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Derek Vogel held his Asian fusion sand-wich during a recent overcast Food Truck Thursday at Brook Run Park. His impression of Dunwoody before moving here just over a year ago is that it is a respectable place and the residents are especially proud to have be-come a city.

But when state Rep. Tom Tayolor (R-Dun-woody) made headlines for his April 7 DUI arrest in Rabun County, Vogel said he ques-tioned what he believed about the city.

“I feel the city has this good rep-utation and then to suddenly have this on the news, and everywhere on the news, is a black eye for the commu-nity,” Vogel said. “I understand people have problems and I’m glad he is seek-ing treatment. This definitely speaks for his making bad decisions.”

Vogel knows about Taylor’s long history with Dunwoody – as a founding member of the city who served on the first City Council before being elected as the representative for District 79 in the state House of Representa-tives in 2010. But supporting him in the May 24 primary is now questionable, he said.

“This causes … at least me to be very con-

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ResidentsvoiceconcernsoverHammondDrivecorridorstudyBY DYANA BAGBYdyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net

Widening Hammond Drive, adding bike lanes and more sidewalks — these are all on the table for potential future plans for the corridor that connects Sandy Springs and Dunwoody.

At an April 21 open house at Dun-woody City Hall, residents got a chance to look at proposed plans for five sections of the Hammond Road corridor: Glenridge Drive to Barfield Road; Barfield Road to Concourse Parkway; Concourse Parkway to Peachtree-Dunwoody Road; Peachtree-Dunwoody Road to Perimeter Center Park-way; and Perimeter Center Parkway to Ashford-Dunwoody Road.

The proposed plans are part of a part-nership between Sandy Springs, Dun-woody and the Perimeter Community Im-provement Districts. The three entities are working together to come up with a concept that addresses traffic, pedestrians and cyclists on heavily traveled Hammond Drive as new developments con-tinue to rise in Perimeter Center.

Jennifer Harper, chief of programs and operations with PCIDs, said the PCIDs and the cities know that capacity is a challenge on Hammond Drive.

“It is important to think about the challenge as a multi-jurisdictional issue rather than just the Dunwoody part and the Sandy Springs part,” she said. “As development comes in, and with residential density coming, it is important to preserve right of way.”

Average daily traffic volumes range from more than 27,000 cars per day near Ga. 400 to more than 16,000 near Ashford-Dunwoody Road.

As Mercedes-Benz USA and State Farm construct new office complexes along the corridor and with more developments in the works, Harper said it’s important the two cities work together to have a vision for the future.

A year ago, Sandy Springs and Dun-woody commissioned Gresham, Smith and Partners to create a bicycle and pedestrian improvement plan for Hammond Drive be-tween Sandy Springs’ Glenridge Drive and Dunwoody’s Ashford-Dunwoody Road. The plans include some widening of Ham-mond Drive but mostly feature distinct bike and walking areas, except for a stretch of multi-use path.

The goal of the plan is to guide future road work and local redevelopments—and specifically to get developers to pay for building the features. The design was made within the existing right of way, in part to keep it feasible for developers and in part because some sections are limited by the Ga. 400 overpass and the Dunwoody MAR-

TA station bridge.Michael Smith, public works director

for the city of Dunwoody, said no specific timeline is set for the project. “This is prob-ably in the 5- to 10-year horizon timeline,” he said.

Harper said the study is one step to-ward developing an agreement on a vision for the corridor and then finding the mon-ey, including from the Georgia Department of Transportation, to implement it.

“Hammond Drive is an important ar-tery for the Perimeter,” she said. “The devel-opers need to know what to expect. After we get [consensus on a plan] from corpo-rate partners, local governments and local residents, then we look for funding.”

Claire Willis of Dunwoody said she was pleased the study looked at different modes of transportation. “I take MARTA and walk quite a bit. It’s important to think about

this now rather than later,” she said. “Traf-fic affects you no matter what — if you are in the bus, you wait in traffic; when you are walking, traffic affects you.”

The Sandy Springs City Council looked at the corridor study last month. The coun-cil is also buying land along Hammond Drive for a future widening between Ro-swell Road and Glenridge Drive project that is part of a different study.

The Hammond Drive study calls for a 10-foot-wide, two-way cycle track, where cyclists can ride in opposite directions on the same side of the road, from Glenridge Drive to Barfield Road. There is a 2-foot buffer between the cycle track and a 6-foot wide sidewalk.

