A Decade after "Carving Up Oconee" - how have we changed?
From Ann Stoneburner ahstoneburner@bellsouth.net
Subject: For Immediate Release
Date: March 5, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2008 - 2018 “Carving Up Oconee” Revisited - A Public Perspective: A film and panel discussion of how a formerly agricultural county struggles to retain its rural nature and natural beauty in the face of mounting developmental pressures.
For more information: 706 – 769 - 5362
Details in brief:
3 pm Sunday, March 25, 2018
Watkinsville Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville, GA
Sponsored by the Oconee Democrats and Oconee County Progressives
Free and open to the public
Carving Up Oconee, an award-winning documentary filmed on location in 2008, shows a real life battle between citizens in Oconee’s farmland and the commercial developers who plan to build a truck stop in Farmington.
Today as Oconee County formalizes a new comprehensive plan, voices are raised once again to spread commercial development around the county and no longer restrict it north of GA 316 as is now the practice.
On Sunday, March 25, after viewing the film, the public will have a chance to meet and talk with the panelists: Celestea Sharp, the film maker; Courtney Gale and Tony Glenn, citizen activists; and Laurie Fowler, a clinical law professor and Director of Policy at the River Basin Center at UGA, who has had practical experience in drafting legislation at local and state levels for subdivision conservation and transferable development rights.
The event, called 2008 - 2018 “Carving Up Oconee” Revisited - A Public Perspective, will begin at 3 pm at the Watkinsville Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville.
Margaret Holt, previous Chair of the Oconee County Democratic Committee and moderator of the panel discussion, points out that “Although the event is co-sponsored by the Oconee Democrats, the issues surrounding growth and development are nonpartisan and cross party lines.” She anticipates that the event will draw citizens from surrounding counties, as well as from Oconee.
Subject: For Immediate Release
Date: March 5, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2008 - 2018 “Carving Up Oconee” Revisited - A Public Perspective: A film and panel discussion of how a formerly agricultural county struggles to retain its rural nature and natural beauty in the face of mounting developmental pressures.
For more information: 706 – 769 - 5362
Details in brief:
3 pm Sunday, March 25, 2018
Watkinsville Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville, GA
Sponsored by the Oconee Democrats and Oconee County Progressives
Free and open to the public
Carving Up Oconee, an award-winning documentary filmed on location in 2008, shows a real life battle between citizens in Oconee’s farmland and the commercial developers who plan to build a truck stop in Farmington.
Today as Oconee County formalizes a new comprehensive plan, voices are raised once again to spread commercial development around the county and no longer restrict it north of GA 316 as is now the practice.
On Sunday, March 25, after viewing the film, the public will have a chance to meet and talk with the panelists: Celestea Sharp, the film maker; Courtney Gale and Tony Glenn, citizen activists; and Laurie Fowler, a clinical law professor and Director of Policy at the River Basin Center at UGA, who has had practical experience in drafting legislation at local and state levels for subdivision conservation and transferable development rights.
The event, called 2008 - 2018 “Carving Up Oconee” Revisited - A Public Perspective, will begin at 3 pm at the Watkinsville Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville.
Margaret Holt, previous Chair of the Oconee County Democratic Committee and moderator of the panel discussion, points out that “Although the event is co-sponsored by the Oconee Democrats, the issues surrounding growth and development are nonpartisan and cross party lines.” She anticipates that the event will draw citizens from surrounding counties, as well as from Oconee.
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