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Unpopular plan for townhomes leads to push for new city ‘gateway’

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BY JOE [email protected]

Facing an unpopular proposal to build townhomes on Ashford-Dunwoody Road, city offi cials are pushing for something dif-ferent: a park and development creating a new city “gateway.”

“Th is is a special piece of property,” City Councilwoman Rebecca Chase Williams said during the March 24 council meeting. “It’s our gateway. ... I’m suggesting some-thing new. I’d like the city to explore di-viding up that property and at least taking the front half of it for a linear park or green space. ... We haven’t even begun to imagine the possibilities for this site.”

City Council delayed a vote on a rezon-ing proposal for 60 days to allow time for discussions among city offi cials, the proper-

BY JOE [email protected]

Terri Moss says she sort of stumbled into boxing. “A friend of mine wanted to learn how to do it,” she

said, so Moss, who had studied to be a teacher and ended up working in law enforcement, went along for a visit to a local boxing gym. “I just went in and worked out and may-be three months later, I was still there and she was gone.”

What was the appeal? “Th ere’s something badass about being able to fi ght and being a girl,” Moss said with a laugh.

Fifteen or so years after her introduction to boxing, Moss still hangs out at the gym. In fact, she owns the place now. Th e former pro champion boxer, known as “Th e Boss” in the ring, is boss of her own place, the Buckhead Fight Club, which is actually located in the basement of a shopping center on Buford Highway in Brookhaven.

Now a 49-year-old grandmother, she trains other, younger fi ghters these days. But she keeps an assortment of padded gloves in a ringside gym bag and she says she only offi cially retired from boxing about a year ago. “I gave my headgear to one of the boys,” she said. “Th is signifi es my retirement.”

Next month, Moss’ gym will host an international box-ing event she says will attract Olympic-caliber women box-ers from around the world.

USA Boxing’s Women’s International Clash of Cham-pions, scheduled April 20 through April 25, is set to bring teams of boxers from China, Bulgaria, the U.S. and other countries to compete in a round-robin tournament. About

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Terri Moss, a 49-year-old grandmother, owns Buckhead Fight Club.

Luke Farmer, 6, plays on an infl atable before the Ashford Park Easter Egg Hunt on March 28.

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ARC director says metro area’s reputation is ‘sullied’

Brookhaven Government CalendarBrookhaven City Council usually meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 7 p.m. at Brookhaven City Hall, 4362 Peachtree Rd.

For complete and up-to-date schedule of Brookhaven city meetings, go to http://brookhavenga.gov .

No, it’s not that Big BirdBrookhaven’s new tourism mascot, a big, green bird named “Brook,” greeted people attending the Brookhaven City Council meeting on March 25. Back right, 18-month-old Ethan Parks decides to take a closer look at the yellow feet and pink bow tie.

“Brook” is likely to make additional public appearances throughout the year.

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BY ANN MARIE QUILLTh e executive director of the Atlanta

Regional Commission says metro Atlan-ta must address transportation and ed-ucation issues to remain a vibrant com-munity.

Doug Hooker, who heads the re-gional planning agency, told business and community leaders gathered for a March 20 Perimeter Business Alliance luncheon in Brookhaven that the met-ro area had to have the resources to re-main a vibrant and attractive place as folks continue to move to the fast-grow-ing region.

Unfortunately, Hooker said, the re-gion’s reputation has been “sullied” by the failure of T-SPLOST, a regional tax to support transportation; by de-clining water supplies; by the Atlan-ta Public School cheating scandal; and last year’s “Snowmageddon,” when traffi c was snarled 24 hours during a winter storm.

Hooker said the region is making steps in the right direction. He said the Atlanta area reduced its water usage by 10 percent from 2000 to 2010, while adding a million people.

But, “it’s still not enough,” Hooker

said. He also said that while state law-makers propose a $1 billion transpor-tation package, that’s just a “down pay-ment.” Th ey should look to spend as much as $2.5 billion a year, he said.

“If we don’t invest in us how can we expect anyone else to invest in us?” Hooker asked.

Th e metro area needs to develop more compact, walkable communities, he said.

“We have spread out very far in the region, now we have to think about spreading up,” Hooker said, adding that mixed-use communities attract both young people and baby boomers look-ing to retire.

He said that the area also needs more transportation options.

Hooker used the Perimeter area as an example, saying it was on the “cut-ting edge” of leveraging its MARTA sta-tions around living and working spaces. He said that large companies like State Farm and Mercedes are relocating here because of the access to transit.

Education is another area that needs the support of everyone, Hooker said. “It is all of our issue.”

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Peachtree apartment plan draws opposition despite negotiationsBY JOE EARLE

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The developers who want to build a mixed-use project on Peachtree Road say they’ve labored to accommodate the wishes of their residential neighbors.

“We’ve worked hard. We’ve had sev-eral meetings with concerned neighbors. We’ve tried hard to listen, to react,” Hud-son Hooks of JLB Partners told members of the Historic Brookhaven Neighbor-hood Association during a community meeting March 26. “We’ve attempted to do everything we were asked.”

But a number of the residents who at-tended the March 26 meeting seemed unhappy with the proposal despite the developer’s modifications to its plans.

“It doesn’t fit the neighborhood at all,” resident Teresa Gipson said after the meeting.

JLB wants to build 272 high-end apartments on 4.6 acres at 3920 and 3930 Peachtree Road, a site generally known as the “Hastings Property” be-cause the nursery and garden center company operated a facility there. The project would back up to the Historic Brookhaven neighborhood.

Brookhaven City Council on March 24 delayed until May a vote on wheth-er to rezone the property from commer-cial use to allow a mix of apartments and shops. The delay, council members said, would allow time for the developer to continue talks with surrounding neigh-bors to try to win their support for the project.

Council members praised JLB’s will-ingness to negotiate with neighbors and efforts to modify its plans to win com-munity support. “You have done an amazing job,” Councilman Bates Matti-son told lawyer Carl Westmoreland, who represents JLB on the project. “I com-mend you and your developer on your willingness to meet with [residents after] what at the beginning seemed complete opposition.”

More than 60 residents filled a meet-ing room at St. James United Methodist Church on March 26 to hear from the developers and from residents who op-posed elements of the plan. Residents said they worried the project contained too many apartments, would increase traffic cutting through their neighbor-hood and would be unsightly.

“[The neighbors] want the best thing for the property,” resident Tim Morri-son said a few days after the meeting. “It’s the gateway [to Brookhaven]. What do we want that image to be?” A multi-story apartment building with dozens of balconies would not create an invit-ing entrance to the city, he said. “A lot of people don’t want 36 gas grills hanging over Peachtree to be that image,” he said. “What can you do to make something really special?”

At the meeting, some residents ques-tioned the overall number of apartments being developed in the city, claiming two projects on Dresden Drive, another at

Oglethorpe University and future proj-ects planned for the MARTA property on Peachtree were adding hundreds of apartments already.

