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Actors playing actors gives a look behind the curtain p. 10
PCIDs study backs yover bridge extension on Pill Hill p. 18
Tra c is already horrible. Its going to get worse [in the
Perimeter Center area]. ... Itll just mean Ill avoid that whole
area. Itll change where I shop, where I go. Right now you have to
plan when youre going to do stuf be-cause tra c is just
horrible.SUSAN CLARKE
See more reaction to proposed highrises in the Perimeter area in
Commentary, page 12. See BATTLE on page 20
BY DYANA [email protected]
Brook Run Park was packed on a re-cent warm Sunday afternoon as
Steve and Anita Drange walked past the dilap-idated theater
building, hidden behind shade trees with Keep Out signs post-ed 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 standing.
Those buildings Drange recalls in-cluded dormitories, an
administration building and the theater, and were the part of the
Georgia Retardation Center, a facility that operated from the 1960s
to the late 1990s.
Due to as-bestos lin-ing the in-teriors, neglect, and wear and
tear, the build-ings were torn down in the years follow-ing the
centers 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 reno-vate and repair
what they say is a historic building that could be converted to a
local, mod-ern theater and community gathering spot. Others say the
building is too far gone and no taxpayer money should be used to
save it.
I suspect it would be a tough battle
Flights of fancy The battle over Brook Runs theater
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.
See FAMILY on page 6
PHIL MOSIER
Rick Merced, who calls himself a drone racer, pilots his small
aircraft in a fi eld at Brook Run Park on Jan. 30. Merced said when
he was a kid, he dreamed of being a superhero, and now, through his
drone, he can watch the world go by and live out that dream. See
additional photos on page 3.
a facility that operated from the 1960s to the late 1990s.
Due to as-bestos lin-ing the in-
neglect, and wear and tear, the build-ings were torn down in the
years follow-ing the centers 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 reno-vate and repair
what they say is a historic building
OUT & ABOUTCelebrateBlack History MonthPage 8
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Dunwoody resident Robert Wittenstein was recently sworn in as a
member of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, an educational
agency that operates the Anne Frank in the World exhibit in Sandy
Springs. Wittenstein is president of the Dun-woody Homeowners
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JESTER PLANS TOWN HALL MEETINGS TO DISCUSS DEKALB BUDGET
DeKalb Commissioner Nancy Jester plans to host town hall
discussions in Dun-woody and Tucker about the 2016 county
budget.
A Feb. 9 meeting is planned for All Saints Catholic Church, 2443
Mount Vernon Road in Dunwoody; and a Feb. 23 meeting will be at the
Reid H. Cofer Library, 5234 LaVista Road in Tucker.
Every dollar DeKalb County receives comes from, and belongs to,
the taxpayers of DeKalb County. It is important to me that DeKalb
County taxpayers have the opportu-nity to offer input into the
budget development process. I want to hear directly from you about
your priorities. Our budget demonstrates what we value, Jester said
in the announcement.
DUNWOODYS STATE OF THE CITY SET FOR FEB. 25Dunwoodys seventh
annual State of the City address will be Feb. 25 from 6 p.m.
to 9 p.m. at Crowne Plaza Ravinia. Mayor Denny Shortal will
share his thoughts on the citys progress and his vision for the
citys future growth. The event is open to the pub-lic, and is
hosted by the city of Dunwoody and the Rotary Club of Dunwoody.
Crown Towers development ready for public input
BY DYANA [email protected]
Developers be-hind the Crown Towers develop-ment, an ambi-tious
project of highrises pro-posed on the for-mer Gold Kist site off
Ashford-Dun-woody Road, will meet with the Dunwoody Home-owners
Associa-tion on Feb. 15.
The 15-acre site is zoned for a 20-story hotel and two 24-story
high-rise office buildings. Crown Develop-ment last month filed a
pre-application review with the city of Dunwoody for a rezoning
request for 4.75 acres of the property that would allow the company
to build two additional residential tow-
ers not to exceed 40 stories at the east-ern end of the
project.
