You better be there for both meetings or our weak kneed City Council will just ram this modification of the 2004 zoning through and we will be stuck with the Pawn Shop.Be there Thurs May 3rd at 7 pm and Wed May 16 at 6 pm. The City is going to sell us out to avoid getting sued by Venturi/Cruchelow. Be there and speak up on this issue!
Just my opinion:
There was, and apparently in some quarters still is, some body of opinion and sympathy for the unfortunate shop owners who it seemed initially were mistakenly given a business license for a type of business that was specifically banned from the strip mall where they opened.
I personally went down the City Clerk's office in Kennesaw and reviewed the 18-20 pages of the Cruchelow's application. Each page, and sometimes twice on a page had: "Cruchelow Jewelry and Loan". Only one mention of 'Pawn Shop' appeared in the center of one document in the middle of the page where both above and below the mention appeared the familiar phrase "Cruchelow Jewelry and Loan".
If I were to hand this body of documents to anyone not familiar with the issue and asked them to read them over and then asked them what kind of business was applying for a license, the reply would be 'a jewelry store'.
Should the City have caught it? Yes, but they were set up to fail. I'm told that even the Chief of Police signed off on the application. Everybody missed it just as they were suppose to miss it.
That Pawn Shop got the City license via fraud, trickery and deceit and this came to light when the Cruchelow's bragged in their neighborhood that they had found a way to get around the City ban on such shops in that strip mall.
The Cruchelow's deserve absolutely no consideration from the City and this shop should be closed down immediately.
Wake Up City Council - these people made you look foolish - it is past time to revoke this license.
Who should you contact about this problem?
Make your opinions heard by the Mayor, City Council or Venturi:
Mayor Mathews: mmathews@kennesaw-ga.gov
5 Council members are: bthrash@kennesaw-ga.gov cwelsh@kennesaw-ga.gov bjenkins@kennesaw-ga.gov
jduckett@kennesaw-ga.gov tkillingsworth@kennesaw-ga.gov
City Manager Steve Kennedy skennedy@kennesaw-ga.gov
Make your opinions heard by the Mayor, City Council or Venturi:
Mayor Mathews: mmathews@kennesaw-ga.gov
5 Council members are: bthrash@kennesaw-ga.gov cwelsh@kennesaw-ga.gov bjenkins@kennesaw-ga.gov
jduckett@kennesaw-ga.gov tkillingsworth@kennesaw-ga.gov
City Manager Steve Kennedy skennedy@kennesaw-ga.gov
Tino Venturi, property Owner: tinoventuri@aol.com
Gavis Sams, Attorney for Venturi: gsams@samslarkinhuff.com
