Dunwoody Crier — January 23, 2020

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City amends moratorium on Dunwoody Village development Council revises the six-month moratorium to allow restaurants, bars, health clubs and medical office projects to begin

By CARSON COOK carson@appenmediagroup.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — In a unanimous vote Jan. 13, the Dunwoody City Council revised the six-month Dunwoody Village development moratorium to allow restaurants, bars, health clubs and medical office projects to move forward. For other businesses the moratorium will remain in place until June, preventing any new land disturbance permits, special use applications or design reviews. The city staff asked for the temporary moratorium to give the city time to complete revisions to the Dunwoody

Village Master Plan before considering any new development. In December when the moratorium was passed, then City Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch said she wanted to give the new council time to take a breath and to make sure that Dunwoody Village sees the development the public wants. “In this era, we only get one chance at redevelopment,” Deutsch said in an interview at the time. “What gets redeveloped is going to be there for many generations, so we needed to do a moratorium in order to protect the work we are currently doing on updating the master plan.”

Now, Mayor Deutsch says the original moratorium was overly prohibitive and that the council can accomplish those same goals while being more permissive for certain businesses. “Our main priority is ensuring that the Village develops in a way that we’re proud of and meets our residents’ needs,” she said. “We were able to amend it and still meet our goal of protecting the planning process that’s ongoing.” The change came after representatives from CrossFit Dunwoody, at 5525 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, asked the council to reconsider the moratorium

during public comments Jan. 2. They said the moratorium jeopardized its expansion plans. Since January 2019, the city has been working with Atlanta-based planning firm TSW to review and rewrite Dunwoody Village zoning regulations in an effort to make the area more attractive to developers. In November, TSW presented a draft of the revisions to the public for input. The plan is expected to come before the Planning Commission and then City Council in the coming months. Initially

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World War II roundtable shares veterans’ stories By CARSON COOK carson@appenmediagroup.com

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Historian Phil Turner speaks before the Atlanta World War II Roundtable on Jan. 16 at Dunwoody United Methodist Church.

DUNWOODY, Ga. — At the World War II Roundtable in Dunwoody, veterans, military families and history enthusiasts gather to keep the stories of “the Greatest Generation” alive. On Jan. 16, Historian Phil Turner, who has conducted more than 200 oral histories of veterans, was the guest speaker. “I have been to several of these roundtables and there are always excellent presentations and a lot of good folks,” Turner said. Turner shared the experience of

World War II veterans he had interviewed, including those involved in the D-Day Normandy landings and Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, who dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Turner started with humorous stories before transitioning to painful ones, capturing different sides of what it was like to be a pilot, submariner, infantry man or bombardier in World War II. “When you’re sitting five feet away doing these interviews, you can not only hear their voice, you can hear the changes in their tone,” Turner said. “You see the changes in their eyes, and some-

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