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Peachford Hospital agreed to allow the city of Dunwoody to build
a connecting trail through its property. The city will pay $26,000 -
$ 15,000 to the hospital for its legal costs and $ 11,000 for a fence
along the trail. The agreement allows the city to connect the
Brook Run Park Trail to one planned at Project Renaissance.
Hospital agrees to city trail extension
City Council voted 6-1 to approve an easement agreement with Peachford Hos
pital to allow construction of part of the city’s planned multi-use trail. The first two
ph ases of the 12-foot-wide concrete trail lie in Brook Run Park. The first phase has
been completed, and work begins on the second this fall, city officials have said.
Later phases of the construction are intended to connect the Brook Run Trail with
a similar trail at Project Renaissance, the city’s redevelopment project in the George
town community.
Peachford Hospital agreed to allow the city to build a connecting trail through its
property. The city agreed to pay $26,000: $15,000 to cover the hospital’s legal costs
and $11,000 for a fence along the trail.
Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch cast the sole vote against the agreement. She said
she did so because she thought the trail should be smaller. “I still struggle with that
12 feet,” she said. “I really appreciate Peachford’s gift, but 8 feet [of trail width] would
be fine with me.”
Council action
raises questions
about city’s plans
for Mount Vernon
Members of City Council on Aug.
26 unanimously approved spending
$11,000 more to design sidewalks and
turn lanes at the intersection of Mount
Vernon and Vermack roads. But while
discussing the project, council mem
bers raised questions about city officials’
commitment to the city’s transportation
plan, which calls for widening Mount
Vernon to three lanes throughout Dun-
woody.
Several council members indicat
ed they objected to one possible de
sign for the intersection that called for a
long central lane on Mount Vernon that
would allow left turns. Other plans call
for shorter turn lanes at the intersection.
“Council seems to be leaning toward
not putting in a center lane, but putting
in sidewalks and bike lanes...” Mayor
Mike Davis said. “Are we going against
our transportation plan?”
But Councilwoman Adrian Bons-
er said the city had ignored the trans-
BRIEFS
portation plans when doing projects in
the past. “Tonight’s not the night we’re
destroying our transportation plan,” she
said. “It was actually done with the first
project last year.”
Some residents also objected to the
longer turn lanes. “Spending taxpay
er’s dollars to build a left-turn lane for
St. Luke’s [Presbyterian] Church is not
warranted,” one Mount Vernon resident
told the council.
Center holds plant,
bird seed sale
The Dunwoody Nature Center is
holding an online plant and bird seed
sale as a fundraiser. Gardeners and bird
fanciers can go to dunwoodynature.org/
Fall-Plant-Sale and order native plants,
some non-native plants, soil amend
ments or birdseed. The sale lasts until
Oct. 4. Orders can be picked up Oct.
11 or 12.
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