08-21-2015 sandy springs reporter

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Should a new city park include parking spaces?Th at’s the question surrounding Windsor Meadows,

a small neighborhood park planned for the fl oodplain at Windsor Parkway and Northland Drive. Th e addition of three parking spaces to the design is drawing concerns from some neighbors who worry it may attract shady strangers in-stead of local walkers.

“Our plan involved a walking park with trails,” said Christopher Laird, one of three residents who spoke against the parking spaces at an Aug. 4 Sandy Springs City Coun-cil meeting. “We did not want this to be a destination park.”

Offi cials say the parking is needed for maintenance and for people with mobility problems. And there is plenty of time to change the design, which the city recently submit-

ted to the state for approval.“We have some time to work these issues through,” said

Linda Bain, executive director of the Sandy Springs Con-servancy, which designed the park. She said she thinks the neighbors have valid worries, but “all things considered, that’s a fair number of [parking] spaces.”

Everyone seems to agree that the park would be a wel-come addition to the neighborhood. Th e 4-acre green space with trees, paths and benches would go on the site where three houses were ruined by a historic 2009 fl ood of Nancy Creek. Th e neighborhood park ties into city plans for side-walks and a new pedestrian bridge on Windsor Parkway.

For now, however, the city must wait for Georgia Emer-


Th e Ashton Woods housing portion of the Mercedes-Benz USA headquarters project—whose plan now includes a new 14-acre public park—won approval from Sandy Springs City Council on Aug. 18 in a 5-1 vote.

“It’s an imperfect project…but it’s a good project,” said City Councilman Andy Bau-man, who, like his peers, said he wrestled with the pros and cons.

But many opposing neighbors—includ-ing dozens wearing red shirts to the meeting to symbolize their opposition—may sue the city over the approval, an attorney and a neighbor-hood association leader said afterward.

Matt LaMarsh of the Mount Vernon Woods Homeowners Association, a leader of local opposition, said residents are considering

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Michelle Alexander, the new com-munity development director for the city of Sandy Springs, comes aboard at a crucial time. Th e city is embarking on a new Comprehensive Plan and a major reform of its planning and pub-lic input processes.

In an interview at her City Hall of-fi ce, Alexander said that kind of for-ward thinking is exciting.

Sandy Springs is tackling the chal-lenge of “creating urban activity in a suburban setting,” she said. “I see the city is working to reinvent [the way of achieving] that.”

Alexander, who was hired last month, oversees the city’s planning, zoning, code enforcement and envi-ronmental review functions. She pre-viously served as development director at the city of Chamblee, and has ex-tensive experience consulting on mas-ter plans for many local communities, such as Dunwoody and Norcross.

Sandy Springs is in the midst of that kind of planning. Its Compre-hensive Plan is getting a thorough up-date. And the proposed planning re-

forms include a full rewriting of the zoning code, something Alexander has done before.

While community development has many complex aspects and meth-ods, Alexander said, it comes down to something pretty simple. “Change is going to happen,” she said. “Either you get to manage it, or it happens to you.”

Sandy Springs is literally a text-book example of urban change—what used to be called “edge cities” sprout-ing in metro suburbs. “Th e Perimeter was a case study” in planning school, she said.

By essentially reverse-engineering a city out of a suburb, Sandy Springs has given itself some big challenges. Th at includes the current eff ort to create a downtown—the City Center area—along Roswell Road’s strip malls.

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Springs benefi ts from many assets, in-cluding thriving commercial areas and the “lush tree canopy in the interior of those neighborhoods,” she said. “Now sew it together and [discover] what’s our sense of place.”

City government has good internal planning mechanisms, too, she said—especially with regular, direct commu-nication between various city depart-ments so that redevelopment eff orts are unifi ed.

A self-described “data geek,” Al-exander said the city can improve its comprehensive analyses of such clas-sic community planning issues as traf-fi c impacts.

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out of congestion,” she said. “We need to be much more innovative…Th is is a city ready to take leadership on some of those issues.”

She emphasized that the Compre-hensive Plan revision will include a wide range of public input and, be-sides the large overview, will give a few “sub-areas” some intensive planning.

Th ose sub-area plans are “so critical and dynamic…especially when you’re trying to create a sense of place, which is hard sometimes from cookie-cutter suburban design,” she said.

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win shifts political landscapeBY JOHN RUCH

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Democrat Taylor Bennett’s vic-tory over Republican J. Max Da-vis in the Aug. 11 House District 80 election provided a rare win for his party in north DeKalb, and it ef-fects the state’s political landscape.

Democrats now control the Ful-ton County delegation and can block state constitutional amend-ments in the House.

How much that will matter de-pends on who’s talking. Th e state Democratic Party chair, DuBose Porter, calls Bennett’s win a “turn-ing point in Georgia politics.” State Sen. Fran Millar (R-Dunwoody), on the other hand, says he’s “not sure what it’s all going to mean.”

Bennett took 54.5 percent of the vote in the district that includes Brookhaven and parts of Chamblee, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs. He will replace Republican Mike Jacobs, who left the seat to become a judge.

“It’s just like playing football,” Ben-nett, a former Georgia Tech quarter-back, said in an Election Night inter-view. “Enjoy the victory, but tomorrow we’ve got to get back to work. Th ere’s a lot of work to be done and a lot of prob-lems to solve.”

