The Sweetwater City Commission will have to soon decide whether to establish an historic overlay district for some of the old downtown residential section.

A few days ago, I posted a poll on our Web site, advocateanddemocrat.com, asking people whether they favored having a residential historic district.
As of early afternoon Friday, eight people who said they live in the proposed district are against having a historic district while four voted for it.

We have had far more votes from people who live outside the proposed district.
Twenty-one people who live outside the proposed district say they are against it, while 18 who live outside the proposed boundaries say they are for it.

As you might expect, when we recently posted polls about Lane Kiffin leaving as the UT football coach we got far more responses!
I put this poll information out simply because city leaders, I think, are looking for input from the people who would be most affected by the historic guidelines designed to protect the character of Sweetwater.

Obviously, that's just a few days worth of voting and not nearly enough of a sample to really give much of a barometer of what residents think.
Our polling is in no way scientific for many reasons, not the least of which it limits the voting to those who have computers.

But on the subject of polls and because I have about 350 words to kill, when we posted a poll last June on the liquor by the drink question for the Sweetwater referendum, we had far more people vote.
For that poll, 58.5 percent of people who said they were Sweetwater voters voted in favor of liquor by the drink on our poll.

When the actual election came, 55.9 percent of the vote went in favor of liquor by the drink.
So that poll turned out to be a pretty accurate representation of the vote beforehand for whatever reason.
And you never know when we might throw another poll this election season to get you on our Web site and looking at our advertisers' products.

Oops! Did I say that out loud?

tommy.millsaps@advocateanddemocrat.com | 337-7101