AUGUST 18 - 31, 2017 • VOL. 11— NO. 17
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Taking a munch break
City gears up to remake northern Roswell Road BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net
Ken Dishman stood in the parking lot of a recently renovated strip mall on a recent afternoon and pointed over the cars zooming by on Roswell Road. The city councilmember noted a tidy green space with flowering trees that had replaced a long-vacant gas station, and a new Wendy’s going into a burned-out restaurant space. And he said it’s not nearly enough. “Those are incremental changes that certainly help overall, but they’re not going to change the game,” he said. Voters elected Dishman four years ago to help spur massive redevelopment of the See CITY on page 18
Michael Swanson, owner of Get Your Goats Rental, gets goat to goatee with Snowball, one of 33 goats hired by the city to munch their way through weeds at Hammond Park Aug. 10. The goats cost $850, which is less than human labor, according to the city. The goats may hoof it to other city parks later. ►See more photos on p. 20.
STANDOUT STUDENT Creating 3-D printed prosthetic arms
This has been a long road the city has traveled to reach this point on the issue of [the] secondary effect of serving alcohol in adult strip clubs.
OUT & ABOUT Walking, wagging for a cause
Former city attorney, speaking on the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in a decade-long legal battle
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New zoning code approved with some big changes BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net After more than two years of work, Sandy Springs has a new zoning code with some big, last-minute changes, including the killing of an affordable housing mandate and the creation of a ban on new gas station locations. The Development Code unanimously approved by the City Council Aug. 15 also wipes out most existing “conditions” on previous rezonings and allows storage units in more areas – two other points of contention. The culmination of the city’s “Next
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