Bill Black bikes about 300 to 400 miles every month and said the study “looks OK to someone who doesn’t ride bikes.”

“I’d like to have someone in planning spend a month on a bike and come back and look at the study,” he said. “It’s differ-ent when you actually ride in traffic.”

Dara Lazar Buchbinder of Sandy Springs said she disliked the idea of a medi-an in between Glenridge Drive and Barfield Road because it is already difficult to turn into Hammond Park, for he said.

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CityconsidersbringingfoodtruckstonewparkBY DYANA BAGBYdyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net

Food Truck Thursdays have brought thousands to Brook Run Park over the past four years. Could it be time to try the concept at Dunwoody’s newest park?

Bill Grossman, a member of the Dun-

woody Homeowners Association, pro-posed the idea of Food Truck Tuesdays at the Park at Pernoshal Court to the City Council at its April 25 meeting. He sought city funding of up to $5,000.

“This would be a way to expose the park to a lot of people … and if we can bring in enough, we could get people in the habit of coming to the park,” Gross-man said. “We still get new people to Brook Run and we are into our fourth year.”

If Food Truck Tuesdays moves for-ward, it would start in late May after DeKalb County schools got out for sum-mer vacation, Grossman said. Currently DHA pays $500 for the sound engineer and the live entertainment at Food Truck Thursdays. That would likely be the same amount of funding needed for the Tues-day events.

The 5-acre Park at Pernoshal Court would host a much smaller crowd than Food Truck Thursdays, Grossman said. Pernoshal is one of several smaller parks that are part of the city’s Project Renais-sance. It is connected to Brook Run Park by a multi-use trail.

The $5,000 would cover costs for 10 Food Truck Tuesdays that would go through October, Grossman said.

Mayor Denis Shortal wondered if the idea of two days of food truck events in the city would over-saturate the market and possibly negatively affect local busi-nesses because people would be eating at the park rather than in restaurants.

“We do request every truck to buy a city of Dunwoody business license. Some of the food truck vendors are Dunwoody-owned,” Grossman said.

While council members appeared supportive of the idea, a major concern they raised was parking. There is a busi-ness parking lot with 100 spaces locat-ed across the street from the park, Gross-man pointed out. Also, there are a few apartment complexes nearby and the idea is to encourage people to walk to the

park.“We think

there is ade-quate parking in the area, but we won’t know until we try it,” Gross-man said.

Several council mem-bers suggest-ed funding six Tuesdays and wait to see if the event is popu-lar enough to fund the re-

maining four Tuesdays.Councilmember John Heneghan said

it was time for the city to step up and fund such ideas that promote the city.

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The Food Truck Thursdays concept, a popular event at Brook Run Park, might expand to Tuesdays at the Park at Pernoshal Court.

“I’m of the opinion we need to do this,” he said. “The city doesn’t fund enough events. DHA has done their fair share. I want to make sure city government does its fair sure. I’m of the opinion we go all in.”

Grossman said DHA would be con-sidering Food Truck Tuesday at its May 1 meeting. The council will consider the proposal at a later date.

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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.

“If they don’t get it, they’re not going to work for [the company],” he said.

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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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A new Sandy Springs business called My Pooch Face is working like a dog, pro-ducing custom portrait paintings of pets for hundreds of clients across the country.

“We got it down to an art,” said Da-vid Lefkovitz, the local entrepreneur who launched the web-based pet portrait busi-ness 10 months ago. Since then, the compa-ny has shipped more than 900 “pawtraits” to customers around the country.

Despite the name, the company paints virtually any furry pet, from cats to pigs to, in one recent case, a zebra. The acrylic paintings on canvas—in natural tones or with touches of psychedelic col-or—are done by a team of artists whose work is supervised and finished by Aziz Kadmiri, a Woodstock painter whose clients include the pop star Usher.

Seeing a painting Kadmiri had made

of a dog inspired Lefkovitz to create the company—but not because he wanted a canine portrait of his own. As it happens, Lefkovitz has no furry pets—and for a good reason.

“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.”

