02-5-2016 Brookhaven Reporter

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See ERNST on page 19

BY DYANA [email protected]

As new Mayor John Ernst held his first formal meeting with the public, conversation turned to – no surprise here – traffic.

“I’m a real fan of the city. But the is-sue that concerns me … is we seem to be making that mistake where we let de-velopment happen, and we know they are starting in gridlock areas, and say we will look at traffic another day,” said Wayne Fell.

“We’re going to be like Buckhead in just a few years,” he said, drawing ap-plause.

Several residents told the mayor that traffic gridlock is lowering the quality of life they seek to have in Brookhaven.

Ernst mostly listened as people stat-ed their concerns during his town hall meeting that drew about 50 residents to the Lynwood Park Recreation Center

PHIL MOSIER

Greg Mitchell cruises around the lake in Murphey Candler Park on Jan. 30. Consultants studying ways to clean the lake and creeks that feed it are considering recommending $15 million to $20 million in watershed improvement projects over the next 50 years. Their recommendations could

include shoreline restoration projects on portions of the lake. Read story about the watershed study and see additional photos on page 2.►

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Ernst hears citizen concerns at first town hall meeting

Cleaning up the watershed

COMMUNITYResidents resistant to Brookhaven/Oglethorpe MARTA development plans

“Traffic 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 stuff be-cause traffic is just horrible.”SUSAN CLARKE

See more reaction to proposed highrises in the Perimeter area in Commentary, page 12. See MARTA on page 16


A mostly skeptical crowd packed City Council’s chambers at Brookhaven City Hall on Feb. 2 to listen to MARTA’s plans for development around the MAR-TA/Oglethorpe station. Officials said the project could bring $200 million to the city.

Questions were raised about traffic, density, safety, storm water and sewers

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MAKING A DIFFERENCEA mother and her two daughters share their breast cancer journeysBY 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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Consultants expect to recommend $15 million to $20 million in projects to clean up Nancy Creek watershedBY JOE [email protected]

Consultants helping to draw up a management plan for the Nancy Creek watershed say they likely will recom-mend spending $15 million to $20 million over the next half century to clean up wa-ter in the area.

The money would pay for 30 to 40 sep-arate projects, ranging from adding lit-ter collectors to catch floatable items in streams near I-285 to projects that would provide shore restoration for Murphey Candler Lake. Kimberly Shorter, princi-pal engineer for Sustainable Water Plan-ning and Engineering, said the SWP&E consultants expected to present their report to Brookhaven City Council in March or April.

“This is a long-term visionary goal,” Shorter told about a dozen people who gathered at the Marist School on Jan. 27 for the first of two public meetings sched-uled to discuss the study. “We will not be there in five years.”

Residents attending the briefing seemed to welcome the proposals for improvements in the area, which cov-ers north Brookhaven. Kathryn Gable, who has lived in the area since 1970, said flooding has greatly worsened in the area while she’s lived there. “I love the plan,” she said.

Shorter said the consultants have been working on the plan since March. They walked creeks in the area to find problems and to determine what needed to be done. “A lot of our time was spent on creek problems,” she said.

They also evaluated 62 ponds, which accounted for about 60 percent of the total number of ponds in the area, she said. Only four of the “beneficial” ponds they examined didn’t need some form of maintenance, she said.

Shorter said the consultants hope to identify projects that would benefit sev-eral local communities and might qual-ify for regional water improvement grants. “The Nancy Creek watershed crosses multiple jurisdictions,” she said. “Our hope is the region as a whole can in-dentify projects that are more regional.”

One goal of the study, she said, is to bring local creeks up to the level where they meet state pollution standards. Two creeks in the area – Nancy Creek and Bubbling Creek – do not now meet the standards, she said. Other goals included restoring stream buffers in the area and improving streams so they provide better wildlife habitat.

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Top, Kimberly Shorter, principal engineer for Sustainable Water Planning and Engineering, said at a Jan. 27 at Marist School her firm recommends spending $15-

$20 million over the next half century to clean up the Nancy Creek watershed.

Above, Betsy Boone, left, and Hayes Purcell walk around Murphey Candler Lake on Jan. 30.

Above, and below right, consultants walked creeks in the watershed area

to find and determine what needed to be done, like bringing waterways up to meeting state pollution standards. At this time, Nancy Creek and Bubbing Creek do not meet those standards.

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Brookhaven council approves resolution thanking Marie GarrettBY DYANA [email protected]

The Brookhaven City Council offi-cially approved a $225,000 settlement package with former city manager Ma-rie Garrett in exchange for her resigna-tion. The council also publicly thanked her for her service.

