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Davis: ‘It’s time for us to act’ known as Project Renaissance, is being developed through a partnership between the city and John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods. Wieland will build more than 100 new homes, and the city will add four new parks, including a large green with an amphitheater and a multi-use trail and connection to Brook Run Park, the mayor said. “I expect in the next few years all the old buildings in that part of town will be revitalized and the area will spring back to life,” he said. Davis described the Dunwoody Village Parkway project, which includes narrowing the four-lane road to two lanes and adding bike and pedestrian paths, as “our version of Decatur’s Courthouse Square or Roswell’s Canton Street.” “This has the potential JOE EARLE to be the backbone of a During his State of the City address on Feb. 19, revitalized downtown in Mayor Mike Davis said the city was entering Dunwoody Village,” he an “implementation phase” for city plans. said. The mayor also menCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 tioned taking an unused After four years of citizen-driven building and turning it into a tennis faplanning for parks, roads and land use, cility intended to attract tennis compethe city is moving forward,” he told titions. “It’s in baby steps now,” he said. more than 300 people gathered in the He also praised the city’s police deballroom at the Crowne Plaza Atlanpartment. He said Dunwoody should be ta Perimeter at Ravinia hotel. “We are careful to avoid a reputation for crime coming out of our planning phase and like the one that plagued Buckhead in entering an ‘implementation phase.’” the wake of the arrest of NFL star Ray Davis did not directly address opLewis after a stabbing at a nightclub in position that has arisen against some of 2000. “Look back at what happened in projects, including a multi-use trail in Buckhead,” he said. “Buckhead had to Brook Run Park and the new design for implode itself and start over.” the Dunwoody Village Parkway. Overall, Davis predicted 2013 would He did note that in the case of the be “an exciting and transformative” year. intersection of Vermack and Womack “If our first four years were about roads, “the neighbors obviously don’t planning and preparing, 2013 and bewant a roundabout.” But, he added, yond are about implementation and ac“what we have right now is not good tion,” he said. “We now need to take the and it’s failing, so we’ve got to do somevision we’ve established for what we can thing.” be and put our muscle behind getting The mixed-use Georgetown project, it built.”
Dunwoody Government Calendar The Dunwoody City Council usually meets the second and fourth Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at Dunwoody City Hall located at 41 Perimeter Center East Suite No. 103. For a complete and up to date schedule of Dunwoody City meetings, visit http://www.dunwoodyga.gov/Residents/Calendar.aspx DUN
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