But he did see the response to Kad-miri’s dog painting, which the artist had posted on Facebook, and he sensed oppor-tunity. Lefkovitz is best known in business circles as co-founder of his family real es-tate company, LEFKO Group, but he also has a background in software and oper-ates a small company called Niche Digital Brands. He saw that custom pet portraits would have a big market and could be eas-ily publicized on social media.

The result has been strong sales with a soft launch—the full My Pooch Face web-site just went live two months ago. The company joined the likes of Coca-Cola in winning one of this year’s MAX Awards, an honor for marketing skills given by Georgia State University’s business school and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

My Pooch Face came from a business calculation, but Lefkovitz said he’s struck by the warm and fuzzy side.

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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

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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 real-ities of history. History makes us take the next step: It asks us to question and consid-er the past and its issues 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-

To 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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A Confederate monument stands at the DeKalb County Courthouse.

ways more com-plicated than it seems.

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 trans-form them from objects of veneration into historical artifacts that can tell the story of why so many of them were erected: as a ve-hicle to celebrate the Confederacy during the time of Jim Crow segregation. Confed-erate monuments are among our last tan-gible links to that disturbing era in Amer-ican history.

However, I believe the decision to move, remove or retain is inherently local. To help communities start the conversation and grasp the broader historical perspec-tive monuments can provide, the Atlan-ta History Center has developed an edu-cational online resource. On our website, visitors will find the latest literature and news, concerning issues surrounding Con-federate monuments and national memo-ry. Additionally, a key feature of the site is a “Confederate Monument Interpretation Template,” which offers contextual text that communities can incorporate on in-formational 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 monu-ments from a different perspective – as ar-tifacts that can help explain a difficult peri-od in history.

The past has much to teach us about who we are and where we are – if we let it.

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Trailexpert:PushfornewpathwaysdrivenbydemographicsBY JOHN RUCHjohnruch@reporternewspapers.net

Sandy Springs has the right founda-tion in place to build urban trails con-necting its scattered parks, trail ex-pert Chuck Flink told a big crowd at the Sandy Springs Conservancy’s annual “Thought Leaders” dinner April 13. He called for a city “greenprint”—the parks version of a blueprint—to shape a green future.

“I traveled down Roswell Road today and I understand the angst,” said Flink, president of North Carolina-based con-sulting firm Greenways, Inc., who has worked on hundreds of trail plans across the country. But, he add-ed, “The quality of the parks you have in this community is really, re-ally high…This is a great legacy to build on.”

Flink said San-dy Springs also has great examples close to home in Atlanta’s Buck-head neighborhood—the PATH400 multi-use trail, which has a planned extension into Sandy Springs, and the “Buckhead Collection” master plan for interconnected parks and trails.

“The PATH400 is a wonderful oppor-tunity for this community,” Flink said at the dinner at the Westin Atlanta Perim-eter North hotel, adding that the Atlanta BeltLine park/trail system it connects to is “the most amazing public works proj-ect in the U.S. today.”

Also at the dinner, the Conservancy, a parks advocacy and funding organiza-tion, gave its annual Greenspace Cham-pion Award to a local hero of the biggest park within city limits: Park Ranger Jer-ry Hightower of the Chattahoochee Riv-er National Recreation Area. Hightower said he was touched by the local hon-or and that the Conservancy itself de-served to be honored more than him-self.

Flink–who sported a green tie and a green bicycle-shaped lapel pin–is an advocate of “greenways,” meaning any type of park-style trail—whether paved or unpaved, or following a natural fea-ture like a river or a human-made one like an old railroad bed. In the late 1990s, he worked in metro Atlanta on some of the earliest trail plans, includ-ing the Chattahoochee River master plan and Cobb County’s section of the Silver Comet Trail.

The nationwide trail trend is driven by demographic changes, Flink said. The millennial generation wants less car-on-ly transportation, he said, and the rapid

pace of development in the South’s pop-ulation boom can create feelings of dis-location.

“I’m not surprised to be in Sandy Springs having this conversation…about a sense of place,” Flink said of the quick-ly changing suburban city in the heart of the nation’s fastest-growing “mega-region.”

As part of its wide-ranging “Next Ten” planning process, Sandy Springs is sketching out a yet-to-be-defined net-work of greenways. Flink praised the Next Ten consultants and said Sandy Springs will end up with a top-notch plan. But he did not give specific advice

about fleshing out the greenway plan.

