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This City is going to change in a blink of an eye if the residents don't become engaged and defend it. We are going to be constantly barraged with developers and commercial interests as long as we live here, so we either get with it and defend it, or accept the fact that it's going to happen and move out of here. It is up to the people that live here to protect it. For example: The restaurant being built on the corner of Freemanville and Providence in the middle of residential and AG-1. Come on community wake up!
Michelle- Milton
That restaurant will be sending out the drunks by the truckload -- Hey there is our tax revenue!
It is ill- placed - no doubt.
That restaurant will be sending out the drunks by the truckload -- Hey there is our tax revenue!
It is ill- placed - no doubt.
Holcombe Farms are you there? You are going have "PURE Tacqueria" in your backyard, you will hear and see it from your backyards! It's owned by the same owners of PURE and Vinny's. They are going to apply for a liquor license and you are going to have a bad situation on this corner. I wouldn't want a bar in my back yard and you are. What about your property values? Are you concerned? The River, Church going in on the opposing corner, alone, should prevent this restaurant from getting a liquor license since it is directly across the street within 300 feet. You can't have a liquor license if a Church is within this distance. There already is a Baptist Church and cemetary on this road as well that has full view of the site. How can we allow this to happen under our noses?
Better Contact your City Council, if they even care. Most of them probably have contacts with Chris Sedgewick anyway, so good luck. You better act quickly or don't complain later when you decide to move out of here and can't get the value out of your home because there's a bar in your backyard and drunks walking around trying to find where they parked their car, since there is only room for 10 or so parking spaces. Hope they don't end up in your backyard trying to find a toilet.
This town is going down the drain!
"This town is going down the drain"
I agree and the reason is Bailey and her crowd fight againist ALL change and they won't win every battle.
If they would be reasonable they could make a workable land plan and contain growth. Their NO GROWTH -NO CHAGE possession is doomed.
What is wrong with a nail salon in a shopping center?
Why do reasonable people have to fight for every chances to make a living in Milton?
The voters of Milton need to elect people who can represent them and be flexible but firm.
If that means no growth fine, try it,re-elect Bailey and watch it fail.
"The only thing constant is change."
whats the deal with a nail salon at the bham crossroads?? what's going on with that --
See if you were informed, you would know that Bailey is not for stopping growth, she is for responsible, planned growth. And you have the nerve to say that her group, whoever they are, are using scare tactics, what are you saying, sounds like scare tactics to me against Bailey. You are wrong about her. And I am not part of her group and feel this way.
Unlike the other 4 who are for reckless abandonement. If you want to earn a living in Milton then go start a business where it is zoned for one instead of trying to shove one down the people's throats that live here. Ever hear of a marketing study? Try it next time you want to plunk a restaurant right smack in the middle of a residential area.
With all due respect, I feel I am VERY informed.
Yes somewhere along the way to my M.B.A. I vaguely recall the phrase "Market Study" and in economics 101, I recall supply and demand.
The phrase "Greedy developers" gets tossed around on this board a great deal. But the reality is you/we are the demand. [for goods and services] Developers don't wake up and say, "Gee let's go wreck Milton." They have users in the form of tenants who count roof tops like yours and see the demand L-O-N-G before they "willy nilly" decide on a location that they feel will be successful for their particular type of business.
Problem is, The no growth/stop development whackos have tried to make it impossible for any business to be successful with their crazy socialistic ideas.
So in Milton, we have a tremendous demand in a high income area with great demographics and very little supply or zoned locations. So the choices to locate are extremely limited.
I do not know the owners of the restaurant, but I would imagine they would prefer a location with more synergy,
But, the idiotic master plan removes all synergy with stupid guidelines that make shopping more like traversing a labrith in your SUV. And is trying to force residential housing next to a Ga Power sub station that should be used for commercial supply.
Think for a moment, had you rather have a restaurant near where a shopper might stop by for a bite or have a restaurant where it is destination only.
Why not tear down an empty former grading company and let commercial business go where it should go on the S.E corner of Birmingham Rd. and Birmingham Hwy. No body is stupid enough to build housing next to a sub station.
In summary the master plan ignores economics 101, burdens all businesses with moronic restrictions, and essentially is a failure in planning.
Ergo, Milton gets spot zoning requests and numerous variance requests most likely followed with law suits.
p.s. Mrs. Bailey DOES use scare tactics and she is against any growth or change, just look at her record.
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"What's the deal with the nail salon"
In their infinite wisdom Ms. Bailey et al in their words "to have something different" decided that a nail salon would wreck The world of Milton [then the Birmingham Community.] In there master plan they placed idiotic restrictions on the 'For Lease" shopping Center a.k.a. Birmingham Village.
Evidently, no nail salon was one of them, the wine shop can't sell hard liquor[as if that made a difference in sobriety] No drive in's [except a goofy bank configuration that is a death trap] and many,many others including very restricted signage.
It is a outward and visable sign and a monument of the craziness of "no growth" planning, and is obviously an economic failure due to their efforts to stop reasonable development.
Thanks for the answer. Personally would like to have a nail salon there.It would be alot closer to my house. I hate driving to hwy 9 just to get a manicure. Hwy 9 is sightly -- Bham is a calmer more attractive atmosphere with less traffic.
I do like controlled growth but not so much as that we can't have some restaraunts, a salon etc nearby - I do not want to see Milton succumb to the mass development you see in neighboring cities. There are some conveniences I would like nearby as well. I will agree that the wine shop should have a liquor license -- afterall they are an alcohol dealer. What's the difference?
Is it so hard to strike a good balance? To please the people of Milton and to welcome business? It will be a tightrope that any councilperson is going to have to carefully walk.
I don't know you but would you please run for office. You sound reasonable,flexible, thoughtful, and polite.
Good for you, then we are equal for I too have a M.B.A.as well as common sense. As risky as the restuarant business is in general, placing one in a community where it is widely known (if you live here) that the community doesn't want a restaurant in their backyard, is business suicide. See how many people from HERE become patron's of this establishment. The majority will come from Alpharetta and their groupies that hang out at PURE on Friday and Saturday nights. It will be a novelty at first then die down and go out of business. If I wanted to live right next to a restaurant, shopping center, mall, grocery store, bank, etc. I would have moved to Alpharetta, Roswell, Johns Creek, Sandy Springs, etc. The people that live here and that have moved here obviously wanted to be apart from all of that and like the fact that N. Point Mall and conveniences are 4 miles away and not up their rear ends. This area provides the best of both worlds. People didn't move out here to be near that stuff, they moved here to get a repreive from it.
This brings back 50 year memories.
At that time the nearest place to legally buy liquor was at Wieuca and Roswell Rd. The saying was... those who sat in the amen corner each Sunday morning, bought their liquor at the back door, on Saturday night, while all others went thru the front door.
But it is the choice of the owner to make business decisions
And its the choice of the residents in this community to not patronize this establishment as well. And its the right of the residents to voice they don't want a restaurant in their backyards. Has anyone contacted any folks in Holcombe Farms, they will have full view 24/7 of this restaurant.
I don't know if anyone has ever noticed this or not. But If you look at a map of Fulton County zoning. EVERYWHERE but here you have higher density around commercial zoning. i.e. Commercial Zoning does not back up to residential. That in itself could be something to consider. Like low rise office park around shopping.
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