“Brookhaven is becoming a city of apartments,” said Paul Sherlag, whose home backs up to the proposed JLB de-velopment. “What’s happening is people would be living there and not working in the community, but driving to Atlanta.”

Others voiced similar thoughts, and argued the number in the proposed proj-ect should be reduced. “I think the is-sue here is 272 apartments,” one resident said. “If you take the whole neighbor-hood ..., there’re probably not 200 hous-es or 200 cars in the whole Historic Brookhaven neighborhood.”

John Gipson, who is developing a commercial project on Peachtree, pre-sented a rendering of an office building and shops he said could be developed at the site as an alternative to the apart-ments. “It can be done without rezon-ing,” he said.

Both projects meet requirements of the zoning overlay, developed by DeKalb County and continued by the city, that requires “urban” development for prop-erties along Peachtree, their proponents

say.Hooks

told the residents the apart-ments JLB plans for the project would be “probably as nice an apartment complex as you’ll see in Atlan-ta.” He said the compa-ny plans to include “all the bells and whis-tles,” such as granite counter-tops and “upscale” cabinets.

He said the developers had already agreed to reduce the height of the rear portion of the building, to leave undis-turbed a portion of the property that would serve as a buffer to neighboring homes and to place all the parking for the units beneath the building.

“A lot of this stuff is expensive,” he

said. “We’ve probably tripled the cost of our parking. These are big changes we’re making to bring down the height and ac-commodate the neighborhood.”

But some residents argue the develop-er hasn’t yet gone far enough.

“We’ve still got a lot of work to do with JLB to fine tune it,” Morrison told his neighbors attending the meeting. “We’re not there yet.”

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Hudson Hooks, with JLB Partners, tells residents at a March 26 meeting that his company has worked

hard to accommodate concerns over a proposed 272-unit apartment complex on Peachtree Road.

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Taxes, ethics and sanitation dominate Jester town hall

BY TIM DARNELLResidents in DeKalb County’s cities

will soon be paying more for county services, and District 1 Commissioner Nancy Jester says the increases are the result of historically poor account-ing,

“I was very much against this budget,” Jester said recent-ly at a town hall meeting in Dunwoody. “Th e county only increased the millage rate in incorporated areas and not the unincorporated areas.”

Jester said only she and Dis-trict 6 Commissioner Kath-ie Gannon voted against the budget.

“I’m hopeful we’ll see some fl uctuations as millage rates go down,” Jester told an audience of about 50 peo-ple at the Dunwoody Library. “Th ey did go up this year, and I argued against this tax increase.”

Dunwoody’s and Brookhaven’s millage rates increased 10.8 percent, while Cham-blee’s increased 21.5 percent. DeKalb’s $1.27 billion budget keeps the tax rate in areas of the county not located within cit-ies at 21.21 mills.

Jester also said she has grave concerns over recent developments in DeKalb’s De-partment of Watershed Management, which has been the focus of a grand jury investigation. “Th e grand jury has called attention to some serious problems in the department,” Jester said. “Th e water de-partment provides some vital services to everyone in the county, and this is an issue we’re watching very closely.”

Meanwhile, other DeKalb offi cials have faced criminal charges. Former Dis-trict 1 County Commission Elaine Boy-er stood in a federal courtroom on March 20 and tearfully apologized to her family and also to the citizens of the county for misusing county money. “To the people of DeKalb County, I am deeply, deeply sor-ry,” Boyer said.

Senior U.S. District Judge Orinda Ev-ans sentenced Boyer to 14 months in fed-eral prison on her guilty pleas in Sep-tember to mail and wire fraud charges. Prosecutors say the veteran commission-er, who resigned her post last August, fun-neled county funds to personal accounts and used county funds to help pay for family vacations and other personal ex-penses.

Boyer’s husband, John Boyer, has plead-ed guilty to a related charge and is sched-

uled to be sentenced by Evans on May 6.Additionally, suspended

DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis is set to be re-tried later this year on charges of shaking down county contractors for cam-paign contributions.

In March, several high-ranking offi cials abruptly re-signed after interim CEO Lee May announced a special eth-ics investigation headed up by former Georgia Attorney Gen-eral Mike Bowers.

“I found the timing of those resignations very inter-esting,” Jester said. “I’m con-cerned about the cost of the Bowers investigation (report-

edly at $400 an hour), but this is a very opaque situation and credibility has to be restored.

“Reform by indictment is not a good thing, and I want to be part of any eff ort that brings positive changes.”

Commission Chief of Staff Morris Williams and Community Development Director Chris Morris both resigned on March 24, right after the Bowers investi-gation was announced.

Watershed Director Dr. James Chansler announced his resignation back in Febru-ary. Jester doesn’t believe Chansler was in-volved in any alleged wrongdoing.

“I think he resigned, perhaps, because he realized he couldn’t reform the depart-ment or perhaps out of frustration,” she said. “He has an excellent national repu-tation, and I’m glad he’s agreed to stay on through June.”

Jester also highlighted the county’s new, one-day-a-week trash pickup schedule, which she said is standard for hundreds of communities.

“It’s going to be rolling out this sum-mer, probably in July, and you’ll be get-ting a much larger, blue recycling bin into which you can co-mingle everything,” she said. “Several neighborhoods have been part of the pilot program, which overall received very positive results.”

Jester said the county’s recycling pro-gram has extended the life of its landfi ll “by about 70 years, which is a good thing.”

“Th e small, blue recycling bins that we have are being phased out. You can keep them if you want or the county can pick them up and they’ll be used for school re-cycling eff orts.”

Joe Earle contributed to this report.

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40 athletes, including Americans Cla-ressa Shields and Marlen Espinoza, both medalists in the 2012 Olympics, are scheduled to take part, Moss said.

“It’s a big deal,” said Moss, who also puts together local “Corporate Fight Nights.” “Some of these boxers are go-ing to be seen in the Olympics on tele-vision. We know that. We just can’t say which ones.”

Moss said she intends to give the vis-iting fi ghters a taste of American box-ing, “an all-American sports experi-ence.” “American sports are huge,” Moss said. “[Sports] are large in oth-er countries, too, but American sports have a certain level of excitement and noise and chaos.”

She thinks her gym will show vis-iting boxers something diff erent than what they’re used to. Th e atmosphere in her gym is diff erent, she said, from the quiet, dignifi ed boxing gyms she’s seen when traveling overseas.

Her 15,000-square-foot facility is decorated with graffi ti and bright street-art-style murals. Moss calls the décor “an urban American theme.” One recent morning, Sam and Dave’s “Hold On I’m Coming” and other rhythm-and-blues tunes blared from the PA. “Th ere’s a lot in this little bitty

basement,” Moss said. “Th ey’ll come down to this under-

ground fi ght club in a parking lot on Buford Highway, the melting pot of Atlanta,” she said. “I hope to let them see what it feels like to be in America and an American boxer.”

And while they’re there, she said, she plans to feed them home-cooked Mexi-can food, Philly-style cheesesteak sand-wiches and breakfast from the Interna-tional House of Pancakes.