The land sits on I-285 along the west-bound entrance ramp at
Ashford-Dun-woody Road, adjacent to the citys MAR-TA station and
next to Perimeter Mall.
Veteran real estate developer Char-lie Brown, who is leading the
charge on the project, and attorney Doug Dil-lard met with a
handful of people at a Feb. 1 public meeting to lay out what is
planned for the property.
I think this is one of the best piec-es of property in metro
Atlanta or even the Southeast, Brown said.
Concerns about residential high-rises on the property were
raised, but Doug Dillard, who has worked with nu-merous
developments in metro Atlan-ta, tried to ease those concerns with
ex-amples of past development. Plans are for high-end condos, not
rental units.
When we did 33 floors at the Ravin-ia, people went crazy, and
now we see what it is, he said. Or the King and Queen buildings.
This is an opportu-nity to take Perimeter Center national. All were
asking is for 4.75 acres be re-zoned residential.
Brown explained plans for an east-west connector through
Dunwoody would greatly help with traffic in the area. The property
owners are set to donate 2 acres of land to go toward that
project.
The $20 million connector road would come off I-285, go under
Ash-ford-Dunwoody Road and connect with Perimeter Center Parkway.
The road is part of a network of connectors planned for the area as
new, highrise developments are being built.
DYANA BAGBY
Charlie Brown, who is heading up the Dunwoody Crown Towers
proposed development, explains a model of the
planned project to a handful of people at a Feb. 1 meeting.
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Flights of fancyRight, Rick Merced, a drone racer, takes a
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The city of Dunwoody has agreed to allow two companies to
install mini- cell towers to existing city-owned utility poles at a
cost of $500 each year for each installation.
Crown Castle and Mobilitie, wireless providers, will have 90
days to install the equipment designed to boost network reach
mostly on utility poles around the mall and in the Perimeter
area.
The original contract between the companies and Dunwoody called
for 120 days to install the equipment. How-ever, Councilwoman Lynn
Deutsch said this length of time would be too inconve-nient for
residents. The council approved her amendment to shorten the time
to 90 days.
Effi ciency is key. You get in, get it done, get out, Deutsch
said. Some of her constituents have complained about workers in
front of their homes at 8 p.m., she added.
The smaller devices attach to existing utility poles. The
technology is housed in what looks like a box or a cabinet,
con-taining wires and antennae designed to bring faster Internet,
and allowing wire-less technology users access to more data.
Ellen Smith, attorney for Crown Cas-tle, noted that the council
has discussed this issue at its November and December meetings.
If approved, this would be advanta-geous to the city, she said.
It would be removing right of way clutter and be free revenue for
the city.
Both contracts are good for fi ve years.
LEFT, CROWN CASTLE; ABOVE, FILE PHOTO
Above, the city of Dunwoody has agreed to have mini-cell towers
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Left, wireless providers will have 90 days to install the
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The political battle is just beginning over MARTAs 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
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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 hes asked City Manager John McDonough to
gath-er staff from various Fulton cities to talk about the
nitty-gritty of regional projects.
I think youre 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. Theyre taking leader-ship in getting everyone at
the table.
Under existing legislation, DeKalb and Fulton can ask voters to
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November ballot for trans-portation projects. The tax would sunset
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The MARTA proposalfi led by state Sen. Brandon Beach
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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 Buckheads
Lindbergh station and the Blue Lines 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 its too early for details.
Regional planningBut in previous interviews and re-
ports at City Council meetings, Paul has talked about the
importance of region-al planning and fi nding a compromise mix of
road and mass transit projects that voters would approve because
they would actually use them.
As [poet] John Donne said, were not an island among ourselves,
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Doctors told her not to worry, the lumps were nothing. But she
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She then also insisted on being tested for the breast cancer
susceptibility gene (BRCA) as an Ashkenazi Jew, she knew she was at
a higher risk of having the gene.
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
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Never in my wildest dreams did I ex-pect my daughter to have
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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 youre 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 Hadassahs 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.
