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APR. 29 - MAY. 12, 2016 • VOL. 8 — NO.9

BY DYANA BAGBY AND JOE EARLE

About 50 Brookhaven residents gathered April 26 to confront developers who propose building shops and 206 apartments at the in-tersection of Dresden and Caldwell Drives.

Residents voiced concerns about the number of apartments planned in the Dres-den area and the traffic that the project, called Dresden Village, would bring.

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BY DYANA [email protected]

Brookhaven City Council members are considering putting a moratorium on late-night venues on Buford Highway, continu-ing a debate among city officials that has gone on for several years.

Mayor John Ernst directed City Attor-ney Chris Balch during the council’s April 26 work session to prepare information to

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Dunwoody lawmaker questions SPLOST ballot languageBY JOE EARLE AND DYANA BAGBY

A Dunwoody lawmaker and the DeKalb school superintendent are battling public-ly over whether the planned May vote on a special sales tax for schools would stand up to a legal challenge.

Sen. Fran Millar (R-Dunwoody) argues that the ballot language pro-posed for the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax vote on May 24 isn’t specific enough. He called for the system to delay the vote until next year.

“Bottom line, I be-lieve a legal challenge to your planned approach has a good chance of be-ing successful,” Millar wrote in an open letter to DeKalb Superinten-dent Dr. Stephen Green that was dated April 14.

In a response, dated April 19, Green argues the language in the pro-posed ballot question adopted by the school board is specific enough to meet legal require-ments.

“In our view, suf-ficient description has been provided to meet the constitution-al requirement,” Green wrote in his letter to Mil-lar. “The capital projects are specifically de-scribed, serve educational purposes and are all for the clear benefit of DeKalb coun-ty students. We are not aware of any con-stitutional provision, statute, case law or attorney general opinion that contradicts our view under these descriptions.”

In his letter, Green said the SPLOST funds would pay for safety and security systems such as improving surveillance systems and fire alarms; new facilities and additions to school buildings; improve-ments to school buildings such as new roofs, wiring, painting or heating and air-conditioning systems; Enterprise Resource Planning upgrades and technology im-provements; purchasing buses and other capital equipment such as desks; and ex-penses related to the projects.

He said similarly-worded SPLOST reso-lutions had been adopted in the past.

School officials say the tax, a renewal of the existing penny sales tax, is expect-

ed to raise about $600 million for DeKalb schools over its five-year life. They told members of the Dunwoody Homeown-ers Association in February that individu-al projects to be paid for by the tax would

likely be determined by the school board in De-cember, after consulta-tion with parents.

Millar, who said in his letter he had sup-ported previous educa-tion sales taxes, said he had received numerous complaints about the school systems’ “catego-ry proposal,” and that had conferred with the state Attorney Gener-al’s office, state Legisla-tive counsel and a law-yer representing former Gov. Roy Barnes, a Dem-ocrat, about it.

He also wrote that problems with the DeKalb vote could have an influence on similar votes in Atlanta and Ful-ton County. “By not enu-merating specific proj-ects, DeKalb may also influence whether At-lanta and Fulton (which did it right) will be af-fected,” he wrote, noting he has sent copies of his letter to the superinten-dents of Atlanta Public Schools and the Fulton County School System.

On Feb. 1, the DeKalb Board of Educa-tion approved a joint resolution with At-lanta Public Schools and the City Schools of Decatur placing the proposed fifth ES-PLOST to voters on May 24. If approved, collection of funds would begin in July and end in June 2022.

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Community BriefsCOMCAST PAYS $1 MILLION IN BACK FRANCHISE FEES

Mayor John Ernst announced at the April 26 City Coun-cil meeting that Comcast has paid back the nearly $1 million it owed the city in back franchise fees.

Comcast entered an agreement with the council Feb. 9 to pay back $981,976.05 owed to the city in two separate payments within 75 days.

“We have gotten our second check in. All money owed to us is in,” Ernst said.

In April 2015, Comcast agreed to pay the back franchise fees dating from January 2013 through March 2015. Comcast is cur-rently paying the city franchises fees on a quarterly basis.

Franchise fees are paid to local governments by private ca-ble TV companies such as Comcast for use of the public right of way for cable. Private cable TV companies typically charge cus-tomers franchise fees and are to take that money and pay it to the cities.

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The City Council will be presented with a bid for the charac-ter zoning project put into motion in February, perhaps in late May or early June.

Community Development Director Ben Song said RFPs for the project have been out since March and the final due date was Friday, April 29. He said staff would review the applicants and then select the best choice and bring to council for final ap-proval.

Brookhaven city officials decided in February they should gather residents for new discussions of the 13 “character areas” outlined in the city’s plan, which was adopted in 2014. City offi-cials want more detailed information after residents at recent public gatherings said they felt they had been left out of the orig-inal process.

A planned rewrite of the city’s zoning code would be delayed until after the reworking of the comprehensive plan.

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The Fortune 500 company Newell Brands this year made the shortest of cor-porate headquarters relocations, mov-ing about a third of a mile within Sandy Springs. But it was also a giant leap into the millennial generation, a switch from a self-contained suburban campus to a transit-oriented site where hang-out spac-es are more common than assigned desks.

“This new headquarters has a more res-idential feel to it,” said David Sheehan of the architecture firm Perkins + Will and who was on the Newell headquarters de-sign team. “Generally, this is the way cor-porate America is going.”

