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reporternewspapers.net NOVEMBER 2020 • VOL. 14 — NO. 11 Buckhead Reporter Perimeter Business ► Shop local for the holidays PAGES 7-10 WORTH KNOWING P19 A PATH400 worker’s trail to a second chance COMMENTARY Giving thanks in a time of crisis P16 AROUND TOWN Time for Perimeter cities to plan together? P20 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 ‘eojuoiAi aivd e6eisod sn SSMy03 aislysyd y3i/\ioisno ivisod £ BUCKHEAD's tiny PHIL MOSIER Christie Jo Mayo shows off her farming-themed “tiny park” along the PATH400 multiuse trail on Oct. 17. Mayo was one of more than 40 participants in the “Big PATH, Tiny Parks” event, which celebrated green space and recycling. See story and more photos, p. 30. ► City, MARTA team on Lindbergh-Armour master plan BY JOHN RUCH The city and MARTA are teaming on a master plan that will attempt to tie to gether partial or long-stalled develop ments in the Lindbergh/Morosgo and Armour neighborhoods. MARTA’s unfinished vision for tran sit-oriented development at Lindbergh Center Station lies at the core of the Lindbergh-Armour Master Plan, and a bevy of new multiuse trails - includ ing a future Atlanta BeltLine segment - are prodding a closer look. The process is just gearing up with an intent to sub mit a plan to the City Council in June or See CITY on page 22 APS in-person delay divides local parents BY JOHN RUCH Atlanta Public Schools’ decision to de lay a return to face-to-face instruction un til sometime in January is dividing parents, especially in Buckhead, which has become a hotbed of back-to-the-classroom advocacy. Disagreements in interpretations of pan demic science and APS’s equity policy are pushing parents, teachers and staff into sep arate camps with Facebook groups. A group going by “Let Atlanta Parents Choose” ap pears to have been influential in Superin tendent Lisa Herring’s early decision to start a face-to-face return in late October; anoth er group called “We Demand Safety APS” ap pears to have helped pressure her switch to the delay. The pro-return forces are regroup ing under the name Committee for APS Progress, intended to be a formal nonprof it organization. Laura Roxburgh LaHiff is a Buckhead mother with an eighth-grader at Sutton Middle and twin fourth-graders at Morris Brandon Elementary. She’s with the We De mand Safety APS group and welcomed the delay as a matter of health equity. “We are inconvenienced. We are not en dangered,” she said of the virtual learning, adding that many others in the district with out Buckhead’s privileges and options might not fare so well. “We’re all facing this situa tion together so we also have to keep an eye out for our friends, our neighbors... people that we don’t know with a view of kindness and compassion.” Shannon Schlottmann, whose son is a kindergartner at Morris Brandon, is in the Committee for APS Progress camp. She says virtual learning isn’t as good as in-person and is unfair to the students. See APS on page 27