Rochelle Schube also tries to see the
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positive despite the harrowing journeys she and her mother and
sister are on.
This happens to whole families. Its not fun. If I can find a
silver lining in all this, its 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 Alanas fight against cancer, saying she
rocked it dur-ing last years 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.
Rochelle Schube now volun-teers with Bright Pink, an
organiza-tion helping young women dealing with breast and ovarian
cancer. She facilitates a monthly support group and works
individually with women.
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
thats 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 its heartbreaking, she said. I didnt 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.
Mastectomy is not the same as aug-mentation. Its painful and its
different, she said.
Somebody needs to take a stand. And whats the alternative to not
speaking out? To internalize this and let others stumble? No.
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From left, Rochelle, Maxx and Alana Schube all carry the BRCA 1
gene mutation, which significantly
increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
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SELMA, LORD, SELMATuesday, 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
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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
Souths 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
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SAT PREPSunday, Feb. 21, 2-5 p.m. Get ready for the new SAT at
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FUNDRAISERSBOOK SALEFriday, Feb.12, 12-6 p.m. The Friends of the
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drinks). Attendees enjoy dishes provided by more than 25 Dunwoody
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This theater season, plays really are the things at the-aters in
San-dy Springs and Dunwoody.
At least thats 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 Theaters version of Moon Over
Buffalo, which opens in April and closes out the theaters
2015-2016 season, says it gives his audience a free trip
backstage.
Theater pa-trons like to see the background, whats going on
behind the scenes, said Hill, whose show fol-lows the Feb. 20
conclusion of the run of the theaters current production, Dogfi
ght. Youre 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. Its
about a television actor who resists portray-ing Shakespeares famed
character onstage, only to fi nd hes 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 Shakespeares
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. Youre 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. Its
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. Weve all been through that crap.
Hills 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.
Its funny because its 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 theaters 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. Its 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 theyre peeking behind the
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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 Steves 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.
Im not going to continue running a res-taurant past June,
Grossman said. Steves Live Music could cease to exist in this
loca-tion if I dont 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 Steves 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 Steves 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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CorrecionThe story Mixed-use develop-
ments are a hot trend, but theyre 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 o 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-turetraffi c [and similar
issues]. I cant blame people
for wanting to live in my neighborhoodI
just dont like the push for density, which seems to be the
policy in all these munic-ipalities.
Clinton Horn
I think its 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 dont know how theyre going to get there and get
home.
Karen Whitehead
They always say its all there at MARTA, but
how many peo-ple are going to use
MARTA? Traffi c is al-ready horrible. Its going to get worse.
... Itll just mean Ill avoid that whole area. Itll change where I
shop, where I go. Right now you have to plan when youre 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. Id like to see more parental
interest in our public schools and involvement.
Kirsten Neufeld
Traffi c, traffi c, traffi c!Cheryl Dupree
Im 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 its 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 its 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 treesI see huge
areas that are being to-tally wiped out.
Donald Gilner
No. They havent taken the steps in the past that are needed to
pave the way.
Richard Whitehead
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To the editor:Thank you for writing the article [Dun-
woody Reporter Jan. 22-Feb. 4] updating the status of the
Donaldson-Bannister Farm & Cemetery. This property is truly a
treasure for the citizens of Dunwoody, and has be-come an iconic
property similar to the Cheek-Spruill Farmhouse located at the
corner of Mount Vernon and Chamblee-Dunwoody roads.
Dunwoody Preservation Trust (DPT) owns the Cheek-Spruill
Farmhouse and is responsible for its listing on the Nation-al
Register of Historic Places. Dunwoody Preservation Trust is also
responsible for listing the Donaldson-Bannister Farm & Cemetery
on the National Register of His-toric Places.
The relationship of DPT to the Donald-son-Bannister Trust is
outlined under a Fa-cilities Usage Agreement between DPT and the
city of Dunwoody. DPT has not been contracted by the city of
Dunwoody to ren-ovate and repair the Donaldson-Bannis-ter property.
