Peachtree Corners Life

UPCCA: Clarification on AJC’s Article on Peachtree Corners “City Lite” Proposal

There was a recent article in the AJC announcing that Peachtree Corners was pursuing City status.  This is true, but not as a typical City.  Here’s the background. As you know, we had asked our legislators to explore a Planning District for Peachtree Corners in the current legislative session.  After only a short time, Senator [...]

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Do You Favor Peachtree Corners the City?

There was talk in September of 2009 about making Peachtree Corners a Planning District. Recently, there has been more talk about Peachtree Corners City “lite.” Below is an edited video from United Peachtree Corners Civic Association meeting in September 2009 where local Representative Tom Rice explains the original planning district legislation. Mike Mason, president of [...]

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UPCCA: “The History of Gwinnett County” with Elliott Brack

United Peachtree Corners Civic Association (UPCCA) is featuring Elliott Brack, Author of Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta as speaker. He started to write a 100-page book about Gwinnett that people could send to friends to tell about the county…but it grew and grew. The book is essentially a history of one of the fastest growing [...]

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Peachtree Corners to Become a Planning District?

Legislation may be introduced in January 2010 to begin the process to create the first ever planning district – Peachtree Corners – in the state of Georgia. A Planning District would create legally defined geographic boundaries; it would prevent any adjoining municipality from annexing any property in the district (unless 100% of the property owners [...]

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