The resolution approved Jan. 26 reads, in part, “The city of Brookhav-en and Marie Garrett have resolved a contract disagreement to the satisfac-tion of all concerned. Over the past three years, Marie Garrett’s integrity and hard work have been invaluable as-sets to our city and instrumental to the city’s success. The mayor and city coun-cil thank Marie for her devoted service and wish her the best in her future en-deavors.”

Former mayoral candidate Dale Boone spoke during public comment at the council meeting and said he was unhappy there was no documentation laying out what Garrett did that led to her separation from the city.

“City managers come and city man-agers go. I like documentation. If some-one has done something wrong, I want to see documentation,” he told the coun-

cil. “And I have yet to see any documentation that my previous city manag-er did anything wrong.”

Jim McKechnie, a local real estate agent, said he was “disappointed” in the council’s action and deci-sion to not be transpar-ent about what happened between the city and Gar-rett.

“This is not right,” he said. “More transparen-cy needs to come from this council and it needs to start now.”

Council members held a special called meeting Jan. 12 to suspend Gar-rett and set a meeting to fire her, but instead agreed to enter into mediation with her and her attorney. The city’s employment attorney said the media-tion was necessary to avoid a long and expensive legal battle.

Attempts to reach Garrett for com-ment have not been successful and Gar-rett’s attorney, Dan Klein, also declined to comment. Mayor John Ernst has also declined comment.

Former Mayor J. Max Davis, who

hired Garrett, said Gar-rett’s separation came at a good time in the city’s evolution.

“I think it’s a good time for a change … it’s appropriate,” he said. Davis added that some “friction” between Gar-rett and him, and be-tween Garrett and the council started spring-ing up during his last months as mayor.

“It was becoming more and more evident

the city needed change,” Davis said. “I’m glad the new mayor and council decided to move on.”

Former mayor defends Garrett’s salary

Some Brookhaven residents criti-cized Garrett’s $214,000 salary, but Da-vis defended his and the council’s deci-sion to pay her that amount.

“Marie had great expertise. There was no one else like her” when it came to getting a new city up and running, he said. But after 18 months, the council

and staff had gained more experience and her niche skills were not as neces-sary, he said.

“She was what we needed and the salary was what she deserved,” he said. “Certainly after the second year we were all beginning to re-evaluate our needs.”

Garrett was hired full-time as city manager in 2014 after first serving as interim city manager beginning in De-cember 2012. She was paid at the same salary rate of $214,000 before being hired full-time, and had the opportuni-ty to earn additional pay through con-sulting fees if she worked more than the 40 hours a week in her agreement to be the city’s interim city manager.

The council recruited Garrett from the private sector where she was con-sulting, writing a textbook and teach-ing.

Brookhaven conducted a national search for its top administrative posi-tion and reviewed 79 applications from 23 states before hiring Garrett. A search is on for a new city manager with Police Chief Gary Yandura serving as interim city manager.

Marie Garrett


Parents express dissatisfation with DeKalb County Schools’ plan for Cross Keys cluster overcrowdingBY DYANA [email protected]

DeKalb County School administrators will announce their recommendations for redistricting to address the Cross Keys cluster overcrowding on Feb. 11 dur-ing a public meeting at the high school.

The school district in January present-ed fi ve options to alleviate overcrowding at schools in the cluster and have been gathering input from the public. Schools affected by the redistricting include Bri-ar Vista Elementary School, Cary Reyn-olds Elementary School, Chamblee High School, Cross Keys High School, Dresden Elementary School, Fernbank Elementa-ry School, Montclair Elementary School, Warren Tech and Woodward Elementa-ry School.

Many parents at a Jan. 14 public meet-ing expressed their dissatisfaction with the proposed redistricting plans. They said three options presented for elemen-tary school redistricting remove students from their neighborhood schools.

“You’re pulling kids out of their neigh-borhoods, moving them from the Wood-ward area to a place where none of them live … and many parents don’t have cars,”

said Lynn King at the Jan. 14 meeting. “What happens if there is an emergency during the day? How do you propose get-ting parents to the school? There has to be more concern about lack of transpor-tation.”

More than 100 portable classrooms, or trailers, have been installed at the Cross Keys cluster schools to help with over-crowding; DeKalb school offi cials say the cluster has nearly 2,000 more students than it can really hold.

The redistricting options are, accord-ing to DeKalb County Public Schools, a way to reduce portable classrooms for the next school year. A superintendent recommendation on redistricting will be made at the March 7 board meeting.

ESPLOST funding to helpOn Feb. 1, the DeKalb Board of Educa-

tion approved a joint resolution with At-lanta Public Schools and City Schools of Decatur placing the proposed fi fth Ed-ucational Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax before voters in May. If ap-proved, collection of funds would begin in July and end in June 2022.