Major corporations are increasingly fleeing massive, remote compounds for glass-walled, urban buildings near public transit. “A number of [corporations] are now saying, ‘We did this whole suburban thing. It’s done,’” said Mark Hinshaw, a principal at the Seattle architecture firm Walker Macy who has written about cor-porate headquarter moves.

A major national example is General Electric’s recently announced move from suburban Connecticut to inner-city Bos-ton. It’s also a trend in the once subur-ban but increasingly urbanized Perime-ter Center. Mercedes-Benz USA is moving from New Jersey’s office parks to a San-dy Springs site designed with cubicle-free “collaborative” workspaces and paired with a housing development. State Farm’s

new regional headquarters, going up in Dunwoody, will be directly connected to a MARTA station.

These changes to the classic corporate campus model are propelled by the same force behind the push for apartments, mixed-use development and “walkability”: the millennial generation market.

“In my view, all of this is being driv-en by the millennials,” said Hinshaw. “It’s their taste. It’s their generation. What they want is what they’re getting.

“They don’t want private spaces. They don’t want hierarchical things. They want it to be more democratic—more Bernie Sand-ers,” he added with a laugh. “They want to live in apartments, live in a neighborhood. And they also don’t want to drive a car.”

It’s a reversal of the corporate campus trend, which also tracked housing pat-terns—at the time, white-collar workers fleeing cities for suburbs. One trend-set-ter was Connecticut General Life Insur-ance Company’s 1957 move to a sprawling, college-like campus only accessible by car.

Hinshaw has written about the dramat-ic headquarters change at one Fortune 500 company, the timber giant Weyerhaeuser. In 1972, the company built a spectacular HQ with a greenery-covered terraced roof on a gigantic 400-acre campus in subur-ban Washington state. But this year, Wey-erhaeuser is moving to a modest-looking, glass-walled building in downtown Seat-tle—with only 50 parking spaces.

Hinshaw says that Weyerhaeuser’s move typifies the trend. It’s mostly about millenni-

als, but also about being closer to academic centers, responding to today’s more diverse workforce and moving away from “fortress-like” buildings to one reflecting new goals like environmental sustainability.

“There was a good, long era…where [corporations] wanted iconic, bold, strik-ing buildings set against the landscape…the counterpart to European royalty who wanted castles and piazzas,” Hinshaw said. Today, he said, companies are more inclined “to blend into the area and not be a literal target…I think that’s also a delib-erate move to integrate their workforce with general society.”

Newell Brands—home of many house-hold products, from Rubbermaid to Sharpie—had to react rapidly to these trends only 10 years after its last head-quarters redesign, said Sheehan, who worked on both projects.

It was previously located on secluded, leafy Glenlake Parkway in a building with each floor devoted to one of the company’s major sub-brands. Now it’s on Peachtree-Dunwoody Road, Perimeter Center’s main drag, with an open design inspired more by Starbucks than cubicles, and living

rooms rather than board rooms.“In the previous headquarters, we had

designed a fitness center there [and] a full-service cafeteria…and that was all de-signed to keep people in the building and on campus,” said Sheehan. In the new building, workers are expected to walk or take the nearby MARTA to local restau-rants and a gym, though the company still provides a shower and locker room.

Inside, desks haven’t vanished, but “part of the workforce doesn’t really have an assigned desk per se,” Sheehan said. Spots considered workspaces include “huddle rooms,” lounges, a café with a fireplace, and a terrace and roof deck for outdoor gatherings.

Of course, the millennial generation, too, will pass, and its stereotyped prefer-ences aren’t really suited for every worker or company, Sheehan and Hinshaw said. There are risks in being too trendy, Hin-shaw said, but the bigger risk right now lies in not giving the millennial workforce what it wants.

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A developer plans to buy an entire street of homes bordering Pill Hill to build a major mixed-use project fronting on the Glenridge Connector.

All owners along western Clement-stone Drive—a cul-de-sac of eight single-family homes off Peachtree-Dunwoody Road in Sandy Springs—have agreed to sell to developer Richmond Honan, said Joe Cannon, a real estate broker with KW Commercial Atlanta Perimeter.

“Yes, the entire street,” said Cannon of the Clementstone plan, which cov-ers roughly 13 acres and would build a new road onto the Connector at the ex-isting Meridian Mark Drive intersection. “We’ve been working with [the home-owners] for months…It’s going to be a mixed-use deal.”

Plans are in the very early stage, Can-non said. But the general idea involves retail space fronting on the Connector, along with senior housing—independent and assisted living—and possibly some doctors’ offices to serve it. The southern, rear section would have “some extremely high-end luxury homes.”

The plans are so preliminary that Can-non could not give specific unit counts or heights or even say whether the homes would be single family or townhomes. More details will be available by next month, when the developer will present the plan to the High Point Civic Associa-tion, a Sandy Springs community organi-zation, according to the broker and HPCA member Bill Gannon.

“I think like everyone it feels it needs to be redeveloped,” Cannon, the broker, said of Clementstone, “but there’s going to be a huge variety of opinions as to how it should be redeveloped and the density of the redevelopment.”

A Richmond Honan representative could not offer immediate comment, but did confirm the company’s involvement in a Clementstone Drive plan. Alpharet-ta-based Richmond Honan is a nationally known developer of medical offices and hospitals. It has built on Pill Hill before, including a Northside Hospital tower and the Meridian Mark Plaza medical build-ing across the Connector from the pro-posed Clementstone project.

