Welcome to ProtectAllatoona.com!

This site will serve to keep the residents surrounding Lake Allatoona aware of environmental issues, proposed inappropriate and non-essential development, and other zoning issues that could have a profound negative impact on the lake and surrounding areas. This watershed is a main source of drinking water for over 700,000 people in the Atlanta region.

For those that are new to this area around Lake Allatoona, numerous changes have occurred in the last 5 years. Developers see the continuing growth in Paulding and Bartow Counties as "opportunity" for intense-use, high-density commercial development along Cobb Parkway in Cobb County, adjacent to Lake Allatoona. There is extreme risk to the watershed that provides you with drinking water, to say nothing of the impact on quality of life, traffic flow, etc..

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GEORGIA SUPREME COURT ACCEPTS APPEAL

“This has never been about me, the building of a church or a hospital…It is about the preservation and protection of citizens' property rights and their drinking water." [Teresa Stendahl.AJC.03.11.08]

• July 2007 - Cobb Co BOC approved rezoning for 1 million s.f. commercial/retail adjacent to Lake Allatoona
• Aug 2007 - Lawsuit filed in Cobb Superior Court requesting reversal of rezoning decision
• Jan 2008 - Cobb Superior Court judge dismisses lawsuit – no due process in Cobb County
• Feb 2008 - Appeal filed with Georgia Supreme Court
• March 2008 - Georgia Supreme Court accepts application
• May 2008 - Appeal brief filed with Georgia Supreme Court

During Site Plan Review, LAI Engineering submitted the following timeline:

1. mass grading of site - 8 months
2. utility infrastructure - 18 months
3. AFTER mass grading and infrastructure, church plans to hold a major fund-raising event to determine whether or not they can PROCEED with the project

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