Moss came to boxing late. She was 36 years old when she made her pro de-but, she said. Although some folks told her she was too old to box, she fought for fi ve more years. “Some of us just love the sport,” she said.

She named her gym after a cult movie and has decorated parts of it with quotes from the fi lm, but she sees the Buckhead Fight Club as a fami-ly place. “Whole families spend every evening here,” she said. “A lot of it is because of the community that comes to this gym. I really think that because it’s run by women, it gives it a diff er-ent vibe.”

“I love being in the gym,” she said. And it shows.

“I’m almost 50 years old,” she said, “and I skip around the gym like a lit-tle kid.”

‘Fight club’ brings Olympic women boxers to BrookhavenCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

PHOTOS BY JOE EARLE

Above, the club, located in the basement of a shopping

center in Brookhaven, will host the USA Boxing’s

Women’s International Clash of Champions in late April. Right,

Moss earned the nickname “The Boss,” as a champion boxer. Her

gym is decorated with graffi ti and street-art-style murals.

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Unpopular townhomes project makes way for ‘gateway’ plan

ty owners and the developer about alter-native plans for the land. Williams said part of the land yet might be developed, but the portion along Ashford-Dun-woody could be included in a new study the city plans for the road corridor.

“I don’t want to let this opportunity pass and lose forever this corner,” Wil-liams said.

Her proposal drew applause from members of the audience attending the meeting.

Lawyer Doug Dillard, who represents developers planning townhomes on the property, called the proposal “an idea worth exploring.”

“We’d rather work it out than go to court,” he said. “Th e property owners are frustrated because they’ve sat on this property a long time.”

Jim Parks, who owns one of the homes, worried the proposal would be-come “another way of stalling” redevel-opment of the property. “It may be a very good idea, but how long must we wait?” he said.

Th e council also agreed March 24 to spend $125,000 from Homeowners Option Sales Tax funds to pay for a new study of traffi c on the Ashford-Dun-woody Road corridor and of better ways to handle bicycle and pedestrian traffi c.

“Th ere are no plans to four-lane [Ashford-Dunwoody], but we’ve got to look at better ways to handle traffi c there,” Williams said. “Time is too valu-able to be sitting there in traffi c. We’re also about to fund a pedestrian and bike plan. What if we run a path up Ashford-Dunwoody Road?”

Th e townhome proposal has pro-duced strong opposition from its neigh-bors.

Rockhaven Homes has proposed

building 36 townhomes on 4.7 acres at Ashford-Dunwoody and Oak Park Drive. Th e owners of the property say it no longer makes sense for it to be used for single-family homes because of traf-fi c on Ashford-Dunwoody, and that the existing houses should be replaced with more homes.

“Th at property has numerous limi-tations...,” said Clay Parks, whose fam-ily has owned a house in the area since 1966. “Nobody wants to live in a sin-gle-family home up against that traffi c.”

But nearby residents argue the sin-gle-family homes still could fi nd buyers and the proposed townhomes create too dense a development.

“It’s too dense for the population, too dense for the sewers, for the schools, for the traffi c,” resident Noelle Hooge told the council. “Th e homes that are there are acceptable, better than acceptable.”

“What’s being proposed today is fi ve times the density of our neighborhood,” Clay Robertson said.

“Everybody stands against this,” Alan Cole said.

Despite “numerous meetings,” the developer hasn’t been able to reach an agreement with surrounding neigh-bors on how the land should be de-veloped, said Dillard, who argued the townhomes would provide a transition between the single-family neighbor-hoods and nearby commercial and offi ce developments.

“Th is is the gateway to Brookhaven,” Dillard said. “It’s to do something nice. It’s time to get rid of six detached 1950s houses that are not doing anything for your community. We’re a city. ... Th is is not the Spruill farm any more. ... It’s time to think like a city. If you want this to be the gateway to Brookhaven, let’s do something nice.”

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United we stand; divided we fall. We either hang together, or we hang separately. Th ose two aphorisms from the Revolu-tionary era show that the notion of a unifi ed voice on major is-sues is as old and as important as the American Republic itself.

Unfortunately, the local business community today speaks with splintered voices, and the split is growing. Why is this important?

First, the cities of Dunwoody and Sandy Springs are work-ing very cooperatively in developing policies to manage devel-opment in the Perimeter market – currently the Southeast’s hottest real estate market.

Our goals are simple. How do we manage the area’s in-evitable growth without drowning in vehicular traffi c and destroying our quality of life? What policies are needed to reduce pressure on our road networks and encourage more commuters to use transit?

We need a minimum increase in MARTA ridership of 15 percent to maintain mobility in this corridor, and we need the business community at the table to help us achieve this goal. Our challenge is, “Who speaks for the business com-munity?”

Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and the city of Brookhaven each has its own Chamber of Commerce, and the Perim-eter CID is also now forming a Perimeter Business Asso-ciation, which will act like a chamber. With such frac-tured voices, we cannot attain the multijurisdictional unity of focus, purpose and cooperation needed from the busi-ness community.

Further, businesses don’t know which group to join, and they can’t aff ord them all. So, they choose one or choose not to engage. Creating a unifi ed voice through a single, coopera-tive chamber would best serve us all.

Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis and I are in lock step when it comes to this issue. Since we truly are one commercial real estate market, we need one group representing the total busi-ness community on cross-jurisdictional policy questions. We cannot work with four diff erent business groups when craft-ing policies aff ecting this market.

We have both urged these chambers to develop an umbrel-la group to represent the entire business community and, if each city needs someone looking after local business needs,

operate city-specifi c business asso-ciations under the umbrella for that purpose.

Yet, instead of unifying, the splintering continues.

A case in point is the recent Mercedes decision. Th e state did not involve any of the local busi-ness groups to lay groundwork for this project. Why? Th e state faced the same challenge we have. What group could work objective-ly across jurisdictions to help Mer-cedes decide its best location? Th e answer is: with so many organiza-tions, no one!

Instead, it relied on the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Com-merce and the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, which is based in Alpharetta. In fact, these two groups were engaged before the city government was involved because they were viewed as trustworthy, objective resources during the preliminary period when Mercedes was investigating sev-eral locations.

Since Mercedes was primarily focused on the Perime-ter market, wouldn’t it make sense to engage locally? Yes, but the state economic development team could not iden-tify what entity best represented the Perimeter market. In the day-to-day operations of our cities, we encounter the same challenge.

Without a unifi ed voice to engage in conversation, we may simply make the best policy decisions we can without business input. If so, the result will be less than optimal.

Th is is why I used my “State of the City” address to the Sandy Springs Perimeter Chamber of Commerce to again urge the business community to lay aside its jurisdictional and territorial divisions and work together to create one group with one voice to speak for the overall business community.

I appreciate this opportunity to utilize this printed space to make that appeal one more time.

Rusty Paul is mayor of Sandy Springs.