Northside Hospital owns one of those Clementstone Drive houses, which it bought in 2014, according to property records. Cannon said that the hospital might occupy some of the medical office space in the proposed redevelopment,

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“We’re hyperallergenic. We have fish and turtles,” Lefkovitz said. “I was the only one who didn’t have a pet [dog or cat] go-ing into this.”

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Northside spokesperson Katherine Watson did not have immediate com-ment about the Richmond Honan plan. Northside owns a large vacant property at Meridian Mark Drive and the Connec-tor, opposite the Meridian Mark Plaza. Watson recently said that the hospital has no plans for that property at this time.

Cannon said the Clementstone project should have no impact on local school capacity. He said it would aid traffic by making the main access via the new road proposed to intersect with the Glenridge

Connector, while either entirely shutting Clementstone or turning it into a limited-use driveway.

The luxury housing component, he said, is intended as a “nice transition” from the residential West Kingston Drive area to the south and the proposed, dens-er use along the Connector.

The Clementstone plan comes as part of a major Pill Hill construction boom. A new Ronald McDonald House recent-ly opened on Peachtree-Dunwoody be-tween the Glenridge Connector and Cle-mentstone. The HPCA’s Gannon noted that with that project done, “now it is time for the next domino to fall” along Clementstone.

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Create Your Cupcake, located at 203 Hilderbrand Dr., in Sandy Springs, recently noted its opening with a ribbon cutting. From left, Suzanne Brown, vice president/client relations, Sandy Springs Perimeter Chamber, Ariela Fajardo, store manager, Erica Rocker-Wills, Barbara Hart, co-owner, City Councilman John Paulson, Steve Hart, co-owner, Thomas Morgan, manager, Angela

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OPINION / Monumental memories

Sheffield HaleSheffield Hale is

president and CEO of the Atlanta History Center

Confederate monuments and memo-rials have stirred discussion in the South for decades. Debate over keeping or re-moving them, however, intensified after the Charleston tragedy in June 2015, bring-ing renewed attention to existing Confed-erate iconography. Across the South, from New Orleans to Baltimore, Americans have since attempted to find solutions to ad-dressing these legacies of the Civil War in public life.

At the Atlanta History Center, we be-lieve that these monuments can be valu-able educational tools; in particular, as tangible signs of the Jim Crow era. Our suggestion is that communities consider converting them into historical artifacts by providing adjacent in-terpretive signage and even educational pro-gramming to tell the history of those who erected these monu-ments and why. Most importantly, to tell the stories of the people they were intended to diminish.

Even with such ef-forts, debate over Con-federate monuments has persisted and will continue into the fu-ture. But this is exact-ly why the monuments are so important to keep, provided we talk about the real reasons they were put there in the first place.

Following the Civil War, between 1870 and 1890, many monuments were built and placed in cemeteries, mourning Con-federate dead. These earlier monuments were usually obelisks, adorned with fu-neral drapes. The majority of monuments found in the South today, though, are of a different time and character - originally

built between 1890 and 1920. These monu-ments were placed in public locations – in town squares, courthouse lawns and col-leges. They are often more elaborate, de-picting soldiers or Confederate leaders. These latter monuments were products of an era defined by Jim Crow, which re-inforced and affirmed a white supremacy worldview through veneration of the Lost Cause.

As is true with all monuments, Confed-erate ones are meant to promote and sus-tain a memory. When we discuss memo-ry of the Civil War in the South, we can talk about the staggering percentage of white Southerners killed defending the Confed-

eracy, but we cannot de-fend historically inac-curate reasons for the war’s cause. We must also talk about how de-feat of the Confedera-cy, which fought to pre-serve slavery, led to 42 percent of the South’s entire population, four million black Southern-ers, being freed from bondage.

History is not some-thing we use just to make ourselves feel better. If that were the case, we would be talk-ing about heritage – which I define as his-tory without all the unpleasant parts. Her-itage is not necessarily a bad thing, but it can

be obstructive when it causes us to ignore the more complex realities of history. His-tory makes us take the next step: It asks us to question and consider the past and its is-sues deeply – good, bad and in between.

Monuments are constant reminders that we need to address our collective his-tory together and openly. The past is al-ways more complicated than it seems.

JOE EARLE

A Confederate monument stands at the DeKalb County Courthouse.

As a commit-ted grassroots preservationist, I believe the re-moval of histori-cal objects from the landscape almost always serves to diminish us and our collec-tive story. I think it’s much better to keep these mon-uments. But, if we keep them, we cannot maintain the status quo. We must transform them from objects of veneration into historical artifacts that can tell the story of why so many of them were erected: as a vehicle to celebrate the Confederacy during the time of Jim Crow segregation. Confederate mon-uments are among our last tangible links to that disturbing era in American history.

However, I believe the decision to move, remove or retain is inherently local. Ulti-mately, how to approach monuments is a decision for local communities to make themselves, based upon a full understand-ing of the topic.

To help communities start the conver-sation and grasp the broader historical perspective monuments can provide, the Atlanta History Center has developed an educational online resource. On our web-site, visitors will find the latest literature and news, concerning issues surround-ing Confederate monuments and national memory. Additionally, a key feature of the site is a “Confederate Monument Interpre-tation Template,” which offers contextual text that communities can incorporate on informational signage that they design.

