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City center plans will take nearly a decade to implement, and will cost up ward of $100 million, according to city estimates. When finished, the project will trans form a 14-acre block north of 1-285 into a mixed-use city center. The boundar ies are Johnson Ferry Road to the north, Roswell Road to the east, Mount Ver non Highway to the south, and Sandy Springs Circle to the west. The master developer would be re sponsible for project design, construc tion, identifying the financing, and im plementing “lifestyle” elements like concierge services. City Council in August released a draft of the RFQ to gather input from developers. Based on that input, consist ing of 11 comments from local compa nies, the council made some tweaks to its request. The RFQ now says, “Profes sional Services of Master Developer to Partner with the City of Sandy Springs in the Development of City Center,” with “partner” replacing the word “as sisting.” The council added language in the “Project Overview” section to in clude the Fidelity National Bank property. Kraun said the banks owners are interest ed in potential partnerships with the city. The RFQ now includes lan guage giving the city flexibility to “ex pand the scope” of public and private sector investment in the project. Kraun said a pre-submittal confer ence is planned for Sept. 26 at 10 a.m. at Heritage Sandy Springs, 6110 Bluestone Road. She said all questions asked and answered during this conference will be posted on the city’s website. RFQ responses are due Oct. 25, 2013, Kraun said. Current trees ordinance not ‘cutting it’ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 2007 isn’t cutting it. “I served on the council when we passed it,” McEnerny said. “We really thought we were protecting the trees in the buffers [between properties]. We’re going to get a stronger tree ordinance.” The ambiguity of the city’s ordinance creates a lot of shadowy gray areas. Some issues include: Private owners can cut down trees on their own property, but devel opers need to get surveys and clear it with city inspectors. In some cases, pri vate owners are cutting down trees and then selling cleared property to a devel oper. Developers want more flexibil ity to work or park equipment around trees on adjoining property to the prop erty they are developing. Current rules set up buffer areas intended to protect roots of trees on neighboring properties. Bill Harrison, a local architect, spoke to City Council on Sept. 3, along with several other residents who wanted the city to update and clarify its regulations. “The largest issue I have with it is it essentially leaves out 80 percent of the population,” Harrison said. “It doesn’t apply to homeowners the way it applies to builders and developers. It’s the equivalent of passing speeding laws and only applying it to trucks.” McEnerny said that it’s a good time to look at the existing laws now that construction activity is picking up again. She said the slow economy could be a reason why the city’s overall tree canopy increased from 52 percent canopy cover in 2008 to 59 percent canopy cover in 2010. Sandy Springs has also been named a Tree City USA for the last four years, a distinction awarded by the national Arbor Day Foundation. McEnerny said she’s hopeful city staff can come up with revisions that will prevent further cutting of trees in the city. “The council has asked staff to re view the tree ordinance,” she said. I’m looking forward to something com ing out the other end that will be a more balanced ordinance than the one we have now.” According to city spokeswoman Sharon Kraun, City Council during its Sept. 17 meeting approved a list of projects that will be paid for with the city’s tree fund, money paid by devel opers who receive tree removal permits from the city. McEnerny was the lone “no” vote on the project list, saying she was concerned some of the money was being used for other types of landscap ing and not on planting trees. Accord ing to a meeting summary provided by the city, Councilman Gabriel Ster ling said that in some cases the council wanted to add more green space but planting trees wasn’t possible due to site conditions. The full project list approved by the council in order of priority: Abernathy/ Roswell Road island, $20,000; City Center street trees, $35,000; Springs Crossing landscape, $15,000; Mount Vernon and Glenridge island, $25,000; Glenridge Drive south of Abernathy, $21,983. 8 | SEPT. 20 — OCT. 3,2013 | www.ReporterNewspapers.net ss
