It’s an hour and a half of undue praise and proclamations. This motherfucker will not shut the fuck up. So I’m turning this bullshit off. In the morning I’ll have my machine transcribe and pick arpart the meeting. Because I don’t have to listen to Elton pretend to be something he’s not.
He’s a realtor. He opens the doors to bathrooms and says, “this is a bathroom.” If it weren’t for shucking and jiving for massas Welch, Strickland, Talmadge, Price, Herndon-Woodall and their white supremacist biker friend of a friend, Mark Ware. Elton would not have been installed as mayor.
No shit. They write songs about their ethnostate down in Butts county. ‘Good old boys that look just like me and you.’ First of all, you motherfuckers don’t look like me. Second, why would Sandra Pogue or Charisma Webster have this person at the amphitheater in this city of all cities? And finally, ladies and gentlemen. When they tell you who they are, belive them.
The first line is “playing hard and getting wet” and it’s a song about “Sheriff Long and all his boys.” Incomprehensible how awful these lyrics are. So, get ready Mark. This’ll be the most views that video ever gets in any period of time.
If you peckerwoods down in Butt County take issue with this. Stay your corny ass away from me in your prison rape gay, leather daddy cosplay. Gary Long isn’t tough. Gary Long handed that landscaper over to Victor Hill to be tortured. Considering this man doesn’t provide you liberty or protection. All your white pride & back the blue ass kissing means abolutely nothing.
Oh yeah. Almost forgot. Mark Ware was the first manager of the amphitheater. His email was mware@pacesga.com & then this RICO was filed against Paces.
Well, first let’s clear up the Lee St. timeline. Last night, Elton said he used the words General Lee as an anecdote. No, he said April 24, “that street is definitely named for General Lee.” Then, March 9 Linda Logan put in the agenda packet a slide that said the road was named for General Robert E. Lee. In the interim I called Ryan Anderson for a curt conversation in which he said, “they got their mind made up.”
Now. I don’t know if he was referring to management or the city council. But I don’t have to care about that part. My job is to point out that this city hasn’t changed.
We have a $300,000 limit per artist. Per artist, and not per show. There’s ~3200 usable seats. No one in this city can pay enough to make that profitable. No one can ever make $300K “artists” break even. There is no clause in place to stop E.g. Brett Michaels. Who never performed here in 2025, but that no-show show cost us $110,000 and got the city sued for $8000 due to Ga. Radio Alliance for advertising. The potential for fraud is as high as it ever was. Their willingness to lie about serious subjects is present, here, now in this road renaming gambit.
Someone at City Hall last night said, “we’re just getting started.” The thing is. You work for the people and the people haven’t brought any of this forward. You need to be performatively Black with a capital B for the new mayor and city manager. Well, I’m sorry, this isn’t Campbellton Road. We don’t want to live in “Black” downtown. We just want a normal downtown like Roswell. As the Mayor opened with a proclamation about bookstores. If someone wants to open a bookstore, I hope it would have Langston Hughes alongside Isaac Asimov. More likely than not, it won’t have Hughes or Asimov. It’ll stock Kamala’s Diary and half the store dedicated to the Clinton Family.
As to the road renaming. Council blames Staff. Anderson blamed staff. Elton blamed Vanessa & staff. I here, now blame Shawn Edmonson. This is his play at, ‘showing them who’s boss.’ At the end of the day. Whether it was staff, council, inside, or outside of the city hall. The fact remains that this road renaming was designed to torpedo the Pinehurst Catering real estate listing. Set aside that renaming something does absolutely nothing, in the real sense of the word “doing.”
If anyone of you built something new and wanted to name it for Mr. Thomas no one would stand in your way. But what you’re doing is using time honored dead people to do stupid, unpopular things. “align the corridor” is the stupidest excuse in all this. This isn’t your “corridor.” It’s my neighborhood. Until the city comes up with a plan for the 330 people affected & entourage effects created by the TAD & Redevelopment plan, sic semper tyrannis.
