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Residents press council on planning commission conduct, Whitlock Avenue, utility spending and state bill SB 375

5916701 · October 8, 2025
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Multiple residents used unscheduled appearance comments to urge council action on planning commission performance, Whitlock Avenue upgrades, transparency for a utility expenditure and to ask the city to oppose Georgia SB 375.

Several residents used the public comment period at the Oct. 8 Marietta City Council meeting to raise concerns about local planning processes, infrastructure plans, utility spending transparency and a proposed state law.

Tracy Stevenson urged the council to review its irrigation-meter and sewer-billing practices and questioned staffing and engineering responses in the city’s utility operations; she recommended winter-quarter averaging for sewer calculations and said the city’s current irrigation-meter process imposed high costs on homeowners.

Larry (Larry Wills) and other speakers criticized…

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