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Published Saturday, October 24, 2009 in Opinion

Senoia asked to reconsider

A letter to Senoia Councilmen Maurice Grover, Bobby Graham, Larry Owens.

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I am disappointed in your vote to deny Mary Jane Storey a variance to continue to park her school bus in her backyard.

For more than 25 years, she has parked there or across the street, and for 25 years she has been a friend to our children and families, looking out for us all. Her medical condition not-withstanding, she should certainly be grandfathered in with a variance for as long as she chooses to continue to work for the school system and our children and our community.

Yes, an ordinance is an ordinance. But this is exactly what a variance is for. Her hardship is not simply an inconvenience, Mr. Graham. Our compassion as a caring, small community for one of our own should trump any ordinance.

The irony is, in one recent vote you allow a new resident a commercial request for a rezoning or variance allowing a spa in a historic home within the residential historic overlay. In the next move, you deny a longtime resident a simple request because of her age and medical history in the same street. You deny her the compassion and gratitude of her longtime service to this community.

Is Senoia truly a modern Mayberry? I don't think Sheriff Andy would think so.

I ask for reconsideration of Mary Jane Storey's request of variance under code 74-300.

Alison Baker

Senoia