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City creating development
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the city.
Interim City Manager Marie Garrett
said the seven- to nine-member author
ity would act as the economic develop
ment arm for the city.
“The beauty of the bond-inducing
power of the authority is it does not take
away from the borrowing capacity of the
city,” Garrett said.
Garrett told council members one of
the most pressing reasons to form a de
velopment authority would be to gain “a
seat at the table” when MARTA redevel
ops its Brookhaven station.
Interim City Attorney Bill Riley sug
gested the city create a development au
thority and come up with a conceptual
plan to present to MARTA in the next
six months.
Riley said though appointed by City
Council, the development authority
would be an autonomous board with a
lot of power.
“It’s very important that you pick
people of like mind that are going to be
on that authority,” Riley said.
Mayor J. Max Davis chose not to ap
point members to the development au
thority at the Feb. 12 meeting, when he
swore in members of other boards, in
cluding the Planning Commission and
the Zoning Board of Appeals. “I don’t
want to rush the Development Authori
ty” Davis said.
Tyle Harris, a spokesman for MAR
TA, said the Brookhaven station is one
of 10 “focus stations” identified by
MARTA, based upon an analysis con
ducted in 2012. In an email, Harris said
no specific timeline has been established
for the redevelopment of the Brookhav
en station.
“We have made informal contact
with the new planning director, Kevin
McOmber, and are working to set up
a formal, staff-level introductory meet
ing to discuss the future of the station
and how MARTA can partner with
Brookhaven on redevelopment of MAR-
TA-owned property within Brookhav
en,” Harris said.
“It’s very important
that you pick people
of like mind that
are going to be on
that authority.”
- BILL RILEY
INTERIM CITY ATTORNEY
In 2005, the Atlanta Regional Com
mission conducted a Livable Center Ini
tiative Study, which identified the area
around the Brookhaven MARTA station
as a location for mixed-use, transit ori
ented development. The plan was also
to include a new Brookhaven library
branch.
But the economic downturn and
MARTA’s own budget issues stalled the
project in 2011.
Harris said, “MARTA is still open to
collaboration on the library, but have
not had recent discussions while the city
of Brookhaven has been established.”
He said MARTA still plans to use the
LCI plan as the blueprint for any devel
opment. “A major criterion for our de
veloper selection will be how effectively
the developer has incorporated the LCI
Plan into his/her proposal,” Harris said
in the email.
Councilman Jim Eyre, whose district
includes the MARTA station, said he’s
glad the LCI study led to an overlay zon
ing district that will lead to better devel
opment in the heart of the new city.
“I’m glad that the community had
the foresight to start that process and
get it done well before market forces be
gan to put the Brookhaven MARTA sta
tion on several peoples’ radar screens,”
Eyre said. “We have guidelines that will
at least give us a good starting point for
whatever ends up happening out there.”
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