“The joint resolution laid out in fi ve paragraphs is the referendum that

will be voted upon May 24. On Feb. 12, DeKalb County School District will pub-lish a pamphlet and PowerPoint that will outline the budgets for these fi ve para-graphs, one of which is for new or re-placement schools and additions, in-cluding those needed for the Cross Keys Cluster,” said DCSD Spokesperson Quinn Hudson.

The budget for the new or replace-

ment schools and additions is $230 mil-lion, Hudson said. The amount of the $230 million that would go to Cross Keys will be decided in the fall, after the May vote and after the Secondary School Fea-sibility and Planning Study that will look at the middle and high schools in the overcrowded clusters of Cross Keys, Dun-woody, Chamblee, Lakeside, Druid Hills, Tucker and Clarkston.

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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.

Regional planningBut in previous interviews and re-

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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.

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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.”

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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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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

for wanting to live in my neighborhood…I

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

Clinton Horn

“I think it’s all a good idea as long as we can manage our traffi c.”

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

“They always say it’s all there at MARTA, but

how many peo-ple are going to use

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

“My concern is [there are] already

traffi c problems around that entire area. I think it’s go-ing to be a huge

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.”

Donald Gilner

“No. They haven’t taken the steps in the past that are needed to pave the way.”

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DO OR DIETI’ve tried to diet, but I’m not good at

denying myself. For 23 years I haven’t taken a shower without someone knocking at the door with a question that can’t wait another two minutes—so yes, I’m going to eat that cookie.

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.”

I’ve tried that method too, but it doesn’t seem to work as well for me. I’ve decided that the only thing left for me to do is follow another piece of mom’s advice…to stand up straight and suck in my stomach.

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LOCAL RESIDENT NAMED TO STATE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION

Brookhaven resident Evan Jacobs was recently sworn in as a member of the Georgia Commission on the Holo-caust, an educational agency that op-erates the “Anne Frank in the World” exhibit in Sandy Springs. Jacobs is a speech-language pathologist at DeKalb County’s Lakeside High School. Her husband Mike Jacobs is a DeKalb Coun-ty judge. She was appointed to the com-mission by Gov. Nathan Deal.

TREE PRESERVATIONISTS HONORED AT CITY COUNCIL

The Brookhaven Park Project was the recipient of the inaugural Tree Pres-ervation and Planting Awards at the re-cent Brookhaven City Council meeting.

Those receiving certificates of ap-preciation at the Jan. 26 council meet-ing were Mike Elliot with Friends of Brookhaven Park; Johnny Ladson with

Gables Residential; and Patric Fisher with Native Trees LLC.

When the Gables Oglethorpe devel-opment got underway in 2014, it be-came clear the trees along Hermance Drive could not be saved. But Gables Residential and Friends of Brookhaven Park came together to move the trees to Brookhaven Park, according to a report from the city.

With the help of Brookhaven arbor-ist Kay Evanovich, the two groups iden-tified 22 of the 45 trees that could be transplanted. Gables Residential paid for the transplanting and initial main-tenance of the trees; cost for this proj-ect was $6,000.

Native Trees, a local company with tree spading and moving equipment and expertise, was hired to move and plant the trees in Brookhaven Park. The Friends of Brookhaven Park purchased hoses and hired labor to hand water all the trees throughout the summer until early fall.

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Community Briefs

Brookhaven seeking to recoup nearly $1 million from ComcastBY DYANA [email protected]

Comcast owes the city of Brookhav-en nearly $1 million in franchise fees it failed to pay the city from 2013 to 2015, and now the city is charging 1 percent interest in an attempt to recoup the money.

Comcast is saying, however, that the city changed its agreement and that is why the company has not paid the mon-ey due.

The 1 percent interest rate was tacked on to the Comcast payment of $981,976 during the Brookhaven City Council’s Jan. 26 work session.

“They signed an agreement saying the amount they owed … and we haven’t received our check,” Mayor John Ernst

said after the Jan. 26 council meeting. “We’re putting them on notice and send-ing a nice letter, yet again, asking them to please send our money.”

In April, Comcast agreed to pay the city the unpaid franchise fees dating from January 2013 through March 2015. However, zero payments have been made to the city, resulting in the council adding the 1 percent per month interest rate, city officials said.

Comcast also agreed to make quar-terly payments on current franchise fees and has been doing so since last year, a city spokesperson said. Fran-chise fees are paid to local governments by private cable TV companies such as Comcast for use of the public right of way for cable. Private cable TV compa-nies typically charge customers fran-

chise fees and are to take that money and pay it to the cities.

