Lee County is projected to grow from our current ~30,000 people to over 70,000 people over the next 20 years.
We, as a community, have never seen that kind of growth before. Even the doubling of population we saw over the past 20 years, when we grew from roughly 16K people in 1990 to roughly 33K people today, is only a small taste of doubling from where we are now to where we are going.
But I, as an individual, HAVE seen first hand the kind of growth we are projected to go through. I’ve lived through it. Bartow County when I was a kid was roughly 40,000 people. Bartow County now is closer to 90,000.
So I’ve seen some things that worked, and some things that didn’t. One of the major things that worked was Dellinger Park, which is the inspiration for my sports complex idea. That park attracts a wide variety of people for a wide variety of reasons, including sports tournaments, exercise, and family time – both family reunions and just having a day at the park with the kids feeding the ducks in the duck pond or playing on one of several playgrounds. This constant stream of people then enticed other development in the general area, and now they have SEVERAL new subdivisions, restaurants, banks and retail stores. Even First Baptist Church of Cartersville recently relocated from downtown Cartersville to the area near Dellinger Park. So a park of this type CAN prove to be an economic engine in a town, and this is why I would like to see one in Leesburg.
So vote for the guy who has been there and knows how to anticipate, encourage, and manage growth responsibly.
Vote Jeff Sexton for City Council!
