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BY JOHN [email protected]

Roswell Road remade as “Roswell Bou-levard” with a tree-lined median? That’s among the “big ideas” coming out of San-dy Springs’ “Next Ten” planning process.

“It’s more than just a land-use plan. It’s a vision for the community,” said Mayor Rusty Paul, introducing a presen-tation on the work thus far for the Next

Ten—combining a revision of the city’s Comprehensive Plan, a rewrite of its zon-ing code and detailed plans for certain areas. Perimeter Center and the north-ern and southern stretches of Roswell Road are those “Small Area Plans” cur-rently in draft form.

The concepts were met with inter-est and curiosity by at least 70 residents who attended a community workshop,

held Jan. 27 at the Sherwood Event Hall on Roswell Road.

The sheer scope of the vision—from mixed-use “nodes” along a new tree-lined “Roswell Boulevard” to a kind of Central Park for Perimeter Center—appeared to engage the crowd, but also kept it quiet-ly thoughtful.

The general thrust of the planning

►’Historic’ auto shop delays roundabouts and park planp. 2► Behind the City Springs construction budget, a new method at work p. 15

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City calls purchase of Hammond Drive property a ‘protective buy’

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Above, Roswell Road could be transformed, with its central turn lane converted into a tree-lined median on the northern stretch, highlighted on the map, right, and a grass median on the southern leg. Large sidewalks or multi-use paths could line much of the street as well.

‘Roswell Boulevard’ among Sandy Springs planning process’s big ideas

BY DYANA [email protected]

Fourteen years ago, Maxx Schube was in the carpool lane at Davis Academy in San-dy Springs waiting to pick up her children when she felt a lump in her breast and an-other one on her chest.

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“Tra�fi c is already horrible. It’s going to get worse [in the Perimeter Center area]. ... It’ll just mean I’ll avoid that whole area. It’ll change where I shop, where I go. Right now you have to plan when you’re going to do stu�f be-cause tra�fi c is just horrible.”SUSAN CLARKE

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The city of Sandy Springs will buy a Hammond Drive residential lot as a place-holder for its long-planned road-widening project, the City Council decided Feb. 2.

The $375,000 purchase of 590 Ham-mond sparked some community concerns of the road widening secretly beginning. But City Manager John McDonough said

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The former Eddie’s Automotive on Mount Vernon Highway is historic, ac-cording to the state preservation offi ce, a decision that has thrown a monkey wrench into city plans to replace the auto shop with new roundabouts and a park.

The city and state transportation of-fi cials dispute the designation. “We have checked and we have not been able to fi nd any evidence George Washington had his horse fi xed at Eddie’s Automo-

tive,” Mayor Rusty Paul joked in a re-cent speech to a Buckhead community group, expressing the city’s frustration.

But Jennifer Dixon of the state His-toric Preservation Division said the shop—now called Magic Mike’s Auto-motive—is a historic artifact of the car-driven development boom along Ro-swell Road during the 1960s.

“Therefore, it is HPD’s opinion that the auto service garage is signifi cant as a good and representative exam-ple of this time period of development within the Roswell Road area and San-dy Springs as a whole,” Dixon said in an

email. “Furthermore, it is HPD’s opinion that the auto service garage is a good and representative example of Contem-porary architecture as applied to com-mercial development.”

The city sees the situation as another headache for its Mount Vernon round-abouts plan, which already had to be redrawn to accommodate another his-toric designation for an entire neigh-borhood off Johnson Ferry Road. That required taking more land in front of the Mount Vernon Towers senior res-idences, which has triggered intense controversy.

For years, the city has planned to re-confi gure the unusual, X-shaped inter-section of Mount Vernon Highway and Johnson Ferry Road into dual round-abouts. The plan involves acquiring the western triangle of land in the inter-section where the auto shop sits near other commercial buildings that are now vacant. About half of the triangle site would be taken up by one of the roundabouts, while the rest, fronting on Roswell Road, would become a small park related to the City Springs project across the street.

The $14 million project entered the review pipeline in 2007, with GDOT agreeing to pay 80 percent of the cost.

‘Historic’ auto shop delays roundabouts and park plan

JOHN RUCH

The former Eddie’s Automotive, now Magic Mike’s, at 260 Mount Vernon Highway, is considered historic by the state Historic Preservation Division.

Some of the money comes from Feder-al Highway Administration funds. One string attached to federal funding is a review of a road project’s possible im-pacts on historic resources, Assistant City Manager Bryant Poole said.

Under the National Historic Preser-vation Act, that means identifying any adjacent properties that are on the Na-tional Register of Historic Places or that might be eligible because they are at least 50 years old. If there is such a property, Poole said, “you have to dem-onstrate you’ve done everything you can do not to impact the resource.”

In 2009, the city conducted the his-toric survey, which found that the Glen-wood Forest subdivision to the south of Johnson Ferry is historic as an exam-ple of mid-20th century architecture. GDOT and the Historic Preservation Di-vision agreed with that designation and the city shifted the roundabouts plan northward to take only a small sliver of right of way in the Glenwood Forest area. The Preservation Division later ruled the project would have “no ad-verse effect,” meaning no historic mit-igations are needed.

But as the roundabouts plan head-ed into fi nal design and got in line for funding, the auto shop recently passed its 50th birthday and required historic review as well, Poole said. This time, the Preservation Division and GDOT were at odds.

Dixon called it “a rare professional disagreement regarding the historic sta-tus of the auto repair shop.”

The city still is deciding on its offi cial response, Poole said. An appeal is pos-sible, and the historic designation does not bar redevelopment, but could re-quire mitigations ranging from moving the entire building to erecting a memo-rial plaque on its site, Poole said.

“We and GDOT think it doesn’t re-quire historic review,” Poole said. “We’re trying to determine the next step. Do we challenge it?”

The city can’t simply shift the de-sign off of the auto shop site as it did for Glenwood Forest. Paul said at a recent City Council meeting that he petitioned members of Congress to remove the his-toric review requirement for this partic-ular project in the federal funding bill, but Poole said that move came too late.

The city may appeal the historic des-ignation to the Federal Highway Admin-istration via GDOT, which could take a year or more, Poole said. Another op-tion is giving up on federal funding and using only city money. Or the city may have to do some form of mitigation for demolishing the building.

“Please know, this process is sim-ply that, a process—once complete, the project continues,” Dixon said.

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CITY SEEKS INPUT ON NEW ABERNATHY PARK

A 1-acre extension of the Abernathy Greenway Park is in the early planning stages, and the city is seeking communi-ty input on what it should include.

The parcel, at the northeast corner of the Abernathy and Wright Road in-tersection, was originally slated for parking, but residents complained about that. The city held a Jan. 20 meet-ing where, according to a press release, community suggestions leaned toward passive use with landscaping, water fea-tures and shade structures.

There is no budget or timeline for the new parkland yet. The communi-ty input deadline is Feb. 12, and sugges-tions can be emailed to [email protected].

SENIOR HOME AIMS TO BUILD NEW FACILITY

Mansions Senior Living is proposing a new 35,000-square-foot assisted living and memory care facility near its San-dy Springs residential complex on Riv-er Exchange Drive near Spalding Drive.

According to the city’s website, the

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CITY LIKELY TO RENEW GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

Sandy Springs outsources many of its services to private contractors who bid for the jobs. But, in a change this year, it likely will offer no-bid three-year renewals to most contractors in or-der to avoid a shake-up during the City Springs construction and the Next Ten planning process, officials said during the Jan. 26 City Council retreat.

“I believe we’re getting good ser-vice and fair pricing,” said City Manag-er John McDonough. Councilman Tib-by DeJulio said he backs the renewals, but wants to avoid making that a habit “and not start bringing those positions in-house.”

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the project still needs years of planning and public meetings.

The purchase is a “protective buy” to secure right of way now before infi ll re-development makes property costs sky-rocket, McDonough said. And he indicat-ed that the city might make more such purchases.

McDonough said that “it would be ir-responsible of the city” to not buy the land now relatively cheaply as infi ll hous-es nearby go for nearly $1 million, “know-ing that the long-term plan calls for the widening of the corridor.”

The 590 Hammond site, at the corner of Lorell Terrace, is currently empty after a developer recently demolished a house there for a planned infi ll project. The city is buying the land from that developer, Mehmet Olcal of Roswell-based Alpha-sibel LLC. Olcal bought the property last year for $250,000, according to property records.

“I understand the protective buy,” said Steve Oppenheimer, president of the Glenridge Hammond Neighborhood As-

sociation, but added, “I have great con-cern about the project is going to impact our neighborhood in the interim.”

Oppenheimer said he is concerned the city will not maintain the site and that city land buys will breed uncertain-ty among neighbors, who might delay improvements on their own properties. McDonough pledged that the city will maintain any site in its “natural state” pending road work, and that if it acquires any houses on Hammond, it will demol-ish rather than rent them.

