JUNE 10 - JUNE 23, 2016 • VOL. 7— NO. 12
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A sign of the times
‘Small steps’ for new four-city partnership BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net
Four north DeKalb cities have created a nonprofit, public-private organization called the Peachtree Gateway Partnership to conduct regional planning. The partnership’s first project will be to create a coordinated plan for a multiuse trail network spanning the four cities, said Dan Reuter, the Atlanta Regional Commission official who helped the four -- Brookhaven, Chamblee, Doraville and Dunwoody -- establish the organization. “We’re going to undertake that next. PretSee SMALL on page 16
Dunwoody High School graduates, from left, Josh Palgon, Harrison Whately and Matt Bieber, talk with Kyra Perry, who wrote a message on her mortarboard for commencement exercises on May 26.
EDUCATION Graduation pictures
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The challenge on Buford Highway is harmonizing the dreams of the people who have given Buford Highway its identity and vitality with an ugly, unsafe, underdeveloped, underutilized corridor designed to move cars and trucks. Marian Liou We Love BuHi See COMMENTARY Page 13
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OUT & ABOUT Draw flowers like Henri Matisse
Tax abatement plan for new tower riles some in DHA BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
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A developer’s plan to seek millions of dollars in tax abatements for a highrise on one corner of Perimeter Mall’s parking lot riled members of the Dunwoody Homeowners Association at the group’s most recent meeting. “Nobody is dragging you in here kicking and screaming, and you didn’t consider that cost and think, ‘Hey, those people who don’t get a 95 percent tax abatement might be a little pissed off by that?’” DHA board member See STORY. on page 18