#jodeco

Campground Road Extension will begin near Brannon Road then move west crossing Hwy 42 between the Magnolias at Eagles Landing and the Vineyards at Eagles Landing subdivisions. Campground Extension will then continue west crossing a new bridge just west of the Magnolias and north of the Terrace at Eagles Landing. As you cross the New Jodeco/ Campground Extension bridge headed west you will enter the Winslow at Eagles Landing community. The new roadway actually bisects the existing subdivision. A new 4 way intersection is already installed at Winbrook Drive in Winslow at Eagles Landing. A signal and crosswalk will be added at the Winbrook Drive and New Jodeco/Campground Extension. Campground Extension/NewJodeco will continue to meet the existing Jodeco Road seamlessly forming the new Jodeco Road as it exits the Winslow subdivision. Campground Extension/New Jodeco will meet Jodeco Road at a new reconfigured Peach Drive intersection. At the new 4-way intersection Jodeco Road will meet Old Jodeco or the current Jodeco Road headed to Historic Flippen. Old Jodeco is on the south side of the intersection and Peach Drive will be on the north side of the intersection with the New Jodeco Road.

The combined Campground-Jodeco Rd will then continue along Jodeco Road’s current route with 2 new lanes added forming a four lane roadway all the way to I-75. Five foot Sidewalks were added along both sides of Jodeco Road forming a pedestrian friendly area for residents. At this time no sidewalks have been planned from Peach Drive to Hwy 42 but Stockbridge Councilman Elton Alexander is working behind the scene with Henry County and Stockbridge officials to add sidewalks from Peach Drive to Hwy 42 with many pedestrians in the area walking and riding the closed New Jodeco/Campground Extension. This clearly demonstrates the need for sidewalks along the roadway. Existing  county and city ordinances mandate sidewalks on all new roadways

Take a tour of Campground Road Extension/ New Jodeco Road at the link below from Winbrook Drive to Hwy 42 from the Winslow at Eagles Landing subdivision including the new bridge. You cannot see this section otherwise because it is closed to traffic:

Why, in my opinion they did not want the transformative project that would bring Henry County into the 21st century changing the sleepy bedroom community forever attracting new business and commerce. The old guard in Henry County truly hoped they could run the project away. Frustrated the developer turned to Stockbridge for annexation to move the project forward. I participated in those talks in 2015 even before being elected to the Stockbridge City Council laying the groundwork to bring the project to Stockbridge via annexation to prevent the project from being killed altogether. I then spearheaded bringing the Jodeco project to Stockbridge after establishing a relationship with the developer without a cent changing hands. I simply wanted to save the project in Henry County annexing it into Stockbridge.

Successfully we annexed the property into Stockbridge in December of 2016. Then Henry County sued Stockbridge to tie up the development hoping the delay would kill the project and run off the tenants. They voted 6-0 to sue Stockbridge to prevent the project from moving forward. I beg and pleaded with citizens to get involved to stop this, few did. Round one in summer of 2017 Henry County won the case on a technicality but the judge said it could be fixed with a simple legal procedure. The developer then got Hardee's Jodeco Road to annex into the city of Stockbridge closing the short technical gap between the city limits of Stockbridge and the Jodeco property creating congruity meaning the parcels now legally touched the city of Stockbridge a mere 5,000 feet difference or so. This delay basically exhausted all of 2017 with the city annexing the Jodeco property into Stockbridge late in 2017 meeting the legal standard.

Next suddenly the City of Eagles Landing bill was change adding a provision to remove the Jodeco property from the City of Stockbridge should it pass...Wow. Henry County would get the Jodeco property back if Eagles Landing passed, the new city of Eagles Landing would not get it. Our source indicated allegedly the District Commissioner where Jodeco is located worked behind the scenes with Republican legislators to add the provision to return Jodeco to Henry County in the Eagles Landing Bill. It was very interesting not one of the Henry County Commissioners did anything to stop this and not one of them showed up to support Stockbridge at any of our press conferences or at the state capital to help. They all remain particularly quiet including the Democratic members of the Henry County Commissioners.

How did the Eagles Landing bill stall Jodeco? All developments require local funding and assistance so would you give millions of taxpayer dollars to a project not knowing if it would be in the city of Stockbridge if the proposed city of Eagles Landing would have passed? If Eagles Landing would have passed Jodeco would have been removed from Stockbridge altogether. We had numerous meetings on the proposed City of Eagles Landing battle, at least 50 or 60 where we explained Jodeco was at risk if Eagles Landing had passed. I posted on this page show up to meetings and vote to save Jodeco by defeating Eagles Landing. It is amazing the Jodeco project is still alive after all the obstacles, lawsuits, and even a legislative attempt to kill the project. Yet folks who did nothing to help us save the project come on this page throwing stones complaining the project is moving slow. How about showing up and getting involved in the fight for quality projects at city council,county commission meetings, and even the state legislature.

I fought very hard to save this project not for financial gain but for an improved quality of life for my community as well as lower property taxes with increased tax revenue from the new businesses at Jodeco. Three of my colleagues on the Stockbridge City Council chose to censure me for telling the public the City of Eagles Landing was an imminent threat while taking the advice of Republican lobbyist who said remain quiet the legislature and Governor would never approve this Eagles Landing bill. They said Eagles Landing would die but it passed easily. I was very suspicious of this advise and issued a clarion call to residents in December of 2017 and January 2018 going on tv interviews about Eagles Landing to get citizens involved. I then had a January 25th Eagles Landing town hall while the 3 colleagues who voted to censure me for telling the public of the imminent danger of Eagles Landing remained quiet until the day before the vote in the Georgia House of Representatives instead of fighting publicly in December of 2017 and January of 2018 while the bills made it through committees in the Ga House and Senate with the public in the dark this was happening. With the city starting to speak out one day before a vote in the legislature it passed easily building momentum and making it all the way to the ballot box. If we had been fighting publicly in December and January the City of Eagles Landing Bills would never have passed.