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COMMUNITY
MELISSA WEINMAN
From left, Jason Lary, Michele Henson, Jeff Rader, Andrea Arnold and
Rahn Mayo talk about possible cities in DeKalb County at a forum May 6.
Legislators, community meet
to discuss possible annexations
BH MELISSA WEINMAN
melissaweinman@reporternewspapers.net
As people filed into a town hall meet
ing at Clairmont Hills Baptist Church,
they were offered a piece of paper list
ing the half dozen local governance bills
filed during the last session of the state
Legislature that proposed pulling their
neighborhoods into cities with names
like Lakeside, Lavista Hills and Briar-
cliff.
The bills, sponsored by different
DeKalb legislators, aimed to reserve a
spot for their constituents in what is sure
to be a convoluted and painful conver
sation about municipal options for that
part of the county.
“This process should not be driven by
a single legislator or former legislator or
group,” said Rep. Scott Holcomb, D-At
lanta. “What each area does has impacts
on everybody else. We have to talk about
this as a community and as a county.”
Hosted by Rep. Mary Margaret Oli
ver, D-Decatur, the May 6 meeting was
the first attempt to bring legislators,
community organizations and mem
bers of the public together to discuss
the various cities and annexations that
have been proposed in the swath of un
incorporated DeKalb County between
Brookhaven and Decatur.
Since Sandy Springs incorporated
in 2005, six cities have formed in Ful
ton, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties. In
the case of most of those cities, such as
Brookhaven, the incorporation debates
produced two camps: those for the city
and those against it.
But this time, several groups are in
terested in creating cities in roughly the
same area, creating conflicting maps and
leading to more broad philosophical dis
cussions about what municipal options,
if any, are best for the area.
Rep. Michele Henson, D-Stone
Mountain, is one of the sponsors of a
bill to create a city of Tucker. She said
the bill was in response to an effort to
create a city called Lakeside that initial
ly included a portion of the Tucker com
munity.
MELISSA WEINMAN
Left, Sen. Jason Carter,
D-Decatur, and Rep.
Mary Margaret Oliver,
D-Decatur, answer
questions from the
audience. A crowd
gathered for a forum
at Clairmont Hills
Baptist Church to
listen to legislators and
community groups talk
about proposed cities
and annexations in their
area of unincorporated
DeKalb County.
DUN