Greg Fender of the Georgia Municipal As-sociation informed the council during its work session that the city has met all criteria to be paid for the franchise fees.

Fender also met with the council for nearly an hour during a closed-door executive session during the council’s work session.

Alex Horwitz, vice president of public re-lations for Comcast, said Brookhaven changed the agreement it had with the company resulting in no payments be-ing made.

“When the city of Brookhaven tran-sitioned from DeKalb County, there was a period of time where our payments continued to be made to DeKalb, which we corrected. We ultimately settled on an agreement with the city to make back payments for that period of time.

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tomers, and payment to local franchising author-ities like Brookhaven. We have gone through this process smoothly with all other newly incorpo-rated cities, from Sandy Springs to Peachtree Cor-ners.

“We look forward to working closely with the city of Brookhaven to resolve this matter in a timely manner.”

Horwitz declined to describe what the altera-tion was.

Chris Balch, Brookhav-en’s attorney, said there has been no change to the agreement between the city and Comcast.

“The franchise agreement signed by Comcast calls for all payments of fran-chise fees to be remitted to the city from January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2015. They have not paid those fees. There has been no change to that agreement as passed by the Council,” Balch said.

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Hannah Nicholas, a junior at Dunwoody High School and a member of the school’s Band Color Guard, practices for first-round tryouts to become part of the “Honor Band of America,” who will participate in the 2017 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif. Hannah was getting in some moves on a spring-like day at Murphey Candler Park on Jan. 30.


ty taxes, she explained, but the develop-ments to the property, including retail space, means more sales tax revenue.

Also planned are mid-rise towers, no more than seven-stories high, to in-clude nearly 600 one-bedroom or two-bedroom residences, such as condo-miniums, Germano said. “We’re looking at young urban professionals and emp-ty nesters. These places will be fairly expensive,” he said.

Plans are to also have 126 affordable apartments for seniors, he said.

A 1-acre park is also planned within the development to connect Peachtree Road and Apple Valley Way.

The new demand for TODs and multi-use property comes from millenials who want to walk to restaurants and work and have ready ac-cess to public transpor-tation, Germano added. “They want to be in an ur-ban area,” he said.

One resident, who said he was a commercial Re-altor, dismissed the plans for urban development in Brookhaven. “We’re not trying to become Mid-town,” he said. “We are a car city and are always go-ing to be a car city. This is the wrong site. I’m not

looking to revitalize the Capital City Country Club.”

Another person said there would be no way the small two-lane roads lead-ing into the MARTA station site could handle a major increase in traffic. Ter-rell Carstens said MARTA’s plans to have off-street parking on Apple Val-ley Way was a mistake because it would lead to people circling neighborhoods

while waiting for a space to come open.Frank McCloskey said he was con-

cerned about the lack of trust he per-ceived there to be between residents and the city government when it came to ensuring transparent development.

“I hear what you’re saying about the city being a kind of backstop, a firewall … and I think this is fair, but there’s not a lot of trust at this moment with the city and how it is approving things,” he said to applause.

Despite the overwhelmingly doubt-ful crowd, there were a few people who supported the project.

“I think this is a spectacular proj-ect here,” said Bill Roberts. “This could change everything about Brookhav-en. Make it your A-game and make it something we can be excited about and I think we will all get behind it and be supportive of it.”

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More due diligence, including a traf-fic study, is set to take place soon, ex-plained MARTA Senior Director of Transit Oriented Development and Real Estate Amanda Rhein.

“We want to get feedback before get-ting too much along in the process,” Rhein said.

The traffic study many people want-ed to know about will be done in part-nership with the city, Rhein added.

The first formal step in creating a TOD, also dubbed by MARTA as a “town center,” at the Brookhaven/Oglethorpe station is to apply for rezoning of the approximate 15-acre site to allow for multi-use development. That request is set to take place the first of April,

said Trent Germano, senior managing director with Transwestern Development Company.

Transwestern and The Integral Group have joined forces as the Brookhav-en City Center Partners to plan the project with MAR-TA. The project is to include affordable senior housing and street-level retail.

More community meet-ings are planned through-out February and there will also be meetings with the local Chamber of Commerce and Citi-zen Review Board. Groundbreaking is expected in early 2017, Germano said.

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A portion of Roswell Road remade as “Roswell Boulevard” with a tree-lined me-dian? That’s among the big ideas coming out of Sandy Springs’ “Next Ten” planning process.

“It’s more than just a land-use plan. It’s a vision for the community,” said Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul, introducing a presentation on the work thus far for the Next Ten—combining a revision of the city’s Comprehensive Plan, a rewrite of its zoning code and detailed plans for certain areas.

