‘This Is a Crisis:’ Four Decades of Roswell Leaders Break Silence on City’s Direction

In the often peaceful suburb of Roswell, a political earthquake is rumbling beneath the surface. Twenty-one former elected officials—spanning four decades of the city’s leadership—have done something unprecedented: they’ve joined forces across party lines to publicly rebuke their successors.

The letter they delivered to City Hall this week reads less like a political statement and more like an intervention from worried parents who’ve watched their child veer dangerously off course.

“This is a crisis,” they write, their collective 200+ years of service lending weight to words that might otherwise be dismissed as routine opposition.

At Mimosa Hall, a historic property dating to the 1800s, more than four acres of 150-year-old trees were clear-cut without public input—a decision that has be