As of today, I have walked 38 neighborhoods and gone to 882 doors in my campaign for Johns Creek City Council, Post 6. That puts me one-third of the way towards my goal of visiting over 100 neighborhoods and 2,500 homes in Johns Creek. Walking is an ideal exercise that doesn’t require any equipment other than a decent pair of shoes and it won’t cause stress injuries. A four-mile walk burns about 400 calories, tones the legs, and provides an aerobic workout.
What I most notice in walking the Johns Creek neighborhoods is the great pride residents take in their beautiful homes and yards. Springtime definitely provides a showcase of blooms that homeowners have carefully and lovingly arranged. As a city we are definitely blessed with very nice neighborhoods of all types. Johns Creek homes, gardens, and yards offer their owners a welcome place to escape the busy workaday world, relax, and renew themselves.
Another thing that is pretty evident, though, is that we cannot put off the need to repair some of our residential streets for much longer. “Alligator-cracking” is quite common in neighborhoods where the streets are now twenty-five years old, and even older. If we do not repair these areas soon, large areas of pavement will give way and we will have to rebuild the underlying roadbed at great expense.
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As a walker, I appreciate the sidewalks the city has been building, however, I am often asked if we could build more sidewalks faster, less expensively, and provide a greater benefit to the community if we were to build them eight-feet wide instead of ten-feet wide.
In my walks I also noticed that there is a wonderful opportunity for Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, or another civic-minded group to blaze a beautiful nature trail from the end of the sidewalk in front of Hunts Pointe on Old Alabama Road, across Sal’s Creek, to the Autrey Mill Nature Preserve & Heritage Center. This trail would provide a much-needed connection and be enjoyed by residents of Hunts Pointe, Country Club of the South, the Falls of Autry Mill, and students at Autrey Mill Middle School.
