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Residents attend briefing on Dunwoody Village Master Plan By CONNER EVANS newsroom@appenmediagroup.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — More than 60 Dunwoody residents gathered June 29 at Vintage Pizza to see the latest in a years’ long process to update the Dunwoody Village Master Plan. It was standing room only for a presentation of master plan updates from Caleb Racicot and Rick Hall, two city planning consultants. The updated plan involves rezoning into four, simpler types of zones: DV-1 village commercial, DV-2 village office, DV-3 village residential and DV-4 village center. This simplified code is one step on the way to implementing greater changes to the design of the city center, Racicot said.
Cities often update plans for projects without updating the zoning codes to make those plans legal and enforceable, but Dunwoody has made those efforts, Racicot said. The Village hasn’t changed much since 1993, he said, illustrating the point with a flyover picture comparison. But with input from a resident survey of 1,800 people last year, and with workshops like this one, greater change should be coming soon. The main goals of the updated plan are greater walkability and bikeability, more green space and an updated visual style from the current 1960s Williamsburg look, he said. The plan maintains a desire to keep out big box stores and high-density apartments.
Rick Hall, who has worked in city planning and engineering since the 1980s, stressed a specific plan to keep traffic slow and the village walkable. “There’s a building, and there’s a sidewalk, there are shade trees and parked cars, and every time we line it up that way pedestrians show up,” Hall said. With parked cars in front of store fronts, traffic would also move slower in the middle, he said, making pedestrians safer. This can also create more visually pleasing centers. “When was the last photoshoot you had in the Dunwoody Village?” he asked. Hall showed a design for a new street network map with much more connectivity throughout the village area and for
nearby subdivisions, making the Chamblee Dunwoody Road and Mt Vernon Road intersection potentially more manageable. The design received applause from some residents in the room. “Yea, for common sense,” one man remarked. But the street network designs are not final. Community members were able to draw over those plans after the presentation to provide feedback. The other big applause moment of the presentation was for a limit on the number of banks, one of the key issues residents have voiced about the village, which contains several banks in close proximity.
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Near-centenarian shares Pearl Harbor story By CONNER EVANS newsroom@appenmediagroup.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — On December 7, 1941, bombs fell across Pearl Harbor. Garrie Phillips watched as planes flew by, knowing that her husband of just two months was at the base, in danger. Tom Crayton was in a submarine that day conducting a mine-sweep, which Phillips didn’t have a good feeling about from the start. But Crayton survived. He watched all the action happening around him, she said, but he survived. Garrie Phillips turns 100 years old CONNER EVANS/Crier on AM JulyPage 10, 1and she still remembers her 03-06-19_HAbannerBlue.qxp_Layout 1 3/4/19 11:16 Dunwoody resident Garrie Phillips first husband with love and clarity.
Unfortunately, Crayton didn’t make it through the end of World War II — not because of wounds suffered on the battlefield. Crayton, she said, was known as the type of guy who would step in and interrupt a fight and convince everyone to get along. He would see a few men arguing, offer them drinks and get them to talk it out rather than using their fists, Phillips said. On a last round trip to China from Hawaii a few years later, her husband stopped in Okinawa for a night. While at a bar, he saw >a man > getting beaten up by a few sailors, Phillips said. > fight, like> he He tried to break> up the normally would, but >this time the sailors > would not heed his mediation or his >of-
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fers of drinks on him. “When he tried to intervene and calm things down they jumped on him,” Phillips said. “They knocked him up against the wall of the building, and he hit his head on the ledge of the building and had the brain concussion. And he died right there.” Phillips was raising their 28-day-old daughter at the time. Her husband told her before joining the military that if anything were to happen to him, he wanted to be buried in a military cemetery “My mind was blank,” Phillips said. “I didn’t know of a military cemetery closer to North Carolina than Arlington.”
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