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In Sandy Springs, a request to more than double the $12.6 million early construction budget for the city’s massive City Springs redevelopment—and to delay setting the final budget until January— confused Sandy Springs City Council at its Oct. 6 meeting. The council put off any big decisions until its Oct. 20 meeting, when a new budget estimate will be available. The City Springs project’s schedule and overall budget—previously announced at around $220 million—are not changing, City Manager John McDonough said. The request came because Holder is struggling to estimate an updated On Our Borders budget due to plans that still lack details, city consultant Ennis Parker said. In turn, the budget may force significant changes to the plan—including possibly removing a surface parking lot proposed along Mount Vernon Highway.
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Also in Brookhaven, working as an exotic dancer will get more expensive as the city plans to boost a license fee from $50 to $300. The City Council on Oct. 13 deferred action on the fee boost until next month to change the language so the higher fee does not apply to other, lower-wage strip club workers. Atlanta and DeKalb County charge similar fees, city staff reported. In Brookhaven, the change in practice affects the city’s only strip club, the Pink Pony on Buford Highway. Pink Pony vice president Dennis Williams and attorney Aubrey Villines attended the council meeting and generally agreed with the fee boost. However, Williams complained of being “blindsided” by the move, and Villines noted the club already pays the city $250,000 a year as part of a lawsuit settlement. “You’re in the range of being fair” with the $300 fee, Villines said, as long as it applies only to the dancers. In a council work session prior to the Oct. 13 meeting, council members agreed that boosting the fee on non-dancer strip club employees was inappropriate. Councilman Bates Mattison also disputed raising the fee at all, describing it as discriminatory and “double dealing” on the Pink Pony settlement agreement’s hefty annual fee. “I just don’t think it’s appropriate to single out a class of people” for a higher fee, Mattison said. Councilwoman Linley Jones replied that professional license fees are common, as are such dancer license fees. Keeping a low fee could attract more strip clubs, she suggested. In Dunwoody, The Dunwoody Homeowners Association is looking for a new location for its annual Light Up Dunwoody event. DHA president Robert Wittenstein said the organization is moving the annual holiday festival because the Dunwoody Preservation Trust, which owns the property where the event has been held for more than a decade, would not agree to display a 6-foot menorah alongside the lighted Christmas tree. “We felt those symbols should be displayed together,” Wittenstein said. The trust on Oct. 13 told the DHA it should not display either the menorah or the Christmas tree at the event. Trust co-President Dolores Lauderdale said that because some people believe a Christmas tree is a religious symbol, the trust had no choice but to ask the DHA to move the tree to another location. Wittenstein said Oct. 14 the DHA had just begun looking for a new location for the event, but he was optimistic a new site would be found. “The DHA will look for another location for the tree, menorah and Light Up Dunwoody,” Wittenstein said. “Obviously, we have some work to do.” www.ReporterNewspapers.net |
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