MARIETTA GA -- Many residents wore
buttons asking for "passive parks without noise and bright lights".
"My idea of a park is slides and swing sets, not a race track," said Heath
Ponstein, a member of the neighborhood organization Northwest Cobb Action.
Steve Collins, who lives on Pitner Road, said, "Imagine you get up and get
your cup of coffee and walk out onto your back porch. Then you hear this
roar, and at first you don't know what it is, but then you hear the
PA
system telling you what it is."
Two weeks ago, about 500 residents crowded into Durham Middle School in
Acworth to protest the development
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