The concepts met interest and curiosi-ty from 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 Pe-rimeter Center—appeared to engage the crowd, but it kept mostly quiet.

The general thrust of the planning is more mixed-use redevelopment and reduc-ing car travel. But the consultant team, led by Rhodeside & Harwell, is adding some bigger proposals that would transform en-tire areas, such as routing some form of al-ternative public transit east-west through central Sandy Springs. And a much-dis-cussed idea of a Sandy Springs monorail was talked about some more.

Also in Sandy Springs, plans to re-place a church with a 201-unit senior hous-ing building is drawing traffi c and density concerns—and some grudging acceptance. About 70 residents attended a community meeting Jan. 25 to hear about Parc Commu-nities’ plans for the Apostles Church site at Glenridge Drive and Hammond Drive.

“I live in Sandy Springs,” said Parc Com-munities President and CEO Roy Dickson, sympathizing with visions of traffi c night-mares discussed at the meeting, which was 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 densi-ty, something that is going to invite ques-tions.”

Dickson and attorney Chip Collins, a former Sandy Springs city councilman, of-fered to shave 12 feet of dirt from the site to reduce its height. No one in the crowd seemed thrilled, but several said that in to-day’s skyscraper-sprouting Sandy Springs, they were willing to settle for a relatively 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.

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Roswell Road could be transformed, with its central turn lane converted into a tree-lined median on the northern stretch and a grass median on the southern leg. Large

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Stephen Derks, with the Astra Group, installs safety netting around the new “tree house” structure at Chastain Park.

cials planned to start work this month on a controversial project to build roundabouts at the Riverside Drive/I-285 in-terchange in Sandy Springs. Construction will continue through November, GDOT says. The $5.6 million proj-ect will replace ramps with roundabouts and rehab the Riverside Drive bridge over I-285.

And in Buckhead, Con-struction projects now un-derway are giving new looks to several familiar features around Chastain Park. The park’s playground reopens this month af-ter 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 equipment was ex-pected to open for public use this month.

A formal opening for the playground is scheduled for March.

Meanwhile, separate projects in other parts of the park will expand the jogging path along Powers Ferry Road and make the Chastain Park pool available for year-round swimming.

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A roof is being added to allow year-round swimming at the pool at Chastain Park.


One resident of Mount Vernon Woods who works at the Arby’s fast-food company headquar-ters next door said most of her cowork-ers do not use MAR-TA and that current 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, every-body in the [Arby’s] building across the street started freak-ing out.”

Bill Woulfin, CEO of Metabolic Testing Services, was among several of the existing building’s com-mercial tenants who expressed con-cerns 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 re-tail or service businesses only, meaning he would be moved elsewhere.

“That’s the first we heard of it,” Woul-fin said, adding he is concerned about traffic and parking impacts on his pa-tients.

“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 Vernon Highway, as well as a “re-tail alley” facing a semicircular path be-tween the existing hexagonal building and the new towers.

The existing building will get a “sig-nificant facelift” that is already under-

way, Forrest said. That includes cut-ting three new entrances into its central courtyard. That courtyard is current private, but will be opened to the pub-lic and possibly host concerts or perfor-mances, Forrest said.

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

Because the meeting, held at the ex-isting Perimeter Center West office building, was a preliminary review re-quired before filing actual plans, few other details were available. Hill said the filing should happen 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 variances for excessive height and less parking that is usually required because of the proximity to MARTA.

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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 local streets, raising concerns among about 45 residents and business owners who attended the first community meet-ing on Jan. 20 about the massive redevel-opment of 1117 Perimeter Center West.

Representatives of the developers—identified as Hong Property Trust of Sydney, Australia—said the mixed-use nature of the project could reduce its ef-fect on traffic. And a direct connection to the Sandy Springs MARTA station, which sits under part of the site, is a po-tential traffic mitigation, project attor-ney Jessica Hill said.

“The idea is that it’s live, work and play, and you never have to leave,” said Rob Forrest, the real estate profession-al who’s representing Hong Property in the deal.

But the sheer scale of the project and some of its preliminary numbers still worried residents, especially with oth-er major redevelopments coming near-

by, 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 stories tall. That’s in ad-dition to the hexagonal office building currently on the 13.5-acre site, which would remain with modifications.

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

The proposed MARTA connection would be through an existing emergen-cy exit tunnel, Hill said.

The project will be deemed a Devel-opment of Regional Impact and get a massive transportation study, said John Walker of Kimley-Horn, the traffic con-sulting firm hired by the developer.

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on Jan. 28. Besides traffic, residents worried about development, schools, speeding and parks.

