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Seismic shift County should review charter, ethics board COMMENTARY 6

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Batter up Cricket popular among local Indian residents AROUND TOWN 7

Walk this way Suburban sprawl a thing of the past?

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Healing heart Vietnam War victim learns to forgive FAITH 14

Alex Cardenas, a first grader at Kingsley Charter Elementary, plays the “Dangling Donuts” game at the school’s Fall Festival on Oct. 26. Alex was challenged to eat as many doughnuts as possible within two minutes. He came in second place.

City approves contract for Village Parkway work

Frustration growing over ChatComm delays

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About five years after the first grant was approved for the project and after months of yard signs and letters to the editor opposing the plan, Dunwoody City Council has approved the construction contract for the remaking of Dunwoody Village Parkway.

“In the end,” City Councilman John Heneghan said, “it is about the sidewalks, the bike lanes and about redeveloping our community.”

Heneghan joined four other council members Oct. 28 to approve contracting Johnson Landscapes Inc. for construction of the controversial parkway project. Johnson’s contract will cover about $1.62 mil-

Two years after Dunwoody signed on with the Chattahoochee River 911 Authority, or ChatComm, the service has not completed the computerized dispatch system Dunwoody city officials want for fire and EMS calls.

That upsets some Dunwoody City Council members.

“I’m very frustrated by the whole situation being pushed down the road over and over again,” said City Councilman John Heneghan.

Former City Councilman Danny Ross told the current coun-

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COMMUNITY ARC executive director says younger residents seek ‘cool’ places The leader of metro Atlanta’s top planning organization on Oct. 24 told a group of Baby Boomers that the region is changing, and the way people think about problems needs to change, too.

Douglas Hooker, executive director of the Atlanta Regional Commission, and a member of the Baby Boom generation, told members of the Buckhead Business Association that his generation’s children – the Echo Boomers – have different priorities than their parents.

“Part of what attracts them are having the kinds of amenities and lifestyle close to where they live and where they work, having a ‘cool’ factor,” Hooker said. “We’re less likely to move some place because it’s ‘cool.’”

Hooker said it’s essentially a new spin on the “live, work, play” concept.

“Millennials, by and large, the trend is they’ll find the places they’d like to live,” Hooker said. “A lot of them, especially the educated ones, work in the fields where their talent is very portable. … They are tending to go to the places that are ‘cool’ communities, and employers are following them.”

Veterans Day celebration planned by city The city of Dunwoody plans to hold its 2013 Veterans Day celebration at Brook Run Park. The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. until noon on Nov. 11, according to the city’s website. It will be held at the park’s Veterans Memorial. The city said the event was intended to bring the community together “in honor of those who have served and currently serve in the United States Armed Forces.”

Dunwoody schools study not out yet Rep. Tom Taylor told members of Dunwoody City Council that although the final report isn’t yet complete, a recent study shows a separate city school system “is definitely feasible.”

“On preliminary numbers, the school

BR I EF S system would have revenues far exceeding what we have now,” Taylor said at the council’s Oct. 28 meeting. “We have over $70 million in school revenues.

We would have a surplus that would be more than the city’s operating budget.”

Taylor (R-Dunwoody) said the final report would be delivered to the council and released to the public before Thanksgiving. He said its release had been delayed because some figures provided by DeKalb County school officials didn’t match ones in the report. “I really did not want to deliver any report that was going to be picked apart,” he said.

A group of Dunwoody parents are working to organize a city school system separate from DeKalb County schools.

An agency that accredits Georgia school systems has put DeKalb on probation, citing mismanagement by the county’s school board. Gov. Nathan Deal subsequently replaced six of the nine members of the board.

Taylor said the study used current DeKalb service levels to estimate costs and current school property tax rates, now 23.98 mills, to estimate revenues for a city system.

Taylor is calling for a constitutional amendment allowing an increase in the number of Georgia school systems.

He also has introduced legislation that would allow a city created since 2005 to start its own school system or to join with a neighboring city to start a system.

Dunwoody was founded in 2008.

DeKalb officials plan meeting to discuss county’s future DeKalb County and school officials plan a public meeting Nov. 14 in Decatur for “a conversation to move DeKalb forward,” the county announced Oct. 25.

Members of the county commission, the school board, school Superintendent Mike Thurmond and Interim CEO Lee May are scheduled to take part.

