With the intent to slow or stop the growth of Cherokee County, I am just waiting for the Board of Commissioners to ban sex…or better yet, charge an Impact Fee! $5,000 per child reproduced in Cherokee County? Wouldn’t this generate income and prohibit growth at the same time? I can’t think of a more logical way to “slow growth”.
This week’s Atlanta Business Chronicle shouts that 120,000 kids are on the way to Metro Atlanta. This means Atlanta is ranked 3rd in the nation for fastest-growing child population behind only Phoenix and Dallas in projected increase of children from 2005 to 2010. Overall, more babies are being born in metro Atlanta as the fertility rate for the 10-county area has gone up from 61 births per 1,000 women (age 15 to 44) in 1994 to 71 births per 1,000 women in 2004, according to the latest report from the Georgia Division of Public Health.
Slowing or stopping growth just sounds like a terrible plan without banning sex. I can’t wait to read the next BOC Agenda.
