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COMMUNITY
Brook Run trail to open
Aug. 3 with a parade
By JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers.net
Dunwoody city officials plan to open
the first phase of the multi-use trail in
Brook Run Park on Aug. 3, with a pa
rade and prizes.
The “roll and stroll event,” which the
city dubbed the “Wheel-a-Palooza and
Pedal Parade,” is scheduled to start at 10
a.m. at the trail entrance between the
playground and skate park.
The city plans to complete work on
the second phase of the trail by next
spring or summer, city Parks and Recre
ation Manager Brent Walker told mem
bers of the Dunwoody Homeowners As
sociation during their meeting July 14.
“Most people who go to the park
don’t go past the skate park, unless they
go to the dog park or the community
garden,” he said. “What this project is
going to do is activate all the rest of that
space.”
The trail eventually will connect with
trails to be built in the city’s Project Re
naissance redevelopment in the George
town area of the city, Walker said. The
completed network, he said, will allow
residents to walk or bike the trail from
Peeler to Chamblee-Dunwoody roads.
The city’s plan for the Brook Run
portion of the trail has drawn criticism
from residents who said it required re
moving too many trees and could create
flooding in nearby neighborhoods. City
officials deny the trail will create flood
ing and say the trees will be replaced.
City officials say they have removed
about 230 trees to make room for the
trail. On July 22, Dunwoody City
Council voted to hire Trees Atlanta, a
nonprofit, to plant 300 trees in Brook
Run and other city parks. The trees will
be planted in September by volunteers
taking part in Volunteer for Dunwoody
Day, Walker told council members.
Rezoning requests ‘on hold’
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point,” Hutmacher told the council. “It
will not stop any development from oc
curring, but will delay it until after the
new ordinance. When we started this,
and laid out the timeline, the market
was dormant. There is a beehive of activ
ity now, a lot of it in the Perimeter area.”
The rezoning and building code re
writes have been in the works for nearly
two years, city officials said. The coun
cil is scheduled to meet Aug. 5 and Aug.
6 to discuss the proposals, Hutmacher
said.
In the same meeting, the council ad
opted a plan to speed construction plan
reviews by taking over some reviews
from DeKalb County. The city will be
gin providing required life safety and ac
cessibility reviews for projects in the city.
The reviews now are done by DeKalb
County fire officials, city officials said.
Hutmacher said the city could do the
reviews more quickly and help ease the
seven- to eight-week backlog of plans
awaiting review from county officials.
“We will help DeKalb County improve
their backlog,” Hutmacher said.
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