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Inside
Memory maker
Historian ‘addicted’ to
recalling city’s past
COMMUNITY 3
I spy?
Pros, cons voiced over
city-installed cameras
COAAMENTARY 8
With a bang
Where, when to
celebrate July 4
OUT a ABOUT 18
Wonder woman
Dunwoody parade organizer
is ‘Energizer Bunny’
AAAKING A DIFFERENCE 19
By the river
Mt. Paran-Northside
residents fish, hike
WHERE YOU LIVE 27
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Colorful, crazy carts
PHIL M0SIER
Tamara Carrera, director of the Community Assistance Center in
Sandy Springs, leads the shopping cart parade during the center’s
“Food ‘n Fun Festival” at Morgan Falls Athletic Complex on
June 23. The event raised awareness, food and funds to combat
local hunger and homelessness. Another photo on page 22.
Road project
clouds gateway
development
BY DAN WHISENHUNT
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
The Sandy Springs Planning Commission on June 20 en
dorsed the zoning needed for a controversial gateway develop
ment near Atlanta’s Chastain Park, but there’s still uncertainty
surrounding a massive intersection realignment the project re
quires.
If Sandy Springs City Council approves the redevelopment
project at its July meeting, it will mean the city must realign
Windsor Parkway and Roswell Road. The realignment will cost
between $3.7 million and $5.7 million, and will be paid for by
Sandy Springs taxpayers.
Three options are being considered for the realignment. Un
der two of the three options, the old Sentell Baptist Church
would be razed to make way for the project. Under the third op-
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Eminent domain
action draws
criticism
BV DAN WHISENHUNT
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
Sandy Springs isn’t playing around with business owners
who won’t sell their property for the city’s new downtown.
If the owners won’t sell, the city will use its powers of em
inent domain to take their property.
City Council made the point at its June 18 meeting, vot
ing to buy two similar pieces of property along Roswell Road
for two distinctly different prices.
The parcels are both .29 acres, both front Roswell Road,
and are both adjacent to the former Target building on John
son Ferry Road that the city purchased for $8 million in
2008.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 26
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