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 Dear Commissioner, 

I am writing to express my strong opposition to the rezoning of over 800 acres of rural conservation land to industrial for Project Sail in the Sargent area.  It will be hard to find any resident near the proposed site between Welcome Road and Wagers Mill Road who is not completely against the building of this data center.   This project will wipe out thousands of mature trees, create light and sound pollution, contaminate drinking water, devastate local wildlife habitat, destroy local roads, cause traffic problems with years of construction and significantly lower the property values of the homes in our community. 

This development does not align with Coweta Comprehensive plan. Coweta county developed the comprehensive plan to guide rezoning and infrastructure investments as well as “truly representing the voices of the citizens of Coweta County.” The proposed site sits on 3 distinct districts; complete rural village community, Mill Village and Rural conservation land. All three have sections that overwhelmingly express the importance of the county’s responsibility to take the utmost care to preserve these areas and protect them from overdevelopment.  How are you prepared to answer the citizens of this county when you change 3 identified areas marked for protection into an industrial park twice the size of Mall of Georgia.  

If this data center is built, natural resources will be contaminated and permanently lost. The area has marked wetlands which feed into the Little Wahoo Creek and continue to the Chattahoochee River. Disturbance of the land will cause runoff choking the creek, impact other tributaries and add harmful chemicals back into the Chattahoochee River.  Homeowner’s wells will also be contaminated.  The wildlife observed in the area will have their habitats destroyed and push them into the urban areas of the county. 

I urge you to put the strong opposition of this data center by Coweta County residents first when you cast your legacy defining vote on the rezoning of rural conservation to industrial. Your vote will set the course of data center development across the county for decades. The vote will determine whether Coweta County will be the gold standard in establishing forward thinking safeguards to protect rural land or experience the same negative community altering harms other jurisdictions are dealing with from irresponsible data center development.