Patch reports this morning that – unlike its city neighbor to the east – Decatur will not pursue an ordinance to make golf carting around town legal because the state legislation makes it too restrictive.  As a result of not being able to drive them on state highways “residents couldn’t drive them on such well-traveled routes as College Avenue, South Candler Street, parts of Commerce Drive, Scott Boulevard and Clairemont Avenue”, according to Patch.

Which – as the City Manager points out in the article – would essentially trap golf carts in their respective neighborhoods, limited from crossing the illegal state highway moats surrounding them.

With golf carts off the table, it is hard to see how Decatur will ever become the “city within a golf course” as detailed in the 2010 Strategic Plan or crack into Money Magazine’s coveted Best Places to Live issue, which each year generally features a blurb on cart cruisin’ Peachtree city residents!  (Please note: both the facts and my exasperation in that last sentence are manufactured.)

Photo courtesy of Peachtree City’s website