The discussion is to be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Agnes Scott College’s Presser Hall, 141 E. College Ave., Decatur. People interested in attending are asked to RSVP by Nov. 7 to bdavis@dekalbcountyga.gov.

Dunwoody Government Calendar The Dunwoody City Council usually meets the second and fourth Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at Dunwoody City Hall located at 41 Perimeter Center East Suite No. 103.

For a complete and up to date schedule of Dunwoody City meetings, visit http://www.dunwoodyga.gov/Residents/Calendar.aspx

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Decision time for voters on Nov. 5 Voters head to the polls Nov. 5 to choose members of Dunwoody City Council.

Eight candidates, including two incumbents, seek three seats on the council. Each seat represents one of the city’s three districts. In this election, only voters within a district choose the council member representing that district, so a voter will cast his or her ballot in only a single race.

The candidates are: David Davis, Henly Shelton and incumbent Denis Shortal for Post 1 in District 1; William A.J. Mercier, Jim Riticher and Heyward Wescott for Post 2 in District 2; and Sam Eads and incumbent Doug Thompson for Post 3 in District 3.

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cil members that they needed to call a meeting of top officials to hash out the troubles. “It’s time for you to take action,” he said.

Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis agreed to meet with ChatComm leaders to try to work out a solution to the continuing delays in installing a “CADto-CAD” system to more quickly handle Dunwoody’s fire and emergency medical calls, which now are routed to DeKalb dispatchers.

Over the past two years, Dunwoody staff members have regularly reported to the council that the issue was nearly resolved. A year ago, City Manager Warren Hutmacher told the council “we’ve gotten past all the hurdles.”

But on Oct. 28, Kimberly Greer, assistant to the city manager, reported problems continue. The latest? The computer programming was done, but ChatComm’s board wanted more training time for its dispatchers.

Sandy Springs City Attorney Wendell Willard, a member of the ChatComm board, said delays have been over technical issues. “There’s a fear that they lose could lose somebody in the transfer,” he said. “If you transfer and the call gets dropped, then what do you do?”

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Sam Olens, Attorney General “I feel like, somehow, we’ve got to get this relationship straightened out. I’m concerned about the delays. But I’m really concerned about the future, too. I’m really concerned that they don’t value us as a customer.”

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cials have asked ChatComm to install the CAD-to-CAD system to provide a seamless link between ChatComm and DeKalb County dispatchers for fire and medical emergency calls. The system doesn’t involve police calls, which make up 90 percent of Dunwoody’s emergency calls, city officials said.

“I feel like, somehow, we’ve got to get this relationship straightened out,” Dunwoody Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch said. “I’m concerned about the delays.

But I’m really concerned about the future, too. I’m really concerned that they don’t value us as a customer.”

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lion of the roughly $2.3 million project, city Public Works Director Michael Smith said.

Councilwoman Adrian Bonser and Councilman Terry Nall cast dissenting votes. “I don’t feel like we’ve found the proper compromise yet,” Nall said.

The city plans to narrow the four-lane parkway to two lanes, remove a median, and add sidewalks and bike lanes. City officials hope the project will create a “Main Street” for Dunwoody and revitalize Dunwoody Village.

Work is expected to begin next year.

Smith said the project should take seven to eight months. City officials intend for the work to be done or substantially done in time for the July 4 parade, Smith said.

The Dunwoody Village Parkway project is the first of several large intersection improvements the city plans to undertake over the next five years. Plans officials have been drawing up over the city’s first five years will soon be construction projects.

“We’re now starting to see the actual construction,” Smith said. “There shouldn’t be long lapses between one project and the next one.”

The city’s intersection improvement plans call for: --In 2015, a $3 million project to add turn lanes and sidewalks at Tilly Mill and North Peachtree, and a $1.3 million proj-

ect to add turn lanes at Mount Vernon and Vermack; --In 2016, a $1.35 million project at Chamblee-Dunwoody at Spalding; --In 2017, a $1.28 million project at Mount Vernon at Tilly Mill; --In 2018, a $1.2 million project at Tilly Mill at Mount Vernon Place; --In 2019, a $2.75 million project at Chamblee-Dunwoody at Peeler; --In 2020, a $6.2 million project on Chamblee-Dunwoody from Cotillion to Old Springhouse.

The Dunwoody Village Parkway project produced debate until the final vote.

“I’ve heard some good comments from a lot of good citizens,” Councilman Denny Shortal said. “If you buy a house and you keep it 40 years and you never do anything with it and you put it up for sale, nobody’s going to look at it. This could be the impetus for the revitalization of Dunwoody Village.”