Porter was enthusiastic about the im-pact of Bennett’s win in a traditionally Republican district that said “yes” to his “progressive agenda.”

Strategically, it gives the Democrats a one-seat majority in the Fulton dele-gation, and tips them over the one-third margin of House seats needed to block potential constitutional amendments on such issues as “religious freedom” pro-tections previously shot down as an-ti-LGBT rights. Bennett, whose moth-er and sister are gay, made fi ghting such bills a key part of his platform.

“It’s really kind of a turning point in Georgia politics,” Porter said, going as far as describing Bennett’s win as a sign of Georgia being a swing state in the 2016 presidential election.

Porter said the win also sends an is-sue-based message to the state GOP. “Republicans have felt very comfortable cutting education, cutting the HOPE scholarship, not expanding Medicaid,” he said. “But these are issues people real-ly care about.”

Davis, in an Election Night inter-view, had a diff erent view of a race that involved some bitter, partisan campaign fl yers. Davis was repeatedly targeted over accusations that he engaged in sex-ual harassment while mayor and was in-volved in a cover-up. “Obviously, the politics of personal destruction played a big role in this race,” Davis said. “A lot of falsehoods and untruths were thrown my way.”

Millar agrees and suggested that Ben-nett’s win came out of a particular situ-

ation with several Republicans fi ghting it out, rather than a sign of Democrat-ic momentum.

“I think the Democrats ran a hard race,” Millar said. “Th ey put a lot of mailings out against a Republican can-didate that were pretty harsh. Th ey worked.

“I don’t think it’s a bellwether for anything,” he said. “But if I was a Dem-ocrat, I think I’d be emboldened.”

Millar acknowledged that Democrats gained a strategic edge with Bennett’s victory, but he added that it remains to be seen how that plays out in upcom-ing battles.

“Technically, they have control of the Fulton County delegation,” Millar said. “But again, you’ve got to get things through two chambers [in the General Assembly]…I’m not sure what it’s all go-ing to mean.”

For now, Bennett is sounding a spir-it of bipartisanship. He and Davis spoke on Election Night, with each congratu-lating each other on the race. Bennett said that mirrors his approach to the of-fi ce he will soon hold.

“I want to [have] open ears to every-one in the district, regardless of political affi liation,” Bennett said.

“I reached out to Taylor Bennett, said, ‘Congratulations,’” Millar said. “I’m happy to talk to him and go from there.”

According to unoffi cial results from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Offi ce, 4,977 votes were cast in the election. Bennett earned 2,714 votes and Davis 2,263.

Bennett praised his campaign team’s hard work for beating Davis, Brookhav-en’s fi rst mayor and the son of a former state representative.

“Two and a half months ago, no one knew who we were, and we had zero dollars in the bank,” Bennett said.

Asked about any plans to continue in public service, Davis said his focus will be on his family and his business in the coming months, and “rebuilding my reputation” for his children’s sake.

JOE EARLE

Left, Republican J. Max Davis and Democrat Taylor Bennett shake hands before a public forum at Oglethorpe University on Aug. 6. Both were in

the running for the House District 80 seat, which Bennett won on Aug. 11.

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Taylor Bennett won the District 80 seat in the state House of Representa-tives in a special runoff election Aug. 11. He will represent Brookhaven and por-tions of Sandy Springs, Chamblee and Dunwoody when the Legislature recon-venes in January. Th e Sandy Springs Re-porter asked him fi ve questions about his leg-islative plans. Here are his answers.

Q. How are you preparing for

the upcoming legisla-tive session?

A. Well, fi rst and foremost, I’m

fi nalizing a community outreach plan. We made a point during our cam-paign of trying to touch and connect with every voter we could regard-less of party or any oth-er characteristic, and I intend to carry that approach forward as a state representative. In order for me to be the best representative I can be for the people of Brookhaven, Sandy Springs and Chamblee, I’m going to have to be accessible, open, and listen and solicit input on all decisions. I’m really looking forward to that dialogue, and we’re go-ing to roll out our community schedule very soon, so stay tuned.

Q. What do you plan to do as your � rst action in the

House?

A. I’m not sure there is a singular fi rst action, but there’s a lot to

be done between now and the start of session. First and foremost, I’m looking forward to establishing relationships with my new colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Th ere are a number of biparti-san bills already in the works that I think would improve the lives of people in our district and in our state, and I’m anxious to see how I can support those ideas and hopefully move them along. I’ve also got several ideas of my own I’d like to sub-mit for consideration, which will mean meeting with party leadership on both sides of the aisle and working closely with legislative counsel to craft strong legislation. As soon as I get my commit-tee assignments I’ll immediately get to-gether with the respective chairpersons and other members so I can learn as quickly as I can and be the best represen-tative I can be for my constituents. Th ere’s a lot to do, but I believe I’m up to the task.

Q. � e House District 80 seat has been held for many years

by a Republican. What will you do di� erently as a Democrat?