In fact, Flink said, he sometimes leaves those details up to cit-ies that hire him. In-stead, he teaches them to develop a “vocabu-lary” for talking about green spaces—terms like “greenways,” for example—and a “tool-box” of various tactics that could be used to create them. (That in-cludes dealing with “not in my back yard”

resistance, he said.) Also important is having an overall vision, he said, asking whether Sandy Springs sees itself as an-other “edge city” or as a place of natural resources, thriving businesses and vi-brant neighborhoods.

Flink did offer some specific exam-ples of greenway and park projects he has worked on that might apply to San-dy Springs. In Charleston County, S.C., he took the hands-off “toolbox” ap-proach; 10 years later, he said, the coun-ty has conserved more than 20,000 acres of green space in 130 separate projects.

In Raleigh, N.C., he helped create an “ecological framework” for the city, which is coping with fast, massive popu-lation growth. A key reference point was a slogan that turns typical urban plan-ning on its head: “a city within a park.”

Another example is Greenville, S.C., where the city replaced a down-town highway bridge with a pedestri-an bridge and helped to spark creation of the “Swamp Rabbit Trail,” whose un-usual name became a selling point, he said. (The name sparked some audience chatter about the possibilities of Sandy Springs’ turtle mascot.)

“Everybody thought it was crazy,” Flink said of the bridge replacement plan, but it spurred Greenville to be-come “one of the best small cities in the U.S. today because of a really bold move.”

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And that’s what the city of Dun-woody’s Public Works Department re-cently installed at the intersection of North Shallowford Road and Dunwoody Park.

“We wanted to do something for trail users coming through … this is a better experience for trail users, especially for those on bikes — a way to enhance the trail experience,” said Public Works Di-rector Michael Smith.

Cost for the Dunwoody pedestrian scramble was about $10,000, Smith said, including the decorative brick.

“It’s great from a trail users stand-point but they’re not always practical,” Smith said of the scramble.

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A Dunwoody lawmaker and the DeKalb school superintendent are battling publi-cally 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 proposed 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 un-til next year.

In a response, Dr. Stephen Green argues the language is specific enough to meet le-gal requirements.

“In our view, sufficient description has been provided to meet the constitutional requirement,” Green wrote in his letter to Millar. “The capital projects are specifically described, 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 December, after consultation with parents.

Millar, who said in his letter he had supported previous education sales taxes, said he had received numerous complaints about the school systems’ “category pro-posal,” Millar said DeKalb should put off the SPLOST vote until next year so specific projects could be listed. “Hopefully, you can act in a prompt manner and avoid the po-tential disaster,” he said.

But Green argued that “it is critical that voters make the final decision.”

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SeniorbaseballleagueopposesproposedmovetomiddleschoolBY DYANA BAGBYDyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net

Dunwoody Senior Baseball doesn’t want to be forced to move to Peachtree Middle School as part of a proposal to make way for the rebuilding of Austin Ele-mentary School in Dunwoody Park.

“We can’t move to a location that will potentially close down our program,” Dun-woody Senior Baseball President Jerry Weiner said.

Weiner said that league’s board met April 24 to “define its opposition” to an expected proposal from Dunwoody City Council and the DeKalb County School Board to move the league to Peachtree Mid-dle School. He said the group planned to continue its discussions on how to public-ly oppose the proposal.

Rumors have been floating for sever-al months that the baseball league, for 13- to 18-year-old players, would be moved to make way for the DeKalb school system to build a new Austin Elementary School.

Weiner said the baseball league, the city and school board representatives had their first meeting Feb. 18 and have been con-tinuing conversations since then. Nothing has been finalized, but Weiner said he and his board are not happy with the current

proposal.The DeKalb School District estimates

cost for new fields would run about $3 mil-lion, Weiner said, and would likely have to be paid for by the city and DeKalb County. He said he’s been told the city is resistant to paying any of the $3 million cost.

DSB, a nonprofit, is located next to the Dunwoody Nature Center on approximate-ly 7.8 acres in Dunwoody Park. With park-ing, the league has about 10 acres. The ap-proximate size of the Peachtree Middle School fields is 6.7 acres, Weiner said. Park-ing is also further away at the school site.

The city owns Dunwoody Park and DSB does not pay any fees to the city to use the fields. Maintenance of the fields are shared by DSB and the city, Weiner said.