Before the vote, residents spoke both for and against the project.

“The village is aging. The parkway is terrible and something needs to be done,” Bev Wingate told the council.

But Frank Lockridge said he was confused by plans to rebuild the parkway. “It seems we’re tearing up a street and taking up trees and we’re putting down a street and putting back trees – at a really big cost,” he said.

Sixth grader Liam Harris argued the road should be safer. “Anything you can do to make it safe would be greatly supported by many middle and high schoolers,” Harris said.

Jim Dickson, one of the original members of the group Save Dunwoody, which was founded, in part, because of objections to the parkway plan, asked that the council delay its decision until after the Nov. 5 election. Several candidates have questioned the parkway plan.

“The reason young families are mov-

ing to Dunwoody is because they like the way it is now,” Dickson said. “The fact this item is even on the agenda before the election can only be described as arrogance.”

Dickson said city officials have dismissed public complaints about the parkway and other city projects as problems with communications between city officials and residents. “The real problem isn’t communication, it’s the project,” he said.

“Perfume the pig and it’s still a pig. We need to get rid of the pigs, the unpopular projects themselves.”

Dunwoody Village Parkway project Expenses Preconstruction Rights of Way Construction Total

$219,715 $98,895 $1,989,188 $2,307,798

Funding 2008-09 transportation grant Atlanta Regional Commission MARTA offset funds 2011 transportation grant City HOST funds Total

$500,000 $275,000 $340,000 $1,300,000 $2,415,000 Source: city of Dunwoody

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City Currents articles are prepared by the city of Dunwoody and published each month by the Dunwoody Reporter as a community service. They are intended to offer insight into the workings of Dunwoody city government. This installment focuses on the city’s Economic Development Department.

Don’t let fall leave a mess Now that cooler temperatures have arrived, we will all be spending more time outside enjoying the weather. Unfortunately, cooler temperatures also mean that **IMPORTANT NOTE** the leaves have begun to change and fall,These Illustrator color swatches should only be used when printing CMYK (Process) colors. creating work for everyone. ThPlease e cityreferofto the Dunwoody Brand Style Guide for proper use of this mark.

Dunwoody’s Public Works Department would like to give you some ideas about what to do with the leaves now that they have hit the ground.

Because leaves are a good source of David Elliott mulch, the best thing to do is to rake or Deputy Director of Stormwater blow the leaves into natural areas. This Management for the city of Dunwoody will keep the ground moist, which is good for growing plants and shrubs, as well as preventing erosion of the soil. Bare soil is very susceptible to erosion by water, so the keeping the leaves out. Preventing leaves more it is kept covered, the from being put into the less erosion will take place. storm system and disposKeeping the ground coving of your leaves propered also will prevent weed erly will both be critical JOE EARLE growth. steps in preserving the sysIdeally, leaves should be tem and maintaining waused on the property where ter quality for the future. they fall in order to return If you would like to reMary Sladky removes mulch that had accumulated around the base of a nutrients to the ground through compostport leaf violations, please call our Code tree in Brook Run Park. Sladky was among several volunteers from the ing. However, most properties will have Enforcement Department at 678-382Friends of Brook Run Park who spent the morning of Oct. 26 cleaning more leaves than can be used on their 6807. excess mulch from around the roots of trees in order to help them grow. property, so another method of disposal must be used.

DeKalb County Sanitation will pick up bagged leaves as long as they are in biodegradable bags, and each bag does not weight more than 50 pounds. DeKalb County will recycle these leaves to create mulch and compost that is made available to the public at no cost.

Leaves should never be disposed of by being blown into the street. Not only can this be an eyesore for the neighborhood, it can also wreak havoc on the city’s storm drains. Once in the street, leaves will eventually be washed into the storm drain system where they can cause clogging, and even flooding, of the system. When the leaves eventually pass through the system, they can cause sediment and debris buildup in ditches and creeks. This buildup can adversely affect the wildlife that lives in and around the streams.

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COMMENTARY DeKalb should review its charter and empower its ethics board

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With the indictment of DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis, new calls have come for a shift to a commission/manager form of government in DeKalb County.

As with the CEO form, there is no standard structure in Georgia enabling legislation, so the “devil is in the details” on exactly what this means. To inform opinion, it is important to look at all the mechanics of the “Organizational Act” or charter, identifying deficiencies and options for improvement.