A few years ago, the city bought an-other property on Hammond at Kayron Drive. The city demolished a house there that was damaged by stormwater prob-lems, Councilman Tibby DeJulio said.

DeJulio and Assistant City Manager Bryant Poole said Hammond has been seen as a problem street for decades. Its width varies, and the section between Roswell Road and Perimeter Center is a narrow choke point that also lacks side-walks, forcing pedestrians to use rugged trails.

Widening the road has been in vari-ous plans in the past decade, most recent-ly as part of the 2012 transportation spe-cial local option sales tax package that failed at the ballot box. However, some residents have opposed changing the res-idential character of the street. Last year, the city applied for a $240,000 Atlanta Regional Commission grant to study the project and fi nalize a design via commu-nity meetings. “All indications are we’re in solid running to get that money from ARC,” Poole said.

But any actual construction would be years away. McDonough said it could take fi ve years if the project requires fed-eral funds, but possibly less time if local funds are approved, such as through a lo-cal option sales tax package.

Poole and McDonough emphasized that there is no update to the widening plan, which still exists as three alterna-tive designs sketched out with some pub-lic input in 2009. “Importantly, there’s going to be impact on either side of Ham-mond no matter what alignment,” Poole said. “I think it’s important to us to se-cure the right of way.”

City councilmen agreed in their unan-imous vote to approve the purchase. “I think this about preserving two things,” said Councilman Gabriel Sterling. “It pre-serves taxpayer dollars…and it preserves our options.”

Sterling and Councilman Andy Bau-man noted that if the road project is re-jected for some reason in the future, the city can sell the land at market rates.

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The political battle is just beginning over MARTA’s request, fi led in the Gold Dome Feb. 1, to seek an additional half-penny sales tax from DeKalb and Fulton voters on the November ballot.

But whatever happens, a new era of regionally-minded transportation plan-ning seems to be dawning in parts of Ful-ton County.

Fulton Chairman John Eaves has been convening a group of Fulton mayors for several months to hash out a possible menu of road and mass transit projects to put before voters. And Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul has said he’s asked City Manager John McDonough to gath-er staff from various Fulton cities to talk about the nitty-gritty of regional projects.

“I think you’re going to see something miraculous this year” as the mayors col-laborate on a possible transportation funding package to send to voters, Eaves said at a recent meeting of the Buckhead Coalition.

“The Fulton County Commission, I give them credit,” Paul said in an inter-view last fall, when the meetings were

just beginning. “They’re taking leader-ship in getting everyone at the table.”

Under existing legislation, DeKalb and Fulton can ask voters to approve a special local option sales tax of up to 1 penny on the November ballot for trans-portation projects. The tax would sunset in fi ve years.

The MARTA proposal—fi led by state Sen. Brandon Beach (R-Alpharetta)—would devote up to half of that penny to MARTA for more than 40 years, to match the lifetime of the transit agency’s exist-ing 1 penny tax.

Extending the Red LineMARTA says the additional SPLOST

money could fund extension of the Red Line to Alpharetta, including a new Northridge station in Sandy Springs; a light rail connection through the Emo-ry University area between Buckhead’s Lindbergh station and the Blue Line’s Avondale station; and a rail extension along I-20 to Lithonia.

Political opinion varies on whether MARTA should get more SPLOST funds and if so, how much. Johns Creek Mayor Mike Bodker has been skeptical. Atlanta

Mayor Kasim Reed backs the half-penny and “will not support any proposal that does not fund transit, which our region needs to grow and prosper,” according to city of Atlanta spokeswoman Jenna Gar-land.

Paul supports the MARTA expansion and has been discussing SPLOST options with other Fulton mayors. He declined to comment on the state of those talks, say-ing it’s too early for details.

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That test also came back positive for the BRCA 1 gene mutation, meaning she was likely to get either ovarian or breast cancer before age 70. She underwent treatment and is now a 13-year survivor of breast can-cer.

As a mother with daughters and a son, she wanted them to be tested for the gene as well. Her two daughters, Rochelle and Alana, were positive; her son was negative. Now, her daughter, Alana, 24, is in treat-ment for a recurrence of breast cancer af-ter undergoing just last year a double mas-tectomy and chemotherapy.

“Never in my wildest dreams did I ex-pect my daughter to have breast cancer in college,” Maxx Schube, 55, said. “This is not an old woman disease anymore.”

Rochelle Schube, 29, is a “previvor” who chose to take action after an irregular MRI by having a double mastectomy and recon-structive surgery in June before any diag-nosis of cancer.

When someone tests positive for BRCA, they are encouraged to be tested for can-cer every six months. Rochelle said twice a year she would be on an emotional roller-coaster, wondering, “Is this my time?”

“It gets emotional. Every six months you’re worried. And especially after my sis-ter was diagnosed … this was not something she was given the chance to do,” Rochelle Schube said. “After they found something with my MRI, I got scared and decided to have surgery to remove all doubt.”

Because the Schube women speak openly about BRCA and their journeys with breast cancer, they are being honored at the Greater Atlanta Hadassah’s Breast Strokes – The Big Reveal event on Feb. 20 at The Stave Room at American Spirit Works.

The event raises funds for breast cancer research and genetic research programs at the Hadassah Medical Organization in Je-rusalem and for breast cancer education, advocacy and prevention in the U.S.

“We wanted to be a wake-up call to the younger generation,” Maxx Schube said. “I can be mad this has happened to us or I can believe this is happening to us so we can let other people know [about BRCA], educate other people and be there for others to lean on.”

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“This happens to whole families. It’s not fun. If I can find a silver lining in all this, it’s that we as a family have come togeth-er and support each other. We are empow-ering each other in a powerless situation,” she said.

Maxx Schube praises Alana’s fight against cancer, saying “she rocked it” dur-ing last year’s surgery and chemo.

“As a mom, to watch your daughter go through this is a nightmare. She has an amazing attitude,” she said. “She is ready to fight this.”

Maxx Schube said because she and Al-ana discovered their lumps themselves, they were initially told there was nothing wrong with them.

“More people need to not be afraid to speak up and insist they check it out,” she said.

When Rochelle Schube decided to take preventative care through surgery, her in-surance company at first denied her claim. She took on the insurance company and “went from being scared to fighting for the thing I was scared to do.”

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“When I found out I had [BRCA], I felt very alone. Now I have a com-munity,” she said.

Rochelle Schube stress-es that having a preventative dou-

ble mastectomy – a surgery made famous when actress Angelina Jolie came out pub-licly as having the surgery after she learned she carries the BRCA 1 gene – is not a deci-sion made lightly.

“People have asked, ‘What else are you cutting off your body?’ And that’s not what this is about,” she said. “I will forever re-member when my sister and mom were di-agnosed with cancer, going to chemother-apy … it’s heartbreaking,” she said. “I didn’t want to be the next one.”

And her decision to speak out about her journey is simply a way to help others. Too many myths and misconceptions exist that stigmatize women who decide to have pre-ventative surgeries, she added. People have even asked her if she was just unhappy with her breasts.

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“Somebody needs to take a stand. And what’s the alternative to not speaking out? To internalize this and let others stumble? No.”

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seeds if you wish. $10, adults; $5 for children; free for those 3 and under. RSVP to 678-315-0836. Regis-ter online and see more: www.bhnp.org. Blue Heron Nature Preserve, 4055 Roswell Rd., Atlanta, 30342.

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GET SWEET!Wednesday, Feb. 10, 3-4:30 p.m. Make de-licious chocolates for your valentine or for yourself! Free. All are welcome. Appropriate for those aged 10-17. Open to the fi rst 15 par-ticipants. Registration began Jan. 18. Visit the Brookhaven Branch Library or call 404-848-7140 to sign up. 1242 North Druid Hills Rd., Brookhaven, 30319.

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‘SELMA, LORD, SELMA’Tuesday, Feb. 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Bring the family to see the movie “Selma, Lord, Selma,” about a young girl, in 1965, who becomes a devoted follower of Martin Luther King Jr. Free and open to the community. Rated PG. Snacks provided. Open to the fi rst 20 par-ticipants. Brookhaven Branch Library, 1242 North Druid Hills Rd., Brookhaven, 30319. Call 404-848-7140 to fi nd out more.

MOSE TOLLIVERFriday, Feb. 12, 4-4:45 p.m. In honor of Black History Month, join others for a discussion of Mose T., one of the South’s most famous folk art-ists. Be inspired, and create a masterpiece of your own! Free. Open to the community. For those ages 7-12. Limited to the fi rst 10 participants. Call 770-512-4640 or visit the Dunwoody Branch Li-brary to register. 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338.

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SAT PREPSunday, Feb. 21, 2-5 p.m. Get ready for the new SAT at this study session hosted by C2Education. Light snacks and water pro-vided. Advance registration required by call-ing 404-303-6130. For teens. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Questions? Email: [email protected].