Rather, DPT is working with the city in the rehabilitation of the
proper-ty. That rehabilitation includes the demo-lition of the rear
(non-historic) barn and replacing it with ADA bathrooms and a
multipurpose room. This project has been arranged via a 2015 grant
that includes city funding, DPT funding, and corporate con-
tributions of supplies and materials. The initial facilities
usage agreement
provided for city funds for capital improve-ments that are
presently being utilized in the stabilization of the house. These
funds have been carried forward from prior city budgets. The 2016
city budget includes $100,000 in funds that have been allocat-ed
toward the rehabilitation of the prop-erty. The total amount of
city funds spent and committed to the rehabilitation of the
property during the last three years is $450,000. The total amount
of DPT funds spent and committed to the property dur-ing the last
three years is $190,000.
While rehabilitation is far from com-plete, DPT will be opening
the property for tours beginning in late February. Rehabil-itation
activity will continue throughout 2016 and well into 2017, however,
the prop-erty will be open for community use this year and
throughout the rehabilitation. We are actively seeking community
volun-teers (groups) who are interested in work-ing on the
rehabilitation.
DPT looks forward to adding this prop-erty to the roster of
parks available for community usage.
Jim WilliamsVice president,
Dunwoody Preservation Trust, Inc.
DO OR DIETIve tried to diet, but Im not good at de-
nying myself. For 23 years I havent tak-en a shower without
someone knocking at the door with a question that cant wait another
two minutesso yes, Im going to eat that cookie.
My mind and my body have an agree-ment. I dole out positive
reinforcement treats to my body throughout the day, and it gets me
out of bed in the morning.
There are so many theories, so many methods for dieting, and Ive
danced with them all and sent them home happy.
Ive heard to eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and
dinner like a pau-per. I pretty much eat breakfast, lunch,
mid-morning snacks and mid-afternoon happy hours like an exiled
prince, and dinners like a freaking 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 caloric
food in the last two hours be-fore I go to bed, so that all of the
calories can join hands and turn into layers of fat overnight.
Ive heard to limit yourself to one sweet thing a week. I tried
that and end up mak-ing myself a weekly dessert the size of a
Hawaiian island.
Ive heard to count calories. 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
brownies 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 power bar that I find
between the minivan seats while Im 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.
Ive heard to eat six mini-meals a day. My mini-meals turn into
one constant land-cruise buffet. 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.
Ive heard about the Starbucks dietthat one wom-an lost 85 pounds
by eating exclu-sively at Star-bucks. I have been pretty close to
do-ing that diet myself, but the pumpkin bread and cake pops kept
winning out over the oatmeal.
The frustrating thing for me is that it wasnt always this way.
Despite giving birth to four children, despite the fact that two of
them were born at the same time, despite the fact that my body
weight in-creased by half during that twins preg-nancy, I always
managed to return to my normal weight and jeans size, and main-tain
it steadily.
Not true now. I have had another birth-day and there are
squatters at my belly. The poundsabout 10 of themhave set-tled
along my mid-section and are mak-ing plans to retire there. I dont
want to take them with me when I finally, one day, become an empty
nester. I want to leave them in the basement along with the box-es
of kindergarten artwork.
My mother has stayed slim and trim well into her senior years,
and when asked how she does it, her standard reply is, I eat
whatever I want and I never exercise.
Ive tried that method too, but it doesnt seem to work as well
for me. Ive decided that the only thing left for me to do is
fol-low another piece of moms adviceto stand up straight and suck
in my stomach.
Robins NestRobin Jean
ConteRobin Conte is a writer
and mother of four who lives in Dunwoody. She
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DHA names Dennis Crean Citizen of the YearBY DYANA
[email protected]
Dennis Crean was loved by many people.
That was evident at the Dunwoody Homeowners Association meeting
Jan. 31 as his wife, Marie Cre-an, and daughter, Alison Rosch,
accepted a plaque honoring him as the or-ganizations Citizen of the
Year.
I was very honored, Marie Crean said of the standing ovation
they re-ceived in tribute to her late husband. He would have been
very humbled. He was just loved by so many people. Its such a good
feeling for the fam-ily.
