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OCTOBER 2020 • VOL. 11 — NO. 10
Dunwoody Reporter AROUND TOWN
Oglethorpe professor brings ghosts to life
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Confusing code and unhappy neighbor means $1,500 fine for RV in driveway
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COMMENTARY
Presidential campaigns appeal to suburban fears P16
ERIN SCHILLING
WORTH KNOWING
A pastor’s quest for racial reconciliation P18
Resident Fred Wintrich poses for a photo with his RV at the storage facility where it is now parked.
On racial dialogue, Dunwoody takes different course from other cities BY ERIN SCHILLING
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BY ERIN SCHILLING
A mostly White audience attended the city’s first step in a racial dialogue on Oct. 1, four months after the mayor suggested it. Police Chief Billy Grogan gave a presentation of police procedures and policies and took questions, but the event was not advertised as a conversation on race, and it was up to residents to bring up any problems of structur-
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al racism. Grogan said he saw no problems of structural racism in the Dunwoody Police Department, which city officials have echoed about the city as a whole — though they said they’re willing to listen to other viewpoints. Experts have suggested that Dunwoody’s 2008 incorporation, like that of other metro Atlanta suburbs, was rooted in racial segregation, which
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When Fred Wintrich and his family moved into their home on Seaton Drive last year, they brought along their RV and parked it in the driveway for their monthly camping trips. But after a complaint from an unhappy neighbor and $1,500 in fines, Wintrich learned that was illegal under an obscure city code he considered unnecessary. Wintrich’s punishment could have been worse — city code violations can result in up to a $1,000 fine per citation or up to six months in jail. “A disabled veteran with not so much as a parking ticket in the state of Georgia for the last 15 years gets sent to jail?” Wintrich See CONFUSING on page 30
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