FUNDRAISERSBOOK SALEFriday, Feb.12, 12-6 p.m. The Friends of the Northside Branch Library sell donat-ed books. Browse nonfiction, science fiction, health, childraising and much more. Thurs-

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TASTE OF DUNWOODYSaturday, Feb. 20, 7 p.m. Come out for food and drinks while supporting Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, at the 12th annual Taste of Dunwoody event. Tickets, $100 (includes two drinks). Attendees enjoy dishes provided by more than 25 Dunwoody restaurants, silent auction, cash bar and live music. The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North, 7 Concourse Pkwy., NE, Sandy Springs, 30328. Visit: www.choa.org for additional details and to buy tickets.

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This theater season, plays really are the things at the-aters in San-dy Springs and Dunwoody.

At least that’s the idea. The two local theater compa-nies are putting

on plays that center on actors. Their stag-es will fi ll with actors playing actors and plays within plays.

Patrick Hill, director of Act 3 Theater’s version of “Moon Over Buffalo,” which opens in April and closes out the theater’s

2015-2016 season, says it gives his audience a free trip backstage.

“Theater pa-trons like to see the background, what’s going on behind the scenes,” said Hill, whose show fol-lows the Feb. 20

conclusion of the run of the theater’s current production, “Dogfi ght.” “You’re giving the audi-ence exactly what they want. You get a look be-hind the curtain.”

In Dunwoody, the Stage Door Players are presenting “I Hate Ham-let,” a play that puts its theme right there in the title. It’s about a television actor who resists portray-ing Shakespeare’s famed character onstage, only to fi nd he’s being haunted by the ghost of legendary actor John Barry-more, said Robert Egizio, the Players’ pro-ducing artistic director and the director of “I Hate Hamlet.”

Plays about plays have been around since at least Shakespeare’s day, but they still draw a crowd. Egizio said “I Hate Ham-let” packed the theater on its opening weekend.

Besides, the directors said, staging plays about plays can be as much fun for the ac-tors as the audience.

“It defi nitely appeals to theater people,” Egizio said. Part of the appeal comes from the challenge as the actors must portray several characters at once – the actor and the character the actor is playing. “You’re playing two characters, in essence,” he said.

“You get the chance to play the actor and you get to play the actor within the actor.

“In essence, my Gemini personality gets split into three. It’s fantastic.”

But part of the fun in some of these plays-within-plays, both Hill and Egizio said, comes from watching the characters onstage deal with backstage meltdowns. “The actors love it because they can relate to it,” Egizio said. “We’ve all been through that crap.”

Hill’s play at Act 3 is a farce that takes place backstage during a theatrical perfor-mance and actually includes bits of two other plays – “Cyrano de Bergerac” and “Private Lives” – that the characters pres-ent as part of the story. Some of the humor comes when they mix up the two, Hill said.

“It’s funny because it’s almost like an in-side joke, like a little love letter to the the-ater community,” Hill said.

Hill, a 33-year-old accountant who lives in Sandy Springs and is a member of the theater’s board of directors, said Act 3 de-cided to stage the play “because our audi-ence wanted a good comedy.”

At the same time, the show seemed like it would be fun to put on. “It’s one of those things, a show about theater people. We know the humor so well, we can execute it. We can fi nd the punch lines and make [the audience] feel like they’re peeking behind the curtain.”

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Steve Grossman has a passion for the arts, but not the restaurant business.

So, after nearly four years of operat-ing Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs, a place where musicians and artists have performed to appreciative audiences over hummus or vegetarian quesadillas, the venue itself may soon be closing unless Grossman can find a partner willing to take on the food side of the business.

“I’m not going to continue running a res-taurant past June,” Grossman said. “Steve’s Live Music could cease to exist in this loca-tion if I don’t find a partner. Cultural arts are real important to me and I know one space is not optimal in terms of trying to create music in the community.”

His lease expires in July on the build-ing on Hildebrand Drive where Steve’s Live Music has been located since mid-2012. Grossman actively is seeking partners, say-ing his venue is ripe for a new chef or res-taurateur to come in and make a mark while enjoying a built-in fan base of music and dance lovers.

At the same time, Grossman said he is exploring ways to broaden his reach by working with area restaurants, dance stu-dios and other venues to bring in live per-formances, not only in Sandy Springs but in neighboring cities as well. However, San-dy Springs, he believes, is ground zero for a musical awakening. “I see Sandy Springs as fertile ground for becoming the next Nash-ville or Austin for the music scene,” he said.

With the many restaurants and mixed-use developments going up, Grossman has a vision of people strolling the streets and walking past restaurants or theaters where they could step in and listen to live music. City Springs, the new city center and the de-velopment surrounding it, is where Gross-man believes live performances could real-ly take off.

Since he opened, Grossman said more than 1,500 musicians have played Steve’s Live Music. From folk to bluegrass to a Bea-tles cover band to Gypsy Opera and Celtic

dancing, Grossman serves a niche in metro Atlanta. “I probably get emails from five or six people a day wanting to play here. That adds up,” he said.

With his contacts with artists and ven-ues, Grossman wants to expand to just booking acts. Already he is booking tours for some bands in North America and Eu-rope, he said.

“My real passion is music. I want to bring music to the community. I want to bring art to the community. I just want to bring live music to everyone,” he said.

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Correc�ionThe story “Mixed-use develop-

ments are a hot trend, but they’re not for everyone” in the Jan. 22 - Feb. 4Perimeter Business section gave an incorrect name for Steve Tart of Gen-esis Real Estate Advisers and the San-dy Springs Planning Commission.

More than a dozen new offi ce or residential projects are being proposed or are underway throughout north Atlanta and the Perimeter area. Do you think local communities will be able to absorb the new development?

“My only problem with it is infrastruc-ture…traffi c [and similar issues]. I can’t blame people

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just don’t like the push for density, which seems to be the policy in all these munic-ipalities.”

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Richard Ellis

“We already have streams of traffi c go-ing through the neighborhood. I don’t know how they’re going to get there and get home.”

Karen Whitehead

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MARTA? Traffi c is al-ready horrible. It’s going to get worse. ... It’ll just mean I’ll avoid that whole area. It’ll change where I shop, where I go. Right now you have to plan when you’re going to do stuff because traffi c is just horrible.”

Susan Clarke

“I do feel the wave ... of peo-ple moving into public schools and supporting public schools is rising. I’d like to see more parental interest in our public schools and involvement.”

Kirsten Neufeld

“Traffi c, traffi c, traffi c!”Cheryl Dupree

“I’m 100 percent opposed to any building above four or fi ve sto-ries simply for the fact I bought in Brookhaven for its maintained tree can- o-py and beautiful curb appeal. Traffi c is going to be a major problem. I live off Peachtree Road and it’s an absolute disas-ter every day. [More development] means extended rush hours.”

Charles Jones

“A lot of build-ings in the Perim-eter area are day-time occupancy. Some of these resi-dential developments seem … like there should be more theaters. If we continue to put in these large complexes, I think we should re-quire more entertainment opportuni-ties so we can keep it from being a ghost town like downtown Atlanta was before the Olympics.”

Greg Crnkovich

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traffi c problem. My concern about develo-

ment around the city is, I see some-thing totally different from when I grew up. Developers used to build around trees…I see huge areas that are being to-tally wiped out.”

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My mind and my body have an agreement. I dole out positive rein-forcement treats to my body through-out the day, and it gets me out of bed in the morning.

There are so many theories, so many methods for dieting, and I’ve danced with them all and sent them home hap-py.

I’ve heard to “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” I pretty much eat break-fast, lunch, mid-morning snacks and mid-afternoon happy hours like an ex-iled prince, and dinners like a freak-ing emperor. So, to use a more accurate comparison, I have the diet of a sumo wrestler. I nibble and nosh throughout the day, and I eat the heaviest, most ca-loric food in the last two hours before I go to bed, so that all of the calories can join hands and turn into layers of fat overnight.

I’ve heard to limit yourself to one sweet thing a week. I tried that and end up making myself a week-ly dessert the size of a Ha-waiian island.

I’ve heard to count calo-ries. The prob-lem with this method is that I am an un-scrupulous cheater. I will not count the spoons full of ice cream that I eat, straight from the box, or the brown-ies that are stuck to the side of the pan that I have to pry out and consume before putting to-gether a tray for the class party, or the melted peanut butter-chocolate pow-er bar that I find between the minivan seats while I’m waiting in the carpool line. I only count lettuce and rice cakes. So, no matter how much I actually eat during the day, my calorie count always amounts to roughly 235.

I’ve heard to eat six mini-meals a day. My mini-meals turn into one con-

stant land-cruise buf-fet. There might as well be an ice sculpture of a swan on my kitch-en counter, right beside the uneaten fries and the container of Boy Scout popcorn.

I’ve heard about the Starbucks diet—that one woman lost 85 pounds by eating exclusively at Starbucks. I have been pretty close to doing that diet myself, but the pumpkin bread and cake pops kept winning out over the oatmeal.

