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brings in crowds for weekend events,
such as concerts and ball games.
Chastain Park Civic Association Pres
ident Jim King notes that the park con
tains four main north-to-south roads —
Powers Ferry Road, Lake Forrest Drive,
Northside Drive and Roswell Road.
“There’s only one road, West Wieu-
ca, that goes through the park, so east-
to-west connectivity is slow,” King said.
Civic Association member Debra
Fowler said the traffic is “really horrible.”
King said there are about 1,500 park
ing spaces in and around Chastain.
If people don’t carpool into the park,
neighborhood streets catch the overflow.
That’s where the Civic Association
steps in. King, a man with silver hair
who often gives passionate speeches in
defense of Buckhead, said the associa
tion is one of several with a stake in the
park’s future.
The Civic Association provides secu
rity, demands action from public offi
cials, and partners with the nearly one
dozen other organizations operating on
behalf of Chastain.
“I’d like to think we are, in a lot of
ways, thought leaders on issues,” King
said.
The neighborhood’s borders are
Mount Paran Road to the north, Ro
swell Road to the east, Northside Drive
to the west, and Blackland Road to the
south. The neighborhood exists in two
cities. About 1/3 is in Sandy Springs and
2/3 is in Atlanta, King said.
It is served by two public school sys
tems: Atlanta and Fulton County. The
elementary schools are Warren T. Jack-
son in Atlanta and Heards Ferry in San
dy Springs.
King said the traditional boundaries
contain about 2,000 residents, but there
are some areas outside of the north
ern boundary that also like to consider
themselves a part of the neighborhood.
Using that measurement, the popula
tion would be closer to 3,000, King said.
King doesn’t mind that people like
associating themselves with Chastain.
“I try to be more inclusive than ex
clusive,” he said.
Chastain began as a 1,000-acre tract,
according to the Chastain Park Conser
vancy, an organization that helps main
tain the park. Creek Indians lived there
in the early 1800s and farmed what is
now the North Fulton Golf Course. In
the 1930s, the park was the site of a Ne
gro Women’s Convict Camp, according
to historical accounts. The park is named
in honor of County Commissioner Troy
Chastain, dedicated to his memory in
1946. The park began its transformation
around the same time, benefiting from
New Deal projects via the Works Prog
ress Administration. Many of the facili
ties still present were WPA projects, ac
cording to the Conservancy.
Today those amenities are what make
the park a destination point. The Chas
tain Amphitheater brings in top musical
acts, in addition to weekend traffic. The
horse park, swimming pool, golf course,
tennis center and ballfields leave little
excuse for boredom.
If you like a slower pace, that’s OK,
too. Older couples walk hand-in-hand
along the trail, while younger residents
stretch on the green before a jog.
King said the amenities, location and
his neighbors are the things he likes most
about living there. Fowler said it’s one of
the few spaces in Atlanta that hasn’t been
over-developed.
“It’s centrally located,” Fowler said.
“The neighborhood and the people are
terrific.”
King said the multiple organizations
affiliated with Chastain work indepen
dently with the same goal in mind.
“Everybody does their job,” King
said. “The park is taken care of.”
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The Chastain Park neighborhood is bounded roughly by Mount
Paran Road to the north, Roswell Road to the east, Northside
Drive to the west and Blackland Road to the south. About 1/3
of the neighborhood is in Sandy Springs and 2/3 is in Atlanta.
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