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CO U NCIL R ENEWS M UR P HEY C A NDL ER PA R K SPO R TS L EAG UES C O NTR A C TS
City Council voted Jan. 10 to renew contracts with the Murphey Candler Girls Softball Association, Murphey Candler Baseball and the Atlanta Colts Youth Association. The contracts were renewed for five years and will be automatically renewed on an annual basis. Annual payments by the leagues to the city are: AYCA will pay $2,800; MCGSA will pay $1,600; and MCB will pay $5,600. As part of the contract, the leagues will pay for maintenance of the fields and cover utility and water costs. When the leagues are not in season, other groups will have access to the fields, according to city guidelines.
CITY OF BROOKHAVEN
Renderings of the proposed 273 apartment buildings to be built at Lenox Park.
Developer seeks to build apartments in Lenox Park BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
A developer has eyes on approximately 5 acres in Lenox Park as the site for a proposed six-story, 273-unit apartment building that will include a 2,000-squarefoot coffee shop on the ground floor. The proposed project is slated to go before the Planning Commission on March 1 and then to City Council March 28. WSE Development of Atlanta submitted applications to the city earlier this month to rezone 1277, 1025, 1055, 1065, 1045, 1035 and 1057 Lenox Park Blvd. and 2180 Lake Blvd. and to ask for a special land use permit for 1035, 1045, 1055 and 1065 Lenox Park Blvd. The property is currently zoned for office buildings. The proposed development is bordered by Lenox Park Boulevard and three office buildings standing nine, five and seven stories tall. The developers are seeking to build the development on the slightly more than 5 acres of undeveloped land within
Lenox Park. The vacant property is currently zoned for two office buildings with six and eight stories, according to plans filed with the city. “The development will occur in two buildings that will be connected by an aerial bridge spanning the entry drive on the property in the style of Emory Point. Parking will be provided in a centralized parking deck located in the larger of the two buildings and screened from view from Lenox Park Boulevard,” according to documents filed with the city. “The proposed accessory coffee shop will be located interior to the site away from Lenox Park Boulevard and will provide a commercial amenity within the existing cluster of office buildings interior to Lenox Park Boulevard,” the documents state. The property is located within the Lenox Park character area which was designed to include high-rise office towers, multifamily residential units, midrise hotels and “significant open space.”
PATR ICE R UFFIN NA M ED NEW CO M M U NITY DEV ELO P M ENT DI R EC TO R
Patrice Ruffin was named this month as the city’s new Community Development Director. Ruffin served as interim director for several months before being hired full-time to lead the department. Prior to her new job, she served as Brookhaven’s Deputy Director of Community Development from November 2014 to Jan. 17, 2017. She has more than a decade of experience in the field of urban planning with a focus on the start-up of newly incorporated municipalities, zoning administration, community development and long-range planning. Before coming to Brookhaven, Ruffin worked in Sandy Springs as Manager of Planning and Zoning for The Collaborative between July 2011 and November 2014. Prior to that she worked in Sandy Springs for CH2M HILL OMI in Sandy Springs, first as a planner beginning in 2005 and working her way up to Assistant Director of Planning and Zoning from 2008 through 2011. Ruffin replaces Ben Song, who resigned as Community Development Director in October to work for Gwinnett County.
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