A. I don’t think that my party af-fi liation has much to do with

“how” I’ll approach my responsibilities as a representative for House District 80. Judge [Mike] Jacobs was a strong and responsible representative who served our district well regardless of his own affi liation, and I’ll be looking to do the same. Being open, transparent and

accountable doesn’t have anything to do with my being a Demo-crat or another repre-sentative being a Re-publican, it’s just the way elected offi cials ought to conduct them-selves.

Q. Your election gives Demo-

crats numerical con-trol of the Fulton County delegation. Very little of the cam-paign centered on San-dy Springs, the por-tion of your district in Fulton, and relatively

few Sandy Springs voters turned out. What do you think you’ll be able to add to the discussion in the Fulton delegation?

A. I’m looking forward to work-ing with my colleagues in the

Fulton County delegation regardless of what party they belong to. Even with the shift in numbers brought on by my election, it’s still nearly even and we’re going to have to work together to make the best decisions for Fulton County that we can. For all of the partisan talk brought on by this election and the nu-merical ramifi cations of my seat, I’m truly just committed to being the best representative I can be and bringing an open, cooperative, and forward-think-ing attitude and approach to the Gener-al Assembly in January.

Q. You’ve said publicly that your family and your objec-

tion to the “Georgia Religious Free-dom Restoration Act” were among the things that originally interested you in running for a seat in the House. Do you expect similar legislation to come up again next session? If so, what do you see as your role in the debate?

A. I do see RFRA coming up again this session, and I will

withhold any specifi c comment until we have its most recent iteration in print and in the House or Senate hopper. I’m not going to speculate as to the specifi cs of what exists currently as a hypotheti-cal, however likely it may be to arise. As I’ve said many times before, however, there are no shades of gray in discrimi-nation, and I’m always going to oppose any legislation that allows for any indi-vidual group to be discriminated against on the basis of their race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or any other such characteristic.

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An apartment development boom is reshap-ing the new Perimeter cities and sparking debates about density, traffic and quality of life.

From the new Mercedes-Benz USA headquar-ters project in Sandy Springs to the old Hastings Nursery in Brookhaven, residents are packing neighborhood gatherings and city zoning meet-ings in order to push back against massive apart-ment plans. This week, an apartment proposal even triggered friction between cities, with Brookhav-en’s mayor complaining of lack of input on a Sandy Springs border project.

Yet, at the same time, city officials argue that mixed-use apartment complexes will give them at-tractive, walkable downtowns where outmoded, car-centered suburban strip malls now stand. That creative tension will continue along with the apart-ment trend, real estate and planning experts say.

Apartments are the growth area of residential development, driven by “a switch from ‘I rent be-cause I have to’ to ‘I rent because I want to,’” said Ron Cameron, a senior vice president at Colliers International-Atlanta who specializes in multifami-ly real estate investment.

Millennials and retiring baby boomers drive the trend to create new “live-work-play” places such as Brookhaven’s TOWN/Brookhaven and Sandy Springs’ planned City Center project, according to Cameron.

“The bottom line is, who wants to live in a place

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The irony is that Brookhaven, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs incorporated partly out of concerns that apartment projects were overwhelming single-family neighborhoods. Dense apartments have been viewed as generators of traffic, crime and infrastructure strains. Some new projects are re-placing older apartments with new, luxury-oriented models,

but many of these criticisms remain.Two apartment-complex owners sued the city of Dun-

woody in 2013, accusing the city of trying to force low-in-come apartments out of business. The lawsuit was dropped, but it illustrates the sense of tension in a city that the head of the Dunwoody Homeowners Association says is now rough-ly half homeowners and half renters.

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Construction on One City Walk, located at the corner of Roswell Road and Hammond Drive in Sandy Springs, is underway. The mixed-use project will consist of 202 units as well as street-front retail space.

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Robert Wittenstein, a former Dun-woody city councilman and current DHA president, explained some of the local concerns. “Apartment-dwellers tend to be more transient, tend to have less of a stake in the community,” he said. “Th is is a great place to come, and we want [residents] to stay.”

School system capacity is a big infrastructure issue as well. “All of our schools have trail-ers…Every building that gets built creates overcrowding in schools,” Wittenstein said, noting that applies to dense condo projects, too.

Density can also solve infrastructure problems. Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul often points out that apartments located near workplaces should reduce the city’s notorious commuter traffi c. Th en again, Paul has reservations him-self about the pace of the city’s apart-ment boom.

“I don’t think we need to redevelop Roswell Road all at one time,” he said at a recent City Council meeting.

At a glance, it looks like that’s already

happening. More than 2,400 apart-ments are approved or under construc-tion at various sites on the Roswell Road corridor. Th e city made such develop-ments a key part of its 2012 downtown master plan. In fact, it’s a partner in one of them—the public-private City Cen-

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Th e Sandy Springs City Council is often split on whether apartment proposals match those City Center goals

or are overdoing the density. A mixed-use project at 6075 Roswell Road that came before the council last month was a case in point. Th e council ended up approving the project—but also cut the number of apartment units by roughly 10 percent.

Th e situation highlighted holes in the city’s zoning code, including lack of how to measure density or how to de-fi ne “mixed-use.” Th e city is embarking on a full rezoning and planning process in part to get a better handle on the de-velopment boom.

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Th e 2012 City Center master plan contained projections for how many new apartments the area market would bear in coming years. After approval of a multi-use project on Roswell Road in July, the city passed the number of apart-ments it had projected for 2017 and was closing in on its 2022 numbers.

