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COMMUNITY SPECIAL 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. 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