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We all know that traffic, particularly going up or down Whitlock, can be trying and downright frustrating at times. Most are acquainted with the past proposals of widening the road and all the local, political discourse that took place regarding this issue. Depending on your point of view, you’re happy with what Whitlock Avenue is today or you’re still pushing for some action to be taken.

In a larger context, how is traffic around the rest of Marietta? What other areas are of concern to you, the local citizens? Please feel free to share your thoughts, concerns, ideas and/or solutions to our local traffic situation.

Dunaway touched on several of the city’s redevelopment projects, which will raise the tax base in parts of Marietta from $22 million to $335 million in an area dominated by low-income, WWII-era housing.

“This tax base increase will be one hell of a return on our TAD investment,” Dunaway said, referring to a special tax allocation district. “We have forecasted an over 10 percent increase in our tax base in the next six to eight years.”

Thanks to Brendan Sager from the AJC for this article

Ok, so I am for re-development and growth as much as the next guy, but I just have to ask myself….does anyone even consider the traffic implications of this? Tonight it took me just over 45 minutes to go from Stilesboro and Barrett to the Avenues at West Cobb….enter a new huge work/live/play complex and what do you get?

Well…that should be an easy answer. In my opinion, the Cobb County infrastructure isn’t ready for this as cool and fun as it sounds. I know it will in the end get approved so I am not complaining at all because like I said, I am all for growth and development/redevelopment. We just have to be considerate to traffic…something that on a macroscopic level is lacking big time in West Cobb and Paulding. Just like in Field of Dreams. “If you build it, they will come”

By Kimberly Starks

Marietta Daily Journal Staff Writer

MARIETTA - A developer who plans to build a mix of restaurants, retail and residential housing on a 112-acre farm in west Cobb will ask Cobb County Commissioners today to reverse an unfavorable recommendation.

The Goodman Co. has revised its site plan to build 400 houses, including 156 senior cottages and condominiums, on Bullard Farm near Dallas Highway. The new plan also reduces 299,500 square feet of retail development on nearly 42 acres to 262,000 square feet.

The Cobb Board of Planning Commissioners unanimously rejected the company’s rezoning application Feb. 7. Since the planning commission is a recommendation board, Cobb commissioners will vote whether to approve the latest site plan during today’s 9 a.m. rezoning hearing.

The meeting will be held in the Cobb government boardroom at 100 Cherokee St. in Marietta.

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Just a buildup to gridlock

Published on: 02/09/06 : Source: AJC.com

Dallas Highway is a straight shot west heading away from Marietta Square, taking dead aim at the Paulding County line. It follows the same path through historic old homes and stately oak trees as two-laned Whitlock Avenue in Marietta; it opens up briefly to four lanes around the new high school and then shrinks again to two lanes through a sliver of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.

But beyond that point, Dallas Highway is open for business — four big lanes with narrow, grassy medians tracking through “Big Box” power centers, housing the likes of Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target, Pike Family Nursery, Publix and Kroger. The road deposits and collects traffic in and out of The Avenue West Cobb, one of those old-is-new-again outdoor shopping malls.

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