Neither form is invulnerable to manipulation by elected or appointed officials, so the real test is what’s in a charter that informs the public on government operations and makes it accountable to voters and taxpayers.

Governmental operations are complex, and they can affect your freedom, property and welfare. Therefore, you should be able to know in advance how you will be treated by government, and be treated the same as others.

Unfortunately, many governmental processes are not formalized, and are subject to the whims of individuals. The most egregious example of this is the alleged manipulation of purchasing procedures for political gain, but it can happen in the award of permits, employment, and the enforcement of laws and regulations.

DeKalb County needs an administrative procedures mandate that will require county departments to formalize and document how they conduct business and implement laws, and to adhere to those procedures. The charter restriction against adopting a purchasing code should be removed.

Elected and appointed officials are fond of touting their accomplishments, and as in Lake Wobegon, everyone seems to see their accomplishments as above average.

What’s lacking is an objective third party with the skills and resources to systematically evaluate DeKalb operations against best practices, and makes a public report of findings and recommendations for improvement.

Surprisingly, the current charter provides that option in the form of an internal auditor, but the Board of Commissioners has never filled the position or funded operations. DeKalb County needs an independent and mandatory internal auditor with a guaranteed budget.

Likewise, the ethical conduct of elected office is the foundation of governmental legitimacy. DeKalb County has a state-mandated Board of Ethics, but it has been neglected and underfunded by the county government.

DeKalb’s ethics board should be strengthened by shifting the power of appointment away from the officials who the

ethics board oversees, and by giving the ethics board a guaranteed budget equal to at least 25 cents for each of DeKalb’s 700,000 persons.

A quarter per capita is a small price to pay for an effective ethics watchdog.

County governments are too small and too important to operate on a partisan basis. Partisan alignment disenfranchises large minoriJEFF ties in jurisdictions where elections RADER are determined in the primary. The election of all county offices should GUEST COLUMN be non-partisan.

Commission district boundaries, like those of the General Assembly and Congress, are the object of increasingly effective gerrymandering. As in these other bodies, the result is entrenched incumbency, political polarization, and a general disaffection with government as representative of the common interest. DeKalb should have an objective redistricting protocol that creates compact districts with common communities of interest.

As mentioned at the start, the details of an improved charter are important and complex.

In many other states (and increasingly in new DeKalb cities), charter review is accomplished by a “Charter Commission,” an independent group of leading citizens with expert staff, but in Georgia, such changes are often accomplished by local legislative delegations in the course of the 40-day legislative session.

The DeKalb delegation should empanel and fund (using county tax dollars) a Charter Commission to work for a year to draft a revised DeKalb County Organizational Act for legislative approval in 2015.

All these suggestions and not a word about CEO vs. commission/manager! That’s because the improvement of government is not so much about how politicians divide power between themselves, but is instead about how accountable those politicians are to the public that elects them.

If voters don’t insist that accountability be strengthened, the CEO/commission-manager debate won’t matter much at all.

Jeff Rader represents District 2 on the DeKalb County Commission.

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Leave dog park as it is To the editor: I have been a Dunwoody resident for almost seven years. I moved here for two reasons - the easy access to the highway, so I could get to work in Lawrenceville without too much trouble, and the wonderful dog park I discovered before purchasing my townhouse. In fact, it was the dog park that led me to the home that I purchased in Dunwoody.

I have taken my dog, Hamlet, to many dog parks around Atlanta. The Brook Run Dog Park is the best out of all of them, including the dog park at Piedmont Park.

The dog park at Brook Run is well maintained by a very dedicated group of volunteers, offers plenty of shade, is conducive to meeting other dog lovers and having conversations, and is a great way to get some exercise by walking around on the trails inside the park while the dog gets his from playing with other dogs.

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I care about the place where I live, and am concerned about the amount of money that is to be spent on creating a new, smaller and less attractive dog park.

Please leave the dog park as it is. Do not move the park or change it. Arborists were hired by other Dunwoody citizens whose reports refute the report the city of Dunwoody conducted.

I just wonder what sort of city the mayor and City Council is creating here – one in which they do what they want with taxpayer money? Or one in which the wishes and desires of the people that live and pay taxes here are ignored.

I am one of many in Dunwoody that are asking... Please keep the current dog park open.

