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The Georgia Department of Transportation is considering building flyover toll lanes atop the Northridge Road overpass.
Businesses confront sudden boost in property taxes BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
A big boost in commercial assessments has led some local Republican leaders to say DeKalb County officials are targeting Dunwoody businesses unfairly. But the county tax assessor says Dunwoody’s properties are simply much more valuable in the current thriving real estate market and noted many commercial properties have not been assessed in as much as a decade.
The fever pitch of allegations that DeKalb County discriminated against Dunwoody even led state Rep. Mike Wilensky, a freshman Democrat from Dunwoody, to usher through a bill this session to change the assessment method. “We went to other commissioners and chiefs of staffs and no one else in the county was getting these kinds of calls [about higher taxes],”Mike Davis, former Dunwoody mayor and current chief of staff to See STATE on page 23
BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net
As neighborhood impacts of toll lanes planned along Ga. 400 and I-285 become clearer, city and state elected officials are seeking ways to influence the process with varying tactics. Some officials say they’ll fight the project, while others aim for smaller tweaks. Some call for community-wide meetings, while some work behind the scenes. “I know it’s been on the books for a long time, but we need to mitigate it as much as we can,” said Rep. Deborah Silcox (R-Sandy Springs), who says she’s trying to arrange a large-scale meeting of state engineers, local officials and possibly the general public. “This is very upsetting.” The toll lanes, called “express lanes” or “managed lanes,” are proposed by the GeorSee OFFICIALS on page 14
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