In 2011, voters approved an Education Special Local Option Sales Tax that includ-ed funding for a new Austin Elementary School.

Weiner said, though, that at that time the school district promised not to take land from the city’s parks for the new school.

“We are not opposed to quality educa-tion, but we don’t think they should build the school at Dunwoody Park,” he said. “We want them to honor their original prom-ise.”

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for an interview. He is charged with DUI, speeding and possession of an open alco-hol container. The police report and a dash-cam video show he blew .225 on a Breath-alyzer – nearly three times the legal limit. He was legally carrying a handgun on his hip and had four teenagers in his backseat when he was stopped. A court hearing is scheduled for May 9 in Clayton Municipal Court.

Taylor recently told WSB-TV he would not fight the charges and also said he is seeking help for a drinking problem.

Taylor issued a statement shortly af-ter news broke about his arrest, saying he “profoundly” regretted the “serious mis-take.” He said he would not resign his seat and work every day to build back trust with his constituents.

“This was my first run-in with the law in my life, and it will also be my last. With that in mind, I will demonstrate my re-morse not just in words but in my actions,” Taylor said.

‘Video speaks for itself’Steve Moore of Dunwoody was eating

a Cuban sandwich at a recent Food Truck Thursdays and said it is the fact Taylor had teens in his car with him that angers him.

“I think the dashcam video really speaks for itself. He is lying to police and he had a carload of kids. That is not the kind of rep-resentation I want for Dunwoody,” Moore said. “While I appreciate he is seeking help, I think it’s time for him step down and to focus on that.”

Cheryl Summers, a longtime Dun-woody resident who served on the same task force with Taylor during the cityhood movement, said she will vote for Taylor in the May 24 primary.

“I think he’s the best candidate for the job. It was a stupid thing, it was a mistake. Yes, he had kids in the car and that made it even dumber,” she said. “But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to legislate.”

‘If he were my client, I would tell him to go knock on doors’

Todd Rehm, a Georgia-based Republi-can political consultant and editor of Ga-Pundit.com, said his advice for Taylor would be to get in front of people as much as possible.

“If he were my client, I would tell him to go knock on doors. Voters tend to respond to humility,” he said. “We’ve all made mis-takes and it’s easier to accept an apology when it’s made in person.”

His case is easier to make for him if con-stituents hear from him directly, Rehm

said, and see him “as a human being,” and that he will correct any problems and move forward on a healthy path.

The challenge for a Republican legis-lator even in a Republican-led chamber is to be effective particularly on local issues, Rehm said. When the DeKalb County del-egation is stacked with Democrats it helps that Taylor served at the local level on the City Council.

“That is part of what makes him effec-tive,” Rehm said.

The circumstances surrounding his arrest are “pretty colorful” from a politi-cal perspective, Rehm said. “It would have been easier if the incident had been more routine, such as being stopped after having a glass of wine at Longhorn,” Rehm said.

“But Taylor’s got a long history with his constituency, with the movement to found the city, and he has a lot of pre-existing re-lationships,” Rehm said. “I expect constitu-ents will have a full picture of who he is.”

If he can make the case this is an isolat-ed incident and not repetitive behavior, he can win, Rehm said.

May 24 primary challengeChallenging Taylor in the May 24 pri-

mary is Doraville Republican Tom Owens, who has a colorful history himself.

Owens, a Vietnam veteran, ran an un-successful campaign for the DeKalb Coun-ty Commission in 2014. An anti-immi-gration activist, Owens sued a Doraville mosque in 2013, alleging the mosque led to more traffic, noise, sanitary and storm wa-ter backup and noxious odors in his neigh-borhood.

He doesn’t hold back when talking about Taylor’s arrest.

“I think it’s disgusting. He has a prob-lem,” Owens said. “It’s disgusting he’s done this and there’s no remorse. He should re-sign because he’s an embarrassment to all of Georgia. Thank God he didn’t kill any-one.”

Owens said he deserves to be consid-ered by voters on May 24.

“I’m not a fringe candidate,” Owens said. “I’ve been in three wars. I know what freedom is about.”

Rehm said he doesn’t see Owens as a threat.

“To beat an incumbent,” Rehm said, “takes a better candidate and a robust cam-paign. And I don’t think either of those are here.”

