Apartments are expensive to local governments, developers don’t sue
unless there is actual discrimination (which there isn’t in this case),
water use is a big issue,
and the primary responsibility of elected officials is to the citizens
who elect them:
Judge Wayne Ellerbee made these and other points relevant to many
rezoning requests as he spoke for some of the opponents at
the

Lake Park Brookhaven rezoning.

He pointing out that the question before the Lake Park City Council was
the rezoning,
but the developers needed to take into account the effects on the
entire city of Lake Park.
He mentioned studies from the University of Georgia
saying that the most expensive zoning Continue reading →