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March 27, 2013

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	The Macon – Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission held a special work session to discuss the 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 9:30 a.m. in the Bibb Co. Engineering Annex, 760 Third St., Macon, GA.


	Forest Hill won a 30 day restraining order on Mar 1st in court. Trees were to be cut the next week. So everyone can at least enjoy one last springtime along that Forested road. This road segment (FHR northern section) was one of 5 segments that comprised the Northwest Corridor. This corridor was the subject of the Environmental Assessment documentation. Two segments are not planning to be built --- if the special session of LRTP says so. What does that do to the EA?
	Meeting Notes: We had, as Mayor Reichert described it, a "spirited debate" about various issues. - The "modeling charts" showed that after spending all our money on North Macon and the Interstate system, by 2040, traffic will flow smoothly along the Interstates, but it will not improve for the rest of Macon. Someone asked Patti Schropp of Atkins Global, the "privatized-modeling-expert-explainer", why we should spend all our local money on the Interstates. She replied that if we didn't, "then all that traffic and congestion will spill over into the secondary streets" ... "Where these drivers will then spend money in the local economy" someone else finished her sentence. Lonzy Edwards turned towards me and ruefully agreed with the conclusion "That's right". -- Old Macon Mall (Hull Storey Gibson) owners objected strongly to spending taxpayer money on North Macon arteries when one half of the 2 Million square feet of retail space around Eisenhower Pkwy is vacant. "You are not creating economic expansion, you are only shifting shoppers from one area to another, and this leaves all the infrastructure around Eisenhower unused and sliding towards blight." Taxpayers are not getting increased economic activity from their investments. --- Macon Councilman Hutto said he came to the meeting to get information about i16i75 that has been promised to him multiple times but never delivered. "That is all I came here for today". P&Z officials said they were "sorry but they did not come with that information about the total cost of the i16i75 projects"... And with the room overflowing with road officials, no one spoke up to give Hutto the answer. ---- Councilman Tomkins asked about Log Cabin "People voted for this project in the 1994 SPLOST, and now it is being totally removed from the LRTP? Where did that money go? What about the promise to the voters to fix this road?" Mayor Reichert promised to get him some information. "I want it in writing so I can show my constituents who is responsible for not executing the promised projects" Tomkins replied. some Photos and video and (all) audio are available. CAC present were Nicholas Pietrzak, Charles Brogdon, Lindsay Holliday

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	MATS POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING NOTICE

	Ken North Transportation Planner Macon-Bibb Planning & Zoning Comm. 478 751-7462

Policy Committee

Chairman – Sam Hart, Chairman, Bibb County Commission

Vice-Chairman – Robert Reichert, Mayor, City of Macon

MATS Committee

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	News occuring after the meeting







	From NYT - February 14, 2011, 10:30 am http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/to-get-america-growing-again-its-time-to-unleash-our-cities-a-guest-post-by-ed-glaeser/ To Get America Growing Again, It’s Time to Unleash Our Cities: A Guest Post by Ed Glaeser By STEPHEN J. DUBNER Stop subsidizing suburbs. We don’t need housing and highway policies that push people away from our productive cities. Brown economist Nathaniel Baum-Snow found that every new highway built into a city reduced that city’s population by 18 percent. Our pro-homeownership policies, including the financial fiascos of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, implicitly push people out of urban apartments into suburban homes. The great housing bust reminds us that the government shouldn’t be bribing people with the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction to bet everything on the swings of the housing market.


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