Let me illustrate: I don’t work for you, Shawn. You don’t own my house, Shawn. There ain’t no bossing us around over here in these neighborhoods. Change any street name you want. We own this neighborhood. Until you pay for the relocation of these resident as the law proscribes, we will continue to own this neighborhood.
Put that in your Black Bookstore and read it, partner.
It came up from nowhere but Elton Alexander’s tepid imagination at the behest of his handlers in Eagle’s Landing on Feb. 9 that Lee St, where I’ve lived all my life, is named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. I dispelled that myth here and here. Further, here’s the history of the Old Zoar Church & The Hightowers (Lee relatives) in 1835. Stockbridge City is 100 years old. Stockbridge herself is much older.
The city did a “controlled burn” and destroyed this house.
The long intimidating agenda
Come wait in line for two hours. And don’t you dare say a “disrespectful” thing.
Now I have to switch gears on you right fast to explain something. I have no love for Pan-Hellenism, Greeks and despise the Ques. For what was done to Caleb Wilson, you deserve to pick up trash on the side of the road. We can’t set aside the “14 Loyal Sons from the Fists of Fury (2018)” as the Henry Zeta Mu Nu choose to call themselves. Not seeing as how Caleb was chest punched to death in some bizarre hazing ritual. It’s simple. If I was in a club that did shit like that I’d find a different club to be in. But you can’t leave because you’re not in a club, you’re in a cult. You a plumb line, brother. A smooth ashlar to be sure.
All I needed was a Baptism. I’m a mile from where I received it, in fact. You got secret handshakes, hazing rituals and oath’s to dead gods most people don’t worship.
So, if you want to speak out at the March 9th meeting against this Robert E. Lee lie. You’ll have tell a Black city council in a room loaded with HBCU fraternity brothers you don’t want a road proximal to your property value named MLK Jr. Way. You will wait while they’re awarded for being in a secretive, powerful club together before you speak up for your property value you worked on for 50 years.
Preserved here for posterity is my phone call with three staff members today. For 18 minutes they admit the General Robert E. Lee shenanigans are just made up from rumors. My contention is, just as always, Eagle’s Landing Country Club residents wish to manipulate the price of real estate in my neighborhood. It was once Buddy Welch and his cohort. Now it’s Reggie Sylvain and his tough little club of very serious people.
We can keep on with this Mexican Standoff of you keeping the price down and me not willing to take a $20-50K loss. But all that’s going to do for you is keep me here writing about you.
An auto generated transcript of the meeting (made with OpenAI-Whisper). Errors are not the fault of this site or author.
The February 24, 2026, Stockbridge City Council meeting focused on significant infrastructure planning, particularly the Rock Quarry Road projects, and was marked by discussions regarding administrative procedures and community concerns.
Ceremonial and Procedural Actions
A brief conflict arose when Mayor Pro Tem Alexander moved to add a vote on the Lee Street name change to the agenda. Councilwoman Barber opposed this, noting it was not a priority for her district and that staff needed more time to notify residents. The motion was eventually withdrawn after legal and staff clarification that a 15-day public hearing notification process was required and had already been advertised for March 9.
Public Comments: Rock Quarry Road Extension
Several residents from Duval Drive and surrounding streets expressed deep concern over a map they received—apparently from a private individual rather than the city—showing the Rock Quarry Road extension passing through their neighborhood. Residents voiced fears that the project would destroy their “quiet little street” and quality of life. City staff and council members clarified that they had not distributed the flyers and that no city-led discussion had prioritized a route through that neighborhood.
New Business: Infrastructure and Funding
The council addressed two major items regarding Rock Quarry Road:
Preliminary Design Task Order: The council approved a $167,900 task order with Falcon Design for the preliminary engineering of the Rock Quarry Road extension. The project’s representative, Adam Price, explicitly stated that the Duval Drive route had been eliminated and the proposed route would connect North Henry Boulevard to Old Conyers Road. While the full project could cost between $40 and $50 million and take up to 15 years to secure funding, the current goal is to create a “shovel-ready” design. The motion passed 4-0.