The frustrating thing for me is that it wasn’t always this way. Despite giv-ing birth to four children, despite the fact that two of them were born at the same time, despite the fact that my body weight increased by half during that twins pregnancy, I always man-aged to return to my normal weight

and jeans size, and maintain it steadily.

Not true now. I have had an-other birth-day and there are squatters at my belly. The pounds—about 10 of them—have settled along my mid-section and are making plans to retire there. I don’t want to take them with me when I final-ly, one day, be-come an emp-ty nester. I want to leave them in the basement along with the boxes of kinder-garten artwork.

My mother has stayed slim and trim well into her senior years, and when asked how she does it, her standard re-ply is, “I eat whatever I want and I nev-er exercise.”

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Plans to replace a Sandy Springs church with a 201-unit senior hous-ing building drew traffic and density concerns—and some grudging accep-tance—from about 70 residents at a preliminary community meeting Jan. 25.

Developer Parc Communities said that luxury senior housing is among the

least traffic-generating redevelopments possible for the Apostles Church site at Glenridge Drive and Hammond Drive. But its plan has some question marks, including a possible 3,000-square-foot health clinic that might be open to the general public.

“I live in Sandy Springs,” said Parc Communities President and CEO Roy Dickson, sympathizing with traffic nightmares at the meeting, held at the church. “I understand all the dynamics.

And I understand something is going to happen on a corner like this that is out of the ordinary in the way of density, something that is going to invite ques-tions.”

Dickson and attorney Chip Collins, a former Sandy Springs city councilman, had lots of answers, including an of-fer to shave 12 feet of dirt off the entire site to reduce the new building’s height impact. No one in the crowd seemed thrilled, but several said that in today’s skyscraper-sprouting Sandy Springs, they were willing to settle for a relative-ly low-impact project.

“To be completely honest, this is not what I want…[but] this could be a much worse possible property—a gas station, for God’s sake,” said Scott Nelson, a Glenridge resident.

Apostles Church has to sell after building an overly large new house of worship under a previous administra-tion several years ago, according to a church official. The church and a pre-school will have to move and all build-ings in the complex, including the for-mer youth house next door, would be demolished in the current plan.

Parc’s facility would be mostly four stories tall, reduced to three sto-ries along Glenridge as a nod to resi-dents’ concerns, and rising to five sto-ries at Hammond. The building would be set back 85 to 95 feet from the street. About 55 percent of the 201 units would be one-bedrooms and the rest two-bed-rooms, Dickson said. There would be eight full-time employees and part-tim-ers for a dining facility and the possible health clinic.

But Parc’s nontraditional, “pioneer-ing” concept of an independent living facility with “a la carte services,” as Dickson put it, worried some residents about possible greater-than-expected traffic impacts. Instead of paying a flat fee for services, residents—who could be as young as 55 under federal law—would pay about $2 per square foot in base rent and then more for any spe-

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But Dickson said that the “social fab-ric” of the facility will attract people in their 70s and 80s who are less like-ly to drive, and invited residents to look at Parc’s existing senior housing in Al-pharetta and Duluth.

Clinic ‘pretty unlikely’The biggest question is the health

clinic, which would be a new partner-ship with Piedmont Healthcare, featur-ing one doctor and four support staff. However, Dickson said, there is uncer-tainty on whether such a clinic would be open to the general public and what its zoning impacts would be.

He called it “a discussion only at this point” and in one moment referred to it as “pretty unlikely.” Collins and Dick-son said that Parc may seek pre-approv-al for the clinic and, if it turns out to be feasible, build it later by converting three of the residential units.

Dickson emphasized that it is still early in the process. The plan requires approvals for rezoning, a use permit and probably zoning variances. He estimated demolition of the church complex would take 10 days and con-struction of the new building about 16 months, with an opening early next year if they move “aggressively.”

Parc intends to file those requests next month, which would be followed by another community meeting and hearings before the Sandy Springs Planning Commission and City Coun-cil.

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Behind the City Springs construction budget, a new method at workBY JOHN [email protected]

The massive City Springs project has been under construction for months—but the fi nal blueprints were just handed over on Jan. 25. The city of Sandy Springs has paid the contractor millions of dollars—but the project’s budget won’t be set until later this month.

This construction method, known in industry jargon as “CM [construction manager] at risk,” can sound strange to laypeople. In fact, last fall it confused the City Council enough that members brief-ly balked on funding further construction. But it’s actually a popular new method that can save time and money, according to En-nis Parker, a Georgia Tech School of Archi-tecture professor.

Parker teaches Georgia Tech students about alternative construction methods and was hired by Sandy Springs as a con-sultant to explain “CM at risk” to city offi -cials and oversee the City Springs project. In a recent interview, Parker explained why CM at risk is popular and how it works.

“Most of the major buildings done in At-lanta are being done this way,” Parker said. Among them: the new Falcons football sta-dium downtown and the State Farm re-gional headquarters in Dunwoody, both of which are being built by Holder Construc-tion, the City Springs contractor.

But Parker admits that “CM at risk” is a confusing concept to many. “It took a little explaining to the city because they weren’t used to this process,” he said of the prepa-rations for the City Springs project on Roswell Road.

The traditional construction method is known in the trade as “design-bid-build.” In that method, a property owner hires an architect, who produces blueprints. Then the owner puts the design out for competitive bids from contractors. The lowest-bidding contractor is typically awarded the project, then pro-duces an estimated budget and constructs the building.

“Everybody understands that process…but it has some problems,” Parker said. “Essentially, the biggest problem is, you go through that elaborate and linear design process…and you don’t really know until you bid the job what it’s going to cost.”

Especially when the construction mar-ket has volatile labor and material pric-es—as it does today—the costs can end up much higher than expected from a low-balled bid. That can result in major rede-

signs or cuts in quality. “And on a project of this [City Springs] size, that process lasts a long time,” Parker added. “It can take a year or more to get all the way through the pro-gramming…and you will have spent mil-lions and millions of dollars.”

Long delays and skyrocketing budgets on major projects have sparked alternative construction and bidding methods. “CM at risk” is among the most popular, Parker said. About 15 years ago, he said, the Geor-gia Legislature approved “CM at risk” as a construction method for all state and mu-nicipal public works projects.

“In a nutshell, the difference is ‘CM at risk’ is a collabora-tive process,” Parker said. “It avoids a lot of the risks that are as-sociated with the old method…[and speeds the project with] overlap of the design and construction.”

The big difference is the construction contractor is hired early on and works alongside the archi-tect, rather than win-ning a bid at the end of the design pro-cess. “They become a member of the team,” Parker said.

That means an estimated budget is produced much earli-er and is more likely to be realistic, he said. While surprises can still happen, they are likely to be smaller and easier to absorb through the constantly tweaked design process, he said.

That’s why the city has been confi dent in saying that City Springs will cost no more than $220 million even though the fi -nal budget is not set. But it’s also what con-fused members of City Council, with a bud-get that showed both estimates and money already spent mingled together.

The collaboration of architect and con-tractor also makes for speed. “That allows you, before the design is complete, to start construction,” Parker said.

At City Springs, that meant work on

the foundations could begin because of a general agreement between designers and builders, while interior designs and exteri-or decorations were still being drawn up.

What’s the downside? “The main con-cern that you hear about this is some peo-ple think because you’re not hard-bidding it in a competitive environment, you aren’t getting the lowest price…and that’s proba-bly true,” Parker said. But the savings in

time and avoided cost overruns mean it’s usually cheaper in the long run, he said.

The “CM at risk” process is actually less fi nancially risky for all parties and the name is a quirk of construction industry jargon, Parker said. “[Construction man-agers] are at risk in both methods and they are probably more at risk in the traditional method. And the owner always has the fi -nal risk,” he said.

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Above, new design concepts for the performing arts center in the forthcoming City Springs project were revealed Jan. 26 during the Sandy Springs City Council’s annual

retreat. The images, which are not fi nal, show modernist interior decorating, some of it tree-inspired. A full public presentation of conceptual designs will be held Feb. 16, 4 p.m., at City Hall, 7840 Roswell Road. The design of the $220 million mixed-use

project is nearing completion, and the facility is expected to open in late 2017.

A concept for the bar/dining area of the performing arts center.


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Work on a controversial project to build roundabouts at the Riverside Drive/I-285 interchange in Sandy Springs began Feb. 1 and will continue through November, according to the state Depart-ment of Transportation.

The $5.6 million project will replace ramps with roundabouts and rehab the Riverside Drive bridge over I-285. GDOT says the roundabouts will be safer, while many local residents have expressed doubts they will improve traffi c. Accord-ing to GDOT, 73 crashes occurred in the interchange in 2008 through 2012, with 16 of those accidents causing injuries.

Construction will take place both day and night, but lane closures will only

take place on weeknights from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., and on the weekends from 8 p.m. to 10 a.m. One travel lane will remain open at all times, except during bridge main-tenance work, when all lanes in each di-rection will close and a detour will be in place.