Cameron said that is part of an At-lanta market boom. About 11,000 new multifamily units—including apart-ments and condos—have been built in the past seven quarters in metro Atlan-ta, he said. Th ere is still plenty of de-mand, as suggested by rents continuing to climb: 5.5 percent last year and more than 7 percent higher so far this year.

Millennials are a huge demographic that demands “mobility and fl exibility” in housing, Cameron said. Th ey don’t

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Retired baby boomers are anoth-er growing demographic moving away from high-maintenance, single-family homes. Cameron said market experts es-timate that by 2030, the number of U.S. renters age 65 and older will more than double to 12.2 million.

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Concerts by the SpringsSunday, Sept. 6, 7-8:30 p.m. – Heritage Sandy Springs rounds out their 2015 summer concert series with a performance by Banks and Shane, a high-energy band that plays popular favorites and memorable ballads. The concert series has taken over the Heritage Green at the Sandy Springs Soci-ety Entertainment Lawn for one Sunday evening each month for the past 19 years. Free and open to the public; suitable for all ages. Donations welcome. 6100 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information, go online to sandyspringsga.gov or call 404-851-9111.

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when books overtook her Sandy Springs home after a book drive for the Mini Li-braries program at Heards Ferry Elementary last year.

“We had our entire din-ing room and foyer just full. We could lose chil-dren in these books!” she said.

Dabbs and her two daughters provide the brains and a large part of the energy behind the Mini Libraries program sponsored by the Sandy Springs Education Force.

The program, which fo-cuses on supplying books to children who otherwise might not have access to them, is active at three el-ementary schools in San-dy Springs -- Ison Springs Elementa-ry, Dunwoody Springs Elementary and Lake Forest Elementary. In the last year, Dabbs said the Mini Libraries have pro-vided over 14,000 donated books to children at these elementary schools.

“Our big goal is just [to get] books in hands,” Dabbs said.

Through the Mini Libraries, kids are invited to take two books a day that they never have to return. Kids get to keep the books themselves, share them with their friends or form libraries of their own.

The idea for the Mini Libraries began when Liza, 9, and Clara, 10, decided to start a library in their basement for kids in the neighborhood. Dabbs, who had always fostered a love of reading in her daughters, full heartedly supported the idea.

The girls soon realized that they lived in a neighborhood where books were easy to come by. About two months af-ter opening their “Sisters Library,” they realized that more books were being do-nated to the library than were being checked out.

Dabbs reached out to education ad-vocacy groups in the area to see where these books might be better used. The Sandy Springs Education Force re-sponded to Dabbs and extended their helping hand in the process of putting these books into schools for other chil-dren to enjoy.

“They really gave us an infrastruc-ture and support which I didn’t expect,” Dabbs said.

The nonprofit purchased magazine holders on Craigslist that were made over by kid volunteers to house the books. Dabbs describes the Mini Li-braries program as a “no-overhead in-stitution” based on volunteers and do-nations. Cardboard boxes are the only other supply the nonprofit purchases for

the libraries program.Irene Schweiger, executive director

of the nonprofit, said, “These may be the first and or only books these chil-dren have for themselves. Putting these books in the hands of these needy stu-dents is a first step in encouraging a love of reading and furthering their success in school and life.”

The libraries are stocked solely from donations, all of which are sorted and distributed from the home of Dabbs.

“People drop off books all the time, which is fantastic. And it’s nice because they know where they’re going. They’re staying in this community, and they’re going to be read by the kids who later go to junior high with them, or the kids who they play soccer with, or the kids who we see at Kroger,” Dabbs said.

Sandy Springs’ kids are the ones do-ing most of the sorting of these books at the “sorting parties” Dabbs hosts at her home. Clara and Liza both recall special memories from the big sorts they have at their house.

Liza playfully said sorting was her least favorite part because she can hard-ly stand to be surrounded by so many books and not be allowed to read them all. Clara said all the “hard labor” of sorting was worth it when she sees the impact these books are having in other kids’ lives.

During sorts, books are categorized to ensure they are being used in the most effective ways at schools. The donations are not only used to stock the libraries, but are also distributed to teachers at schools when needed and available.

Teachers have been able to make re-quests through the program, and if Dabbs has the books available, they are given directly to the teachers. Dabbs works with curriculum support teams at schools to find and fill the needs of each school.

Kissy Dabbs, center, with daughters Liza Twari, 9, left, and Clara Twari, 10, generated the idea for the Mini Libraries by starting a neighborhood library in the basement of their Sandy Springs home.

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Whether it is 10 copies of “Stuart Little” a teacher wants to use for a par-ticular lesson or a collection of books on math and science, Dabbs says they ca-ter to as many requests as possible. She says giving the teach-ers the books is “just another route to the same kids.”

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Brookhaven’s Marist School and Buckhead’s Westminster Schools boast two of the metro area’s longest-serv-ing head football coaches. Alan Chad-wick, in his 30th year at Marist, and Gerry Rom-berg, Westmin-ster’s coach for 23 years, share more than longevity.

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Th en there’s the direct connection: Romberg played for Chadwick years ago during one year of middle school at Marist. “He doesn’t advertise that very much,” Chadwick said with a laugh. “He is an excellent football coach. He knows the game extremely well,” Chadwick quick-ly added.

