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Food Truck Thursdays
scheduled for Brook Run
BY JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers.net
The food trucks are coming to Dun-
woody. And they’ll have musical accom
paniment.
Dunwoody City Council agreed at its
May 13 meeting to support a plan for
“Food Truck Thursdays,” a series of eat-
and-listen events the Dunwoody Home-
owners Association has proposed at
Brook Run Park. The council agreed to
provide up to $4,700, if needed, to pay
for police officers at the events.
“Were in the food truck business,”
Mayor Mike Davis said after the coun
cil voted unanimously to support the
events.
The series is tentatively scheduled to
begin May 23, said promoter Bettie Ca
gle of Red Bird Events, and to contin
ue on Thursday nights for 12 weeks.
The events will be open from 6 p.m. to
9 p.m. The trucks will park in a in a lot
between the skate park and playground
“We’re in the food
truck business.”
- MAYOR MIKE DAVIS
at Brook Run and local musicians will
perform in a nearby field, City Manag
er Warren Hutmacher wrote in a memo
randum to the council.
Cagle said five to six trucks will ap
pear during early events “and we’ll build
from there.” Up to 10 trucks could take
part in the weekly events, Hutmacher’s
memo said.
Cagle said the Food Truck Thursdays
in Dunwoody will be similar to food
truck-based gatherings in other nearby
communities.
Sandy Springs stalls on
Revive285 plan
BY DAN WIUH1T
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
Work to fix the ’’top end” of 1-285
may still be years away, but Sandy
Springs City Council wants the project’s
planners to know they’re not on board
with some of the proposed solutions.
During its May 7 council meeting,
the council rejected its own resolution
that would’ve given state officials the
OK to buy portions of Allen Park when
the project starts moving.
Council members objected to passing
a resolution that did not explicitly state
its objection to one option of the multi
option plan. That option, number 6A,
allows the state Department of Trans
portation to create an exit onto Sandy
Springs Circle.
That would put an interstate exit
in the middle of what will one day be
the city’s redeveloped downtown. City
Council said that plan is unacceptable.
“I don’t want this council to be on re
cord stating anything that will be a pos
itive thing for alternative 6-A,” Coun
cilman Gabriel Sterling said before the
vote to reject the resolution.
Plans to improve 1-285 have been
put under one roof as Revive285, a joint
project of state Department of Transpor
tation and the Georgia Regional Trans
portation Authority. Revive285 has
hired ARCADIS as the planning consul
tant and employees of the firm recent
ly updated City Council on the project.
The planning process has been ongo
ing since 2006. The “top end” of I- 285
is the portion between the intersections
of 1-75 and 1-85, much of it in Sandy
Springs’ front yard. The city’s approval
of the resolution is one step in the pro
cess of completing the environmental
impact statement required for the proj
ect.
Sandy Springs’ downtown revitaliza
tion effort is ahead of Revive285. San
dy Springs this year has begun spending
millions on what will be a decade worth
of road and infrastructure improve
ments. Option 6-A would cost $2.84
billion and planners haven’t identified a
funding source.
ARCADIS Senior transportation
Planner Timothy Preece said the best
case scenario would mean the 1-285 im
provements could begin in the next five
years. Preece said a more realistic time
line is 10 to 15 years.
Sandy Springs City Manager John
McDonough told the council be
fore the vote that the city should pass
something to provide input on the
project. “I think even if we deny this,
we owe them some type of feedback,”
McDonough said.
“I think by denying this, we are go
ing on record we are opposed to this,”
Councilman Tibby Dejulio said.
City staff members area reworking
the resolution to reflect the council’s po
sition.
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