The project, conducted by Baldwin Paving Company, will convert the exist-ing signalized ramp intersections to sin-gle lane roundabouts. Two lanes will feed into the roundabout, with one lane used to enter the roundabout and one lane used as a right-turn lane. The project also includes sidewalks on both sides of Riv-erside Drive.

In December, GDOT gave different project schedule information that appar-ently was in error, including that work would continue into 2018.

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Construction projects now underway in and around Chastain Park are giving new looks to several familiar features of the Buckhead park.

The park’s playground reopens this month after a $2.5 million makeover by the Chastain Park Conservancy that expands the play area fourfold to 40,000 square feet. Most of the new playground equip-ment was expected to open for public use this month. A formal opening for the play-ground is scheduled for March.

Meanwhile, separate projects in other parts of the park will expand the jogging path along Powers Ferry Road and add a roof over the Chastain Park pool intended to make it available for year-round swim-ming.

The expanded playground adds new swings and three ground-level slides, a “tree house” play structure, a musical play area, bathrooms and picnic spaces,

“We have a variety of modes of play,” said Rosa McHugh, executive director of the conservancy, as she visited the play-ground one recent afternoon. “We have places for imaginative play, musical play... You can be a daredevil if you want to.”

McHugh says the renovated play-ground, located at the corner of West Wieu-ca Road and Dudley Lane, will provide a place where families from surrounding neighborhoods can come together. It is in-tended to create a place in the park where parents or grandparents can watch chil-dren “run around in a safe area” or where families can have picnics while the kids play. About 85,000 children live within fi ve miles of the park, she said.

“I think it will serve as an outdoor com-munity center,” she said. “[It creates] a place that doesn’t exist now.”

In Brookhaven, a new Pill Hill road ex-tending the Perimeter Center Parkway “fly-over bridge” to Johnson Ferry Road would aid traffi c and is worth a full study, accord-ing to a report delivered last week to the Perimeter Center Improvement Districts, which will hold a community meeting on the plan in coming months.

Meanwhile, PCIDs is close to secur-ing a $4 million grant to build an already planned Pill Hill improvement that would make bicycle and pedestrian improve-ments to Peachtree-Dunwoody Road and Lake Hearn Drive, said Yvonne Williams, the PCIDs president and CEO. The work also would make room for a PATH400 multi-use trail extension through the inter-section.

Both projects aim to boost walkability, connectivity and “all the things to build an urban center,” Williams said.

The PCIDs flyover bridge over I-285 was completed in 2007 and is sometimes jok-ingly called the “bridge to nowhere” as it ends at Lake Hearn Drive. However, PCIDs long planned to make it a bridge to some-where with a 2,000-foot road extending from the Lake Hearn Drive intersection to Johnson Ferry, running along the Sandy Springs-Brookhaven border on the eastern side of Emory Saint Joseph Hospital’s cam-pus.

The flyover bridge extension idea re-vived last year amid renewed Pill Hill traf-fi c concerns related to plans for a large apartment development. PCIDs commis-sioned a preliminary feasibility study for $5,000 from Gresham, Smith and Partners, a fi rm that is also conducting an Ashford-Dunwoody Road improvement study for the city of Brookhaven.

In Dunwoody, new efforts to save the Brook Run Theater are heating debate among city offi cials and residents. Some residents want the city to help foot the bill to renovate and repair what they say is a historic building that could be convert-ed to a local, modern theater and commu-nity gathering spot. Others say the build-ing is too far gone and no taxpayer money should be used to save it.

“I suspect it would be a tough battle to fi ght because of how old the building is,” resident Steve Drange said. He and his wife, who live just a couple miles from the park, said they support the idea of refur-bishing the building and love the idea of a community theater located in the park. “We like theater. We’re regular theatergo-ers. It would employ local actors and ac-tresses,” she said. “This is a nice area. The development in the area has been great. I don’t know why there is such a controver-sy. I guess because of the millions it would take to fi x it up.”

The Brook Run Conservancy, which backs renovation of the theater, in January sent the Dunwoody City Council a feasi-bility study it had done to determine costs of renovating the building. That study es-timates rehabilitating and equipping the theater would cost, on the low end, about $7.5 million, and on the high-end, approxi-mately $18 million.

Headed up by former councilman Dan-ny Ross, the conservancy is seeking a part-nership with the city to take on the the-ater renovation. The Conservancy’s study also states the renovation would cost sig-nifi cantly less than constructing a new theater, a price tag it puts at nearly $25 million, not including parking and the pur-chase of land.

But Dunwoody City Engineer Kevin Mc-Comber told Dunwoody City Council last year it would cost close to $7 million to ren-ovate the theater. He also did not recom-mend renovation, saying the facility need-ed to be completely gutted.

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is more mixed-use redevelopment and reducing car travel. But the consul-tant team, led by Rhodeside & Harwell, is adding some bigger proposals that would transform entire areas, such as routing some form of alternative public transit east-west through central San-dy Springs. And a much-discussed idea of a Sandy Springs monorail was talked about some more.

Some highlights include:• Roswell Road becoming “Roswell

Boulevard,” with its central “sui-cide lane” for turns converted into a tree-lined median on the north-ern stretch and a grass median on the southern leg. Large sidewalks or multi-use paths could line much of the street as well.

• Possible trails following the city’s several east-west streams as con-nectors between green spaces, or as links to urban spaces and the Chattahoochee River.

• Speaking of the Chattahoochee, pedestrian bridges to connect to its parkland in Cobb and Roswell

are another idea.• Peachtree-Dunwoody Road in Pe-

rimeter Center becoming a main boulevard, with a 50- to 75-foot right of way on the west side be-coming either a massive green

space with wide paths or a possible bus route.

High Point resident Dan DiLuzio, who also works in Sandy Springs, said at the Jan. 27 workshop that his only concern with the plans so far is that some of it might not happen.

“It really looks good. Everything is top-notch,” DiLuzio said. “I’m just afraid, when it comes down to the nit-ty-gritty, it’s [going to face] the ‘not in my backyard’ contingent.”

Kristen Madison was trying to fig-ure out what such changes might mean for her family business, the FASTSIGNS shop on the downtown stretch of Ro-swell Road.

‘Pretty ambi�ious’“I think it’s pretty ambitious,” Mad-

ison said, adding she likes the city’s fo-cus on traffic and aesthetics. “We’re try-ing to determine if our business will be properly placed in a mixed-use environ-ment….Now it’s like, ‘Where do I fit in?’”

Transportation consultant Karina Ricks of Nelson\Nygaard had several ideas for unclogging the area’s traffic, largely geared toward increasing alter-native modes, improving east-west con-nections, and adding circulator shut-tles or buses to connect to MARTA.

But she also had a public transit idea to spark some imaginations. She called for bringing back the Georgia Depart-ment of Transportation’s longstanding notion of some sort of public transit along the top end of I-285—but, instead of keeping it literally on the highway, routing it through Sandy Springs near

the City Springs redevelopment.“It may be easy to put it on the inter-

state…[but] the better move is to put it where people are living and working,” Ricks said at the Sandy Springs City Council retreat Jan. 26.

What might that public transit be? Ricks presented images and simple cost estimates of many alternatives—from dangling gondolas and monorails to conventional trains and buses.

Mayor Paul said Sandy Springs couldn’t afford to create something like that on its own, but could consid-er partnering with neighboring cities. “We can lead on getting other people to the table,” the mayor said. “You notice we start talking about a monorail and next thing you know, Brookhaven and Chamblee are talking.”

The Next Ten process is only about halfway through its projected timeline, with plans for the Powers Ferry Land-ing and MARTA station areas yet to be presented, and the zoning code rewrite just beginning. Paul emphasized that community input remains key in this rough-draft phase.

“I know what you’re thinking—‘The city’s already decided to do this,’” the mayor said, explaining that all of the ideas are still flexible. “This is just to get the thought processes going in the com-munity…I see the wheels turning. We’ve succeeded in doing what we wanted to do—get you thinking.”

Now it’s time for feedback, Paul said. For ways to give that feedback, see the planning process site at thenext10.org.

‘Roswell Boulevard’ among Sandy Springs planning process’s big ideas

Residents talk with consultant Lee Sobel of RCLCO, left, about Sandy Springs’ market and demographics at the “Next Ten” workshop Jan. 27 at Sherwood Event Hall.

PHOTOS BY JOHN RUCH

Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul, left, discusses Perimeter Center plans at the “Next Ten” workshop. Paul said he wants feedback

from the community regarding the planning process.


◄ A “Next Ten” map showing various sub-neighborhoods along Roswell Road that could see redevelopment, especially as mixed-use “urban villages,” more walkable than today’s car-oriented streetscape. For a larger version of these maps, visit ReporterNewspapers.net.


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The map includes major mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented redevelopments along Roswell Road and in Perimeter Center; some new east-west public tran-sit routes and an extension of MARTA’s Red Line; and “ecological corridors” that preserve streams and might serve as trails connecting the city’s green spaces.