Romberg said he’s proud he had a chance to play for Chadwick—and hopes their schools will soon be sched-uled to play against each other, as they were in the 1990s.

“You talk about consistency and continuity, he’s the model of that,” Romberg said of Chadwick. “He’s the most competitive guy I’ve ever met in my life.”

Th ese days, Romberg said, few coaches stay put as long as he and Chadwick have. “A lot of coaches are going to bounce around and chase state champion-ships,” he said, and there is more NFL-style pressure for schools to fi re coach-es who don’t win quickly.

Chadwick was a star player at De-catur High and a record-setting quar-terback at East Tennessee State. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears but ended up not making an NFL roster. He started coaching at Marist in 1976

and became head coach in 1985. In 2012, he became one of the state’s few high school coaches to break the 300-win mark. He has coached Marist to

two state champion-ships and his teams have won more than eight of every 10 games they’ve played.

Romberg came to Westminster after coaching stints at public and private high schools, in-cluding Dunwoody High and Wash-ington, D.C.’s Ma-ret School, as well as at the college lev-el at the Citadel and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. In 2009, he became Westminster’s most winning coach. A championship re-mains elusive, but Romberg keeps his teams consistent-ly in the running, including 18 trips to the playoff s—including last sea-son’s 12-2 team—and two to the state semifi nals.

Both men said they thrive on the challenge of keep-ing their teams

competitive and have a love for the high-school game.

“I just enjoy this age group,” Rom-berg said, praising Westminster’s hard-working students. “Over the years, I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to devel-op [and help] young boys mature into adults we can be proud of. Sometimes I feel like football is just a vehicle to help these young men progress into successful adults.”

Chadwick says the power of his support staff and Marist’s traditions are part of what has kept him at the school for three de-cades.

“It’s the people and just the over-all environment at

Marist,” he said. “It’s such a unique-ly wonderful place to work and to play. ... Five of my varsity staff mem-bers played here [and] came back to coach.”

Marist is famed for still using the running-game-based wishbone of-fense. “We’ve been running it for 40-

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plus years,” Chadwick said. “We’ve tweaked it a good bit.”

“We don’t always have the types of athletes [opponents] do,” Chadwick said of Marist’s method of grinding oppo-nents down. “You’re not going to see us run a lot of fakes, or a lot of razzle-dazzle.”

“The more things change, the more they stay the same,” Romberg said of the concept underlying Westminster’s program. “We use the word ‘family.’ It’s the cornerstone of our program.”

High-school football also goes through changes, often trickling down from the NFL. Programs to re-duce concussions and other injuries are a big change these days. Chadwick said

he’s not a fan of most of them, calling them “conversations of mommas not letting ‘baby’ play football anymore.”

Concussion-reduction efforts have been good, he said, but added, “I’m see-

ing the kids today not being as overly ag-gressive and physical as they need to be to play this game,” he said.

Romberg said a game against Marist was crucial to his first season, when he

took over a team struggling with coaching turnovers and off-field issues. Going up against a far su-perior Marist team, they battled to a 7-7 halftime tie. “Alan just went ballistic. [Marist] came out [af-ter] the half and just blitzkrieged us” to win the game, Romberg re-called.

But by standing their ground against a better team, “The kids re-alized I was dedicated to making this program as good as it can be,” he said.

Chadwick recalls those bat-tles fondly as well. “They knew us better than we knew ourselves,” he said of the Romberg-coached

Westminster teams.That’s why both coaches clearly wish

they had one more thing in common: more chances to play each other.

“It’s the people and just the overall environment at Marist. It’s such a uniquely

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In her junior year, Sydney, who has been a Girl Scout since seventh grade, was horrified to discover that Atlanta is the number one city in America for sex trafficking. Sydney decided to devote her Girl Scout Gold Award project, enti-tled “Human Trafficking: Stop it HERE and THERE,” to fight human traffick-ing through increasing awareness.

With the help of local author Lor-raine Fast, Sydney created a seminar that she led at a local after-school center for over 100 children.

“Because the subject matter itself of trafficking is very graphic and not ap-propriate for younger children, my proj-ect was not to educate about trafficking, but how to remain safe and be aware of their surroundings, and know who trustworthy people are to help them make safe decisions,” said Sydney. “My seminar started with [training in] ‘good touch/bad touch,’ ‘stranger danger,’ knowing the ‘friendly enemy’ (the po-tential trafficker) and the tricks they use to lure kids in, and cyber safety.”

Sydney was not content simply help-ing children locally. On a mission trip to Costa Rica, she donated items to an after-school clubhouse, had all seminar materials translated into Spanish and helped give the seminar six times at four different schools, reaching 250 children.

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For her work fighting human traffick-ing, Sydney was honored as Scout of the Year by the Dunwoody/Sandy Springs Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter and placed third in the state of Georgia.

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Residents: No parking at park

Neighbors may sue city over Ashton Woods housing plan

gency Management Agency approval, which can take a year.

The site was among several properties the city bought three years ago through the federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. The program helped the city buy flooded properties with the provi-sion that they be kept as open space to manage future flooding.

