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Inside
Open all night
City helping Waffle
House relocate
COMMUNITY 3
One people
Rep. John Lewis recalls
1963 March on Washington
COAAMENTARY 8
High school
football
preview
Sport is where ‘the
community gathers’
PAGES 18-20
Ml low talk
Her sewing creations
soften patients’ visits
AAAKING A DIFFERENCE 21
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A pie in his eye
PHIL MOSIER
Mariah Andrews, left, a freshman at North Springs Charter High School, makes perfect contact with Sandy
Springs librarian Marian Brinkley on Aug. 17 at the library. Brinkley promised his teen readers that for
every book they read over the summer, they could hit him with a pie. More photos on page 27.
City takes closer look at
its ‘vertical’ roads
BY DAN WHISENHUNT
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
Lake Forrest Drive isn’t the only road in Sandy Springs that’s
created by cutting a vertical slope, but it’s the most notorious one.
It might also be a learning opportunity, according to Sandy
Springs City Councilman John Paulson.
“This isn’t the only vertical/near-vertical rock face in the city,”
Paulson said during the Aug. 6 City Council meeting. “We’ve now
got a process in place to start looking at the rest of these.”
City Council on Aug. 6 gave the OK to awarding an emergen
cy contract in order to speed up repairs on a closed portion of Lake
SEE LAKE FORREST, PAGE 26
Council considers
apartment strategy
BY DAN WHISENHUNT
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
City leaders know what kind of apartments they’d like developers
to build. Mixed-used developments such as the JLB Partners devel
opment at Roswell Road and Windsor Parkway have received sup
port from most members of Sandy Springs City Council.
That project will produce high-end apartments aimed at attract
ing young professionals to the area.
But City Council members are not quite as certain about how
they should get rid of the kind of apartments they don’t like.
With multi-family zoning applications pouring in across met-
SEE CITY CONSIDERS, PAGE 27
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