East Cobb Cityhood group to hold town hall meeting March 7

East Cobb Cityhood town hall meeting — *The Committee for East Cobb Cityhood interactive map outlines the proposed boundaries down to the neighborhood level. For more detail, **click here**.*

The Committee for East Cobb Cityhood will be holding an in-person town hall meeting on March 7 to discuss the upcoming May 24 referendum.

The town hall starts at 6 p.m. at the Olde Towne Athletic Club (4950 Olde Towne Parkway), but it’s open only for citizens who live in the proposed city boundaries.

The cityhood group announced that the event sold out quickly and no more reservations are being accepted for those wishing to attend in person.

Group spokeswoman Cindy Cooperman said the event room at Olde Towne has a capacity of 300 and she’s received at least that many RSVP requests.

She said the group is working to live-stream the town hall and that likely will be available on its Facebook page.

This will be the first in-person event the group has had since East Cobb cityhood was revived in 2021.

The group had several virtual information sessions, including one earlier this month as cityhood legislation was being approved by the Georgia legislature.

While those sessions included questions from the community, they were selected by cityhood group leaders for discussion.

In the initial East Cobb cityhood effort in 2019, cityhood leaders held several town hall meetings and also participated in a forum with opponents.

But it was after that forum at Olde Towne that cityhood advocates said they would delay their efforts to 2021.

The current cityhood group includes some of the original members, and has not indicated if there will be other in-person meetings before the referendum, other than with specific community and neighborhood associations.

The referendum will ask registered voters in the proposed city whether or not they wish to incorporate. The East Cobb legislation included a map of around 60,000 people, centered along the Johnson Ferry Road corridor.

The law signed by Gov. Brian Kemp last year (you can read it here) includes a charter setting up a governance structure, proposed services and city operating procedures, and election boundaries.

If the referendum is approved, then elections for the mayor and six city council members would take place in November.

The cityhood group also has revised an interactive map produced for the original campaign that allows residents to search by address to see if their neighborhood is in the proposed city.

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4 thoughts on “East Cobb Cityhood group to hold town hall meeting March 7”

My subdivision is on the North side of Shallowford Rd.. I am concerned that Police and Fire response times will
Be impacted negatively because they would have to drive around the new city to-get to us!