There are no Democrats opposing Tay-lor, so the winner of the May 24 primary would automatically win the race -- unless someone else decides to run.

An independent candidate could run in the November general election. Qualifying for independents in state House races runs from June 27 through July 12. An indepen-dent candidate must also obtain 5 percent of the signatures of registered voters who

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In 2014, there were approximately 30,000 registered voters for House District 79, according to the DeKalb County Voter Registration and Elections Office, meaning an independent candidate would need to get about 1,500 signatures from registered voters.

Colleagues say Taylor deserves another chance

Dunwoody Homeowners Associa-tion President Robert Wittenstein said he will support Taylor in the election. “Tom has served this community very well and I will support his re-election,” he said.

City Councilmember John Heneghan also is strongly supporting Taylor and said Owens does not deserve to repre-sent Dunwoody in the Gold Dome.

“[I] know candidate Tom Owen, as I have been in numerous meetings with him, and I detest the thought of him rep-resenting our community!” Heneghan wrote April 23 on his popular blog, Heneghan’s Dunwoody Blog.

Heneghan pointed to Taylor’s cham-pioning a bill for the past several years in the legislature to create an inde-pendent school system for Dunwoody and his work on legislation that forced DeKalb County to sell its parks in the city for $100 an acre and transfer $7 mil-

lion in bond funds for Brook Run Park to the city.

“As a fellow Dunwoody City Council-man, Tom Taylor and I have had a long friendship based on mutual respect, but when we talked earlier this week, I in-formed him that he needs to regain that level of respect from not only myself but from the entire community. And this needs to be done by kicking this habit in order to clear any demons that he may be facing,” Heneghan wrote in his blog.

“Once that is done, I believe Tom Tay-lor should be re-elected to the Georgia Legislature in order to represent us and push the needs of our community with-in the state Legislature.”

City Councilmember Doug Thomp-son said he hopes citizens will consider of all Taylor’s work for the community.

“The Tom Taylor I know will get through this and he will be stronger than ever. I hope the citizens of Dun-woody judge him on the actions he has taken for the community so far … and not this one act,” he said.

Exchangeprogram: DUIcouldaffecthostingBY DYANA BAGBYdyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net

When Rep. Tom Taylor (R-Dunwoody)was arrested for driving under the influ-ence, he had four teenaged exchange stu-dents in the backseat of his SUV, according to police reports.

Taylor’s spokesperson, Brian Robinson, said Taylor and his wife were hosting a student from Kazakhstan this year and had taken a group of students to Lake Burton for spring break.

Taylor and his fami-ly have hosted foreign ex-change students in their home for many years, ac-cording to his legislative Facebook page and news accounts.

AFS-USA, a program that coordinates exchanges in which the Taylors have tak-en part, according to local news accounts and other sources, says its policy is that a DUI arrest “is grounds for disqualification” from the program.

AFS-USA, based in New York, also said

in a statement that a student in the home of a parent who receives a DUI is relocated to another family as soon as possible.

“Out of respect for the privacy of our participants and families, we do not dis-cuss details regarding specific situations. Our policy stipulates that receipt of a DUI within the past five years is grounds for

disqualification,” Caitlin Belt, corporate communications manager for AFS-USA, said in a statement.

“If a host parent receives a DUI while hosting a partic-ipant, we work quickly to re-locate the participant into a new home.”

Taylor did not respond to requests for comment from Reporter Newspapers about his DUI arrest.

Taylor was stopped in Rabun County on April 7 for driving 72 mph in a 45 mph zone. He was legally carrying a Glock .45 handgun on his hip. After blowing a .225 on a Breathalyzer, he was arrested and charged with DUI. Taylor has said he will not fight the charges. His first court date is set for May 9 in Clayton Municipal Court.

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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.

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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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The 18th annual Lemonade Days, a five-day festival at Brook Run Park hosted by the Dunwoody Preservation Trust, featured plenty to do for all ages. Above left, Maggie Sims,

a fifth grader at Mt. Vernon Presbyterian School, sings on Center Stage. Middle, lines were long for some of the more popular activities. Above right, Carson White, 4, takes a

spin on the merry-go-round as her father watches. Below left, Carson holds on tight as the carousel moves. Below right, carnival rides, food and live music were on tap at the festival.

Claire Stephens, left, and Hannah Hummel have a good time on one of the rides.

