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8A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com
Wednesday, October 10,2018
Dawson County News
Members of the Dawson County Board of
Commissioners and the Dawsonville City Council
gather at Amicalola Falls on Oct. 5.
FROM 1A
Meeting
to get the airport into the
NPIAS, or the National
Plan of Integrated Airport
Systems.
“Once you get into that,
you are eligible for federal
funds to improve and
enhance your airport. Our
goal since I have been here
is to ensure that we don’t
cost the citizens of the city
of Dawsonville any
money,” Eason said.
“Getting into the NPIAS
would give us the ability to
draw down millions of dol
lars possibly to improve the
airport, to make it a good
quality general aviation air
port.”
The city does not intend
to make the airport a com
mercial airport but a public
airport, according to Eason.
If the city does not acquire
the airport, the Elliotts will
sell it and the buyer could
turn it into a commercial
airport.
“If this doesn’t work
there is a good chance it
could become something
that we in our community
don’t want,” Eason said.
The airport has been in
existence since the early
1980s.
“People say all the time
‘I don’t want an airport up
there, don’t put an airport,’
but the thing is there is
already an airport there,”
said city council member
Jason Power.
The city is currently
awaiting the FFA’s ruling
about placing the airport on
the NPIAS. Even if placed
on the inventory program,
it would be around October
of next year before any
funding would become
available.
The Elliotts are donating
the land that the runway is
on to the city. The land is
worth several million dol
lars and will cover the state
and city’s portion of a
match to the federal funds.
“One thing that will hap-
pen...every year the airport
will receive $150,000 from
the FAA for general
upkeep and maintenance,”
Eason said. “Once you
receive any money from
the feds, all revenue and
anything generated at the
airport must stay in the air
port itself.”
The city does not plan to
build hangars at the airport
but to lease the ground so
that people who want to
house their planes there can
lease space and build a
hangar to the city’s specifi
cations.
“We really feel like in the
next 30 days we’ll proba
bly have an answer from
the FAA which means if
we get in the NPIAS, it’s a
done deal,” Eason said.
Eason said that once the
airport gets in the NPIAS,
town hall meetings will be
scheduled to give citizens a
chance to learn about the
project and voice concerns.
District 2 Commissioner
Chris Gaines has also
served on the city council,
and said he is glad to hear
that public meetings with
the airport consultant, Phil
Eberly, are still part of the
plan.
“The thing that I like
about this process...is the
previous time it was done,
it was perceived as a secret
thing,” Gaines said. “We
have to have public meet
ings and the way that they
function these meetings is
they give you information
in pods and it’s really
addressing the concerns
that people have and that
information is coming from
a professional that knows
how to address those ques
tions and it’s all out in the
open for everybody to look
at.”
TSPL0ST a
possibility
In a similarly sticky
vein, city and county have
been bouncing around the
idea of a single county
TSPLOST, or
Transportation Special
Purpose Local Option
Sales Tax, but sitting down
together helped the two
groups hammer out some
details concerning projects
and how the revenue
would be split.
Gaines said that a previ
ous attempt at a regional
TSPLOST had failed
around the state, and that
under the regional
TSPLOST, Dawson
County was a donor coun
ty and would have generat
ed more revenue than
would have stayed in the
county.
Under the single county
TSPLOST, whatever is
raised in Dawson County
would stay in Dawson
County, like the current
SPLOST.
The county and city
must have an intergovern
mental agreement and
decide on a percentage
split or it would automati
cally default to .75 cents as
opposed to the maximum
one cent, and revenue
would be split at whatever
the current SPLOST is set
at, which is currently 85
percent to the county and
15 percent to the city.
“It’s in everybody’s
interest to be able to talk
through this and come up
with where we feel like we
need to be, and it’s very
clear from both of our bud
gets that we continue to
see just an incredible
amount of increase in sales
tax revenue, no secret, pre
dominately raised from the
Ga. 400 corridor,” Gaines
said.