Last year, the Conservancy and the High Point Civic Association present-ed a community proposal to turn the Windsor Parkway parcels into a formal park. City Council agreed to provide $300,000 for the park.

The plan needs approval from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency and its federal counterpart mostly to ensure that the park would not have permanent structures or hard surfaces that would block floodwaters. Last month, the city submitted the plan with only one city-added change: three parking spaces off Windsor Parkway.

“[The parking spaces] will allow work crews parking access as they maintain the site, in addition to resi-dents who may wish to park there,” city spokeswoman Sharon Kraun said in an email. “Street parking is not an option on Windsor Parkway.”

The residents who complained at the

Aug. 4 council meeting said those spac-es were a surprise. They expressed con-cerns that parking could attract outsid-ers and create safety and security issues.

A 2014 civic association presenta-tion about the park plan shows that parking was discussed. Some residents complained about people riding ATVs and illegally parking on the site. That led the city to post no-trespassing signs and install curbs across the former driveways of the flood-ruined homes.

On the other hand, 30 out of 100 res-idents surveyed said they wanted to “ex-plore” adding parking to the design.

“If you’re going to have a park, you’re going to need a maintenance vehicle,” said Councilman Tibby DeJulio.

DeJulio, who met with residents last month about the parking concerns, said he thinks “the chances are slim [the park would attract outsiders] because it’s not that big.”

Bain said the design contains every possible amenity—not necessarily ev-erything that will be built—because any future change would require anoth-er lengthy approval process.

“You don’t have to build everything that’s in the plan,” Bain said.“I think the value of this is tremendous. We have really very little public space in Sandy Springs.”



taking the city to court, as several threatened to do in pub-lic comments. They allege the city improperly considered the plan as one parcel instead of two, making density calculations incorrect, among other issues. Hakim Hilliard, an attorney hired by unhappy neighbors, attended the meeting.

“We’ll consult with [residents] and see if that’s still the case,” LaMarsh said. “We think that’s still the case. We’ll see if anyone else wants to join the fight.”

The hotly controversial plan covers 75 acres along Glenridge Drive, straddling Abernathy Road. It com-bines the new Mercedes-Benz USA headquarters and Ash-ton Woods’ variety of single-family, condo and apartment homes. Some commercial space is in the mix as well.

Mercedes is generally liked, while the housing—espe-cially the 399 apartment units—have been debated, large-ly for traffic impacts. The council’s approval came with the condition of cutting the apartments to a maximum of 355—a nod to the neighborhood that drew some snorts and laughter from opponents.

The project includes many traffic mitigations, includ-ing new turn lanes on Abernathy and other streets, along with bike lanes and new sidewalks. In addition, Mer-cedes agreed to delay building its “Phase II” main build-ing—a nine-story tower—until larger road improvements are completed in 2021. The council, in its approval vote, pushed that back further to 2022.

The property is currently owned by Caroline Glenn Mayson, who demolished her family’s historic mansion on the northern part of the site earlier this year amid local protests. In a major change to the plan, 14 acres of that site will now be preserved as a public park, complete with hik-ing trails and an existing pond, to be donated to the city.

The park drew strong support from officials of the San-dy Springs Conservancy, a green space nonprofit advocacy group that plans many local parks.

“Putting this in perspective, this is about half the size of Big Trees, which is our biggest park,” said Conservancy Executive Director Linda Bain.

At least 100 residents and local leaders attended the meeting. Words of support came largely from business people and residents from around the city, while opposi-tion speakers were largely from abutting neighborhoods.

Besides traffic concerns, opponents also complain that Ashton Woods never engaged in a real input process, in-stead presenting an unchangeable plan. Various neighbor-hood suggestions, such as devoting the apartments to se-niors and residents in need of assisted living, were rejected by Ashton Woods or city staff.

“Shame on somebody for that [lack of input],” said City Councilman Ken Dishman, adding that he hopes an improved public input process will be one outcome of the Ashton Woods debate.

The version of the plan approved by the council, with 355 maximum apartments, was apparently still too much for City Councilman Graham McDonald, who voiced density concerns and was the only no vote.

Most councilmen described the vote as a difficult one, but said they were swayed by the plan to include vari-ous housing types built around a corporate headquarters, which could allow company employees to walk to work. The large new park was welcomed as well.

They also indicated that the lawsuit they fear more is one from Mayson or the developers, because that could wipe out the site’s zoning and let them build whatever they want.

“It may not be the best plan, but it is the best plan compared to all the others I saw,” said Mayor Rusty Paul, weighing in despite not getting a vote under the city’s form of government. “I wish there was another answer…but there’s not.”

PHOTOS BY JOHN RUCH

Left, Ashton Woods property owner Caroline Glenn Mayson, seated, third from left, is joined by residents and officials at the Sandy Springs City Council meeting Aug. 18. Right, Ashton

Woods opponents, wearing red as a symbolic protest to the city’s plans, crowd the meeting.

Brookhaven mayor protests Sandy Springs apartments

An apartment development proposed for Old Johnson Ferry Road is spark-ing a Brookhaven-Sandy Springs border clash.

Brookhaven Mayor Rebecca Chase Williams planned to appear at a Sandy Springs Planning Commission meeting on Aug. 20 to ask for a delay to allow Brookhaven to weigh in on the project.