Terrell Carstens asked the city’s leader-ship to protect the suburban feel of Brookhaven.

“I would like to see a goal of our leadership, elect-ed and other city officials, to … un-derstand what we’ve been asking for three years. We understand urbanism but we want to remain a suburban feel,” she said.

“Rather than throwing up your arms and saying, ‘You’ve just got to live with it, it’s a reality, this is going to be an urban environment ‘… that you help us by protect-ing the suburban feel of our neighborhoods and leave the urban part to only com-mercial areas,” she added. “I think this is a huge value this close to Buckhead and the city of Atlanta.”

Only one question from the friendly crowd was posed about the $225,000 pay-out to former City Manager Marie Garrett in exchange for her resignation. Ernst said the issue was completely finished and said he was legally bound to not com-ment further.

Ernst explained Brookhaven has a “strong city manager” system and that the mayor and City Council are not in charge of day-to-day city operations. He said cri-teria for the new city manager includes that he or she be able to conduct commu-nity outreach.

Ernst said he is working on identifying each HOA in Brookhaven to ensure city officials can attend their meetings to get the word out about what is happening in city government.

The city is also working with Google Fiber to find a new location for a hut after the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals rejected its plan for a utility hut in Parkside Park. Ernst promised, “We will find a solution in the end.”


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About 50 residents attended Mayor John Enrst’s fi rst town hall meeting, held at Lynwood Park Recreation Center on Jan. 28.

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PCIDs’ study backs ‘fl yover bridge’ extension on Pill HillBY JOHN [email protected]

A new Pill Hill road extending the Perimeter Center Parkway “flyover bridge” to Johnson Ferry Road would aid traffic and is worth a full study, ac-cording 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 al-ready planned Pill Hill project that would make bicycle and pedestri-an improvements to Peachtree-Dun-woody 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 ex-tension through the intersection.

Both projects aim to boost walkabil-ity, 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 some-times jokingly called the “bridge to no-where” as it ends at Lake Hearn Drive. However, PCIDs long planned to make it a bridge to somewhere 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

traffic concerns related to plans for a large apartment development. PCIDs commissioned a preliminary feasi-bility study for $5,000 from Gresh-am, Smith and Partners, a firm that is also conducting an Ashford-Dunwoody Road improvement study for the city of Brookhaven.

The study, delivered to the PCIDs board in late January, says the new road would produce a “significant re-duction” of Peachtree-Dunwoody Road traffic and “no significant increase” in Johnson Ferry traffic.

About 700 feet of the road would have to be a bridge over a stream and wetlands, the study says. Exactly how and where it would connect with John-son Ferry is also a question, as Wil-liams said there are two or three possi-ble alignments.

“It would be an expensive project. It’s not a small-ticket item,” Williams said.

The study was “first-level work” with “no technical findings,” Williams said. So the next step is convening city offi-cials, Pill Hill hospitals and residents for a meeting to see if there’s support “to go into a deeper-dive study,” she

said. The PCIDs will arrange that meet-ing, probably sometime in the next few months, Williams said.

At the same January board meeting, PCIDs learned that that Atlanta Region-al Commission staff recommended $4 million in grant funding to build the Peachtree-Dunwoody/Lake Hearn im-provement project, which PCIDs and the city of Sandy Springs began plan-ning in 2012. The project would widen both streets—including Peachtree-Dun-woody beneath the I-285 bridge—to add “full bicycle and pedestrian crosswalk amenities,” Williams said. It also makes room for an extension of the PATH 400 multi-use trail.

The project would take about two years to build and must coordinate with the state’s upcoming reconstruc-tion of the I-285/Ga. 400 interchange.

The grant still needs a vote by the ARC board, which is expected in March. “Would I be surprised if we didn’t get it? I would absolutely be surprised,” Wil-liams said, noting the project’s strong support from city and MARTA officials.

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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.

So let us remember that Umi’s menu is totally great. At Himitsu, you can find some of the “sushi boxes,” which are not bentos but sushi rolls that are pressed

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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.

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to Brook Run Theater. “Brook Run Park is the wrong location for such use,” he said this month. “The theater use dur-ing daylight … evenings and every week-end day would conflict with the other current, active uses of the park.”

Nall also opposes any idea of put-ting City Hall in Brook Run Park. “If a larger theater and town hall meeting space were constructed in Dunwoody, I believe it is better suited near a future City Hall, where shared-use parking is not in conflict.”

Councilwoman Pam Tallmadge said she is studying available documents on the proposal of Brook Run Theater while Councilman John Heneghan and Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch have questioned locating a community the-ater or performing arts center in the park; both also have expressed con-cerns.

