Business ties raise questions about Lost Mountain proponents’ anti-development message
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Developer Pulte Homes is represented by Taylor English Decisions, a consulting firm led by former Republican state lawmaker Earl Ehrhart. His wife, Ginny, ushered the cityhood legislation through the General Assembly, and has been active on the campaign trail to persuade voters to approve it over fears of rampant and unwanted development.
Ginny Ehrhart said in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Taylor English Decisions’ representation of Pulte Homes is not a contradiction for her.
“It’s so far removed from me,” Ehrhart said. “The fact that there might be another employee at my husband’s company that happens to have a client that is a developer — that is irrelevant to our movement.”
Ultimately, the developer withdrew the request before it was put to a vote of the county commission or its planning board.
A subdivision in the proposed area of the city of Lost Mountain in Cobb County is seen on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / [email protected])
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A subdivision in the proposed area of the city of Lost Mountain in Cobb County is seen on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / [email protected])
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Credit: [email protected]
But the Taylor English connection, while a visceral example, is not the only business tie among the cityhood campaign that invites scrutiny.
Even as proponents tout an anti-development message on the campaign trail, the movement’s leadership includes lawyers who represent developers, and the leader of a real estate agency.
Other Lost Mountain leaders work for firms that contract directly with public agencies, and could benefit financially from the formation of a new government. That includes two executives at C.W. Matthews, a Marietta-based engineering firm that does extensive work for state and local governments, including Cobb County, and is a major donor to political campaigns across Georgia.
Leaders of the Preserve West Cobb cityhood campaign dispute that their members’ personal and professional ties have any bearing on how the city of Lost Mountain would be governed. Any implication otherwise, they said, was a ploy by political opponents to confuse voters ahead of the May 24 election.
“The supporters are not pro-development,” Rep. Ehrhart told the AJC in an interview. “…That is absurd. This is a grassroots movement made up of local folks out here. Nobody out here has ties to development, we’re anti-development.”
Scott Johnson, the campaign’s executive director, said in an email that none of the campaign’s leaders or volunteers are motivated by commercial interests.
“Preserve West Cobb is not funded by any corporations or development companies and in fact, developers and commercial interests would be motivated to oppose efforts for cityhood and local control,” Johnson said.
Opponents, however, fear that those interests will bleed into how the new city is governed.
Lost Mountain would take over planning and zoning within its limits, a power that would enable it to protect the area from over-development. But depending on who is elected, that power could also facilitate the very development the campaign says it opposes.
“You’re more or less giving a rubber stamp to an army of land developers along with those who work for them and with them,” said Steve Lang, a West Cobb resident who runs a Facebook group devoted to debating the Lost Mountain cityhood effort. “That’s what they’re really after is that rubber stamp.”
April 20, 2022 Powder Springs – Aerial photograph shows proposed area of the city of Lost Mountain in West Cobb on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Residential area near Lost Mountain Park is shown. The story plays on a fear shared by many West Cobb residents as they decide whether to incorporate the city of Lost Mountain. The county they call home is changing around them, and as conservative political power wanes in the growing Atlanta suburb, many feel helpless to protect their neighborhoods from encroaching development.(Hyosub Shin / [email protected])
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April 20, 2022 Powder Springs – Aerial photograph shows proposed area of the city of Lost Mountain in West Cobb on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Residential area near Lost Mountain Park is shown. The story plays on a fear shared by many West Cobb residents as they decide whether to incorporate the city of Lost Mountain. The county they call home is changing around them, and as conservative political power wanes in the growing Atlanta suburb, many feel helpless to protect their neighborhoods from encroaching development.(Hyosub Shin / [email protected])
Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJC
Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJC
Cityhood leaders left little time for voters to weigh the arguments made by both sides. Over objections from county officials, Republican state lawmakers in January moved up the election dates for three Cobb cityhood referendums to the May primary ballot, rather the November general election.
With an abbreviated window, Lost Mountain supporters have been a frequent purveyor of misinformation. An AJC investigation found that the cityhood campaign has broadcast misleading and inaccurate information, claiming with little evidence that urbanization is coming to West Cobb.
When asked why voters should trust that a future city of Lost Mountain will protect West Cobb from development, state Rep. Ed Setzler, who co-sponsored the measure, noted that city residents would ultimately decide who leads them.
“If you look at the sentiments of the 74,613 people within the boundaries of Lost Mountain … I think it’s crystal clear those people will elect representatives that will preserve West Cobb,” Setzler (R-Acworth) said. “Conversely, five elected officials across Cobb County, only one of which lives in West Cobb, will and have proven themselves to be committed to much more high density development.”
Setzler, who has spoken at a number of cityhood events and town halls, is among those with noteworthy professional ties.
He manages federal projects for CROFT, an architecture and engineering firm that also contracts with local governments, including the city of Acworth and Cobb County itself. But he disputes that his work, which focuses on ecological issues, federal nature preserves and historical preservation, represents a conflict of interest.
“As a firm, we stand to gain very little out of a city of Lost Mountain, other than as citizens who enjoy the rural residential quality of life,” he said.