“As mayor, I intend to let Sandy Springs know that we, the next-door neigh-bors, are very concerned about the additional traffic, density and design of the development,” Williams wrote in an email blast to constituents earlier this week.

Williams and Brookhaven City Councilwoman Linley Jones met with San-dy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul about the plan on Aug. 17. Williams said Paul lis-tened to their concerns in a “great meeting.”

“He understood the problem with the traffic,” Williams said in an interview. “He wasn’t fully versed in all aspects of the project. The report hadn’t come to him yet, frankly.”

Williams emphasized that the two cities continue to have a good working re-lationship “because we understand there’s no wall at any of our borders…It was in that spirit that we spoke.”

Asked about the get-together with Williams and Jones, Paul said only, “We had a very good meeting.”

Sharon Kraun, a spokeswoman for the city of Sandy Springs, declined to comment, citing the project’s pending zoning approval.

The proposal calls for 305 apartments and 10,000 square feet of medi-cal offices along the Old Johnson Ferry roundabout in Sandy Springs on the Brookhaven border, Williams said. Kraun said the developer is North Ameri-can Properties.

Williams, in her email, complained that Brookhaven officials and residents received little notice about the proposed development.

“What upsets me the most is that we in Brookhaven only recently were in-formed of this project, and even the Sandy Springs planning staff report ignores the fact that Brookhaven residents are the closest neighbors to the project,” Wil-liams wrote in the email. “My neighbors on Byrnwyck Road will literally look out on this five-story apartment project.” –John Ruch

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The City of Sandy Springs has completed its annual performance report to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the 2014 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. The Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) is available for review at www.sandyspringsga.gov. To access the report, select the CDBG Program on the Community Development Department’s webpage. A public hearing for the CAPER will be held on Tuesday, September 15, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. at Sandy Springs City Hall, 7840 Roswell Road, Building 500. For more information, please send email to [email protected] or call (770) 730-5600.

Police BlotterThe following incidents and arrests are some but not all, of the reports fi led with Sandy Springs police from

Aug. 1-14.

The following information was provided by Capt. Steve Rose of the Sandy Springs Police Department from its records and the infor-

mation is presumed to be accurate.

ROBBERY 500 block of Northridge Road—On

Aug. 1, a man said he was on the stairs in front of his apartment building around noon when he was approached by four men, one of whom pulled a gun and said “What’s this about you [expletive deleted] with my baby mama?” Th e four entered a car and then left. Th e man said he was having issues with his girlfriend (A.K.A. baby mama) and she hinted around to him that the father (A.K.A. baby daddy, I assume) would be over to see him. Th e identity of the man who pulled the gun (baby daddy) is known and warrants are currently out on him. He is being sought at this time.

BURGLARY 600 block of River Chase Point—On

Aug. 2, someone entered a home through a basement window that was forced open. Several items were taken from the base-ment as well as items from a car.

100 block of Trail Point—On Aug. 2, a resident returned from out of town and found that someone had entered the home and had taken several pieces of jewelry and cash.

4600 block of Roswell Road—On Aug. 3, employees of a painting company re-ported that a spray-painting machine was stolen as were a couple of 100-foot exten-sion electrical cords. Th e items were tak-

en from a storage area.

8300 block of Roswell Road—On Aug. 12, a woman said she suspected her ex-boyfriend of coming into her home while she was gone and taking her hat, shoes, mirror, soap and, worst of all, toilet paper.

Toilet paper? Are we not human?

1100 block of Mount Vernon High-way—On Aug. 13, someone threw a rock into the glass window of the Stein Mart at 3 a.m., trying to take Michael Kors purses on a display rack. Th ey grabbed the purses, but they were wired togeth-er attached to the display so they grabbed clothing and left.

Parkgate Drive—On Aug. 13, a woman returned home and found an open back window, an unlocked front door and her apartment had been ransacked. She re-ported two laptops and a gold watch

missing.

6000 block of Aberdeen Drive—On Aug. 13, a res-ident reported a Roto-Tiller was

stolen from his carport.

5500 block of Glenridge Drive—On Aug. 13, a resident said that, while he was at work, someone forced open the front door, came into his apartment and took several guns.

THEFTS Morgan Falls Road—A woman left her

apartment from 12:45 to 2 p.m. She re-turned home and found it unlocked and $500 missing from her dresser drawer. She said a few weeks prior, she had $300 taken from that same drawer.

Okay, I hate to see people lose good money and we all hate those bottom feeders who take it, but I gotta say if you had $300 taken from your dresser draw-er, why did you put more money in the same place??!!

8000 block of Roswell Road—On Aug. 3, a .380-calibre Beretta pistol was stolen from the Sandy Springs Gun Club. Th e suspects left in a blue Audi A4. An arrest was later made.

8600 block of Roberts Drive—On Aug. 3, a man reported lawn equipment had been stolen from his parked trailer. Th ose items include a Honda push mow-er, a Kawasaki push mower and a Stihl weed eater.

1100 block of Hammond Drive—On Aug. 4, employees of Einstein Broth-ers Bagels reported that an employee took $560 from the drive-through regis-ter. Video showed the employee remov-ing the cash and placing it in his pocket. Warrants are pending.