Some parts of the overall concept come from previous plans or ideas, such as eventually extending the PATH 400 multi-use trail all the way up the Ga. 400 corridor. A “signature” pedes-trian bridge across the Chattahoochee River to Roswell is another idea revived in the concept as part of a “Riverside Village” redevelopment on the city’s north end.

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Traffic the top concern with Sandy Springs five-skyscraper planBY JOHN [email protected]

Five new Sandy Springs skyscrapers could mean thousands of more cars on lo-cal streets, raising concerns among about 45 residents and business owners who at-tended the first community meeting on

Jan. 20 about the massive redevelopment of 1117 Perimeter Center West.

Representatives of the developers—identified as Hong Property Trust of Syd-ney, Australia—said the mixed-use nature of the project could reduce its effect on traf-fic. And a direct connection to the Sandy Springs MARTA station, which sits under part of the site, is a potential traffic mitiga-tion, project attorney Jessica Hill said.

“The idea is that it’s live, work and play, and you never have to leave,” said Rob For-rest, the real estate professional who’s rep-resenting Hong Property in the deal.

But the sheer scale of the project and some of its preliminary numbers still wor-ried residents, especially with other ma-jor redevelopments coming nearby, such as the planned headquarters for Mercedes-Benz USA in Sandy Springs and the new building to house State Farm in Dunwoody.

The 1117 Perimeter Center West plan calls for about 1,600 residential units in three towers; about 1.5 million square feet of offices in two towers; and about 200,000 square feet of new retail and restaurant space. The towers could stand 20 to 29 sto-ries tall. That’s in addition to the hexagonal office building currently on the 13.5-acre site, which would remain with modifica-tions.

About 5,200 new parking spaces would be created in a new deck, compared with 1,300 on the site now, Hill said. Some park-ing might need to go off-site during con-struction, Hill said, though it’s early for such details.

The proposed MARTA connection would be through an existing emergency exit tunnel, Hill said.

The project will be deemed a Develop-

ment of Regional Impact and get a mas-sive transportation study, said John Walker of Kimley-Horn, the traffic consulting firm hired by the developer.

One resident of Mount Vernon Woods who works at the Arby’s fast-food compa-ny headquarters next door said most of her

coworkers do not use MARTA and that cur-rent traffic is already bad.

“It’s a nightmare…God forbid if it rains or snows,” she said. “As soon as [the plan] hit the papers, everybody in the [Arby’s] building across the street start-ed freaking out.”

Bill Woulfin, CEO of Metabolic Testing Services, was among several of the existing building’s commercial tenants who expressed concerns about the plan. He said his busi-ness has been there 13 years, and he learned

at the meeting of the developers’ intent to turn the first two floors into retail or ser-vice businesses only, meaning he would be moved elsewhere.

“That’s the first we heard of it,” Woulfin said, adding he is concerned about traffic and parking impacts on his patients.

“We want to make sure tenants stay here,” Forrest said during the meeting. “We’re very cognizant of that.”

The mixed-use concept includes street-level retail in the towers along Mount Ver-non Highway, as well as a “retail alley” facing a semicircular path between the ex-isting hexagonal building and the new tow-ers.

The existing building will get a “signifi-cant facelift” that is already underway, For-rest said. That includes cutting three new entrances into its central courtyard. That courtyard is current private, but will be opened to the public and possibly host con-certs or performances, Forrest said.

He said that Hong Property wanted to keep the hexagonal building because of its unusual design and potential as an attrac-tive retail and restaurant spot.

Because the meeting, held at the exist-ing Perimeter Center West office building, was a preliminary review required before filing actual plans, few other details were available. Hill said the filing should hap-pen in February, with the DRI and Sandy Springs city zoning reviews running into the fall.

The developers will seek rezoning from office to mixed-use and anticipate vari-ances for excessive height and less park-ing that is usually required because of the proximity to MARTA.

SPECIAL

Above and right, updated design illustrations of

the skyscrapers and new retail and restaurant

space proposed for 1117 Perimeter Center West.

JOHN RUCH

John Walker of Kimley-Horn explains traffic issues to attendees, while project attorney Jessica Hill looks on, at the Jan. 20 community meeting about the 1117 Perimeter

Center West redevelopment, held at the project site.

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As a freshman at Weber, Adele felt somewhat lost, she said. Fortunately, she found a peer leader to guide her through her first year. The school’s peer leaders, juniors and seniors, help underclassmen ease into high school and find their ways.

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Outside of school, Adele is among 80 students in the Atlanta area to volunteer for the Ul-timate Naturalist Program at the Fernbank Science Museum. As part of her job, she strolls around the museum with a cart dedicated to a subject from the natural world. Sometimes she runs the whale cart, sometimes the sea-and-space cart. In the future, she hopes to con-tinue her work in a museum. Adele says she would love to work specifically with classical history or art history.

While she’s been volunteering at Fernbank for two years, Adele has been playing vol-leyball for six. She started playing in sixth grade, she said, and hasn’t stopped since. While she’s been a member of school teams for the entire six years, she dedicated even more of her schedule to the sport, playing club volleyball for two years of high school. For this past season and the one before, her varsity team went undefeated, combining for 18-0 over the two seasons.

What’s Next:Adele applied to several colleges. Her top choices are Barnard College, George Washing-

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This article was reported and written by Sam Wimpfheimer, a student at the Galloway School.

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Himitsu means “secret,” after all. You have to find the email address needed to request a reservation. They email you back a confirmation, and then two hours before your reservation, you receive a keypad code. Use Umi’s valet, but you’re not going to Umi. Turn a few corners to find the fake storefront, enter your key-pad code, then greet your gatekeeper to the dining room.

The dining room is on two levels and seats about 80 people. Himitsu’s ambi-ence is about finely blended combina-tions of light and shadow, from the stun-ning gorgeousness of its orange blown glass chandelier hanging eye level with the balcony tables to the subtlety of the yellow tones in the superbly backlit bar. The bar is the star of the first floor – or the corner table with a velvet bench for three is the star, or the golden vo-tive holder with precisely geometric la-ser cut-outs is the star, or the very many kinds of unique barware and stemware are the star.

This place has ambience to spare, right down to the sparse, soft electronica pip-ing in from hidden speakers and the giant Todd Murphy mural, “King of the Birds.” Everything here is nice to look at – bril-liant, edgy, so-phisticated. Go with somebody you want to im-press, whether for romance or signing contracts. Go to cel-ebrate when you finally get that promotion. Go if you al-ready like the food at Umi and would gladly pay a little bit extra for the awesome at-mosphere.

Right now, most of the Hi-mitsu menu is drawn from Umi’s menu. This is under-standable. Himitsu is the type of place where manage-ment thinks just as much about design and service as it does about food, and they are taking their time to get each element right. By the time you’re making reservations for Valentine’s Day, they’ll be ready to show you the menu on an iPad – little bursts of digital starshine lighting up the face of the film star at your neighboring table.

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You can also just go for drinks and des-sert. We got five fluffy profiteroles piled like something out of “The Grand Buda-pest Hotel,” each filled with an individu-ally icy gem of black sesame, yuzu, gin-ger, green tea or five spice. Wow, the five spice – a perfect wintry mix of warm and mysterious. The mille-feuille was also manna from heaven, with its two layers of chocolate between an infinitude of pa-per-thin French pastry slices and layers of cream, miles beyond a good tiramisu.

Plan to order two different cocktails. I’m not worried about which ones – this selection of divinely balanced cocktails is the work of Shingo Gokan, who per-formed similar magic at legendary NYC speakeasy Angel’s Share in NYC. Himit-su is the lovechild of a restaurant devel-opment dream team, and it shows in the every detail. Sure, it’s pricey, but consider Himitsu as a brief staycation in the land of elite privilege for moments when de-cent sushi alone is simply not enough.

To find Himitsu, visit Umi at 3050 Peachtree Road, Buckhead, umiatlanta.com.

Megan Volpert lives in Decatur, teaches in Roswell and writes books about popular culture.

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5500 block of Kingsport Drive – A caller told police he was chasing a burglar in the Northwoods Drive area after the man took his TV and other items. The vic-tim said he returned home to find two young males leaving his apartment, one whose name he knew as Christian. He chased them, but they managed to elude him.

6400 block of Roswell Road – The building’s back door had been pried open. The suspect(s) entered and took copper wiring from the rafters and electrical closet.

100 block of Lexington Place – The complainant said she noticed two males who kept going in and out of the con-do’s community clubhouse during the afternoon. He said they walked from there headed to the overpass on Rob-erts Road over Ga. 400. The complain-ant went into the clubhouse and found damaged furniture, snacks that were consumed and trash lying about. It ap-peared they broke a gate leading to the clubhouse and apparently used plastic bottles as temporary marijuana pipes. The two were described as 14-year-old to 17-year-old males, one with a gray hoodie.

6400 block of Roswell Road – A paint company building was entered by smashing the glass on a side door. A small amount of cash was stolen from a file cabinet.