I was just feeling the love in the room, she said.
Dennis Crean, a longtime DHA board member and Dunwoody volunteer
and city activist, preferred to work behind the scenes, his wife
said.
He was a board member of the Na-ture Center and also of the
Citizens for Dunwoody, a nonprofit group that led
the effort in incorporating Dunwoody. He was active in Dunwoodys
Rotary
Club, Knights of Colum-bus and All Saints Catho-lic Church.
This is a bittersweet presentation this year, said DHA President
Rob-ert Wittenstein. Dennis contributions to the city of Dunwoody
are enor-mous. He will be dearly missed.
Marie Crean said her husband worked hard to make Dunwoody an
inde-pendent city because he believed residents should be able to
make their own decisions when it comes to governance. Being part of
a city also gave resi-dents a sense of pride and community, he
believed.
She said she loved her husbands willingness to be involved in
community activities and his friendli-ness with others.
He never met someone he couldnt talk to, she said.
Dennis Crean, who suffered from pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring
of the lungs, died Nov. 1, two weeks after a se-
Dennis Crean
rious fall.He fell while we were going to Stage
Doors Players, she said. The fall fur-ther injured his lungs and
he wasnt able to recover.
We had just gotten back from a three-week trip to France, she
said. It was a shock.
A large portrait of her husband sits in their great room. The
plaque present-ed by DHA now sits next to it.
Its there so everyone can see it, she said.
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Dunwoody Homeowners Association President Robert Wittenstein,
left, presents a plaque honoring Dennis Crean as Citizen of the
Year to his wife Marie Crean, center, and their daughter
Alison Rosch. Dennis Crean died Nov. 1 due to complications from
pulmonary fi brosis. He was a longtime board member of the DHA and
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Clockwise, from top left, Dunwoody City Councilwoman and Fourth
of July Parade co-chair Pam Tallmadge announced this years parade
theme is Duty, Honor and
Country. Grand marshals will be a police officer, a firefighter
and an EMT.
U.S. Rep. Tom Price attended the DHA meeting and discussed ways
Republicans are working to back a single piece of health care
legislation to replace President Obamas Affordable Care Act.
The Dunwoody Nature Center announced its biggest honor, the Dave
Adams Award, went to UPS. In 2015, UPS donated $30,000 for the
centers Wildcat Creek Restoration and Milkweed Project to protect
the monarch butterfly. UPS employees also participated in five
volunteer
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left, board president of the Dunwoody Nature Center, presents Norma
Brown and Ken Glaus of UPS with the trophy.
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Historic auto shop delays roundabouts and park planBY JOHN
[email protected]
The former Eddies Au-tomotive on Mount Vernon Highway in Sandy
Springs is historic, according to the state preservation offi ce, a
decision that has thrown a monkey wrench into city plans to replace
the auto shop with new round-abouts 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 Eddies
Automo-tive, Mayor Rusty Paul joked in a recent speech to a
Buckhead community group, expressing the citys frustration.
But Jennifer Dixon of the state Histor-ic Preservation Division
said the shopnow called Magic Mikes Automotiveis a historic
artifact of the car-driven devel-opment boom along Roswell Road
during the 1960s.
Therefore, it is HPDs opinion that the auto service garage is
signifi cant as a good and representative example of this time
period of development within the Roswell Road area and Sandy
Springs as a whole, Dixon said in an email. Fur-thermore, it is
HPDs opinion that the auto service garage is a good and
repre-sentative example of Contemporary ar-chitecture as applied to
commercial de-velopment.
