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School board passes redistricting plan
By CARSON COOK carson@appenmediagroup.com
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — The DeKalb County School Board approved Interim Superintendent Ramona Tyson’s redistricting plan Feb. 10. Tyson said the goal of her plan was to minimize disruption to families until a long-term solution can be implemented to address overcrowding, but Dunwoody parents have been critical of the process. The plan provides relief to Dunwoody and Hightower elementary schools. About 100 students will be moved from Dunwoody to the new Austin Elementary School, and about 100 will be moved from Hightower outside the cluster to Doraville United. Although not included in the plan presented last month, the approved redistricting moves fourth and fifth graders at Dunwoody Elementary School to the Nancy Creek facility cur-
The adopted interim redistricting plan moves about 100 students from Dunwoody Elementary to the new Austin Elementary School, and about 100 from Hightower to Doraville United. Areas outlined in red indicate the changes.
rently being used by Kittredge Magnet School. The magnet students will move to the former John Lewis facility, beginning the 2020-2021 school year. This will allow Dunwoody Elementary to remove all portable classrooms in time for the start of the 2020-2021 school year, the school district said. It will cost around $1 million to retrofit the John Lewis facility for the elementary students. The Dunwoody Elementary and Nancy Creek facilities are located 2.8 miles apart. The district is looking into providing transportation options to relieve stress on parents with students in both locations. The redistricting plan commits the district to developing a comprehensive master plan during the 2020-2021 school year. The master plan will look at long-term enrollment forecasts, facility assessments, capital project prioritization, budgeting and redistricting.
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Homeowners association weighs in on Dunwoody Village Master Plan By CARSON COOK carson@appenmediagroup.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — The Dunwoody Homeowners Association officially weighed in on the city’s proposed changes to the Dunwoody Village Master Plan, asking that no residences to be included in the district. At a Feb. 9 meeting, residents from the adjacent neighborhoods of The
Branches and Vernon Oaks shared their perspectives, and the homeowners board formally released its position on the plan. The Dunwoody Village Master Plan dictates zoning and land use near the intersection of Chamblee Dunwoody Road and Mount Vernon Road. Initially adopted in 2011, the master plan envisions transforming the area into a more walkable, mixed-use city center.
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Last year, the city hired Atlantabased planning firm TSW to review and rewrite zoning regulations in an effort to make the area more attractive to developers. The homeowners board unanimously supported placing a 100-foot buffer between the village commercial properties and the homeowners’ lots in the Branches, 50 feet of undisturbed forested land adjacent to the homeowners and 50 feet
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of transitional landscaping on the commercial side. In a split vote, the board also opposed allowing residential units within the village overlay. Opponents of new residences argued that apartments or condos are incompatible with the purpose of the overlay to support the surrounding single-family
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