SEPTEMBER 14 - 27, 2018 • VOL. 10 — NO. 19
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CHOA zoning paves way for Buford Highway highrises BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
A zoning code amendment made last year by the City Council specifically for Children’s Healthcare for its new Brookhaven hospital could bring 20-story highrises to certain portions of Buford Highway without a public review process. CHOA is included in the proposed Buford Highway Overlay that is part of the city’s zoning rewrite now under review. Within that overlay will be a section tied to See CHOA on page 30
Nephtali Berudro, a freshman member of the Cross Keys High School marching band, practices the trumpet outside the school Sept. 7 before heading to Adams Stadium to support the Indians varsity football team in a non-conference game against the Callaway Cavaliers from Hogansville. The Cavaliers won 50-0.
ROBIN’S NEST Leafing through memories of a teacher’s lifelong influence
I think that a summer break is the one thing that helped get me through the monotony of the school year.
OUT & ABOUT Act3 troupe brings on ‘Godspell 2012’
City ponders the big picture of more annexation DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
Should we change the school calendar?
As developers eye the unincorporated DeKalb County area south of I-85, there are growing questions as to whether the land will end up in a city — maybe annexed into Brookhaven or part of the proposed Vista Grove — and what the future will look like. The swirling development possibilities for what is now unincorporated DeKalb County really begs for a “holistic” approach to future zoning and project approvals as different jurisdictions fight over control of acres of land below I-85, according to members of the Brookhaven Planning Commission.
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A 59-year-old Atlanta man
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PHIL MOSIER
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