The city sees the situation as anoth-er headache for its Mount
Vernon round-abouts plan, which already had to be re-drawn to
accommodate another historic designation for an entire neighborhood
off Johnson Ferry Road. That required taking more land in front of
the Mount Vernon Towers senior residences, 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 intersec-tion where the auto shop
sits near oth-er commercial buildings that are now vacant. About
half of the triangle 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 re-view pipeline in 2007,
with GDOT agree-ing to pay 80 percent of the cost. Some of the
money comes from Federal High-way Administration funds. One string
at-tached to federal funding is a review of a road projects
possible impacts on histor-ic resources, Assistant City Manager
Bry-
ant 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
proper-ty, Poole said, you have to demonstrate youve 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 example of mid-20th century architecture. GDOT
and the Historic Preservation Division 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
Pres-ervation Division later ruled the project would have no
adverse effect, meaning no historic mitigations are needed.
But as the roundabouts plan headed into fi nal design and got in
line for fund-ing, the auto shop recently passed its 50th birthday
and required historic review as well, Poole said. This time, the
Preserva-tion Division and GDOT were at odds.
The city still is deciding on its offi cial response, Poole
said. An appeal is possi-ble, and the historic designation does not
bar redevelopment, but could require mitigations ranging from
moving the entire building to erecting a memorial plaque on its
site, Poole said.
Paul said at a recent City Council meeting that he petitioned
members of Congress to remove the historic review requirement for
this particular 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 option is giving up on federal funding and
using only city money. Or the city may have to do some form of
mitigation for demolish-ing the building.
Please know, this process is simply that, a processonce
complete, the proj-ect continues, Dixon said.
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Editors note: News knows few boundar-ies. Here are some of the
local news stories breaking nearby in the city of Sandy Springs
that may be of interest to Dunwoody resi-dents.
Sandy Springs offi cials are contem-plating turning a portion of
Roswell Road into a tree-lined boulevard and renaming it Roswell
Boulevard. Thats among the big ideas coming out of the citys Next
Ten planning process.
Its more than just a land-use plan. Its a vision for the
community, said Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul, introducing a
presentation on the work thus far for the Next Tencombining a
revision of the citys Comprehensive Plan, a rewrite of its zoning
code and detailed plans for cer-tain areas.
The concepts met interest and curios-ity from at least 70
residents who attend-ed a community workshop, held Jan. 27 at the
Sherwood Event Hall on Roswell Road. The sheer scope of the
visionfrom mixed-use nodes along a new tree-lined Roswell Boulevard
to a kind of Central Park for Perimeter Centerap-peared to engage
the crowd, but it kept mostly quiet.
The general thrust of the planning is more mixed-use
redevelopment and re-ducing car travel. But the consultant team,
led by Rhodeside & Harwell, is add-ing some bigger proposals
that would transform entire areas, such as routing some form of
alternative public transit east-west through central Sandy Springs.
And a much-discussed 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 housing building is drawing traffi c and density
concernsand some grudging acceptance. About 70 residents attended a
community meeting Jan. 25 to hear about Parc Communities plans for
the Apostles Church site at Glenridge Drive and Ham-mond Drive.
I live in Sandy Springs, said Parc Communities President and CEO
Roy Dickson, sympathizing with visions of traffi c nightmares
discussed at the meet-ing, which was held at the church. I
un-derstand all the dynamics. And I under-stand 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 questions.
Dickson and attorney Chip Collins, a former Sandy Springs city
councilman, offered 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 todays skyscraper-sprouting San-dy 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 propertya
gas station, for Gods sake, said Scott Nelson, a Glen-ridge
resident.
Meanwhile, state transportation of-fi cials planned to start
work this month on a controversial project to build round-abouts at
the Riverside Drive/I-285 inter-change in Sandy Springs.
Construction will continue through November, GDOT says. The $5.6
million project will replace ramps with roundabouts and rehab the
Riverside Drive bridge over I-285.
And the city of Sandy Springs plans to buy a Hammond Drive
residential lot as a placeholder for its long-planned road-widening
project, the City Council decided Feb. 2.
The $375,000 purchase of 590 Ham-mond sparked some community
con-cerns of the road widening secretly be-ginning.
But City Manager John McDonough said the project still needs
years of plan-ning 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 houses nearby go
for nearly $1 million, knowing 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 Alphasibel LLC. Olcal bought the property last year
for $250,000, accord-ing 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.
