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reporternewspapers.net MAY 2019 • VOL. 13 — NO. 5 Buckhead Reporter ■ Section Two ►Perimeter Business: PCIDs turns 20 ►Q+A with local couple behind Atlanta’s big anime convention »«««« 0 rwArfR MfSGf SSSsa' JWMW«UCH 5212’.Stolon boon *». z J pss$-sfp: the ijlSfe fc, *■* KCsssSSSJys SM-jfiaSsasLS: *5J5£3*«£SUr SJasS SaS • • ? COMMUNITY Holy Spirit plan spurs talk of agreement, lawsuits P10 COMMUNITY Proposal for Wieuca roundabout is back P13 COMM Take steps urban P18 ROBIN’S NEST Mother’s Words of Wisdom P19 © Reporter Extra Check out our podcasts at ReporterNewspapers.net The Buckhead Reporter is mail delivered to homes on selected carrier routes in ZIPs 30305,30327 and 30342 For information: delivery@reporternewspapers.net Si# liuxied VO ‘eojuo|A| aivd e6eisod sn SSMy03 aislysyd y3i/\ioisno ivisod Left, John Beach, president of the Buckhead Heritage Society, holds the “Buckhead Gun,” which reputedly killed the neighborhood’s namesake deer in 1838. Right, James Whitley holds what is said to be the same firearm in an undated photo. (John Ruch/Special) After 45 years, a nonprofit launches a review of NPU citizen input BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net The Neighborhood Planning Unit sys tem that reviews planning, zoning and other big issues for Atlanta city govern ment is getting a review of its own. A downtown nonprofit called the Center for Civic Innovation has begun a quiet, but system potentially influential, series of meetings and surveys that aims to have reform rec ommendations for the 45-year-old system on the table by March 2020. “There are things about [the NPU sys tem] that are amazing, and things that we need to have a lot more conversation about,” said CCI Executive Director Rohit See AFTER on page 14 BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reportemewspapers.net The wooden stoclc is beige and battered with age. The metal plate above the trigger is decorated with a pair of birds. The barrel is long, heavy and octagonal. It’s an old muzzleloading firearm, for sure. It might even be the one that killed the deer that gave Buckhead its curious name in 1838. John Beach, president of the Buckhead Heritage Society, is still trying to figure that out, partly by tracking the tales surrounding another little-known For more on John Beach, see Around Town, page 20. piece of area history - an 1842 log cabin that quietly survived destruction by being moved to a Buckhead back yard. In the meantime, Beach gave the Reporter an exclusive close- See IS on page 22 FINE JEWELRY SEE OUR AD ON PAGE 8 FOR MORE DETAILS 770.396.0192