and City Councilor Melanie voted for a long time to refuse the application of the environment, with Hunsinger and Whitfield voted against the rejection. City Councilor Bill Duvall did not take part in Thursday.
Newberry's application to deny the request was not discussed before the vote.
In other actions on Thursday, the Council unanimously approved the expenses that were checked at the non -tuning meeting on Monday. Given the OK of the Council on Thursday:
- An effort of 750,000 US dollars from the city's reserve fund in its pension fund, a routine annual transmission;
- An assignment of $ 136,815 from the city's reserve funds to Keck & Wood, an engineering service company with offices in Gwinnett County, for technical drawings and other work on the resettlement of resistance companies to expand Georgia Highway 20;
- A payment of 27,972 US dollars to Pump repair company GOFFORTH Williamson for repairing electropane relays in an urban supply facility and a 26,670 dollar effort to global control systems for further repair of emergency devices.
- A payment of $ 18,304.91 to Civil Construction & Utilities for work on Covington Street Stormwater Hafteich, and.
- A payment of $ 16,861.49 to the supply service company for inspection and maintenance of the Pecan Street Water Tank.