The following is an email sent to Isakson Living, LLC, with the Cobb County Planning Commissioners and Board of Commissioners copied:
30 Aug 2013
To: Isakson Living Communities, LLC
I received a letter on Tuesday, August 27th 2013, concerning the Z-43 rezoning application. I would like to take exception with the last page of that letter, which shows a drawing of the proposed development at a stated scale of 1 inch to 100 feet. This is wildly inaccurate and highly misleading. The south property line is approximately 2,500 feet long, and would require 25 inches to render at the stated scale, yet, as included in the letter, it fits on a standard 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper.
I realize the drawing in the letter was taken from a much larger image and reduced more than 300% because I have studied this subject extensively, but how many recipients of this letter do you think understood that? It makes the development appear several times smaller than it actually is.
I also understand the drawing is a "true copy" of what was filed with the county in the zoning application, so it was perhaps not permissible to alter the stated scale. However, given the enormous discrepancy between the stated scale and the actual scale when reduced to fit on standard 8.5 x 11 inch paper, I feel that an explanatory note regarding the true scale of the drawing (somewhere between 300 to 400 feet per inch) should have been included with the letter.
Sincerely,
Robert E Burke
30 Aug 2013
To: Isakson Living Communities, LLC
I received a letter on Tuesday, August 27th 2013, concerning the Z-43 rezoning application. I would like to take exception with the last page of that letter, which shows a drawing of the proposed development at a stated scale of 1 inch to 100 feet. This is wildly inaccurate and highly misleading. The south property line is approximately 2,500 feet long, and would require 25 inches to render at the stated scale, yet, as included in the letter, it fits on a standard 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper.
I realize the drawing in the letter was taken from a much larger image and reduced more than 300% because I have studied this subject extensively, but how many recipients of this letter do you think understood that? It makes the development appear several times smaller than it actually is.
I also understand the drawing is a "true copy" of what was filed with the county in the zoning application, so it was perhaps not permissible to alter the stated scale. However, given the enormous discrepancy between the stated scale and the actual scale when reduced to fit on standard 8.5 x 11 inch paper, I feel that an explanatory note regarding the true scale of the drawing (somewhere between 300 to 400 feet per inch) should have been included with the letter.
Sincerely,
Robert E Burke