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Ploy got attentionBrookhaven’s very fi rst Cherry

Blossom Festival took place over the March 27, 28 and 29 weekend. Fri-day was cold, with amazingly fi erce winds. Saturday was warmer and less gusty. Sunday was what Friday and Saturday should have been.

Another “fi rst” was the presence of several environmental activists at the intersection of Johnson Ferry and Ashford Dunwoody roads. Brookhav-en Protects Trees, the Sierra Club, and the National Wildlife Federation were all represented, taking a stance for protecting and enhancing Brookhav-en’s priceless tree canopy.

And something was wrong—very,

very wrong!Cars kept passing them, their pas-

sengers rolling down windows and making rolling motions with their hands. Other passengers were yelling at them. Pedestrians were speaking to them. One elderly lady was sitting in a car across from them, shaking her head in sad disbelief. One of the dem-onstrator’s signs was upside down!

Every so often what was really be-ing done crept to the surface. Some-times it was just an activist placing

two over fi ngers over his lips, rein-forced with a wink. Finally they di-rectly told people, “I’m doing this on purpose, just to get your atten-tion. After all, you’ve got to read the sign to realize that it’s upside down. Would you like a sticker showing your support for Brookhaven’s tree canopy?”

Th e advertising ploy worked—we gave out almost 200 stickers!

We received off ers to volunteer, do-nations, laughter, signatures and sup-port.

Our deepest thanks to the citizens of Brookhaven for demonstrating how much we all care about our trees!

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ROBIN JEAN I lifted those lyrics from the mov-

ie “Bambi,” of course. I know you’ve watched the scene—it’s the one where all the woodland songbirds couple up and fl utter among the sumptuously painted backdrop of a blossoming for-est, singing so loudly and cheerfully that they awaken the sleeping owl.

And doesn’t that scene capture ex-actly how we feel in our glorious Atlan-ta springtime? If we could fl it along on the wing and alight on the branch of a budding cherry tree, and then perhaps, chirp out a happy little tune on behalf of the season, wouldn’t we?

Or given the restraints of our wing-less bodies, wouldn’t we like to step out-side, stretch our legs, and at least clap our hands together and shout, “Yay! It’s spring!” and then maybe punctuate that emotion with a wee pirouette…?

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ities, we settle for walking with a spring in our step.

Yes, I think that idiom is less about a wound-up piece of wire and more about a new season of budding colors and blossoming fl owers. Because when springtime rolls around, we walk with the bounce of a fresh beginning. It’s the jubilance of warm breezes and Eas-ter bunnies, of greening grass and nod-ding daff odils.

It’s sort of a controlled inebriation.So I think Disney got that right—

all creatures, whether walking on four legs or two, whether endowed with the gift of fl ight or not—celebrate spring in some way. And we humans, as the rel-atively inhibited species, fi nd a way to greet the new season with joy, by soak-

ing in the sun or cud-dling up with an attractive companion, by reveling with composed exuberance.

Here in metro Atlanta, we’ve had our dustings of snow, our pre-emptive clos-ings, our few days of cold snaps. We haven’t been pummeled like those in Boston and the rest of the Northeast. No one in our fair city has dived from a second story bal-cony into 8-foot-deep snow drifts or skied down a powder-packed main thorough-fare…but that doesn’t mean that we don’t appreciate spring when it gets here.

Our civil Southern climate is why we live here, after all.

So take a look around and you’ll see it: the spring of spring.

It’s there when we walk our dogs and drive our kids to soccer practice. It’s be-neath the lights that are strung cunning-ly across the outdoor patio of a neigh-borhood restaurant, where we laugh and dine and clink wine glasses together. It’s in the jogs around Piedmont Park and the tills in the backyard garden. Th at spring is there even when we’re loung-ing at an outdoor concert or standing in the yard with a cold beer, greeting the neighbors.

When the dogwoods bloom and the azaleas burst and the entire city is fi lled with fl uff s of color, that’s when we smile broadly and sing our own little spring song.

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employ hundreds in Sandy Springs, those employees may not be able to afford to live in the area, and have been scouting loca-tions like Alpharetta and Crabapple.

“In Sandy Springs we have an abun-dance of housing for upper income, and an abundance for lower rental income,” said Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul. “We’ve heard from Mercedes families that they can’t afford to live in Sandy Springs.”

Paul said that points to a larger prob-lem for the city and its workers overall, and that the lack of affordable workforce housing contributes to traffic congestion.

“What’s missing is owner-occupied housing in Sandy Springs that police, fire-fighters, teachers, nurses and medical per-sonal can afford to live in,” he said. “This is a major issue; our congestion issues are built around the fact that an overwhelm-ing number of people who work here live elsewhere. Our population of 100,000 grows to 200,000 during the day. If we could create an environment where em-ployees could live in Sandy Springs, that would have an enormous impact on traf-fic congestion.”

A look at Atlanta Regional Com-mission housing statistics shows Sandy Springs dominating metro-area ZIP codes for three-year average home prices from 2012 to 2014. In the 30327 ZIP code area, which includes Sandy Springs, the average home price was $691,467. In the 30342 area, it was $401,971.

ARC’s Executive Director Doug Hook-er echoed the need for affordable housing during a recent Perimeter Business Alli-ance luncheon. He said that areas like San-dy Springs, Brookhaven and Dunwoody that are striving to become more walkable and mixed-use friendly need to have folks who work in the communities living there as well.

“Our charge is how do we get more af-

fordable housing in those communities, so the retail workers that work at Perimeter can afford to live close,” he said.

Paul said that while there’s no firm plan in Sandy Springs yet, he and other mem-bers of the council are exploring solutions. “Part of it is how we work with develop-ers,” he said. “What kind of incentives can we offer to get them to sell at lower price points.” He explained that the problem can be complex because the goal to not drive down real estate also exists.

Hooker pointed to MARTA’s transit-oriented development program as another solution. The transit agency is looking at created mixed-use developments around its stations, and is requiring that 20 per-cent of the residential units on a proper-ty qualify as workforce/affordable housing.

A study for development at the Brookhaven MARTA station said the 2013 median income for the Atlanta re-gion is $66,300, which means a family of four with a $53,000 income per year qualifies for workforce housing. The study claimed that income was comparable to the average starting salary of a Brookhav-en police officer.

Jack Honderd, a member of the Brookhaven Peachtree Community Alli-ance, a group whose goal is to guide de-velopment, said that striving toward more workforce housing is going to be a chal-lenge in Brookhaven, where apartments and small houses are being torn down to make way for high-end rental units and larger homes.

He said a variety of housing “creates vibrant, stable neighborhoods," and that the community benefits when, for ex-ample, its police are living in its neigh-borhoods.

Paul added, “Not only is [providing af-fordable housing] a matter of doing what I think is the right thing, it makes sure folks who work here can live here.”

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BY COLLIN KELLEYFrom single-family homes to town-

homes and condos, Buckhead real es-tate continues to hold its own, even as the community gets an injection of new luxury residences, shops and restaurants at the Buckhead Atlanta project, according to local real estate agents.

