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Artsapalooza permit
creates hullabaloo
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businesses. The city granted the group a
permit to hold the festival on Lake For
rest Drive.
The foundation appealed the denials
for Sandy Springs Circle. City Council
on May 7 rejected those appeals, find
ing the denials were proper. Council
members also cited a report released by
the city that alleges AFFPS Vice Presi
dent Randall Fox mistreated city staff.
“I find it offensive that anybody that
applies for permits in our community
believes it’s appropriate to be verbally
abusive to staff on two separate occa
sions,” Councilwoman Karen Meinzen
McEnerny said during the May 7 hear
ing. “ ... I hope in the future profes
sionals such as this should act in a pro
fessional manner to our staff.”
Fox, who didn’t attend the May 7
hearing and claims he wasn’t notified of
it, disputed the report and accused the
city of giving another event — the Sandy
Springs Cycling Challenge bicycle race
— more leeway because City Council-
woman Dianne Fries is one of its orga
nizers.
The Challenge course traditional
ly has been on Sandy Springs Circle
and the event lasts one day. Two coun
cil members, Fries and Gabriel Sterling,
serve on the nonprofit board for the
Sandy Springs Cycling Challenge race.
This year’s event took place May 5.
“I guess if I was a City Council
member then I would have been ‘per
mitted for my event,’ much like Coun
cil Member Dianne Fries was,” Fox said
in an email.
Fries called the allegation of prefer
ential treatment “hogwash.”
“If anything, I go over and above be
cause I think that it’s important that I
follow our city guidelines,” Fries said.
Sterling also said the allegations are
unfounded.
“We file all the exact same things.
We have to go through exactly all the
same hoops and ladders as anybody else
does,” he said. “I like the work that the
guys over there do and the event over
there on Lake Forrest was a success, as
I understand.”
In 2012, Artsapalooza took place on
Johnson Ferry Road. AFFPS applied
for an event permit at the same location
on Johnson Ferry Road for 2013, but
the city denied that application. AFFPS
submitted four permit applications in
all, including the one the city approved
for Lake Forrest Drive.
The city’s report on the dispute
shows that there have been ongoing
discussions about the event since Octo
ber. The report claims Fox filed 59 open
records requests since February and
sent city staff 500 emails. The report
accuses Fox of being “verbally abusive”
to city staff when he visited City Hall.
According to a letter dated April 4, the
city informed Fox it would not respond
to any additional records requests un-
“I find it offensive that any
body that applies for per
mits in our community be
lieves it’s appropriate to be
verbally abusive to staff on
two separate occasions.”
- KAREN MEINZEN MCENERNY
COUNCILWOMAN
til he paid $253.45 for records the city
claims he didn’t pick up.
Fox disputed those numbers, say
ing he sent 60 emails and submitted 45
open records requests.
The problem with permitting events
isn’t limited to Artsapalooza, Fox said.
Fox said several events have left the city
over its permitting practices.
City Spokeswoman Sharon Kraun
said the city permitted 59 events in
2012 compared with 76 in 2011, 78
in 2010, and 54 in 2009. Kraun said
there are a number of factors that affect
event permitting, from the economy to
the weather.
Fox said he intends to continue
pressing the city on this issue, though
it isn’t clear what options he has. In his
letters to the city, Fox implied he was
seeking an attorney.
“The difference between me and the
other events: I’m willing to stand up to
the city,” Fox said in his email.
Art Sandy Springs President Cheri
Morris, who attended some of the
meetings with Fox and the city, said the
dispute stemmed from Artsapalooza’s
permit applications conflicting with an
event at Heritage Sandy Springs, locat
ed just off Sandy Springs Circle.
“My understanding it was a matter
of timing that Heritage Sandy Springs
already had booked something by the
time Artsapalooza had requested a per
mit,” Morris said. “On the south end,
in general, the tenants on the south side
don’t want the roads closed. Lake For
rest, according to the Atlanta Founda
tion for Public Spaces, ended up being
an unqualified success.”
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