8330 block of Roswell Road—A wom-an reported she cashed a check at the Best Bank and later used a $100 bill to pay a restaurant bill, where she was told the bill was counterfeit. She returned to the bank and they took it, swapped it for a good one, and said they would investigate.

1100 block of Mount Vernon High-way—On Aug. 6, a woman reported that she left her wallet at a fast food restaurant and, on return, discovered it gone. Later, three debit card transactions were found on the card.

300 block of Winding River Drive—On Aug. 8, a patrol offi cer spotted a car parked behind a building in an area where

frequent criminal activity occurs. Th e car, a Nissan Rogue, was occupied. He ran the tag, which came back as a stolen Ford Expedition from Atlanta, taken on July 25. At that time, the car started up and drove out of the complex to Roswell Road. Th e offi cer followed and when the offi cer hit the blue lights, the car drove faster, heading north on Roswell Road.

CAPTAIN STEVE ROSE, [email protected]

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Fraud alert: Fake Fulton

County offi cer phone scam

In the fi rst two weeks of August, multiple reports were made to San-dy Springs police about a phone scam where a caller pretended to be a Ful-ton County offi cer asking for money.

Capt. Steve Rose wrote in his “Weekly Wrap” column that during the fi rst week of August, a woman got a call from a Fulton County police of-fi cer regarding a warrant for failure to appear for jury duty.

Th e caller told her he would need to arrest her and wait fi ve days for her to make bond, but that she could pay the bond by mail. Th e woman sent a $900 Visa card to an address provided by the phony offi cer before realizing it was a scam, police reported.

Th e following week, Rose wrote, a man identifying himself as “Lt. James Marshall with the Fulton Coun-ty Sheriff ’s Department” defrauded a 60-year-old woman out of $900. Th e caller said a warrant was in eff ect for her for contempt of court and failure to appear in court. He instructed her to go to Kroger and get two Blue/Or-ange Recharge Cards and put $900 on each.

Two additional people reported similar calls, but they did not send money.

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Sandy Springs Police BlotterTh e driver headed across the river, into historical, fashionable and upscale Ro-swell. Th e car turned right onto Oxbo Drive and some other streets, where pur-suing offi cers lost sight of the car. Th ey found the car wrecked and abandoned on Grove Way and Myrtle Street. In the car, they found some Corona beer, Sky Peach Vodka, just under three grams of crack cocaine and an L.A. Lakers hat. Th e Nis-san was not listed as stolen and is regis-tered to a Nissan dealer in Morrow, Ga. Th e suspect is at large.

ASSAULT 6000 block of Roswell Road—On Aug.

3, a man said he left a nightclub around 3:22 a.m. after drinking at the bar. He left and, while walking in the parking lot to his car, he was confronted by another man who said the victim owed him mon-ey for drinks that he consumed at the bar. Th e man asking for money punched the man walking. Th ree to four more people joined in punching the man before driv-ing off in a Toyota Corolla. Th e man de-clined medical attention at the scene.

4700 block of Roswell Road—On Aug. 9, a pizza delivery man said a brick was thrown through his window and some-one shot at his car around 2:30 p.m., while he was at the Park 225 apartments. He said he de-livered a pizza and two men were sitting on the stairs in front of the apartment. One man said something to him about brushing by him. Th e delivery man said they shouldn’t be sitting on the stairs then. Th e man got in his car and said he then heard a sound like a fi recracker. He saw the same two, one of whom threw a brick into his windshield, who then ran.

ARRESTS 300 block of Mount Vernon High-

way—On Aug. 3, around 11 a.m. cops were called to the library regarding a man creating a disturbance. Apparently, he was too loud and was asked by the staff to tone it down. He became loud and ver-bally abusive to the staff . Th e offi cers ap-

proached him and he continued to create a disturbance, using profane language. He was arrested.

OTHER THINGS Natchez Trace –On Aug. 1, police were called around 3 a.m., by a man who said he was hit in the head by a hammer. He then hung up. When police got there, the man said the en-tertainment center fell, hitting him in the head. Th e others in the apart-

ment, as well as the man who was in-jured, were extremely uncooperative.

Th e injured man was limping and sweat-ing, saying he hit his leg on the railing. He eventually asked for an ambulance. He, nor the others, would provide any information close to the truth, so the of-fi cers left.

A woman reported that she has been re-ceiving a number of calls around 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., but the caller either hangs up or doesn’t say anything. On one call, the caller asked if the person was Rachael. She found that the calls were coming from Fulton County Jail.

A woman reported that her neighbor confronted her regarding his opinion that she was not keeping a drainage pas-sage, between the two yards, clean of de-bris. He then went back inside the home. Later that evening while she stood in her driveway, he came back out and called her “white trash” and “slut,” and told her that he wished she was in the Army 30 years ago “because you wouldn’t be around now.” She thinks all this was in response to putting up a wooden fence.

A woman reported that she returned a phone call to someone who said he was with the IRS and his name was “Agent Banks.” He said he had a warrant for her and needed her personal information which she gave him before realizing it was a scam.

A man reported that someone set up an Instagram account in his name using his personal information including phone, home address and real name. Th e pro-fi le says he’s looking for a partner, and is requesting potential partners to contact him.


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