Lisa Robinson, a broker with Engel &Volkers Buck-head Atlanta, said the aver-age price for a single-fam-ily home in Buckhead is $1 million, with an aver-age price of $585,000 for a townhome. Th e average number of days a home is on the market is about 70.

“I've noticed that luxury homes listed under $2 mil-lion are selling extremely fast,” Robinson said. “Once you hit $2 million, the average days on the market increases to 90 days. But the story remains the same. If a house is priced well and shows well, it will sell.”

She said homebuyers moving to Buckhead are looking to capitalize on the proximity to the best private and public schools, and the convenience to both Mid-town and downtown Atlan-ta. And the new Buckhead Atlanta development at the intersection of Peachtree and Roswell roads is a ma-jor draw.

“Home prices are on the rise around Atlanta, but what keeps drawing home-buyers to Buckhead is the consistency of

the community and its unwavering rep-utation,” Robinson said.

George Heery, who with his brother Neal, make up Th e Heery Brothers team

within Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Re-alty, said he’s seen the bar for a luxury home move to the $1.2 or $1.3 million mark if it’s a resale, and $1.5 to $1.6 million if it’s a new home. He recently sold a condo for $900,000.

“Th ere has been a shift in what buyers are looking for in a home,” Heery said. “Kitchens with big, square counter islands, a dedicated space for an offi ce, laundry rooms connected to master closets and more energy-ef-

fi cient homes are on many buyers’ wish lists.”

Heery said a decade ago, most Buckhead buy-ers would have placed walk-ability to shops and restau-rants near the bottom of their “must-have” list, but that has inverted with the opening of PATH400, the Atlanta BeltLine and Buck-head Atlanta.

Travis Reed of Harry Norman Realtors said “lux-ury” is a relative term.

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Snapshot: Recent single-family home sales

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Sandy Springs: 30350Avg Sold Price Avg List Price Units Sold Avg. Days on Market

$260,756 $273,154 48 103Sandy Springs: 30328

Avg Sold Price Avg List Price Units Sold Avg. Days on Market$314,404 $324,770 107 109

Sandy Springs: 30342Avg Sold Price Avg List Price Units Sold Avg. Days on Market

$527,400 $552,460 59 96Buckhead: 30305


Buckhead: 30327Avg Sold Price Avg List Price Units Sold Avg. Days on Market

$1,016,132 $1,079,889 44 171Brookhaven: 30319


Dunwoody: 30338Avg Sold Price Avg List Price Units Sold Avg. Days on Market

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Reed said upper brack-et condos are selling at re-cord prices per foot, with a three-bedroom penthouse at Terminus selling for $2 million.

Another change from 10 years ago that Reed has noticed is that buyers are looking for high quality. “Really high-finish levels, custom-imported hardware, luxe bath fixtures, commercial- grade systems are all more important than during our last boom,” Reed said. “Named archi-tects are a big draw, pools, steam show-ers, and wine cel-lars are in higher demand than ever, while theaters are less popular. Buyers are also more energy and environmental-ly conscious. Buyers would rather have a whole house genera-tor than a sixth bed-room.”

Michael Rog-ers, president of Dorsey Alston Realtors, said most people still define a “luxury

home” as one priced at over $1 million, but the median price of the 918 transac-tions in Buckhead over the 12 months ending in February was $1,667,961.

“In the last 12 months, 290 homes have sold for over $1 million, in con-trast to 255 homes over $1 million selling in the pre-ceding 12 months,” Rog-ers said.

Rogers said the progress at Buckhead Atlanta has re-inforced homeowner confi-dence in Buckhead.

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Peachtree Road Farmers Market

Location: Cathedral of St. Phil-ip, 2744 Peachtree Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. Saturdays, April 11-Dec. 19.

Hours: 8:30 a.m. to noon through September; 9 a.m. to noon October through December.

Th is farmers market, the largest in the area, boasts more than 70 vendors, 50 of which are on-site every week. Th e mar-ket also features live music, chef demon-strations and children’s events, including a petting zoo on April 25, the day noting the market’s ninth birthday.

“We require that all of the produce and meat at our market is either certi-fi ed organic or certifi ed naturally grown, so they’re [customers] getting fresher, cleaner food to put on their table,” said Market Manager Lauren Carey.

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Location: 235 Sandy Springs Cir-cle, 30328, through April; corner of Mount Vernon Highway and Lake For-rest Drive beginning in May. Saturdays, April 11-Oct. 31

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BY MARTHA NODAR Three members of the Buckhead-

based Atlanta Artist Center (AAC) join efforts in an upcoming art exhibit at the Buckhead Branch Public Library.

“Primary Painters,” which opens April 11 and runs through May 23, con-sists of approximately 80 oil paintings. A reception, free and open to the public, is scheduled for April 25.

The three paint-ers -- Robert Christie of Brookhaven, Geri Zaki and Lynda Ellis -- have been painting to-gether for several years, and regularly attend weekly sessions at the AAC to enhance their skills.

“We are the three ‘brushketeers,’” Zaki said. “After a session, we compare thoughts and learn from each other.”

The nonprof-it, member-support-ed center, which says on its webpage that it has been supporting artists in the commu-nity since 1954, hosts classes, lectures, dem-onstrations and exhi-bitions.

“AAC is a definite powerhouse of the arts in Buckhead, and one of the best training programs to get artists on their own feet and known to the public,” said Cheryl D’Amato, who has functioned as a long-time volunteer coordinator of AAC exhibits at the Buckhead Library.

Christie said the name of the “Prima-

ry Painters” exhibit alludes to the three primary colors – red, blue and yellow – which are the basis for all other colors.

One of Christie’s paintings included in the exhibit is “Massimo,” a tribute to the culinary arts and a realistic portrait of Massimo Mariano, an Atlanta-based

professional chef and Christie’s son-in-law.

Christie says what matters the most to him when making por-traits is to “capture the spirit of the person.” The painting won Christie first place at a show sponsored by the Portrait Society of At-lanta, which meets at the artists center stu-dios on Grandview Av-enue.

Zaki, Ellis and Christie credit the cen-ter with providing a forum where they can continue to grow in their craft. “AAC has terrific monthly re-ceptions where we get to meet new people,” Zaki said.

“I like the structure offered by the week-ly meetings,” Christie

aded.A newcomer to the center, Gabriella

Baetti, agreed. “AAC is a great resource for emerg-

ing artists trying to gain experience and to network with other artists around At-lanta,” she said.

To learn more about AAC, visit atlantaartistscenter.org.

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Homeschool Enrichment ProgramMonday, April 20, 5 p.m. – Th e San-dy Springs Homeschool Enrichment Program holds a meeting open to the public at the San-dy Springs Library, 395 Mount Vernon High-way, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more informa-tion, visit: www.SandySpringsHomeschool.org.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Sunday, April 12, 3:30-4:30 p.m. – Th e Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlan-ta (MJCCA) invites the entire community to come together and remember the victims of the Holocaust with a special program commemo-rating Yom HaShoah (or Day of Holocaust Re-membrance) at the MJCCA’s Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden. Free. Rain or shine. MJC-CA, 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, visit www.atlantajcc.org, or call 678-812-4161.

