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DeKalb legislators skeptical
new city bills will be approved
BY MELISSA WEINMAN
melissaweinman@reporternwspapers.net
Some DeKalb County legislators
question whether any of the bills for cre
ating cities in central DeKalb will be ap
proved during the upcoming legislative
session.
At a Dec. 19 town hall meeting
in Brookhaven, members of DeKalb
County’s legislative delegation discussed
how to handle the competing efforts to
create new cities.
Three groups — the Lakeside City Al
liance, the City of Briarcliff Initiative
and Tucker 2014 — have all commis
sioned feasibility studies and are angling
for legislative approval to make their
municipal dreams a reality. The problem
is, all three proposed cities overlap in the
area around Northlake Mall.
“How are we going to resolve this
mess?” Angela Trosclair of Tucker asked.
“The question you ask is really some
thing that worries me a lot,” said Rep.
Mary Margaret Oliver, D-Decatur.
“Were about to do some serious dam-
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age.
Rep. Tom Taylor, R-Dunwoody, said
he’s not sure there will be enough time
to untangle the mess before the 40-day
session of the General Assembly wraps
up. Due to earlier primary elections this
year, the Legislature will likely convene
sometime in late April, Taylor said.
“We’ve got an extremely compressed
session,” Taylor said. “If any of these
comes up — and I say if — because there’s
a certain level of DeKalb and Fulton fa
tigue [in the Legislature] ... if it’s not es
sential, I don’t know that it’s going to
happen this session.”
Rep. Mike Jacobs, R-Brookhaven,
said he thinks the chaos surrounding the
cityhood bills could be their demise.
“Frankly, I can’t tell you what’s go
ing to happen,” Jacobs said. “I think it
makes the process more difficult, partic
ularly this year.”
Oliver said she thinks there needs
to be a cohesive discussion or planning
process for potential new cities and an
nexations proposed by existing cities.
“I think that discussion needs to go
together in some way,” Oliver said. “Ev
erything in my district is subject to one
new city or another.”
Jacobs said he doesn’t favor any sort
of moratorium or master planning pro-
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