Hill Will be a Strong Advocate for Business if Elected

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DAWSONVILLE, Ga. — Architect Peter Hill, who has served on the Dawson County Development Authority and Georgia Mountains Regional Commission for many years, will be a strong voice for the county’s business community if he’s successful in his bid to become county commission chairman.

Hill notes that two of the strongest business-centric representatives on the Board of Commissioners, Chairman Mike Berg and James Swafford, will resign this year. “I’ve worked in the private sector for 35 years,” he said. “My depth of experience as well as my concern about the burdens placed on private industry make me a superior candidate.”

Hill believes the growth steamrolling down the 400 corridor from Atlanta through Forsyth County and now taking aim on Dawson County presents great opportunity and great challenge.

The opportunity: “Strong economic development acts as the vital engine for our entire community,” Hill said. “It relieves the burden of taxes on homeowners and provides the opportunity for our citizens to live, work and play here.”

At the core of that development is the fiber optic cable network that now runs throughout the county.

“That gives us the opportunity to bring in high tech jobs like data centers and medical industry professionals that will help balance the tax digest,” Hill said.
He sees retail development as “low hanging fruit” and wants to attract tourism, a technical park, conference center and a major hotel like Marriott.”

I want to attract jobs where our kids can graduate and then stay here and work.

The challenge: Hill said the biggest challenge is managing the growth in such a way as to preserve the county’s natural beauty and resources.

“As chairman, I would put our environment at the very pinnacle of what we are going to protect,” he said. “We have to maintain the beauty and increase our appreciation and awareness of our affect on the natural resources we have here.”