Lemonade DaysWednesday, April 15, 4-10 p.m. – Th e an-nual Lemonade Days festival returns to Brook Run Park in Dunwoody. Th e event features rides, food, performances,and vendors. Continues April 16, 4 p.m.- 10 p.m., April 17, 4 p.m. - 11 p.m., April 18, 10 a.m. - 11 p.m., and April 19, 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. 4770 North Peachtree Rd, Dunwoody, 30338. Suit-able for all ages. Free. Go online to www.dunwood-ylemonadedays.org or call 770-668-0401 for more details.

“The Civil War & the Forging of Character”Wednesday, April 15, 6-8 p.m. – On the 150th anniversary of the death of President Abraham Lincoln, Th e Lovett School presents the fi nal lecture in “Th e Civil War and the Forg-ing of Character,” a four-year lecture series pre-sented by Lovett to mark the sesquicentenni-al of the Civil War and the Battle of Atlanta. Reservations required. Go to: www.lovett.org or call 404-262-3032, ext. 1717 to learn more and to register.

Friday Night HikesApril 17, 7:30 p.m. – Th e Dunwoody Na-ture Center, normally closed at sundown, will host a night hike featuring stargazing, hot co-coa and a fi re. 5343 Roberts Drive, Dunwoody, GA 30338. Free. Go online to www.dunwoo-dynature.org /Friday-Night-Hikes or call 770-394-3322 for more information.

Artsapalooza Saturday, April 18, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., – Cel-ebrate the arts with the annual Sandy Springs Art-sapalooza art sale. Th e event features the artwork of 150 artists and will have food trucks, children’s ac-tivities and live music. Continues April 19, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 6100 Lake Forrest Dr., NE, Sandy Springs, 30328. Go online to www.sandyspringsartsapaloo-za.com or call 404-873-1222 to learn more.

Evening in the GardenSaturday, April 18, 7 p.m. – Garden Hills Elementary School holds its 26th annual Eve-ning in the Garden fundraiser at Mercedes-Benz of Buckhead. Includes both silent and live auctions, dancing, and food catered by local Buckhead restaurants. Tickets: $60 in advance; $75 at the door. Mercedes-Benz of Buckhead, 2799 Piedmont Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30305. For tickets or sponsorship information, visit: www.eveninginthegarden.com.

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Plant & Art Sale

April 20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. – Th e Dunwoody Community Garden and Orchard and the Dun-woody Fine Art Association will be selling plants and artwork from local artists. Free and open to the public. Hours are 9 a.m.–5 daily for the plant sale, and Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. for the art sale. Brook Run Park, 4770 North Peachtree Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. To learn more about the art exhibit and sale, contact Julie Marshall at [email protected] or visit www.dun-woodyfi neart.org.

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Women & Money Saturday, April 11, 1-3 p.m. – Women are encouraged to attend and learn how to deal with fi -nancial challenges and achieve fi nancial security. Par-ticipants receive a free workbook containing key in-formation, worksheets and questions. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, San-dy Springs, 30328. Registration required. To register, contact Clare Stefan at 770-799-7016 or email: [email protected].

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Organ MusicSunday, April 12, 3 p.m. – Organ virtuosa Gail Archer plays a program of music from many historic periods, including works based on familiar hymn tunes, Baroque and Romantic fi reworks, and more. Free. St. Phillp Episcopal Cathedral, 2744 Peachtree Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. For additional details, call 404-365-1000 or visit stphilipscathedral.org.

Peachtree’s Got Talent

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Curtains, the MusicalFriday, April 17, 8 p.m. – Act3 Productions closes its 2014-2015 season by presenting Cur-tains, a comedy set in 1959. Curtains is a Tony Award-winning musical based on the original book and concept by Peter Stone, with book by Rupert Holmes, lyrics by Fred Ebb and music by John Kander. Additional lyrics are by Kander and Holmes. Show continues through May 9. Tickets: $15-$28. Purchase them at: www.act3productions.org. Act3 Playhouse, 6285-R Roswell Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. Questions? Call 770-241-1905.


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Never has the classic all-American combo made one feel so environmentally friendly and downright healthy, than does the one at Farm Burger, the local chain that combines the everlasting gourmet burger craze with the ever trendy farm-to-table craze. Th is place is craze-ee popular. Who knew that there were so many health nuts eating burgers?

Th ere’s usually a line. You’ll need the time to scan the fi ve or six menus that adorn the walls. Paper menus are available which make it easier to navigate the array of choices. Th e basic premise is to build a burger. Choose from 100 percent grass-fed beef or chicken or veggie quinoa, and top it with over 30 condiments ranging from roasted garlic to oxtail marmalade. If that’s too many choices there are six pre-decided “Blackboard Burgers” as well.

Order at the bar, get a number, and

fi nd a table. Th e food arrives quickly.Our burger purist ordered a plain

cheeseburger. He pronounced it as awe-some. He’s 12. Th e grass-fed beef is very lean, so if you’re a medium-well- to well -done carnivore, you might want to dial the level of doneness back a notch to avoid arid burger syndrome.

We tried the “Blackboard Burgers.” Th e No.1 Farm Burger had aged Vermont white cheddar cheese, caramelized onions and FB sauce, a riff on Th ousand Island dressing. Th e beef held up surprisingly well under the fl avor bomb of cheese and sweet. Dry-aged beef has a beefi er, slight-ly funky note.

Th e No. 6 was another beef patty adorned with bacon, a sunny side up egg, pepper jack cheese and Salsa Verde. Th e egg and the green sauce made the burger, adding moisture and fl avor.

Th e No. 4 chicken burger was the hit of the meal. A juicy chicken patty was dressed with smoked Gouda, kale coleslaw, crispy onions and a sherry-date barbecue sauce.

Th e fl avors from the cheese and barbecue sauce, and the textures from the slaw and onions made this a memorable dish.

Th e No. 2, the veggie quinoa burger, was a slightly dry patty, soft in texture and lacking that satisfying chew that one as-sociates with a burger. Th e mixed greens, marinated beets, balsamic onions and gar-lic aioli helped both texture and fl avor, but the letdown was palpable from the burg-er lover in our crowd who had gone veg-gie for the cause.

Th ere are a myriad of sides, salads and soup. Th e fries had good crunch and the right amount of seasoning. Th e onion rings were more breading than onion; only three came in an order of fries ‘n rings.

Th ank goodness they weren’t a hit. Th e sweet potato fries were limp, begging for texture.

Th e Farm Burger Soup was an amalgam of lentils, carrots, pota-to, sweet potato, squash, onion and Swiss chard, with a dollop of sour cream. It had a nice homey taste and would be a good choice on a cool spring day.