7100 block of Brandon Mill Drive – The resident said someone forced entry to the home through the carport door, leaving a crowbar on the floor inside. Several items were taken.

THEFTS 1100 block of Perimeter Center West –

A man reported that someone stole his laptop from his work desk. The area is under construction with several people passing through frequently.

2000 block of Dunwoody Club Drive – A grocery store reported that two wom-en came in, stole a gift card and used it later to purchase other cards. They left

in a 2003 Infinity. Sus-pects are describerd as short, 30s, one thin, one stocky.

8700 block of Roswell Road – A gro-cery store reported a man and woman came in and stole items in-cluding Rogaine, total value over $300. They were both detained. The female was want-ed in Atlanta for shop-lifting and possession of stolen property. She

was arrested with a transfer request to Atlanta. He was given a citation to ap-pear.

Riverhill Drive – A man reported that someone stole his gun. He did not see this happen but said they may have somehow obtained a key. He said some-one has been harassing him since 2008, a boyfriend of a friend of the victim. He said the friend also has another friend who is gay and obsessed with him.

5200 block of Roswell Road – A man, described as older and about 6-foot 4-inches tall, broke the door off a Cater-pillar loader and used it to load a weld-ing machine as well as other items. A witness who saw him said he thought the man was a worker.

5000 block of Long Island Drive – The complainant said two AC units were stolen from an occupied home.

1800 block of Treelodge Parkway – A 41-year-old woman said she was tak-ing a bath at which time her live-in boy-friend stole her car. Apparently he took the car because she had a weight bench belonging to him.

1100 block of Mount Vernon High-way – A sports equipment company’s employees reported that a male and fe-male entered the store. The male en-tered, but stopped and then left. The woman went back to the Nike section and tried on items. She came back to the front and asked the cashier employ-ees if they saw a man. They replied yes, and he had just stepped outside. She re-turned to the Nike section but soon was seen running toward the front door with stolen clothing bundled under her arm. She left and got into a car with the man who had originally walked in with her. The man was 30-35 years old, 190-200 pounds, about 5-foot 10-inches,

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Petitioner: Pulte Homes

Property Location: 6555 Roswell Road

Present Zoning: C-1 (Community Business District) & R-3 (Single Family Dwelling District)

Request: Request to rezone from C-1 and R-3 to TR for construction of thirty-one (31) townhomes.

Public Hearings: Planning Commission February 18, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. Mayor and City Council March 15, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.

Location: Sandy Springs City Hall Morgan Falls Office Park 7840 Roswell Road, Building 500 Sandy Springs, Georgia 30350 770-730-5600

and bald, driving a 2012 Mazda or Acu-ra. The female was about 30-35 years old, 5-foot 6-inches, a bit on the heavy side at 225-245 pounds, with shoulder-length brown hair, heavy gray coat and black leggings. She had a bruise on her face close to her bottom lip.

A woman reported her son lost his iPhone at a bar in Buckhead. Later, she was contacted by someone calling him-self Michael Rollins, who said he would return it for $65 plus shipping cost. She wired $100 via Western Union. He then quit calling and eventually disconnect-ed the phone.

THEFTS FROM VEHICLES Nine vehicles reported items stolen

from them between Jan. 22-Jan. 27.

OTHER 5600 block of Roswell Road – At a

game shop, there was an attempted snatch robbery. A female tried to steal over $1,200 in items, got into a tug of war with an employee, fled, got into a white Charger and left.

8700 block of Roswell Road – Arrest of 15-year-old burglary suspect.

Spring Creek Lane – Four arrested for a May home invasion.

6600 block of Roswell Road – An an-gry customer at a bank said she was go-ing to shoot the employees. Detectives are investigating.

SCAM 5900 block of Roswell Road – A wom-

an reported she was getting in her car when she was approached by a female who was crying and saying she was looking for a lawyer’s office. During that time, another female, much older, came up and asked what was happen-ing. The young female then tells all that she won $400,000 thanks to the Geor-gia Lottery. The older woman looks at the “winning ticket,” and calls the law office number to speak with a represen-tative who tells her the lawyers need $15,000 to claim the winnings. (What?) The older woman said she would help her raise the money so they could leave the lawyers out of it. The victim also agreed to help her. (Don’t do it!)

5800 block of Roswell Road – The vic-tim withdrew $9,500 from her bank. The older woman said she had to go home to get the money. The older wom-an told the victim to wait for her. The older woman returned with what looked like jewelry and $2,000 cash. They drove back to the 5900 block of Roswell Road. The older woman said she needed to get paperwork from in-side. The younger woman now com-plained of a headache and the victim left momentarily to get her something for the headache—after handing the

$9,500 to the older woman. When she got back, well...all gone. (Insert lecture here).

How did this not scream fraud and scam to you? A version of the old fash-ion Pigeon Drop found money scam. Go back and read it and look at where you should have started to say, “This doesn’t pass the smell test.” She even lost her cellphone in the deal.

ARRESTS 5700 block of Roswell Road – Cops

were called around midnight to a gas station on a person being disorderly. They located the man nearby who had been inside the store being disruptive. One officer found him down the street, and when interviewing him, the man kept repeating “What the f---k do you want?” Store video showed him inside and being disruptive so he was arrest-ed.

7500 block of Roswell Road – Securi-ty officers at a grocery store watched as a woman took over $100 in steaks and Fixodent, I’m guessing to prepare those dentures for those juicy steaks, and put them in her purse. She was detained and police called. A male who was with her at the time fled. She said she knows the man only as Antwan. She was ar-rested.

Cops were called to Lexington Place following a previous report of illegal en-try and vandalism. The officers found a male and female, both 15 years old, in-side the clubhouse and having sex. The officers could not enter the clubhouse due to the entrance being locked. The pair dressed and then fled the location, but were rounded up a short time lat-er. The male was a listed runaway from Atlanta Police Department. They were returned to their parents with a court date pending.

600 block of River Valley Drive – The owner of the home left to go near-by but had his new camera system on. He received an alert on his smartphone showing a live feed of a burglar in his home. He notified police who respond-ed while the guy was still in the home. He fled through a basement window but ran into one of the officers cover-ing the back, so he jumped a fence, then ran through several yards. Other offi-cers set up a perimeter and began look-ing. Another officer located the man, out of breath, hiding in some bushes on Riverwood Drive. He was taken into custody. Burglary items were recovered linking him to an earlier burglary on Kingsport Drive.

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Continued page 14

BY JOE EARLE

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Familiar sights crowd

the new exhibit at the Atlan-

ta History Center. Georgia

Tech’s Ramblin’ Wreck holds

center stage. A billboard-ready

Chick-fi l-A cow protests in one

corner. A few feet away, a Var-

sity car-hop’s tray hangs from a

door of a ’63 Plymouth Valiant.

It’s no surprise that the items

in this particular museum show

seem familiar. They’re all part of

Atlanta. Each was chosen to rep-

resent some important feature of

the city, the exhibit’s curators say.

The exhibit, “Atlanta in 50 Ob-

jects,” which opened Jan. 16 and is

to be on display through July 10, is

intended to show, in its own way,

what makes Atlanta Atlanta.

“I think my favorite thing is the

King manuscript,” guest curator

Amy Wilson said on the day be-

fore the show opened, as she and

History Center exhibitions direc-

tor Dan Rooney made last-minute

tweaks to the exhibit. She point-

ed toward a case holding a series

of handwritten pages from a yel-

low legal pad on which the Rev.

Martin Luther King Jr. had writ-

ten the acceptance speech for his

1964 Nobel Prize. “It’s the original

manuscript.”

Wilson and Rooney started

work on the project in Novem-

ber 2014. The original idea be-

hind the exhibit – gathering

objects that represent impor-

tant themes or events in histo-

ry – had been used in a few oth-

er high-profi le museum shows

and books, such as “The Smith-

sonian’s History of America in

Exhibit highlights Atlanta in 50 objects

PHIL MOSIER

Ana Avilez, 14, a member of the Danza Aztec Dance Group, prepares for a performance during the Three Kings Day or

“Dia de Los Reyes” festival at the Atlanta History Center on Jan. 10. See additional photos on page 15.►

Three Kings DayCelebrating a Latin tradition

The Atlanta History center’s

exhibition, “Atlanta in 50

Objects,” showcases unique,

local items like this katana from

“The Walking Dead” TV show.

Reporter Newspapers is working with a new mobile market research fi rm,

Atlanta-based 1Q, to survey residents of our communities periodically about

topics of state and local interest. In our fi rst poll, we ask about the proposed

Religious Freedom Restoration Act being considered in the state Legisla-

ture. Nearly two-thirds of 200 respondents said the bill should be rejected. Here are two

reactions to the law. Read more about the poll and local comments on page 11. ►

I’m so sick of Georgia

looking like backward buf-

foons. This is just legalized discrimination,

plain and simple. If that

isn’t enough, it’s bad for

the state economically.

