Letter to the Editor:

Roswell’s First UDC Filibuster In one of the most obvious attempts to avoid any open public discussion pertaining to the Unified Development (rezoning) Code (UDC), Roswell’s staff and all of City Council hid in the back of the room during their first public UDC meeting held Monday night at East Roswell Park. Meanwhile, the consultant / salesman for the proposed code filibustered to the extent of explaining, page by page, the entire text of the code document to the large public presence, even to extent of explaining the document index. And after nearly an hour when the consultant’s presentation was over, no open question and answer period was provided that would have allowed those in attendance the opportunity to ask questions themselves or be able to listen to other’s questions and hear the city response. And when Mayor Wood was challenged about the lack of public exchange his response was, that way no one could “grandstand”. That is correct; Roswell’s Mayor considers any public exchange a nuisance. The truth of the matter is that the UDC is exclusively focused on more apartments, higher density and more urban living to the benefit of developers which will further stress city services and add more traffic to our roadways and encourage more crime in our neighborhoods, thus negatively impacting Roswell’s quality of life. Lee Fleck