4-1--2016 Brookhaven Reporter

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APR. 1 - APR. 14, 2016 • VOL. 8 — NO. 7

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► Pill Hill plans find cautious support PAGE 2

► Atlanta police cameras set up in suburbs

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Springing forward City pushing to begin park improvements this year

BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net

PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER

Left, UFA United club coach Phil Broome talks strategy with his players at halftime during a match against the Concord Fire Club at Blackburn Park on March 26. Above, dogs need to walk, no matter what the weather.

Clack’s Corner is ready for its close up. The .2 acre plot located between Briarwood Park and Dresden Drive is the first park the city plans to improve under its Park Master Plan, which was presented in February. A survey of the land, though, has to be conducted first – and that could take up to six months and move the beginning of any implementation into 2017. The time lag did not sit well with Mayor John Ernst. “I think we’re all choking over the six See CITY on page 20

MAKING A DIFFERENCE Other’s Day

“You see a block of

OUT & ABOUT Local farmers markets return

homes and you think, ‘That is all owneroccupied.’ A significant

BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net

block of it is not.” Page 8

Chris Sheehan is tired of being stuck in traffic going north on Ashford-Dunwoody Road in the morning and south on the road in the evening. And he has two words to relieve traffic congestion – wid-

Brad Karfunkel senior data analyst for the NYU Furman Center See Real Estate PAGE 6

Study now underway to address traffic on AshfordDunwoody Road

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