Earlier this month, in fact, 33 members of the University of Mississippi history fac-ulty proposed using text from the template for their most contentious monument on campus. After a previous attempt to con-textualize the statue was met with criti-cism, the history faculty pulled language from our model to link their monument to the legacy of the Civil War, the Lost Cause narrative and the Jim Crow era.

We encourage local communities to use these resources to develop their own solu-tions to addressing monuments.

Today, we are presented with an oppor-tunity to openly discuss the underlying is-sues that have often divided us and contin-ue to divide us. Rather than censoring the past, let’s encourage an understanding of its complexity.

Let us look at these monuments from a different perspective – as artifacts that can help explain a difficult period in history. The past has much to teach us about who we are and where we are – if we let it.

Letter to the EditorTo the editor:Joe Earle wrote a column about a Yan-

kee transplant named Bill Browning who has joined a Sons of Union Veterans her-itage group. [“These ‘Sons’ honor the Union,” Reporter Newspapers, April 15-28.] I took offense at a transplant moving here and joining a Union heritage group.

Remember, history books were writ-ten by the victorious North. Americans get a distorted view of the Civil War, which should be called the “War of Northern Ag-gression.” Southern states freely joined

the Union, wanted to exercise their free will and leave, and there was nothing in the Constitution that prevented the South from leaving. Even though the South nev-er threatened the North, Lincoln sent sav-age Union troops to completely destroy the South. This was followed by waves of Yan-kee carpetbaggers who exploited the dev-astated South. The Civil War was fought by the North, not to free the slaves, but to forc-ibly keep the South in the Union. This was America’s greatest act of imperialism.

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Citizens oppose Ashford-Dunwoody townhome project at public meetingBY DYANA [email protected]

Nearly 100 Brookhaven residents showed up at an informal meeting at City Hall April 19 to voice their opposition to a proposed 17 townhome development on Ashford-Dunwoody Road.

The meeting, hosted by District 1 Councilmember Linley Jones, was or-ganized to al-low residents to have input on the proposed re-zoning to make way for the de-velopment of 17 townhomes on the property lo-cated at 3697, 3705 and 3713 Ashford-Dun-woody Road near Blackburn Park.

The rezoning request was to go before the City Coun-cil on April 26 but developers withdrew the request with the option of bringing it back at a later date.

Jones said the developer, Mike Em-bry of Embry Group, asked her to hold the April 19 meeting to ensure the com-munity knew about the project. Jones said she also wanted to make sure more people knew about the project because it seemed to have “flown under the radar.”

The rezoning request is recommend-ed by city staff, but on April 6 the Plan-ning Commission voted against recom-mending approval. Three houses built in the 1970s are currently located on the property; they are now duplexes. The property backs up to Bubbling Creek and single-family neighborhoods.

Peter Cabrelli, who lives in Cambridge Park, drew applause when he said he was tired of “constant pressure” from devel-opers coming into Brookhaven wanting to change what the city was originally designed to be.

“The city of Brookhaven was devel-oped and created to maintain a style of living … to keep growth and concentra-tion of housing from growing,” he said.

“All we want to do is maintain what we have – it’s why we worked so hard to create this little city,” he said.

The townhomes would be three sto-ries tall with a two-car parking garage as the base floor. Cost for each of the units will be in the $400,000 range, Embry said. Total time for construction would be approximately two years.

Many people voiced concern about

more traffic on Ashford-Dunwoody Road.Attorney Jill Arnold of Pursley Friese

Torgrimson in Atlanta said a traffic study was conducted and showed the new de-velopment would only add 13 trips dur-ing morning peak hours and 14 trips dur-ing evening peak hours.

“The numbers you throw out about traffic we know are false. We’re not fools,” Cabrelli said. “It’s going to be a

nightmare.”“I understand

there is traffic out there,” Ar-nold said. “I’ve been on Ash-ford-Dunwoody. That’s a bigger issue.” She also said Brookhav-en is a “very de-sirable place to live” and the city needs to direct that growth on major thorough-

fares such as Ashford-Dunwoody Road in order to leave established neighborhoods alone.

The “bigger issue” of congestion on Ashford-Dunwoody Road is currently be-ing looked at as part of a corridor study, Jones said.

Jones said the city is also considering approving impact fees that could man-date developers behind new construction along Ashford-Dunwoody Road to pay for renovations to the road to help less-en congestion.

Claudia Harry of the Friends of Black-burn Park said she and other members worried that rezoning for this develop-ment will set a precedent for other devel-opers to push through a project without much citizen input.

“We do not want more density. I com-mend you on your beautiful renderings … but what you present is not beautiful to our community,” she said.

Many people also voiced concern about the wooded area and Bubbling Creek located behind the property and how the development would affect wild-life. City screening of the application plans show there would be no major en-vironmental harm done to the area, but residents remained skeptical.

“We love the trees. We have wildlife. The prospect of this going in is so dis-couraging,” said Scott Naylor, who re-cently moved to Brookhaven from Buck-head.

Embry said development is inevitable and it was important communities work together to ensure good development.

