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Council incumbents draw
challengers; Bonser bows out
BY JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers.net
The three Dunwoody City Council
seats on the Nov. 5 ballot all will be de
cided after contested campaigns.
Eight candidates — two incumbents
and six newcomers — qualified to run in
the city election, and each of the three
seats on the ballot attracted more than
one candidate.
In District 2, incumbent Council-
woman Adrian Bonser decided not to
seek re-election to her Post 2 seat. In a
statement emailed Aug. 28, Bonser said
she decided to leave the council due to
health issues and so she could devote
time to her family.
“We need time to re-group as a fami
ly, and I need time to recover and attend
to a series of serious health issues many
know I’ve experienced over the past five
years,” she wrote.
Three candidates qualified for the seat
Bonser now holds. William A.J. Merci-
er, Jim Riticher and Heyward Wescott
are seeking the position.
In District 1, Councilman Denis
Shortal is running for re-election to the
Post 1 seat he now holds. He is being
challenged by David Davis and Henley
Shelton.
In District 3, Councilman Doug
Thompson filed for re-election to the
Post 3 seat. His challenger is Sam Eads.
Shelton, Riticher and Eads have an
nounced they are running as a slate of
candidates. They have called themselves
the “Clean Sweep” candidates.
Bonser, in her announcement,
thanked her constituents for her five
years on the council, saying “it had been
an honor and a privilege” to serve.
“I recognize I am leaving the council
at a very crucial time in our young city’s
history,” Bonser wrote. “I feel I am let
ting a lot of folks down in leaving at this
time. To them, I offer my very hum
ble apologies and, I thank you for your
unwavering support over these many
years.”
She also expressed gratitude for sup
port she received during treatment for
her health issues. “Thank you for the
hundreds of cards, flowers, emails, and
prepared meals you delivered so gra
ciously as we worked through our or
deal,” she wrote. “I thank you from the
bottom of my heart. Your words of en
couragement kept my spirits up and,
helped me fight the good fight. My fight
is not yet over but, I have every reason
to hope.”
Apartment owners accuse city
of discrimination
Owners of two Dunwoody apart
ment complexes have filed suit accus
ing the city of violating federal hous
ing laws, and trying to drive low-income
and minority residents from the city.
The owners of the Dunwoody Glen
and LaCota apartments claim city offi
cials used enforcement of housing codes
to harass the apartment owners, and
tried to force them to sell or close the
properties, which provide housing for
African Americans and Latinos.
The lawsuit claims the city’s actions
were “irrational and ... based upon un
warranted fear and prejudice.” The law
suit, submitted by lawyers Kathryn M.
Zickert and J. Harrison Anthony, asks
that the court order the city to stop pro
hibiting affordable housing and instead
encourage it, and to stop the city’s ha
rassment of the apartment owners.
The apartment owners said the city
in 2011 wanted to use proceeds from a
bond referendum to buy the apartments
in order to tear them down and replace
them with a sports complex. Voters did
not approve the bonds, so the deal fell
through.
The apartment owners claim the
city’s efforts to buy and raze the apart
ments were motivated by a desire to
eliminate apartments in Dunwoody, to
remove the 560 children in the apart
ments from Dunwoody schools, and to
move minorities out of the city.
The lawsuit names the city and Com
munity Development Director Steve
Dush as defendants. Spokesman Bob
Mullen said the city and Dush had no
comment on the pending litigation.
—Joe Earle
Dunwoody Government Calendar
The Dunwoody City Council usually meets the second and fourth
Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at Dunwoody City Hall located at 41
Perimeter Center East Suite No. 103.
For a complete and up to date schedule of Dunwoody City meetings,
visit http://www.dunwoodyga.gov/Residents/Calendar.aspx
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