Th e Superfood Salad was laci-nato kale, also known as black kale, beets, pecans, roasted car-rots, caramelized onions, dried cranberries, tahini dressing and nutritional yeast, which is often used as a cheese substitute. You know this dish is good for you

from the fi rst bite, and it was surprisingly tasty as well needing perhaps a little more tahini dressing and a dash more acidity.

Th ere’s an interesting beer selection and a handful of wines. Milkshakes and fl oats made with Morelli’s gourmet ice cream are also available. We didn’t order any as we were there for only the healthy stuff .

Farm Burger has locations in Decatur, Dunwoody and Buckhead. For more in-formation, visit farmburger.net.

Art Huckabee is one of Yelp’s Elite Re-viewers, as well as a pilot, gourmet cook and food lover. Send feedback to [email protected].

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Buckhead Restaurant Week will be held April 18-26. Brunch, lunch and dinner cuisine from participating restaurants will be available on $15, $25 or $35 prix fi xe menus. Prices are per person and exclude alcohol, tax and gratuity. Visit atlantarestau-rantweeks.com to see a full list of participating restaurants.

Olde Blind Dog Irish Pub in Brookhaven was chosen as Irish Pub of the Year by the Irish Pubs Global Federation based in Dublin. “Th e Irish Pub of the Year award is given to the inspirational pub which has reached benchmark standards that should inspire others,” said John Byrne, CEO of Irish Pubs Global Federation. “Olde Blind Dog meets those standards.”

SweetWater Brewery and United Distributors recently presented a check for $55,547 to � e Giving Kitchen. Th e brewery’s partnership with Th e Giving Kitchen dates back to 2013 when the two organizations came together to brew Second Help-ing, a juniper IPA to raise funds for the organization. Th e Giving Kitchen is a non-profi t dedicated to assisting restaurant industry workers who have experienced some sort of unanticipated emergency or hardship. For more, visit thegivingkitchen.org.

Brookhaven’s � e Cook’s Warehouse will close in mid-April after a slump in sales. CEO Mary Moore said, “We opened our second store in Brookhaven in 2002. Th is location has not kept up with the growth of our other stores – Midtown, Decatur and East Cobb. With a growing need for additional retail and teaching space, as well as in-creased demand for parking with better ingress/egress, I determined it best to not re-sign our lease.” Moore said she was seeking another location, possibly in Brookhaven.

New Japanese restaurant Doraku

Sushi is open at Buckhead Atlanta of-fering a “refi ned twist” on tradition-al Japanese fare, drawing inspiration from Asian and Latin fl avor profi les. For more, visit buckhead-atl.com.

Glaze, a “doughnuts, bacon and barista shop,” will open in Brookleigh Market in Brookhaven this June, ac-cording to Atlanta Magazine.

Fifth Group Restaurants plans to open new locations of South City Kitchen and La Tavola Trattoria. South City Kitchen will occupy 6,000 square feet on the fi rst fl oor of the 3350 Peachtree building in Buck-head. Th e company is also looking to open a new 4,500 to 6,500-square-foot La Tavola Trattoria location in a yet-to-be-decided “metro-Atlanta neighborhood.”

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Yelpers have some suggestions when you crave Thai foodEditor’s note: Yelp is a website and a

mobile app – free to use – that connects you with local businesses, organizations and events. Reporter Newspapers has partnered with Yelp for a monthly feature on Yelper’s favorite eats, treats and more in Report-er Newspapers communities. Yelp Associ-ate Regional Marketing Director Colleen Burns compiled this list.

When you're craving Thai food, nothing else will do. Spicy and creamy curries, oodles of noodles, and fried rice with pineapple and raisins. If you're not familiar, the complexity of the cuisine will amaze you.

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Simply Thai - 4639 N. Shallowford Rd., 30338.

With lunch specials for under $10, this place is sure to curb your cravings. Buy any three beers and get the fourth one free, but don't forget to enjoy the Thai tea.

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Last summer, Lovett junior Sarah Corning sought out a trip that included medical studies while also tying in her Spanish speaking skills. She found that Georgia Public Service Academies’ two-week medical brigade to Guatemala was the perfect fi t.

Before embarking, Sarah worked as a translator at the Good Samaritan Health Center in Atlanta to accustom herself with medical vocabulary, and to fi ne-tune her Spanish.

Once in Guatemala, a typical day in-cluded teaching in the classrooms and volunteering in the local clinics.

While teaching, Sarah focused her lessons on personal hygiene, specifi cally about the spread of germs through hands-on activities. In her demonstration, one student whose hands had been covered in glitter shook hands with other students and spread the glitter to each person. Th e kids enjoyed this active way of learning, and were eager to practice washing their hands, she said.

“When someone gets you out of your regular class lecture, you get excited,” she joked. “Th ey were attentive, learned quickly, and clearly retained the informa-tion we were teaching them.”

In the clinics, Sarah recorded vital signs and also shadowed some of the doctors. Afternoons consisted of individual Span-ish lessons to help strengthen the student volunteers’ speaking skills.

Sarah said her most meaningful expe-rience while in Guatemala was her inter-action with the mothers and children in post-natal care. “Reaching the communi-ties who would not even come into the clinic and making sure they were well nourished and their baby’s growth was on track was probably our most important work,” she said.

Back in the U.S., Sarah continues working with GPSA and plans on return-

ing to Guatemala during the summer to implement another public health project.

She is working with Dr. Robert Malkin of Duke University to help design a dental health program. Her biggest goal is teach-ing a program that is sustainable and will make an impact after she leaves.

Dr. Malkin said he believes Sarah will have no problem meeting that goal. “She should be able to provide the communi-ty with insight on the connection between food choices and dental health,” he said.

In addition to being a world-traveler and volunteer, Sarah is a tutor at La Amis-tad, and a member of both the varsity de-bate team and varsity basketball team at Lovett. Sarah also fi lls leadership roles in the World Cultures Club and the Teens Against Prejudice Organization.

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PATH400 could link to suburbsWith help from PATH400 and the

Georgia Department of Transporta-tion, Sandy Springs and Dunwoody could one day be connected by multi-use trails to Atlanta’s BeltLine.

“Good stuff is happening with [PATH400],” Denise Starling, execu-tive director of Livable Buckhead, said at a recent North Buckhead Civic Asso-ciation meeting.

With Phase 1 of the trail that runs along Ga. 400 complete from Lenox Road to Old Ivy Road, the organization is now working on Old Ivy to Wieu-ca, with future phases including Sid-ney Marcus to Miami Circle; Wieu-ca Road to Mountain Way Common; and Lenox Road to Peachtree Road via Tower Place Drive, and will eventually connect to the Atlanta BeltLine.

Additionally in Brookhaven, work is under way on a trail along the north fork of Peachtree Creek which will eventually stretch as far south as the place the BeltLine and PATH400 will converge, and as far as Duluth. With pressure from Sandy Springs and Dun-woody, who want to connect to the PATH400, the trail also could go north.