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CATHERINE SCOTT BERNARDLawyer Past political experience:Founder/Chair, Brookhaven Redevelopment Referendum Com-mittee; DeKalb County GOP, Events Chair, County Committee; Vice Chair, Brookhaven Precinct; President, Membership Chair, DeKalb Young Republicans; President, North DeKalb Republi-can Women; Delegate, 2012 Republican National Convention

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What do you see as the biggest problem facing the district?Development/transportation, followed closely by education. Brookhaven, Sandy

Springs and Chamblee are three of the most exciting and dynamic cities in Georgia (and beyond) and are struggling with the best way to promote smart, sustainable growth while respecting property rights for residents and businesses. Traffic congestion has made some neighborhoods all but impassable at certain times, and infrastructure im-provements have not always kept pace with increased usage. Zoning and planning re-quire careful balancing of competing concerns, but residents can’t keep up with all of the expensive efforts to increase density, nor should they be expected to volunteer end-less time because elected officials shy away from criticizing the work of other govern-ment workers.

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ALAN COLERetired small business ownerPast political experience: Past precinct chair for the Mont-gomery Precinct; Sergeant at Arms at State Convention Website: alancole.us

What do you see as the biggest problem facing the district?Transportation.


Vote against it.

MEAGAN HANSONAttorneyPast political experience: From working on Capitol Hill for Sena-tor Jeff Sessions of Alabama to serving as Chairman of the Geor-gia Young Republicans, my political experience covers the gam-ut from legislative policy analysis to grassroots volunteer efforts.Website: www.HansonforHouse.com.

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What do you see as the biggest problem facing the district?Education and transportation challenges tie for the biggest problem the district fac-

es. My husband and I moved to Brookhaven because we loved the sense of community. But, I cannot accept that we are simultaneously paying tax dollars for education yet we feel forced to send our children to private schools, or when bumper-to-bumper traffic prevents us from making that playoff baseball game at Murphy Candler Park.


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City considers moratorium on Buford Highway late-night venuespresent at its May 10 meeting on how the council could halt new late-night estab-lishments opening in the city, specifically along Buford Highway.

“My concern is we don’t become what happened to Buckhead,” Councilmember Joe Gebbia said. “Buford Highway has al-ways been an ‘entertainment area’, but I think it is our responsibility to manage this area responsibly.”

Interim City Manager and Police Chief Gary Yandura told the council that police officers respond to an overwhelming num-ber of calls between 2 a.m. to 6 a.m.

He said from January to April 22, po-lice have responded to more than 2,000 in-cidents. Of the 706 arrests made, 132 were made between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.; of 832 ac-cidents, 39 occurred between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.; and of 65 DUIs arrests so far this year, 25 were made between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.

“Our reputation is we are getting to be known as a late night [city] and that is caus-ing problems,” Yandura said.

Currently, last call for local late-night venues is 2:55 a.m., with closing set at 3:30 a.m. Restaurants are also able to stay open until 3:30 a.m.

Closing bars and nightclubs early has been part of an ongoing discussion in Brookhaven since at least 2013 and has been met with resistance from local busi-nesses.

In 2014, the council did approve clos-ing bars and nightclubs an hour earlier. The council again discussed shutting down clubs and bars an hour earlier in Decem-ber.

Yandura also showed a dramatic dash-cam video from December 2015 of an ar-rest of a drunk driver on Buford Highway being pursued by several Brookhaven po-lice officers. The driver was spotted driving on a sidewalk, and when an officer tried to pull him over, he sped past several vehicles while trying to evade police.

“I know we’re good at catching these guys, but it would be good to know where the DUI drivers are coming from,” Gebbia

said after Yandura said he did not know if the driver was leaving a Brookhaven club or possibly driving from Chamblee.

Yandura said the police department also fields many noise complaints that come from Buford Highway. But Council-member Bates Mattison said he believes the number of new late-night establish-ments in the area is the main concern.

“The issue is the proliferation of late-night establishments on Buford Highway. We do not want it to become a late-night place,” he said.

Another problem is some restaurants are operating as late-night establishments, violating their licensing agreement, said Ben Song, director of Community Devel-opment. Restaurants are supposed to stop serving alcohol at 12:30 a.m. even though they are legally allowed to stay open un-til 3:30 a.m. Several are serving booze well past 12:30 a.m., he said.

Gebbia suggested that if venues are cit-ed a certain number of times for violating city ordinances that an off-duty Brookhav-en police officer be required to work secu-rity detail at the club. He also suggested that landlords be required to put in secu-rity cameras to record happenings in park-ing lots.

Balch said the council could implement a moratorium on late-night venues either by stopping the issuance of licenses for late-night establishments or by placing a moratorium on Special Land Use Permits that late-night venues are required to ob-tain.

“I think for security purposes and con-tinued proliferation, I want to … initiate a moratorium,” Gebbia said.

Councilmember Linley Jones said she supported a moratorium based on danger posed to police officers and citizens.

Councilmember John Park said he wor-ried a moratorium may hurt small venues.

“What about the small restaurant own-er who happens to stay open late – in a rel-atively quiet neighborhood – this could be an imposition on them,” he said.

The issue will be discussed again in two weeks at the May 10 council meeting.


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Residents push back on traffic, local zoning district as more apartments proposed for Dresden

Some argued that the developers, Con-nolly Investment and Development and Fairfield Residential, should reduce the number of apartments closer to the 150 al-lowed by current zoning on the property or should use townhomes instead of apart-ments in a portion of the planned develop-ment.