As for Taylor English and its representation of Pulte Homes, Ginny Ehrhart says that’s the very sort of development a city of Lost Mountain would stand against. Pulte Homes initially sought to build 85 homes on land that is only zoned for 50 and currently lacks access to sewer services. Pulte reduced its request to 72, before eventually withdrawing it entirely amid opposition from neighbors who feared that it would exacerbate flooding from an on-site creek.
A subdivision in the proposed area of the city of Lost Mountain in Cobb County is seen on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / [email protected])
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A subdivision in the proposed area of the city of Lost Mountain in Cobb County is seen on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / [email protected])
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Credit: [email protected]
Rob Hosack and James Balli, consultants at Taylor English, represented the developer in its case.
Hosack is a former planner and director of community development, and County manager for Cobb, while Balli has represented the Atlanta Braves in matters related to the development of Truist Park and the mixed-used Battery.
Hosack told the AJC he needed permission from his client to talk to the media about the proposed subdivision, but did not give a response by the AJC’s publication deadline.
Even as cityhood leaders downplay their professional connections, Lang and other opponents say voters should closely examine them, and who they work with.
“Many of these people were the exact same people who sold Cobb down the river a decade ago,” Lang said, alluding to the 2013 deal that brought the Braves to Cobb at taxpayer expense.
“These aren’t conservatives, they’re opportunists.”
Cobb’s cityhood movements
Voters in unincorporated Cobb will be asked if they want to incorporate as many as four new city governments this year. Three referendums will be decided during the May 24 primary election: the proposed cities of Lost Mountain, Vinings and East Cobb. If any is approved, voters would elect their first city officials during the Nov. 8 general election. A referendum to form the city of Mableton in South Cobb is also planned for Nov. 8.
Only those who live within the proposed city limits can vote on each referendum.
In Sunday’s paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote about the issues that sparked the Lost Mountain cityhood movement. The AJC will have additional coverage educating voters on what’s at stake with each referendum as Election Day approaches. The last day to register to vote is April 25, and early voting begins May 2.
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Three referendums will be decided during the May 24 primary election: the proposed cities of Lost Mountain, Vinings and East Cobb. If any is approved, voters would elect their first city officials during the Nov. 8 general election. A referendum to form the city of Mableton in South Cobb is also planned for Nov. 8.","_id":"OM2RH4ZESREJVPMMQIVGULXLPQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650849668643,"type":"text","content":"Only those who live within the proposed city limits can vote on each referendum.","_id":"E2SXGMUSRZHQDIKTFCZS2UHTVQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650849668644,"type":"text","content":"In Sunday’s paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote about the issues that sparked the Lost Mountain cityhood movement. The AJC will have additional coverage educating voters on what’s at stake with each referendum as Election Day approaches. 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In Buckhead, where a cityhood movement was shot down earlier this year by the GOP-led legislature, misleading claims were made by proponents about zoning, the rate of crime there, and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens’ alleged support for “defunding the police.”","_id":"2MDJ4KYDF5G6TCKFJBUQZ2Z7UY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650470105835,"type":"text","content":"Fears of urbanization are also driving two other Republican-led cityhood movements in Cobb County, those of East Cobb and Vinings. But in those communities, higher density development is already a reality, not a fiction.","_id":"SSF5XSDQINHXPMWKHUOONRUY7U","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650470105836,"type":"text","content":"By contrast, the AJC found little evidence to support the most incendiary claims of Lost Mountain supporters. Over 90% of zoning cases in the last 15 months were decided unanimously, the AJC found. And, in the 17 cases that weren’t, the commissioner whose district was affected still won every vote, regardless of their party.","_id":"2VUU3O4QXVGVJKULEJP5WB55AM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1649948539354,"type":"text","content":"As Gambrill told her constituents at a town hall earlier this month, “you do have local control within District 1.”","owner":"id":"ajc","copyright":"2022 Atlanta Journal Constitution","address":"region":"Georgia","caption":"Fran Wunderlich plays with her granddaughter Lily Wunderlich at Lost Mountain Park in Cobb County on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. 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Like two other Cobb cityhood movements headed to the May 24 primary ballot, the top priority for supporters is planning and zoning.","_id":"D37VVGRMB5G23KLLDZFZFKOA3Q","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1649948539355,"type":"text","content":"To opponents of cityhood, the main argument for a city of Lost Mountain unravels in the face of the evidence. 