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
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PCIDs study backs yover bridge extension on Pill HillBY JOHN
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A new Pill Hill road extending the Pe-rimeter Center Parkway
flyover bridge to Johnson Ferry Road would aid traffi c and is
worth a full study, according to a report delivered last week to
the Perime-ter 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 project that would make bicycle
and pedestrian improvements 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 exten-sion through the intersec-tion.
Both proj-ects aim to boost walkabil-ity, connectivity and all
the things to build an urban cen-ter, Williams said.
The PCIDs flyover bridge over I-285 was completed in 2007 and is
sometimes jokingly called the bridge to nowhere as it ends at Lake
Hearn Drive. However, PCIDs long planned to make it a bridge to
somewhere with a 2,000-foot road ex-tending from the Lake Hearn
Drive inter-section to Johnson Ferry, running along the Sandy
Springs-Brookhaven border on
the eastern side of Emory Saint Joseph Hospitals campus.
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 Part-ners, a
fi rm 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 signifi cant reduction of
Peachtree-Dunwoody Road traffi c and no signifi cant increase in
Johnson Fer-ry traffi c.
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 Johnson Ferry is also a question, as Williams said
there are two or three possible alignments.
It would be an expensive project. Its not a small-ticket item,
Williams said.
The study was fi rst-level work with no technical fi ndings,
Williams said. So the next step is convening city offi -cials, Pill
Hill hospitals and residents for a meeting to see if theres support
to go
into a deeper-dive study, she said. The PCIDs will arrange that
meeting, prob-ably sometime in the next few months, Williams
said.
At the same January board meet-ing, PCIDs learned that that
Atlanta Re-gional 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 planning
in 2012. The project would widen both streetsincluding
Peachtree-Dunwoody beneath the I-285 bridgeto add full bi-cycle and
pedestrian crosswalk ameni-ties, 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 states upcoming reconstruction 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 didnt get it? I would
absolutely be surprised, Williams said, noting the projects strong
support from city and MARTA offi cials.
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Top, PCIDs is close to securing a grant to make bicycle and
pedestrian improvements to Peachtree-Dunwoody Road and Lake Hearn
Drive, including beneath the I-285 bridge. Above, Gresham, Smith
and Partners conducted a preliminary feasibility
study for PCIDs on extending the flyover bridge from Perimeter
Center Parkway to Johnson Ferry Road. To see a larger version, go
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and parking impacts on his patients.We want to make sure tenants
stay
here, Forrest said during the meeting. Were 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.
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Traffic the top concern with Sandy Springs five-skyscraper
plan
BY 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 developersidentified as Hong Property
Trust of Syd-ney, Australiasaid 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 its live, work and play, and you never have to
leave, said Rob For-rest, the real estate professional whos
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. Thats 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 its
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 Arbys
fast-food compa-ny headquarters next door said most of her
coworkers do not use MARTA and that cur-rent traffic is already
bad.
Its a nightmareGod forbid if it rains or snows, she said. As
soon as [the plan] hit the papers, everybody in the [Arbys]
building across the street started freaking out.
Bill Woulfin, CEO of Metabolic Testing Services, was among
several of the exist-ing buildings commercial tenants who
ex-pressed concerns about the plan. He said his business has been
there 13 years, and he learned at the meeting of the develop-ers
intent to turn the first two floors into retail or service
businesses only, meaning he would be moved elsewhere.
Thats the first we heard of it, Woulfin said, adding he is
concerned about traffic
SPECIAL
Above: 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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The battle over Brook Run Theater
to fight because of how old the building is, Drange said. He and
his wife, who live just a couple of miles from the park, said they
support the idea of refurbish-ing the building and love the idea of
a community theater located in the park
Its community development. Its a nice setting, he said.
We like theater. Were regular the-atergoers. It would employ
local actors and actresses, she said. This is a nice area. The
development in the area has been great. I dont know why there is
such a controversy. I guess because 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 theater would
cost, on the low end, about $7.5 million, and on the high end,
approximately $18 mil-li