Gaines said that the
potential revenue for a
TSPLOST at one cent over
five years is $50 million.
To put that in perspec
tive, the full-depth recla
mation and repaving of the
six miles of Dawson Forest
Road in 2016 cost the
county around $2.5 mil
lion.
“It doesn’t go very far,”
Gaines said. “We start talk
ing about bypasses and
Lumpkin Campground and
some of these other proj
ects, it gets consumed
quickly.”
The next step is for the
city to decide if they want
to come to an agreement
with the county, and then
both will have to come up
with project lists and
decide what percentage the
city would take.
“Ideally it frees up
SPLOST funding, because
right now over 54 percent
of our funds in SPLOST
are being consumed by
road projects,” Gaines said.
Between 82 and 84 per
cent of the county’s
SPLOST revenue is gener
ated by people who don’t
live in the county but come
to spend money in the
county.
“For us it’s always been
a win-win when it comes
to SPLOST and ESPLOST
and LOST...they’re coming
up and they’re paying for
our infrastructure,” Gaines
said.
A TSPLOST would
have to be passed by
Dawson County voters.
Both sides push
truck route around
city of Dawsonville
City council members
and commissioners placed
emphasis on taking steps
forward on a Hwy. 53 track
route to bypass the city of
Dawsonville, which is on
GDOT’s list of scheduled
projects, albeit scheduled
for 2028.
According to Eason, lim
ited parking, dangerous
crosswalks and heavy track
traffic impede downtown
growth and development.
“We want the city to be a
destination for people; we
can’t do anything right now
because Hwy. 53 and Hwy.
9 cut right through the cen
ter and the right of way for
the state comes right up to
the buildings, not the park
ing lot, but the front of the
buildings,” Eason said. “So
we can’t do anything to
improve the quality of the
downtown area until we get
the tracks out of town with
a track route.”
Eason said that about
one third of the potential
routes are on city property,
and that the Turner family
owns another 40 percent of
the land. One of the routes
is no longer feasible due to
the new Thunder Ridge
subdivision on Hwy. 9, and
all four have outlets on
Turner land north of the
Shoal Creek Bridge.
With subdivisions and
other structures continuing
to go up in the city, obtain
ing right of way and estab
lishing a route quickly is on
the forefront of everyone’s
mind.
“I’ve been on the board
kind of a long time, and
this was a discussion we
had probably my first or
second year, this truck
route around Dawson
County,” District 4
Commissioner Julie
Hughes Nix said. “I would
love to see us really work
toward coming together...
somehow somebody think
of a way that we can push
this track route.”
Eason said the projected
cost for the bypass is $17
million, though GDOT is
expected to also contribute.
Eason said he was going
to try to set up a meeting
with Rep. Kevin Tanner
and GDOT to try to see
how much the city would
have to put in to get the
track route moving.
Potential impact
fees for the city
The city has been con
sidering instating their own
impact fees, which are one
time fees charged to new
development to help offset
the cost of services, since
the county reinstated their
impact fees in August.
Eason said the city has
contacted Bill Ross, who
helped the county reinstate
their impact fees, and are
awaiting a proposal from
him. The county reinstated
impact fees on Aug. 16 and
have since raked in
$44,000.
“We have not seen a
throng of people trying to
get into the city because of
the county impact fees,”
Eason said. “I think a lot of
the reason people try to get
into the city is the water
and sewer, which we
have.”
Eason said some of the
council members had
expressed concerns about
the impact on businesses,
as the city has long strag
gled with attracting and
maintaining businesses.
Power, who is building a
new house in the county,
said he is concerned that
residents who already live
in the county but want to
build a new home would
have to pay $3,500 just like
any developer would when
building new homes in a
subdivision. Legally,
impact fees cannot be
charged to one and not the
other.
“It’s hard to tell farmer
Brown after he’s been here
for 40 years that you can
build a house but it’s going
to cost this much,” Power
said. “I just wish there was
a way to differentiate
between a developer and
somebody just wanting to
build a house.”
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