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Blackburn Park in Brookhaven, on a recent Saturday morning: On a couple of fields, parents cheer their kids as they play soccer. On one baseball field, a group of guys play touch football. On the adjacent baseball field, a smaller group of guys, most wearing bright yellow shirts, practice catching a red ball lofted by a wide, flat-faced bat.

The guys in yellow shirts call themselves the Dunwoody Hitters, but they are playing the game of a different place.

They’re playing cricket.

It reminds some of them of home.

“It’s getting back to the roots in a foreign land,” Jai Varadarajan said.

Most of the Hitters come from India.

They’re from all over that country, from the south and north. They live in Dunwoody now, mostly in two apartment complexes with a lot of other Indian residents. They work with computers and came to the United States for jobs. They love playing cricket, a game not a lot of Americans follow or understand. The

scattered.”

The team has a total of 15 members.

They grab unused baseball fields for practices on weekends. On some Sundays, they AROUND play matchTOWN es with other teams that JOE EARLE have organized around metro Atlanta, in towns such as Marietta.

They usually don’t draw a crowd. But passersby sometimes stop to gawk and try to figure out what they’re doing. “We have some spectators come and take pictures,” Varadarajan said.

All but one of the members of the team is Indian. The exception is Derek Kuipers, who’s 47, and works in corporate finance. He only half jokes that when other teams see him show up with the Hitters, they assume he must be Australian or English or South African or an immigrant from some other former British Empire country where cricket is played.

Kuipers came to cricket in a roundabout way. He played American sports such as softball and baseJOE EARLE ball – he’s a center Left to right, Hari Prasad Adinarayanan, Rohan Jain, fielder – but knew litDerek Kuipers, Ilaiyaraja Rajamohan, Pravinkumar tle of cricket until he Nallamaruthamuthu and Jai Varadarajan. started sending money to a charity that yellow jerseys they wear to practice bear helps care for poor children in foreign the team colors of their favorite profescountries. He was paired with a boy in sional team, the Chennai Super Kings.

India. They corresponded often, and “In India, we love cricket,” said Ilthe boy wrote regularly about his faaiyaraja Rajamohan, who’s been in the vorite cricket team and players. KuiU.S. only five months. He used to play pers started following the game on on his school’s cricket team, he said. the Internet so he’d have something to “Everyone plays cricket.” write about.

“It’s in the genes,” said Pravinkumar A few months ago, he was walking Nallamaruthamuthu, who’s 40, and says his dog through Dunwoody Park, he he started playing cricket at age 5. He’s said, when he saw the Hitters practicone of the founders of the Hitters. “At ing. He started talking to them about my age, however much I can, I will play.” their game and soon joined in. “The first There’s another cricket team based in time I played, they put me in the equivDunwoody that’s composed of Indian alent of right field,” he said. Now he’s players, Nallamaruthamuthu said. The one of their best fielders, his teammates Dunwoody Devils, he said, have been say. “Now I play the equivalent of shortaround a little longer. Nallamaruthastop,” he said. muthu and Varadarajan started the HitHe says the game has given him an ters about a year ago. The two have each introduction to Dunwoody’s Indian lived in the U.S. 11 years. They met at community. “I’m just fascinated by the their gym. They started talking about Indian population in Dunwoody. There their favorite sport and decided to pull are places in Dunwoody where that’s all together their own team. Nallamaruthayou’ll see, and there are people in Dunmuthu said the Hitters started “with my woody who don’t know they’re there.” apartment friends. Now we’re kind of They are. So is their game.

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‘WalkUPs’ now impacting local economic development

BY MELISSA WEINMAN AND DAN WHISENHUNT A study says “Walkable Urban Places” in the Atlanta region offer a sign of things to come across the country as urban sprawl ends and more pedestrianfriendly communities emerge.

The report, authored by Chris Leinberger of the George Washington University School of Business, says that walkable places, which he called “WalkUPs,” will drive tomorrow’s national real estate industry and the economy, turning what was once a niche market into the predominant market.

The report demonstrates that WalkUPs significantly impact economic growth and development in the Atlanta region and across the nation.

“During the second half of the 20th Century, the dominant development model was the familiar, drivable suburban approach, and few places have done it better than metro Atlanta,” said Leinberger.

“However, the pendulum is swinging back toward building walkable urbanism, the dominant pattern prior to the Great Depression. According to this latest study, metro Atlanta is on the leading edge of this new urban develop-

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The Central Perimeter area was named one of the regionally significant established WalkUPs, and one of four “platinum” areas in an economic success ranking of those communities.