Brook Run Park was once again the site of Lemonade Days, running over five days, April 13 through April 17. Hosted by the Dunwoody Preservation

Trust, proceeds will go toward historic preservation and education.

Right, Sarah Wise, 9, and her brother Matthew, 11, get in some friendly fight time.

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datedApril13-April24The following information was pulled from Dun-woody’s Police-2-Citizen website and is presumed

to be accurate.

� About noon on April 13, police re-sponded to a shoplifting call at the 4500 block of Ashford-Dun-woody Road. Security officers at a department store reported a 26-year-old man attempted to steal a pair of blue Polo shorts valued at $69.50. He was arrested for shoplifting.

� On April 13 at about 12:10 p.m., police re-sponded to a shoplifting call at a specialty store. A 17-year-old teen had attempted to steal approximately $62 in jewelry. She was arrested for shoplifting.

� On April 13 at 6 p.m., police were dis-patched to a discount department store at the 4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road. Two 17-year-old males had at-tempted to steal a pair of Swarovski ear-rings valued at $69 and a pair of Michael Kors earrings valued at $75. They were arrested and charged with shoplifting.

� On April 14, at approximately 7:45 p.m., a 24-year-old woman called police to report her purse had been snatched and stolen from her while she was in a parking lot at the 4300 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road. Inside the stolen purse was her $600 iPhone 6s Plus. Two wom-en witnessed the forcible purse snatch-ing. They said there were two suspects – a male and female – believed to be be-tween the ages of 15 and 17.

� On April 14 at 11:10 a.m., police re-sponded to a shoplifting call from a na-tional chain bookstore. A 24-year-old man was caught trying to steal a Drag-on Ball Z Strap Figure toy valued at $8; a Banpresto Dragon Ball toy valued at $16; a Wolverine/Sabertooth toy valued at $10; and a Trunk Toy valued at $28. All items were recovered. The man was ar-rested and charged with shoplifting.

� On April 15 at about 1:30 p.m., police were called to a grocery store pharmacy. A pharmacy employee told police that a 21-year-old male tried to fill a prescrip-tion of Oxycodone using a forged pre-scription. He was arrested and charged with forgery.

� On April 21 at about 7:15 a.m., a 52-year-old woman called

police to report her vehicle had been broken into while parked in the park-ing lot at the 2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing. Her wallet was stolen from the vehicle, a 1999 Ford Expedition.

L A R C E N Y � 6600 block of

Peachtree Industrial Blvd. – On April 14, re-port of larceny-articles from vehicle.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center West – On April 14, a report of larceny- shoplifting.

� 4700 block of Ash-ford-Dunwoody Road – On April 17, report of larceny-shoplifting.

� 4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road – On April 17, arrest for larceny-shoplifting.

� 4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road – On April 17, report of larceny-shoplifting.

� 4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road – On April 18, report of larceny from building.

� 2700 block of Peeler Road – On April 18, report of larceny-parts from vehicle.

� 4800 block of Tilly Mill Road – On April 18, report of theft of articles from vehicle.

� 1100 block of Hammond Drive – On April 19, arrest for larceny-shoplifting.

� 4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road – On April 19, report of larceny-shoplifting.

� 4300 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road – On April 19, arrest for larceny-other offenses.

� 1100 block of Hammond Drive – On April 19, report of larceny-shoplifting.

� 4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road – On April 19, report of larceny-ar-ticles from vehicle.

� 1300 block of Wyntercreek Road – On April 20, report of larceny-articles from vehicle.

� 4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road – On April 20, arrest for larceny-shoplifting.

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For one night only more than 20 Sandy Springs restaurants will be rocking the big tents in the heart of Sandy Springs. Enjoy this all-inclusive event with food, wine, beer , cocktai ls and l ive music .

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May 14th 7-11 pm

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Tea Project, Tony Levitas and

FRIENDS and the Tommy Dean Trio.

5 Seasons Brewing

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Bishoku

Buttermilk Sky Pie Shop

Café Posh

Chef Rob’s Caribbean Café

Cibo E Beve

Dantanna’s Tavern

Food 101

Hammock’s Trading Co.

Hudson Grille

Il Giallo

Maya Steaks & Seafood

Meehan’s Public House

Nancy G’s

Nothing Bundt Cakes

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Under the Cork Tree

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