Sisters Suzanne and Jennifer Heath, who live in the Brookhaven Fields neigh-

borhood, said apartment construction is changing their community. Jennifer Heath said 1,877 apartments are being built in the area and another 1,374 are proposed, in-cluding the ones at Dresden Village.

“We’re getting to the point we’re start-ing to draw a line in the sand,” Jennifer Heath said.

“If we don’t get every developer to give us as much as they can, it’s a lost cause,” Su-zanne Heath said. “We’re at a tipping point. All we can do is fight.”

The developers plan to ask Brookhav-en city officials to rezone the slightly more

than 3 acres at 1336-1370 Dresden and 2544-256 Caldwell to allow construction of a mixed-use development including apart-ments, retail space and a parking deck. The project would include about 20,000 square feet of retail space and 206 apartments.

After the meeting, held at the Briar-cliff community center in Briarcliff Park, the developers and their representatives said they likely would hold another pub-lic meeting during May to discuss the de-

velopment.What the developers are ask-

ing for and what is approved al-ready for the site currently are not much different, said J.R. Connolly, president and CEO of Connolly Investment and Development. Current zoning of the property allows for 155 multi-family units, the develop-ers said.

The property is also current-ly zoned for 35,000 square feet of commercial space; Connol-ly is seeking less, about 19,890 square feet for shops and res-taurants.

Sonja Greeley lives nearby. She said the area already has a great deal of apartments, with the complex @1377 across the street from this proposed de-velopment. And with the transit-orient-ed development proposed at the nearby Brookhaven MARTA station that includes some 600 residential units, it’s time to dial back the density, she said.

“I’ve lived in the neighborhood for 18 years and we’ve been happy with most of the development up to this point,” Greeley said. “We have reached the tipping point and enough is enough.”

Dresden Drive’s recent influx of hous-

ing and commercial development is appre-ciated, she said, but adding more density means more traffic, and Greeley said she has “reached her capacity for tolerance.”

Connolly said a traffic study done for the development shows minimal impact on the area, but excludes the congestion created by those trying to get in and out of the small office lot because that is an “ex-isting issue.”

Connolly said the proposed develop-ment includes, on Dresden Drive, a 10-foot

sidewalk with 5-foot landscaping, paral-lel parking and a 5-foot wide bike lane to encourage other modes of transportation. A selling point is also the walkability to Brookhaven’s MARTA station.

Greeley said she appreciates being able to walk to restaurants on Dresden Drive from her home, but it is time to halt more development.

“I’m frustrated that every developer who asks for rezoning seems to get it. Stick with what you got.”

JOE EARLE

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It looks a bit like a game cobbled togeth-er during a slow weekend at a vacation house after the host couldn’t track down all the pieces required for any single sport.

Players swing paddles that look like they came from an oversized Ping-Pong game. They hit a hollow plastic ball that’s full of holes. The ball bounces back and forth over a net similar to one on a ten-nis court. The game moves quickly. Some regular players of the sport called “pickle-ball” say it can feel like playing table tennis while standing on the table.

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“It’s fun to watch. It’s fun to play. It’s fun to learn,” Feldstein said one recent morning before he joined the crew get-ting a morning workout with a series of fast-paced pickleball games at the MJCCA, which calls pickleball its “hottest sport.”

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Dunwoody Parks and Recreation Direc-tor Brent Walker said city officials decided to include the court in the new park after resi-dents asked for it during public meetings. Walker said he’d never heard of the game before those meetings, but its fans were insistent. “There’s a small but strong con-tingent of folks that like to play pickleball,” he said.

Allan Bleich, a retired doctor, said he took up the sport after he stopped playing tennis because of knee trouble. “It’s just a fun way to exercise,” he said.

Nora Floersheim, a 67-year-old retired school teacher and former ten-nis player, picked up pickleball a couple of years ago at the Mar-cus Center and now teaches it to newcomers. Like other pickle-ball fans, she said an important aspect of the game is camarade-rie among the players, who sit to-gether and chat while awaiting a turn on the court. “It’s very, very, very social,” she said.

And the name? How did it get to be “pickleball,” anyway?

It goes back to the or-igin of the game itself. Pickleball was invent-ed near Seattle in 1965 by vacationing fami-lies who wanted to play badminton, but couldn’t find the shuttlecock. So they combined pad-dles, a Wiffle ball and a badminton net to make a game that kids and adults alike could play.

The pickleball as-sociation says one sto-ry is that the origi-nal players named

their game cobbled from many parts af-ter the “pickle boat” in rowing competi-tions, which uses a crew made up of row-ers from different boats. Another version is that they named it for the family dog, Pickles.

Ed Feldstein, left, and Nora Floersheim get ready to volley

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Pickleball players gather in Dunwoody for morning games at the Marcus Jewish

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Wade KovalikNorth Atlanta High School, senior

Wade Kovalik wants to be an aerospace engineer. Or a pilot. Or maybe both.

“My dream would be for an air-craft or rocket design that I worked on to get selected for government or pri-vate contract and to get put into produc-tion,” Wade said. “It would be an awe-some feeling to see something that I helped design actually fly through the air or in space.”

He’s working on it. He builds drones in his free time. And he’s had a intern-ship at the Georgia Tech Aerospace Sys-tems Design Laboratory.

At the same time, Wade’s academic performance landed him in the top 5 per-

cent of his class and he has received mul-tiple honors, including the STAR Student Award, which usually is given to the stu-dent with the highest SAT score in his or her class.

