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Also, T-shirts and more... kM Teela -404459-0477 Tin Can-404407-0997 CityWalk at Sandv Springs 227 Sandy Springs Place f Tell them you saw it in Reporter Newspapers V 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 2 | SEPT. 6 —SEPT. 19,2013 | www.ReporterNewspapers.net DUN