A 44-YEAR-OLD WOMAN

WHO LIVES IN BROOKHAVEN

Even having a proposal

of a religious freedom law

seems to be a step in the

right direction... to start

having more consider-

ation for religion, period.

A 34-YEAR-OLD WOMAN

WHO LIVES IN SANDY SPRINGS

Survey: No to ‘Religious Freedom’ law

CALENDAR: TARTAN TROT | P17

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everyone►Perimeter hotels draw business

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Ana Avilez, 14, a member of the Danza Aztec Dance Group, prepares for a performance during the Three Kings Day or

“Dia de Los Reyes” festival at the Atlanta History Center on Jan. 10. See additional photos on page 15.

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reactions to the law. Read more about the poll and local comments on page 11.



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JAN. 22 - FEB. 4, 2016 • VOL. 8— NO. 2

‘We rose to the occasion’Students faced hardships, discrimination and many challenges

BY DYANA [email protected] Calloway flipped through the pages of the 1968 Cross Keys High School yearbook, glancing over the photographs of many white faces. But in the back of the yearbook she found fi rst the boys’ bas-ketball team and then the girls’ basketball team.

“That’s me,” she said, pointing to the smiling girl at the far right in the girls’ varsity team photo. One other black girl was on the far left; all the players and the coaches in between were white.“That’s when I had the most fun, when I was playing basketball,” she said.Calloway was one of 17 students who integrated Cross Keys High School near-ly 50 years ago, part of that fi rst group of black students to attend an all-white school in DeKalb County and now known as the “Lynwood Integrators.”

‘Lynwood Integrators’ honored for courage during desegregation

PHIL MOSIER

Jamie Chatman, one of the “Lynwood Integrators,” attends a Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day dinner and celebration honoring the 17 students

who integrated Cross Keys High School nearly 50 years ago. The Jan. 18 program, held at Lynwood Park Recreation Center, featured comments

by graduates of Lynwood High School, Cross Keys High School and Chamblee Charter High School. See additional photos on page 13.►

Nationwide search plannedfor new city manager







I’m so sick of Georgia looking like backward buf-foons. This is just legalized discrimination, plain and simple. If that isn’t enough, it’s bad for the state economically.A 44-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO LIVES IN BROOKHAVEN

Even having a proposal of a religious freedom law seems to be a step in the right direction... to start having more consider-ation for religion, period.A 34-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO LIVES IN SANDY SPRINGS

Survey: No to ‘Religious Freedom’ law Continued on page 12


City offi cials are preparing to look for a new city manager to replace Marie Gar-rett, who held the job since Brookhaven’s inception.A national search for a new city man-ager was expected to begin as soon as de-tails of a separation between the city and Garrett could be reached. Council mem-bers met behind closed doors with Garrett and a mediation attorney on Jan. 20 to try to work out an agreement. Mayor John Ernst and members of City

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Jamie Chatman, one of the “Lynwood Integrators,” attends a Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day dinner and celebration honoring the 17 students

who integrated Cross Keys High School nearly 50 years ago. The Jan. 18 program, held at Lynwood Park Recreation Center, featured comments

by graduates of Lynwood High School, Cross Keys High School and Chamblee Charter High School. See additional photos on page 13.





ture. Nearly two-thirds of 200 respondents said the bill should be rejected. Here are two Read more about the poll and local comments on page 11.




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JAN. 22 - FEB. 4, 2016 • VOL. 7— NO. 2

BY DYANA BAGBY

[email protected]

Renovating Brook Run Theater would

cost approximately $7.5 million and fi t

easily into the city of Dunwoody’s com-

prehensive plan, according to a new feasi-

bility study from The Brook Run Conser-

vancy.“I am pleased to let you know that we

are now certain that Dunwoody has a

need for this facility and that there is sig-

nifi cant support in the community for

that need,” states Conservancy President

Danny Ross in a Jan. 15 letter to the coun-

cil. The cost to construct a new theater at

about the same size would cost $24.5 mil-

lion, the feasibility study states.

The conservancy sent its feasibility

study to City Council members recently

and the issue is expected to come up at the

council’s Jan. 25 meeting.

While Ross argues that there is support

for renovating Brook Run Theater, he may

still face an uphill battle from the council.

She’s on a breakawayDunwoody’s Lady Wildcats take on Miller Grove’s Lady Wolverines

Study supports renovation of Brook Run Theater

PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER

At left, Dunwoody High School basketball player Anjanice Cutno breaks

away from the pack as she heads down her home court during a varsity

game against the Miller Grove High School Lady Wolverines on Jan. 15.

Above, Lady Wildcats Coach Angela Nash talks

over strategy with her players.

The Lady Wolverines came out on top, 62-37, and

currently have a 12- 8 record. The Lady Wildcats are 8-9

this season. See additional photos on page 15.►









foons. This is just

legalized discrimination,




A 44-YEAR-OLD WOMAN








A 34-YEAR-OLD WOMAN





Opinions on parks vary, as some feel they’ve been this way before

BY JOE EARLE

[email protected]

The chance to sound off on the city’s

parks drew more than 120 people to

Dunwoody’s library branch on Jan. 12.

They packed into a meeting room, stand-

ing room only, to voice their ideas on a

rewrite of the city’s five-year parks plan.

Some found the discussion a bit famil-

iar.“A few years ago, we went to all these

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BY DYANA BAGBY

[email protected]

Renovating Brook Run Theater would

cost approximately $7.5 million and fi t

easily into the city of Dunwoody’s com-

prehensive plan, according to a new feasi-

bility study from The Brook Run Conser-

vancy.“I am pleased to let you know that we

are now certain that Dunwoody has a

need for this facility and that there is sig-

nifi cant support in the community for

that need,” states Conservancy President

Danny Ross in a Jan. 15 letter to the coun-

cil. The cost to construct a new theater at

about the same size would cost $24.5 mil-

lion, the feasibility study states.

The conservancy sent its feasibility

study to City Council members recently

and the issue is expected to come up at the

council’s Jan. 25 meeting.

While Ross argues that there is support

for renovating Brook Run Theater, he may

still face an uphill battle from the council.

She’s on a breakawayDunwoody’s Lady Wildcats take on Miller Grove’s Lady Wolverines

Study supports renovation of Brook Run Theater

PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER

At left, Dunwoody High School basketball player Anjanice Cutno breaks

away from the pack as she heads down her home court during a varsity

game against the Miller Grove High School Lady Wolverines on Jan. 15.

Above, Lady Wildcats Coach Angela Nash talks

over strategy with her players.

The Lady Wolverines came out on top, 62-37, and

currently have a 12- 8 record. The Lady Wildcats are 8-9

this season. See additional photos on page 15.►









foons. This is just

legalized discrimination,




A 44-YEAR-OLD WOMAN








A 34-YEAR-OLD WOMAN




Opinions on parks vary, as some feel they’ve been this way before

BY JOE EARLE

[email protected]

The chance to sound off on the city’s

parks drew more than 120 people to

Dunwoody’s library branch on Jan. 12.

They packed into a meeting room, stand-

ing room only, to voice their ideas on a

rewrite of the city’s five-year parks plan.

Some found the discussion a bit famil-

iar.“A few years ago, we went to all these


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An act of courageCity honors founder of nonprofi t with Humanitarian of the Year awardBY JOHN [email protected]

A hole in the sidewalk near a Dunkin’ Donuts at 6060 Roswell Road marks where a fi re hydrant was knocked down by a ve-hicle nearly a year ago and remains miss-ing. And for the last four months of 2015, if fi refi ghters had needed water to battle a blaze there, they would have found a fi re hydrant across the street gone as well.Such long repair times and uncertain inspections for the city’s 4,000 public and private fi re hydrants are an ongoing con-cern for Sandy Springs fi re offi cials. Fire Rescue Chief Keith Sanders is now gear-ing up a tighter, more accountable inspec-tion system. Step one: bringing hydrant inspections in-house instead of using pri-vate contractors, as the city has done since its founding.“The 2016

inspections will be done by the San-dy Springs fi re depart-ment,” Sand-ers said. “That way, I know all hy-drants have been touched and have been inspected.”

That will mean “more accuracy, more accountability,” Sanders said, adding it will also give fi refi ghters hands-on knowl-edge of where the city’s hydrants are in case they need to fi nd them in an emer-gency.But those inspections are where the fi re department’s direct control of the crucial safety devices ends. The 2,910 hydrants on city streets are actually owned by the city of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management, which can take months to make repairs.

Sanders called that situation a “chal-lenge,” though he added he is not aware of any recent fi re where fi refi ghters had trou-ble fi nding a working hydrant on a public

Fire chief wants to reform hydrant inspections

PHIL MOSIER

Tillie O’Neal-Kyles, founder of Every Woman Works, a nonprofi t that helps achieve fi nancial independence, personal growth and family leadership, was

named the city’s 2016 Humanitarian of the Year, at the 10th annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at City Hall on Jan. 18. Story on page 15.►

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