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It’s happening everywhere.”","_id":"4XH62CDWHNCKXIZVVLUS7L3SHE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650298078749,"type":"text","content":"Since 1980, Cobb County has more than doubled in size, adding roughly 470,000 people. West Cobb, so far, has retained its rural-suburban mix, sustaining farmland and large residential lots alike. But elsewhere in the county, denser single-family subdivisions cover what was once empty land, while apartments and townhomes have joined what were once exclusively single-family neighborhoods.","_id":"FFSLJFSSBFBMVFNG3Q45AYGDXE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1649948539372,"type":"text","content":"Overall, Cobb has added about 189,000 housing units since 1980, according to U.S. Census data. But the bulk of that growth has been single-family homes, not the apartments that cityhood advocates so often reference.","_id":"KZXU7CQCRRDDZBHB7QH43MS6VU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650293777851,"type":"text","content":"Detached homes today make up 66% of Cobb’s 303,000 total housing units, about the same as their 65% share in 1980. Condos and townhomes are up from 3% to nearly 9% of the total. Proportionally, apartment units actually dropped from 27% to 23% of all homes.","_id":"Z7J2MCVRTFFO7AAPRGWTZ7HT34","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650029477540,"type":"text","content":"It’s not clear how much responsibility either party bears for the market forces fueling the outward sprawl of metro Atlanta. But in Cobb, it has largely been Republicans at the helm. They controlled the county commission and guided its land use policies for decades.","_id":"U5CRM6VO6ZF6HEN6UBQVE75HBI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650029477541,"type":"text","content":"Still, there’s no denying that Democrats are steering the county’s policies to the left.","_id":"N3F34YJ2W5DSJG4QT7G3BX74NA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650030722449,"type":"text","content":"Cobb Chairwoman Lisa Cupid, a Democrat, has been a vocal proponent of affordable housing and mass transit since she took office in January 2021. 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She instead reflected on the tension it creates when industry is located too close to neighborhoods like her own.","_id":"TLWS2J2NYFD5VJNSX5YI7TICIA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1649948539365,"type":"text","content":"In March, Cupid did make comments at her state of the county address aimed directly at cityhood advocates that oppose affordable housing.","_id":"6MLIQLS2Y5CHVLWOMDE2NCLUTA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1649948539366,"type":"text","content":"“The concern is I am bringing affordable housing next door to you,” Cupid said. “I can tell you that if you want grocery stores next door to you, if you want schools next door to you ... affordable housing has to go somewhere.”","_id":"CA5XEC7VSRBQ7JQA67XKELR5YY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1649948539370,"type":"text","content":"That somewhere is unlikely to be West Cobb.","_id":"ZRA6TWXPZBA6BNGGLF5UNM6BLE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650032007813,"type":"text","content":"Subsidized housing would be prohibitively expensive under the land use plan, which contemplates spacious lots, with fewer than 2 homes per acre. Federal and local affordable housing guidelines also prioritize proximity to jobs and transit — neither of which West Cobb has in abundance.","_id":"MHN5DTGIGVBOLPYNPA53BTW63I","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650293777861,"type":"text","content":"Even the most ambitious transit proposals put forth by Cobb transportation planners envision little to no coverage in West Cobb due to its lack of density.","_id":"BFQLOZZPINGEBJMVVDYWUDYPGI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650032007814,"type":"text","content":"The county zoning code prohibits industrial and high density residential development within the proposed Lost Mountain city limits, and only allows commercial development at a handful of key intersections, like the corner of Brookstone Drive and Mars Hill Road, the site of the disputed former fire station.","_id":"3YRHRW4GYBADPP5NOCCNGGY5GM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1649948539369,"type":"text","content":"When zoning changes are made, commissioners are supposed to follow the county’s future land use plan, which guides development through 2040.","_id":"4JRIL5NI2BEBFG34VZBLZWB7BU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650378263440,"type":"text","content":"An AJC analysis found that the document envisions 97% of Lost Mountain’s 28,000 parcels being rural, low or very low density residential, with no multi-family housing at all, with the exception of senior living.",{"_id":"E62Z6HGH3ZE2DG4USPDA6JEPIE","additional_properties":"comments":[],"_id":"CV2J25P4BFDRFA4B57NTXPIFOU","type":"raw_html","content":""},"_id":"VMGSGHW6OZDJPOKWJHY5VZSY3Q","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650375335960,"type":"text","content":"The reason for that isn’t just political. Much of West Cobb lacks sewer lines and other infrastructure needed to support higher density development due to the area’s difficult terrain.","_id":"HSW5J475HBGQVBKJS34NJMYKYY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650375335961,"type":"text","content":"“I am confident not much will change in West Cobb pertaining to infrastructure — because it cannot,” Gambrill wrote in an email to constituents earlier this month. Publicly, Gambrill and the commission as a whole have taken a neutral position on cityhood.","owner":"id":"ajc","copyright":"2022 Atlanta Journal Constitution","address":"region":"Georgia","caption":"Bill Hill plays tennis at Lost Mountain Park in Cobb County on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. 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A former community advocate with People Looking After Neighborhoods, she routinely introduces developers to neighbors so disputes can be resolved before the commission is asked to vote.","_id":"CCYAWJSSEZB4DDAF2OKGTJQXMI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650029477553,"type":"text","content":"Her voting record suggests her tactics are effective. She says she has allowed development that deviates from the future land use plan just once, and it was to approve a development for seniors that had the support of its neighbors.","_id":"CCYAWJSSEZB4DDAF2OKGTJQXMI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1650029477553,"type":"text","content":"The AJC review found only a handful of the 39 zoning cases in her district from January 2021 through March 2022 involved housing, and none featured apartments. 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