[Larry Felton Johnson]

My recent focus on Atlanta's westside on my blog also has me focusing just the other side of the river into south Cobb County. Since my fiance lives there near the river (roughly where Mableton and Smyrna border, insamuch as Mabelton really has a border) I've been exploring both sides of the river.

One place I've been walking is a sizable inlet of some sort (on Google map it looks like a standalone lake separated from the river by a narrow stretch of land)

This link to google's map shows that body of water along Riverview between Proctor Creek and I-285.

http://tinyurl.com/355t8u

I've been thinking for some time that some sort of preservation park would be a natural for that area, and have written a blog entry informally proposing it.

It's at

http://larryfeltonjohnson.typepad.com/atlantalarry/2007/01/proposal_for_a_.html

[Andrea]

Larry, that is right up there across from Chattahoochee Brick and Whittier Mill?

Who owns all that land on the Cobb County side, I wonder? When I was a kid we used to know some people who had a stone business and they had a yard almost right down on the river. It would make a great park site.

[slinkster65]

I live in Cobb and it will be interesting to see how they zone areas in the next few years. I know they want to add some more park space, but they are also trying to find where to build new schools since we are running out of spaces large enough to build them. I live in east cobb and they are already trying to figure out where to put another HS sicne they are cramming houses everywhere they can in the Lassiter, Pope, Walton, Kell and Sprayberry districts. And Kell is already overcrowded weve though ti had been open 4ish years.

[BnaBreaker]

The Cobb Count
http://thinkdrastic.net/journal/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/CountVonCount.jpg

[Larry Felton Johnson]

Larry, that is right up there across from Chattahoochee Brick and Whittier Mill?

Who owns all that land on the Cobb County side, I wonder? When I was a kid we used to know some people who had a stone business and they had a yard almost right down on the river. It would make a great park site.

Andrea,

It's just southwest of Whittier Mill. Slightly the other side of 285. The land seems to be dotted with small industrial sites. The largest I know of along the stretch I'm focusing on is Atlanta Hardwood Lumber Company. About twenty years ago I was a regular customer of theirs (I ran a commercial cabinetry and millwork company), so when I began exploring the area I was surprised to encounter them. When I was regularly travelling there I assumed the site was much further north in Cobb County, and much further away from Atlanta's city limits.

[Larry Felton Johnson]

The Cobb Count
http://thinkdrastic.net/journal/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/CountVonCount.jpg

I just noticed the dropped 'y' on my "Cobb Count" proposal :haha:

[Buck]

The Cobb Count
http://thinkdrastic.net/journal/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/CountVonCount.jpg

"One park initiative! Two park initiatives! Three park initiatives! Ah ah ah ah!"

[BnaBreaker]

"One park initiative! Two park initiatives! Three park initiatives! Ah ah ah ah!"

:haha:

[sabino86]

"One park initiative! Two park initiatives! Three park initiatives! Ah ah ah ah!"

Ah, the good ole days of Sesame Street...