“I have a solid work ethic. It just isn’t in me to do things halfway, especially if it’s for something I genuinely care about,” Wade said. “I love to learn beyond what is taught in the classroom, or even about things that aren’t taught in school at all—like pretty much everything I know about aeronautics and space. Learning about new things is just something I’m really passionate about.”

Wade’s teachers see him as well-rounded, ambitious and hard-working.

“While Wade was my Latin student he was the absolute light of my life,” says Chris-tine Conklin, a teach-er at the Thomas Jef-ferson High School for Science & Technology in Alexandria, Va. “His excellence and dedi-cation to the language was renowned, and certainly appreciated and respected by me.”

Balancing a de-manding academic load with his activities in engineering, Wade also finds time to tu-tor his peers with Mu Alpha Theta. He also plays clarinet in North Atlanta’s Band.

“Wade has an im-pressive resume and we are proud of his accomplishment in being North Atlanta High School’s Class of 2016 STAR Stu-dent,” Senior Direc-tor Daryll Robinson said.

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� 3500 block of Buford Highway – On April 13, arrest for violating pe-destrian’s right of way in crosswalk.

� 4000 block of Peachtree Road – On April 13, arrest for following too closely.

� 1800 block of Northeast Expressway – On April 14, arrest for violating stop signs and yield signs.

� 3600 block of Buford Highway – On April 14, arrest for overtaking and pass-ing school bus.

� 3800 block of Peachtree Road – On April 14, arrest for disorderly conduct.

� I-85 South/North Druid Hills Road – On April 15, arrest for begging and solic-iting alms.

� 1800 block of Briarwood Road/North-east Expressway – On April 15, arrest for violating standards for brake lights and signal lights.

� I-85/North Druid Hills Road – On April 15, arrest for begging and soliciting alms.

� 3300 block of Buford Highway/Briar-wood Road – On April 15, arrest for no driver’s license.

� 4000 block of Peachtree Road – On April 15, arrest for criminal trespass.

� 3300 block of Buford Highway – On April 15, arrest for possession of a fire-arm/knife during commission of a crime.

� 1900 block of North Druid Hills – On April 16, arrest for disorderly conduct.

� 1900 block of North Druid Hills – On April 16, arrest for marijuana posses-sion-less than an ounce.

� Corporate Boulevard/Northeast Ex-pressway – On April 16, arrest for violat-ing headlight requirements.

� 2000 block of North Druid Hills Road – On April 17, arrest for possession of controlled substances or marijuana.

� 1000 block of Lenox Park Blvd – On April 17, an arrest for wanted person lo-cated.

� 2500 block of Ellijay Drive – On April 17, arrest for terroristic threats and acts.

� 3300 block of Buford Highway – On April 17, an arrest for public intoxica-tion and consumption.

� 1400 block of North Cliff Valley Way – On April 17, an arrest for violation of safety belts; child passenger restraining systems.

� 4000 block of Oak Forest Drive/Ash-ford-Dunwoody Road – On April 17, a DUI arrest, driver impaired by alcohol.

� 2500 block of Old Milton Pkwy. – On April 17, arrest for failure to appear.

� 3300 block of Buford Highway – On April 17, arrest for driver with ability im-paired by .08 three hours later.

� 2900 block of Buford Highway/North Druid Hills Road – On April 18, arrest for possession of a schedule II controlled substance – cocaine.

� 2000 block of Curtis Drive – On April 18, arrest for simple battery-family vio-lence.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center West – On April 18, arrest for robbery.

� 3500 block of Buford Highway – On April 18, arrest for no driver’s license.

� 2000 block of North Druid Hills Road – On April 18, arrest for arson-third de-gree.

� On April 19, arrest for failure to ap-pear.

� 3900 block of Peachtree Road – On April 19, arrest for marijuana posses-sion.

� 3600 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road – On April 20, arrest for violating obedience to authorized persons direct-ing traffic.

� 1800 block of Johnson Ferry Road – On April 21, two arrests for battery-fam-ily violence.

� 3400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road/Kadleston Way – On April 21, ar-rest for no driver’s license.

� 3100 block of Buford Highway – On April 21, arrest for obstruction and in-terference.

� 3700 block of Peachtree Road – On April 21, arrest for suspended/cancelled registration.

� 1600 block of Briarwood Road – On April 22, arrest for manufacture/sell/dispense/distribute.

� 3500 block of Buford Highway – On April 22, arrest for tail light require-ments.

� 1200 block of Dresden Drive/Peachtree Road – On April 22, arrest for driver with ability impaired by .08 three hours later.

� 3300 block of Buford Highway – On April 23, arrest for no driver’s license.

� 3000 block of Buford Highway/Corpo-rate Blvd. – On April 23, arrest for pub-lic indecency.

� 3800 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road – On April 23, arrest for furnishing alcoholic beverage to person under 21.

� 1800 block of Northeast Expressway – On April 23, arrest for no driver’s li-cense.

�North Druid Hills Road/ramp – On April 23, arrest for public intoxication and consumption.

� 2100 block of North Druid Hills Road/I-85 South – On April 23, arrest for begging and soliciting alms.

� 4000 block of Peachtree Road – On April 23, arrest for public intoxication and consumption.

B U R G L A RY � 1200 block of Reserve Drive – On April

13, report of burglary-no forced entry-residence.

