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COMMUNITY
Hearing on Brook Run trail
to start Jan. 31
Brook Run
Save 337 Trees
Save the Money
\ SayeDunwoody.com l
JOE EARLE
Protest signs, including these on Mount
Vernon Road, are springing up in Dunwoody.
They protest city proposals to remove trees
to make room for a concrete, multi-use trail
through Brook Run Park, to build a roundabout
at the intersection of Vermack and Womack
roads, and to rebuild Mount Vernon Parkway.
BY TOM ODER
AND JOE EARLE
A DeKalb County
judge will hold a hear
ing Jan. 31 on wheth
er to stop construc
tion of a controversial
12-foot-wide concrete
trail through the forest
in Brook Run Park.
Displeasure with the
city’s plans has con
vinced homeowners
to complain at public
meetings and to post
yard signs opposing the
project. The city’s plan
for the trail calls for the
removal of 337 trees in
the first of two phases of
trail construction in the
park.
“We’re planning to
cut down hundreds of
trees we don’t need to,”
resident Jeff Coghill told
members of Dunwoody
City Council during
their Jan. 14 meeting.
“We should slow down
a little bit and do what’s
best for the park. I ask ev
erybody here to step back
and ... do it in a way that
complements the park.”
But city officials say the
current trail plan will have
only a small effect on the
park.
“Rainwater will be fun-
neled away from neigh
boring property lines, and engineer
ing analysis shows that the impact of
the construction of the trail will have
no noticeable environmental impact
on storm water runoff,” City Manager
Warren Hutmacher wrote in a mem
orandum dated Aug. 8. “With a large
canopy of mature trees along the path
and the minimal land disturbance of
the trail, a negligible environmental
impact is anticipated.”
Hutmacher said changes that have
been made to the plan were “to either
save money, save trees or steer away
from floodplain areas.” He said “ev
ery effort” would be made to preserve
significant hardwood trees. “The city
does not expect the trail will signifi
cantly negatively impact the tree cano
py,” he wrote.
The hearing on the temporary or
der that has halted construction of the
trail is scheduled for Courtroom 5-C
on the fifth floor of the Judicial Tower
in the DeKalb County Courthouse in
Decatur. The hearing begins at 9 a.m.
Superior Court Judge Tangela M.
Barrie is allowing two days for the
hearing, with testimony to continue
on Feb. 1.
Dunwoody homeowners Beverly
Armento and Rebecca Moore filed suit
seeking to stop the city from building
a non-porous concrete, multi-use trail
through the park’s forest.
Armento and Moore contend the
removal of the 337 trees in Phase One
of construction would cause storm wa
ter runoff, drainage and flooding that
would result in irreparable harm to
homes in the Lakeview Oaks subdivi
sion that adjoins the forested edge of
the park.
Attorney Jenny R. Culler, who rep
resents Armento and Moore, told
Judge Barrie in a hearing on Friday,
Jan. 4, that she will call a hydrologist
to the stand who will support Armen-
to’s and Moore’s contention.
City Attorney Cecil McClendon
says a separate hydrology report con
ducted at the request of the city came
to a different conclusion.
Barrie on Dec. 13 issued a tem
porary restraining order against con
struction of the trail. She extended
the order after a boisterous hearing
Jan. 4 that was attended by city offi
cials and dozens of opponents of the
city’s plan.
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