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Rezoning requests scrutinized as cities become more urban BY ANN MARIE QUILL
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Dorian Cooper, left, president of Epsilon Iota Psi Sorority, leads a team of dancers during the sorority’s “Stroll-Off” at Oglethorpe University on Feb. 27. The stroll, also known as a performance, was to support Kame Jo Thomas, the sorority’s faculty advisor, who needs a kidney transplant. See additional photos on page 26.
As suburban cities such as Brookhaven and Sandy Springs look to become more urban, with more “walkable” areas and mixeduse developments, city officials are taking a closer look at how to appropriately handle rezoning requests. Members of the Sandy Springs Planning Commission recently criticized a potential mixed-use development on Roswell Road as offering too few businesses and offices, compared to the number of apartments. “Having a retail office and then a massive apartment complex, it’s not mixed use,” Commissioner Dave Nickles told the developer. But efforts to steer developers toward more urban styles can stir residents to push
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She ran around the world in 11 days BY JOE EARLE
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Seven marathons. Seven continents. Eleven days. You read that right. Seven 26.2-mile races scattered from Australia to Antarctica by way of Paris and Long Island, N.Y. On foot. That’s running a bit more than 183 miles over a period of about 264 hours. “It was awesome,” said Laura Frank Barnard, one of 36 runners from across the world who took part in the “Triple 7 Quest” in February. Their quest originally was supposed to be completed in a week. That’s the three “sevens” in the name – seven continents, seven races, seven days. And they would have made it, Barnard says, but the weather over the South Pole turned cranky and slowed things down before they could get that last race in. “Who runs seven marathons in seven days and flies around the world and doesn’t get to see the places?” the 50-year-old mother of four mused aloud one recent afternoon as she sat in the living room of her Sandy Springs home with a stack of race numbers, medals and website postings SEE SEVEN, PAGE 6
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