� 1500 block of Folkstone Road – On April 14, report of burglary-forced en-try-residence.

� 3500 block of Buford Highway – On April 17, report of burglary-forced entry.

� 3500 block of Buford Highway – On April 18, report of burglary-forced en-try-residence.



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Running 17 exercise classes each week, plus private sessions with people recovering from injury or surgery, would surely exhaust an average person. Of course, Mattie’s far from average. She’s a bundle of energy who loves to dance, works a variety of music into her classes, and joins Canterbury’s walking club whenever she can, especially when they’re training for the annual Peachtree Road 10k. She says residents and staff are so much like family that she’s always encouraging people to move here.

Mattie invites you to discover her Canterbury Court.

My motto is exercise AND socialize.IT’S ALL ABOUT HAVING FUN!

Atlanta’s premier non-profit continuing care retirement community

Among the fascinating people wholive and work at Canterbury Court:

Mattie Hickey-MiddletonExercise Specialist since 2005

Dancer • Swimmer • Exercise Therapist • TeacherMusic Lover • Volunteer • Canterbury Court Ambassador

� 1000 block of Barone Avenue – On April 20, report of burglary-forced en-try-residence.

T H E F T � 1500 block of West Nancy Creek Drive

– On April 13, report of theft-articles from vehicle.

� 3600 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road – On April 13, report of theft-arti-cles from vehicle.

� 1500 block of Lake Hearn Drive – On April 14, report of theft-other offenses.

� 1100 block of Brookgate Way – On April 15, report of theft.

� 1800 block of Canmont Drive – On April 17, report of theft by taking auto.

� 3500 block of Buford Highway – On April 17, report of theft by taking auto.

� 1200 block of Druid Knoll Drive – On April 17, report of theft-parts from vehi-cle.

� 2600 block of Buford Highway – On April 17, report of theft-articles from ve-hicle.

� 2700 block of Grove Street – On April 17, report of theft-parts from vehicle.

� 3800 block of Clairmont Road – On April 18, two reports of theft-parts from vehicle.

� 3800 block of Buford Highway – On April 18, report of theft-parts from vehi-cle.

� 3100 block of Buford Highway – On April 18, report of theft by taking auto.

� 3800 block of Clairmont Road – On April 19, report of theft-parts from vehi-cle.

R O B B E RY � 3600 block of Buford Highway – On

April 16, report of street robbery with a gun.

A S S A U LT / B AT T E RY � 3000 block of Buford Highway – On

April 16, report of aggravated assault with a gun.

� 1800 block of East Roxboro Road – On April 16, report of simple battery.

� 2900 block of Clairmont Road – On April 17, a report of aggravated assault – hands, feet, teeth.

� 1000 block of Barone Avenue – On April 17, a report of simple battery.

� 2000 block of Curtis Drive – On April 18, report of simple battery.

F R A U D � 1100 block of Victoria Street – On April

13, report of financial identity fraud.

� 3300 block of Clairmont Road – On April 18, report of forgery.

� 1100 block of Byrnwyck Road – On April 20, report of fraud-impersonation.

� 1500 block of Runnymeade Road – On April 19, report of fraud-impersonation.

OT H E R � 1500 block of West Nancy Creek Drive

– On April 13, report of damage to pri-vate property.

� 100 block of Executive Park Drive – On April 13, report of terroristic threats/in-timidation.

� 2600 block of Stoland Drive – On April 14, report of stolen vehicle recovered.

� 3300 block of Buford Highway – On April 14, report of failure to appear.

� 3800 block of Peachtree Road – On April 14, report of city ordinance viola-tion.

� 1700 block of Buckhead Lane – On April 14, report of harassing communi-cation.

� 4000 block of Peachtree Road – On April 15, report of criminal trespass.

� 3500 block of Buford Highway – On April 15, report of unruly child.

� 2000 block of North Druid Hills Road – On April 17, report of possession of controlled substance or marijuana.

� 3700 block of Buford Highway – On April 17, a report of a hit and run.

� 1700 block of North Druid Hills Road/Gail Drive – On April 17, a report of a hit and run.

� 2500 block of Old Milton Parkway – On April 17, report of failure to appear.

� 2600 block of Buford Highway – On April 17, report of extortion offense.

� 1200 block of Lenox Park Blvd./Park Vista Drive – On April 17, report of aban-doned vehicle.

� 100 block of Perimeter Summit Blvd. – On April 17, a report of demented person transported.

� 3300 block of Buford Highway/Bri-arwood Road – On April 17, a report of DUI-alcohol.

� 3300 block of Buford Highway – On April 18, report of lost and found prop-erty.

� 2900 block of Buford Highway/North

Druid Hills Road – On April 18, a report of hit and run.

� 3600 block of Buford Highway – On April 18, report of lost and found prop-erty.

� 3400 block of Buford Highway – On April 18, report of harassing communi-cation.

� 2000 block of North Druid Hills – On April 19, report of entering auto.

� 3900 block of Peachtree Road – On April 19, report of city ordinance viola-tion.

� 2100 block of North Druid Hills Road/I-85 South – On April 19, report of missing person located.

� 1100 block of Alexandria Court – On April 19, report of lost and found prop-erty.

� 3800 block of Clairmont Road – On April 19, report of damage to property.

� 1900 block of North Druid Hills Road – On April 20, report of the location of a missing person.

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