Heneghan said this month he wants to wait for the results of a public survey to be going out to residents soon on the city’s parks plan before he makes any

final decision of whether or not to sup-port the proposed project.

An attempt to reach Shortal by email for his thoughts on the theater were not successful. Last year, as a councilman, he was the only member who appeared to support the idea, going head-to-head with former Mayor Mike Davis who strongly opposed the plan.

The battle over Brook Run Theater BY DYANA [email protected]

Brook Run Park was packed on a re-cent warm Sunday afternoon as Steve and Anita Drange walked past the di-lapidated theater building, hidden be-hind shade trees with “Keep Out” signs posted on the welded shut doors.

“It is a bit rundown,” Steve Drange said over sounds of teens riding skate-boards at the nearby skate park. “At one time there were buildings all through these woods. It was a hospital. This is the last one stand-ing.”

Those buildings Drange recalls in-cluded dormitories, an administration building and the theater, and were the part of the Geor-gia Retardation Center, a facility that operated from the 1960s to the late 1990s.

Due to asbes-tos lining the inte-riors, neglect, and wear and tear, the buildings were torn down in the years following the cen-ter’s closure. The theater building has so far been spared the wrecking ball.

Now efforts to save the Brook Run Theater have led to heated debate in Dunwoody among city officials and residents.

Some 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 fight because of how old the building is,” Drange said. He and his wife, who live just a cou-ple of miles from the park, said they support the idea of refurbishing the building and love the idea of a com-munity theater located in the park

“It’s community development. It’s a nice setting,” he said.

“We like theater. We’re regular the-atergoers. It would employ local ac-tors and actresses,” she said. “This is a nice area. The development in the area has been great. I don’t know why there is such a controversy. I guess be-

cause of the millions it would take to fix it up.”

Battle over fundingCosts associated with what to do

with the theater building vary, depend-ing on whom you ask.

The Brook Run Conservancy, which backs renovation of the theater, in Jan-uary sent the Dunwoody City Council a feasibility study it had done to deter-mine costs of renovating the building. That study estimates rehabilitating and

equipping the the-ater would cost, on the low end, about $7.5 million, and on the high end, ap-proximately $18 mil-lion.

Headed up by former councilman Danny Ross, the conservancy is seek-ing a partnership with the city to take on the theater reno-vation. The conser-vancy’s study also states the renova-tion would cost sig-nificantly less than constructing a new theater, a price tag it puts at nearly $25

million, not including parking and the purchase of land.

Dunwoody City Engineer Kevin Mc-Comber told the council last year it would cost close to $7 million to ren-ovate the theater. He also did not rec-ommend renovation, saying the facility needed to be completely gutted.

At Mayor Denis Shortal’s first town hall meeting on Jan. 21, there was only brief mention of the theater during the public com-ment period. One res-ident told Shortal no tax money should go to saving the build-ing, arguing tax funds

should go toward ath-letic fields.But Sarah Sloan, who has

lived in Dunwoody nearly 30 years, said after the town hall meeting she supports the idea of a small, intimate community theater for Dunwoody.

“It’s great to talk about ath-letics, but you also need music, art — you have to have a soul for a community,” she said. “I don’t want a Verizon theater. I want a small, intimate citywide theater for a small city.”

Councilman Terry Nall has been vocal about his opposition


Above and below, one building is all that is left of the Georgia Retardation Center, which operated in Brook Run Park from the 1960s to the late 1990s. Turning the

building into a community theater space has become a hotly debated topic.

It’s great to talk about athle�ics, but you also need music, art — you have to have a soul for a community. I don’t want a Verizon the-ater. I want a small, in�imate citywide the-ater for a small city.SARAH SLOAN

It is a bit rundown. At one �ime there were buildings all through these woods. It was a hospital. This is the last one standing. STEVE DRANGE

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

“I suspect it would be a tough battle to fight because of how old the building is,” Drange said. He and his wife, who live just a cou-ple of miles from the park, said they support the idea of refurbishing the building and love the idea of a com-munity theater located in the park

“It’s community development. It’s a

“We like theater. We’re regular the-atergoers. It would employ local ac-tors and actresses,” she said. “This is a nice area. The development in the area has been great. I don’t know why there is such a controversy. I guess be-

needed to be completely gutted.At Mayor Denis Shortal’s first town

hall meeting on Jan. 21, there was only brief mention of the theater during the public com-ment period. One res-ident told Shortal no tax money should go to saving the build-ing, arguing tax funds

should go toward ath-letic fields.But Sarah Sloan, who has

lived in Dunwoody nearly 30 years, said after the town hall meeting she supports the idea of a small, intimate community theater for Dunwoody.

