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Council weighs in on new
zoning, building regulations
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line and offer suggestions. “We’re asking
for recommendations. Were looking for
other eyes to look at these documents.”
When Dunwoody became a city
nearly five years ago, city officials ba
sically adopted the existing DeKalb
County zoning map and zoning ordi
nance, city officials say. City staff mem
bers began working on a rewrite of the
ordinances about 18 months ago in an
effort to tailor them to Dunwoody resi
dents’ needs and desires.
Reworking the ordinance will not
change any zoning now in place in the
city nor change any zoning classifica
tions, officials have said. It will reorga
nize the information in what city offi
cials are calling easier-to-read formats
such as charts and graphics.
And it may provide answers to ques
tions that already have arisen in debate,
such as how many pets can a person
have in Dunwoody? The answer, now,
appears to be three.
“It seems to me we are making a lot
of law-abiding citizens into law break
ers,” said Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch,
who noted that once you start adding up
dogs, cats, guinea pigs, birds and other
household animals, “you can hit three
pets pretty quickly.”
“What is the problem this is trying
to resolve?” Councilman Terry Nall
asked.
Other problems raised during the
council discussion seemed to already
have been thrashed out by several city
panels, including the Planning Com
mission and Community Council, and a
citizens’ “sounding board,” that worked
through the proposed new ordinances
and made recommendations.
“This is a lesson in how to do it and
how to do it right,” Thompson said to
open the discussions of what he said was
a 400-page document. “We’re down to
a couple of dozen issues. We’ve gone a
long way.”
On Aug. 4, the Dunwoody Home-
owners Association board voted to op
pose two controversial provisions of the
zoning rewrite. The board opposed al
lowing operators of home-based busi
nesses to bring customers to their home
unless they received a Special Land Use
Permit.
The board also urged City Council
to reject a proposal that would allow the
council to hear zoning variances as part
of a rezoning package, rather than hav
ing the variances argued before the Zon
ing Board of Appeals.
City staff members say allowing the
council to consider the proposed zoning
variances would speed up the process
and have the important decisions made
by the council.
Some council members argued the
city’s variance procedure should be left
alone. “Why do we need it? Is there a
problem with what we’re doing now?”
Councilman Denis Shortal asked.
Mayor Mike Davis said the current
practice forces projects to be consid
ered piecemeal. “These projects come
to us more or less fully formed. It seems
[considering them] concurrently makes
sense,” Davis said. “What we’re doing
now forces you to break it apart.... To
have it broken into pieces doesn’t make
sense.
Council members said that before
they’re done, they want to take up sub
jects ranging from bicycle parking to
home occupations to gardens. And, of
course, the definition of a “household
pet,” which now says Dunwoody resi
dents cannot keep pet chickens, pit bulls
or snakes.
NOTICE OF QUALIFYING
FOR POSITIONS OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL
CITY OF SANDY SPRINGS
Qualifying for candidates in the November 5, 2013 municipal election is
August 26 - 30, 2013
Candidates may download the application from the city’s website
(www.sandyspringsga.gov/vote), or pick up the application at Sandy Springs City Hall between
the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The qualifying fee is $750/mayor and $360/council
member.
All applications must be submitted in person by 4:00 p.m., August 30, 2013 to the City
Clerk’s Office located at Sandy Springs City Hall, 7840 Roswell Road, Building 500, Sandy
Springs Ga. 30350.
Required qualifications:
No person shall be eligible to serve as mayor or council member unless that person shall have been a resident of
the area comprising the corporate limits of the City of Sandy Springs for a continuous period of at least 12 months
immediately prior to the date of the election for mayor or council member, shall continue to reside therein during
that persons period of service, and shall continue to be registered and qualified to vote in municipal elections of
the City of Sandy Springs. In addition to the above requirement, no person shall be eligible to serve as a council
member representing a council district unless that person has been a resident of the district such person seeks to
represent for a continuous period of at least six months immediately prior to the date of the election for council
member and continues to reside in such district during that persons period of service.
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