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May 21 primary election a
prelude to November
park improvements are being planned and
public input is being sought.
“Old Riverside is right up against the
Chattahoochee River to south of Johnson
Ferry Road, not far from the Old Riverside
and Riverside Drive intersections. And
wed like to see limited parking. It’s going
to be a passive park,” Ciaccio said.
FFe said they hope to have designs for
Old Riverside Park done by the end of
the year. Being next to the Chattahoochee
River makes the permitting take longer.
Jack Misiura of the Sandy Springs
Conservancy said the group’s mission is to
“build partnerships that create, conserve
and connect parks and green space in
Sandy Springs.”
The conservancy championed the
Sandy Springs Trail Master Plan and paid
for half of the cost to develop it. After its
adoption in 2019, they wanted to build a
model mile of trail to draw support. The
city chose the Morgan Falls Loop Trail
which was 5.7 miles long instead. The first
phase is under construction and on its way
to completion.
Misiura said the conservancy pledged
to provide matching funds for a $3 million
Outdoor Stewardship Program grant
from the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources for the trail.
The Path 400 trail section that
Sandy Springs will build should start
construction this year. Allen Johnson, the
city of Sandy Springs TSPLOST program
manager, said the city doesn’t have the $37
million needed, so they will use the $20
million available to build a section from
the city limits with Atlanta up to Windsor
Parkway. Another section will start from
the path that the Georgia Department of
Transportation is constructing as part of
the Transform GA 400/1-285 project. It
will extend down to just behind Ridgeview
Middle School, he said.
The GDOT section will connect to a
Peachtree Dunwoody side path, which will
connect to the Mount Vernon corridor
side path and it ties into the Johnson
Ferry-Mount Vernon Path.
“FFopefully, in the next two to three
years, you can go from Ridgeview to City
Flail,” Johnson said.
Brittany Jones is the executive director
of the Chattahoochee National Park
Conservancy, the official nonprofit friends
group for the Chattahoochee National
River Recreation Area.
“Our mission really is just to support
them and address critical needs and
something that we just like to bring
awareness to is that this park is grossly
underfunded,” she said.
The conservancy raises funds and
builds community engagement in
support of the park, she said. They get
volunteers to work on trail upgrades and
infrastructure repairs, such as bridges,
overlooks and boardwalks. Just shy of
5,000 volunteer hours were performed on
the trails.
By Collin Kelley
Voters will head to the polls on May
21 for the general primary to lock in
Republican, Democrat, and nonpartisan
candidates for the November contests.
State Senate and FFouse of
Representative races along with judicial
races make up a large portion of the ballots
in both Fulton and DeKalb.
Along with candidate selection, there
are a multitude of non-binding questions
being posed by the parties that play
into election-year politics, including a
question on the Democratic ballot about
banning assault weapons and one on
the Republican ballot about banning
transgender women from women’s
restrooms, locker rooms, and dressing
rooms.
Atlanta voters will also decide in the
primary election if they want to renew a
1-cent sales tax to fund water and sewer
projects.
Early voting was slated to begin April
29 and run through May 17. The last day
to apply for an absentee ballot is May 10
and those ballots must be submitted on
May 21 by 7 p.m.
Early voting locations and sample
ballots for Fulton County voters are
available at fultoncountyga.gov by
navigating to the Voting and Elections
tab. DeKalb voters can find sample ballots
at dekalbcountyga.gov by navigating
to the Government tab and then Voter
Registration & Elections.
You can check your voter registration
status, find polling locations and more
information at the GA My Voter Page at
mvp.sos.ga.gov.
Scan the QR code
for a voters guide
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