“There’s a lot of pressure now com-ing from Sandy Springs and Dun-woody to connect in to [the trail],” Starling said. “They are loving the idea of being able to access PATH400 and get to the BeltLine.”

City officials in Sandy Springs, Dun-woody and Brookhaven as well as lo-cal nonprofits and chambers have re-cently signed resolutions urging GDOT to allow expansion of the trail network through the Ga. 400/I-285 interchange.

To extend north into the subur-ban cities, PATH400 will need to cross I-285, which requires the cooperation of the GDOT as it revamps the Ga. 400 and I-285 interchange.

Ed McBrayer, executive director of the PATH Foundation, said his group met with GDOT several weeks ago, and the transportation agency said it would not preclude provisions for trails.

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The data side of law enforcement: number-crunching cops

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Amanda Head turns numbers into narratives.

She’s a crime analyst with the Dun-woody Police Department. In her job, she collects and analyzes crime data, and prepares statistical crime reports for oth-er offi cers to pinpoint areas where crimes are likely to occur.

“I look at what [crimes] occurred the day before and look at trends like en-

tering autos or burglaries, and connect with other local analysts to compare across the board,” she said.

She recalled one incident where offi -cers caught two burglars she helped link to many other open burglary cases in Dunwoody and surrounding cities. “Big win for me after only being on the job for about eight months,” Head said.

In Brookhaven, Dunwoody, San-

dy Springs and Atlanta, analysts such as Head help police departments predict and try to prevent future crime by using data from past crimes.

“Analyses of trends, patterns and hot spots provide law enforcement offi -cials with the who, what, when, where, how and why of emerging crime in the community,” Brookhaven crime ana-lyst Kathy Esque said in an email. “Data analyzed can be used to develop eff ec-tive tactics and strategies, interceding as soon as possible, preventing victimiza-tion and reducing crime.”

Sandy Springs Crime Analyst Pat Graham provided this example of how analysts work to prevent crime: “We see a suspect likes to break into cars every Wednesday at lunch time in the 5000 block of Roswell Road,” Graham said. “Patrols actually look for this suspect dur-ing this time frame and location.”

Atlanta police Lt. Peter Ries said offi -cers can check crime data from their pa-trol cars. A computer program called Pred-Pol provides up-to-date information and predicts crime on an ongoing basis, he said.

“It’s an additional tool that helps us,” Ries said.

Head said she’s been interested in criminals’ mindsets and their activities since she was about 10 years old. She’s a civilian employee who wants to help of-fi cers from her desk inside the depart-ment. She jokes that she doesn’t have the “guts” needed to hit the streets and po-lice the community as a sworn offi cer.

Crime analysts describe their statis-tics-based jobs as exciting. Esque said she likes her role in investigations be-cause she gets to see an entire case through from lead to conclusion.

“As an offi cer, you don’t often get to see what happens after the arrest,” said Esque, who switched careers from ac-

counting to law enforcement. “Th e en-tire case develops right in front of me and I do love doing it.”

Esque said that her accounting back-ground led her to the data side of law enforcement.

In her fi rst law enforcement job, as a jailer in Newton County, she was asked to “pull numbers.” She moved from working in the jail to earning her crime analyst and intelligence certifi cation. She joined Brookhaven police in Janu-ary as the department’s fi rst crime ana-lyst.

And she’s already seen crimes solved. “Two serial armed robbery suspects

have been identifi ed, one has been ar-rested and charged, and warrants have

been obtained on the other,” Esque said. “A serial burglary sus-pect has been iden-tifi ed, arrested and charged.”

Sandy Springs’ crime analyst unit includes a civilian crime analyst man-ager and two crime analysts (one sworn offi cer and one civil-ian), spokesman Sgt. Ron Momon said. Ries said applications for crime analysis

jobs often come from people with back-grounds in statistics. “Th ey could have worked in private industry, but they ap-plied with the APD,” Ries said.

One Atlanta analyst transferred his experience in working with the federal government to analyzing crime data for Atlanta, Ries said.

Ries said over the course of his career, which started in Atlanta in 2003, he has grown to appreciate the benefi t to seeing how crime aff ects the entire city.

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ROBBERY 3100 block of Buford Highway – A

strong arm robbery in the street was report-ed on March 13.

1800 block of Corporate Boulevard – A strong arm robbery in the street was report-ed on March 15.

2000 block of Burton Plaza Lane – A robbery at a residence using a cutting in-strument was reported on March 17.

3400 block of Buford Highway – A rob-bery in the street using a gun was reported on March 23.

BURGLARY 4300 block of Reserve Drive – A burglary

to a residence, using forced entry, was re-ported on March 13.

4300 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – A burglary to a non-residence, without using forced entry, was reported on March 13; a burglary to a non-residence, without using forced entry, was reported on March 14.

2900 block of Clairmont Road – A bur-glary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on March 14.

2600 block of Apple Valley Road – A burglary to a non-residence, using forced entry, was reported on March 17.

1000 block of Lenox Park Boulevard – A burglary to a residence, without using forced entry, was reported on March 18.

3500 block of Buford Highway – A bur-glary to a residence, without using forced entry, was reported on March 20.

3900 block of E. Brookhaven Drive – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on March 20.

3700 block of Buford Highway – A bur-glary to a non-residence, using forced entry, was reported on March 23.

3500 block of Mill Creek Road – A bur-glary to a residence, using forced entry, was

reported on March 25.

AUTO THEFT 1700 block of Briarwood Road – A sto-

len vehicle was recovered on March 15.

1300 block of Windsor Parkway –A re-covered auto tag was re-ported on March 18.

1300 block of N. Cliff Valley Way – Th eft of an auto was reported on March 20.

1400 block of N. Cliff Valley Way – Th eft of an auto was reported on March 21.

3100 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Th eft of an auto was reported on March 26.

2400 block of Briarcliff –A recovered auto tag was reported on March 26.

1600 block of Danbury Parc Place – Th eft of an auto was reported on March 27.

1200 block of Dresden Drive – Two incidents of entering autos were report-

ed on March 27.

THEFT/LARCENY 100 block of Town Boulevard – A larce-

ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on March 13.

1200 block of Rustic Ridge Drive – A lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on March 14.

3300 block of Buford Highway – Th eft was reported on March 15; shoplifting was reported on March 15; a larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on March 16; a larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on March 22.

1900 block of N. Druid Hills Road – Th eft was reported on March 15; theft was reported on March 20.

3800 block of Peachtree Road – Th eft was reported on March 15.

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The business records of AECOM, a customer of Access Information (795 Georgia Avenue, Gainesville, GA 30501 and 1846 Montreal Road, Tucker, GA 30084) have been abandoned. All records will be shredded 60 days after publication of this notice. Anyone claiming to have an interest in the records should contact Access Information in writing at: 6902 Patterson Pass Rd, Suite G, Livermore, CA 94550, Attn: Collections Dept, Tele No 925-724-2065.

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