“It’s great to talk about ath-letics, but you also need music, art — you have to have a soul for a community,” she said. “I don’t want a Verizon theater. I want a small, intimate citywide theater for a small city.”

Councilman Terry Nall has been vocal about his opposition

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A R R E S T S 3500 block of Buford Highway — On

Jan. 15, an arrest for transactions of drug-related paraphernalia, obstruction and interference.

3200 block of Buford Highway — On Jan. 14, arrest for DUI.

3200 block of Bu-ford Highway — On Jan. 16, two arrests of individuals for DUI.

2900 block of Bu-ford Highway — On Jan. 16, arrest for pub-lic intoxication and public consumption.

At North Druid Hills/I-85 — On Jan. 16, arrest for soliciting or begging on county/city property.

1700 block of Dun-woody Place — On Jan. 17, arrest for public intoxication and public con-sumption.

1900 block of N. Druid Hills Road — On Jan. 17, arrest for possession of a fi re-arm by a felon.

North Cliff Valley Way/Buford High-way — On Jan. 17, arrest for failure to obey traffi c-control devices.

1300 block of Dresden Drive — On Jan. 17, arrest for public intoxication and public consumption.

1700 block of Dunwoody Place — On Jan. 17, arrest for public intoxication and public consumption.

Northeast Expressway/North Druid Hills Road — On Jan. 17, arrest for sus-pended/revoked license.

1900 block of North Druid Hills — On Jan. 17, arrest for possession of a fi rearm by a felon.

North Cliff Valley Way/Buford High-way — On Jan. 17, arrest for failure to obey traffi c control devices.

1300 block of Dresden Drive — On Jan. 17, arrest for city ordinance violation.

2700 block of Buford Highway/Dunex Hill Lane — On Jan. 18, arrest for reck-less driving.

1800 block of Corporate Boulevard — On Jan. 18, arrest for DUI.

4000 block of Peachtree Road/Dres-den Drive — On Jan. 18, arrest for pedes-trian right of way in crosswalks.

3800 block of Peachtree Road — On Jan. 18, arrest for obstruction and inter-ference.

2300 block of Johnson Ferry Road — On Jan. 19, arrest for no insurance.

4500 block of Peachtree Road/Ashford Dunwoody Road — On Jan. 19, arrest for no insurance.

2400 block of Briarcliff Road — On Jan. 19, arrest for theft by deception.

100 block of White Rock Drive — On Jan. 20, arrest for terroristic threats and acts.

2600 block of Buford Highway — On Jan. 20, arrest for failure to appear.

1700 block of Briarwood Road — On Jan. 20, arrest for no driver’s license.

2600 block of Buford Highway — On Jan. 21, arrest for failure to appear.

North Druid Hills Road/85 North — On Jan. 21, arrest for following too close-ly.

4000 block of Gables Drive — On Jan. 21, arrest for possession of marijuana in an amount of less than an ounce.

1000 block of Mendell Circle — On Jan. 21, arrest for DUI.

2000 block of Johnson Ferry Road — On Jan. 21, arrest for no insurance.


2800 block of Buford Highway — On Jan. 22, arrest for no driver’s license.

3500 block of Buford Highway — On Jan. 22, arrest for wanted person located.

3300 block of Buford Highway — On Jan. 22, arrest for wanted person located.

North Druid Hills Road/West Druid Hills Road — On Jan. 23, arrest for DUI.

3100 block of Buford Highway — On Jan. 24, arrest for marijuana possession.


Jan. 16, two arrests of

or begging on county/

3300 block of Buford Highway — On Jan. 24, arrest for standards for brake lights and signal lights.



3300 block of Buford Highway — On Jan. 24, arrest for standards for brake lights and signal lights.

4000 block of Peachtree Road — On Jan. 24, arrest for no insurance.


4000 block of Peachtree Road — On Jan. 25, arrest for wanted person located.

3800 block of Peachtree Road — On Jan. 25, arrest for failure to appear.

2900 block of Buford Highway — On Jan. 25, arrest for shoplifting.

2300 block of North Druid Hills Road — On Jan. 25, arrest for no driver’s li-cense.


3000 block of Hillview Avenue — On Jan. 26, arrest for suspended/revoked drivers license.

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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

OUT & ABOUTPuppetry Arts Center expands under Atlanta’s own puppet masterPage 18

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with MARTA access, service,

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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.

Three Kings DayCelebrating a Latin tradition






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



foons. This is just legalized discrimination,




A 44-YEAR-OLD WOMAN



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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

Countinued on page 14



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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.




DunwoodyReporter


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


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


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,




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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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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



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