T-SPLOST Reimbursement: The council authorized the City Treasurer to reimburse Henry County $4 million for the ongoing Rock Quarry Road widening project. The payments will be structured as $2 million in 2026, $1 million in 2027, and $1 million in 2028. This widening project, separate from the extension, will result in a four-lane road with multi-use paths and sidewalks by 2028.
Closing and Executive Session
The council moved the executive session to the end of the meeting to accommodate the large number of residents in attendance. After reconvening, the Mayor announced upcoming events, including a Women’s History Month event and a Clergy Roundtable scheduled for March 2. The meeting was adjourned shortly thereafter.
The recent Stockbridge Planning Commission meeting on June 26, 2025, highlighted a persistent tension between ambitious urban planning and the practical realities of development, particularly concerning pedestrian infrastructure and on-site amenities. As new residential projects come before the commission, a pattern of demanding extensive, costly features emerges, raising questions about who truly benefits and at what expense.
A prime example surfaced with the proposed “Hanover Park” development on Flippen Road. The plans explicitly include a 10-foot-wide concrete sidewalk along the entire frontage of the road.
This isn’t an isolated requirement. During the Zoning Modification Case for “Gadson’s Crossing” on Highway 42 North, the applicant’s agent, Brian Marshburn, voiced frustration over a similar demand. His initial proposal for a more modest 4-foot sidewalk with a 24-inch landscape strip along public streets was ultimately overridden by the staff’s, and commission’s, insistence on a 10-foot-wide sidewalk along the Highway 42 frontage. Marshburn bluntly described this as a “10 foot sidewalk to nowhere,” lamenting the lack of connectivity and questioning the practicality, a sentiment echoed by Commissioner Anthony Mitten, who jokingly asked if these “sidewalks to nowhere programs” were influenced by a “concrete lobbyist”.
This raises a fundamental question: if the city’s “trailway master plan” mandates such expansive infrastructure in anticipation of future, undefined connections, why should the entire financial burden fall squarely on the developer and, by extension, the future homeowners? In essence, Stockbridge is compelling private entities to construct public infrastructure that serves no immediate, connected purpose, citing a theoretical long-term vision. This approach, where developers are forced to “pour” city-desired sidewalks for aspirational “trailways”, translates directly into higher costs for housing, making homeownership less accessible in a community that ostensibly aims to “provide additional housing options”.
Beyond sidewalks, the insistence on elaborate “resort-style amenities” further exacerbates the issue of housing affordability. For Hanover Park, the plan boasts a pool with a clubhouse, golf putting green, tot lot, tennis/pickleball courts, and a community sports field. While admirable on paper, the applicant himself admitted the “investment alone in the amenity by this development group is going to be quite excessive”, and Vice-Chair Trameka Walker rightly pointed out that these costs would “fall on the backs of the single family”. Imagine pickling your balls at the height of a scorching Georgia June with a 116-degree heat index today. How much use will those outdoor putting greens or pickleball courts truly get?
Such amenities, regardless of their theoretical longevity or “normal” HOA fees, become an additional, often largely unused, financial burden, unnecessarily inflating the cost of entry into these new communities. This top-down imposition of specific, high-cost features aligns with a “live, work, play” model that, when rigidly enforced, can feel more like a communist utopian ideal than a flexible, market-driven approach to community building. The city’s mission to “enhance the quality of life for citizens” and provide “a mixture of housing options” is noble. However, when every new development is required to conform to a singular, amenity-rich, wide-sidewalk vision, regardless of the direct utility or the target demographic’s actual needs, it dictates not just where people live, but how they live, and at what forced cost.
Ultimately, the Stockbridge Planning Commission’s decisions reflect a desire for a particular type of growth and aesthetic. Yet, this vision, while grand, must be critically evaluated for its practical implications. If extensive, currently unconnected sidewalks and lavish amenities are deemed essential to the city’s future, the question of who truly benefits, and more importantly, who should financially bear the burden for these arguably underutilized “enhancements,” needs to be openly and transparently addressed. Rather than subtly passed on to every new homeowner in the name of a collective, sometimes detached, ideal.
