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Concerns arise at DHA meeting over ‘hot button 1 issues
BY JOE EARLE
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JOE EARLE
Oakhurst Walk Homeowners Association president Janet
Glass asks a question of Dunwoody Homeowners Association
president Bill Grossman during the DHA’s annual meeting
at Dunwoody United Methodist Church on Jan. 6.
Displeasure with three planned pub
lic projects in Dunwoody spilled into
the discussion during a question-and-
answer session at the Dunwoody Home-
owners Associations annual meeting
Jan. 6.
“When we formed this city, I don’t
know anybody who wasn’t excited about
it,” resident Pat Eubank told DHA pres
ident Bill Grossman after he invited
public comment from about 75 DHA
members and guests attending the meet
ing at Dunwoody United Methodist
Church. “About a year ago, I lost some
of that excitement. ... I still am not nec
essarily happy with these three hot-but-
ton issues.”
The three proposals call for a 12-foot-
wide, concrete multi-use trail through a
wooded section of Brook Run Park, a
roundabout at the intersection of Ver-
mack and Womack roads, and a rede
sign of Dunwoody Village Parkway that
would add bicycle lanes.
The “hot-button” plans have drawn
complaints from residents attending
various public gatherings, such as Dun
woody City Council meetings. Some
opponents have posted yard signs at
tacking the plans. A court hearing on
Jan. 4 on whether to extend a court or
der temporarily stopping the Brook Run
trail drew a packed house of onlookers,
residents said.
Grossman said the DHA had not tak
en a position on the proposals. He said
the board is studying an alternative pro
posed for the Dunwoody Village Park
way redesign.
Janet Glass, president of the Oakhurst
Walk Homeowners Association, sug
gested the city develop a plan for slow
ing traffic along the entire lengths of
Vermack and Womack, rather than sim
ply building a roundabout at the inter
section.
“I don’t see a plan for traffic calming
up and down Vermack and Womack,”
she said. “We need a plan, not just do
ing it piecemeal.”
During his address to the associa
tion members, Mayor Mike Davis said
the work the city is proposing came
from public planning sessions held
during the first couple of years of the
city’s existence. He said city officials
want to make the community appeal
ing to a new generation of families in
the future.
“Most of us here are empty nesters,”
he said. “We’re looking at who is going
to make that move next, who is interest
ed in living here in Dunwoody.”
He said city officials were planning
infrastructure improvement projects
that will attract development appealing
to a generation that grew up watching
“Seinfeld” and “Friends” on television,
rather than “Leave It To Beaver.”
“We’re building the infrastructure
to get my kids and your kids to come
back to Dunwoody,” he said. “I want my
grandchildren here. I don’t want them
all over the country.”
Eubank said she has seen change in
her neighborhood. When she moved in
35 years ago, she said, her family was
one of two with young children. Now,
“everyone has children,” she said.
She said she felt the changes being
proposed in the city were moving too
rapidly.
“I would just like to see us listen,” she
said, “because I believe we have a major
ity of citizens against these three proj-
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