Yvonne Williams, president and CEO of the Perimeter Community Improvement Districts, said increasing pedestrian access has been a major goal of the self-taxing business district.

“The Perimeter Community Improvement Districts have led the transformation of Perimeter from a suburban, car-dependent area to a livable, walkable community, which is paying off with significant economic returns,” Williams said.

“As a result of the past 13 years of work by the Perimeter CIDs, Perimeter is at the forefront of a game-changing structural shift that is underway in metro Atlanta real estate.”

The PCIDs first project was adding miles of sidewalks and pedestrian crosswalks, according to the organization.

“We continue to emphasize the importance of pedestrian connectivity in all of our projects,” Williams said.

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“We are pleased to see thriving, walkable urban places emerging throughout metro Atlanta,” said Tad Leithead, chairman of the Atlanta Regional Commission. “It’s evident that the market favors the kind of development that offers real mobility choices and opportunity for new community vitality. Greater walkability, housing and retail options are keys to our future economic growth.”

Brookhaven was identified in the report as an emerging WalkUP. “Making Brookhaven more pedestrian-friendly is one of the city’s SPECIAL goals,” said City Manager Marie The Central Perimeter area was named Garrett. “Walking and bicycle options will be included in the city’s a regionally significant WalkUP. transportation study.

“We also have committed to The study identifies Sandy Springs making Brookhaven more walkable by and Buckhead as “Drivable Suburban including funds in this year’s budget to Commercial Redevelopment.” expand and improve sidewalks in the “Drivable Suburban Commercial Recity. We hope these improvements will development WalkUPs are similar in real continue to make Brookhaven a more estate mix and form to Suburban Town pedestrian-friendly city.”

Centers, albeit with somewhat more of–Collin Kelley fice space,” the study says. contributed to this report.

“And whereas Suburban Town Centers are often oriented around a central node, Drivable Suburban Commercial We nty 1 r r a f™ on 0 yea can a Redevelopment WalkUPs are more linw r oo of a r r r ny -P ye a ear. Developed around a major auto cora le con warra fer 15 - Stain nt Se s tru nty ridor, they also integrate walkable infrafo r a ne ct i m on. structure into the rights of way.”

Pe r Buckhead Coaliton President and former Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell said the study is a reminder that “real estate is a constantly changing phenomena.” He predicted the former urban sprawl mega-centers will adjust to keep up with the newest trends happening in Atlanta.

“I think the one word, ‘convenience,’ remains the driving force as to how real estate develops in the future, short range or long range,” Massell said. “We see that with automobile congestion, fuel cost, parking problems and so forth, as they increase, the conveniences of what they’re calling ‘walkup’ arrangements will take their place.”

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Drive around metro Atlanta in the morning or late afternoon and you will likely encounter traffic troubles around schools, as big yellow buses, parents in minivans, and kids with backpacks all try to move in and out of school driveways.

Sven Hagen, co-president of the PTA for Ashford Park Elementary Sandy Springs Police Officer Nick Smith, School in Brookhaven, said left, and Sgt. James McNabb direct the problems at his school traffic in front of The Weber School, mostly come from parents double parking and blocklocated at 6751 Roswell Road. ing the flow of traffic.

“It’s partly a function of the design of ementary School, Peachtree Charter the school, which is from a different era Middle School and Dunwoody Elemenwhen a lot of the kids walked to school,” tary School, which are located on busy Hagen said. “It doesn’t allow for a lot North Peachtree and Womack roads. of traffic at the front of the school. The “Those are both very high traffic areas problem comes when we have parents … due to the [Georgia Perimeter] Colpulling in and pulling out.” lege and the closeness to the Interstate as Hagen said at the start of the school well,” Fecht said. year, he and other parents volunteered Hagen said Brookhaven police do to pay for an off-duty police officer to not have the resources to send an officer help direct traffic around the school. “It to the school every day, and he doesn’t was the first two weeks of school and it want to drain the PTA’s resources paying was just bedlam,” Hagen said. an off-duty officer. He hopes the traffic Local police departments usually problem will solve itself, if more people do not direct traffic at schools as part follow the rules. of their regular assignments. But many “It is our parents that are choosing schools hire off-duty officers to help not to follow the program for whatever move cars more smoothly at the start of reason,” Hagen said. school and at dismissal.

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In Sandy Springs, police spokesman Capt. Steve Rose said off-duty police officers have been hired to direct traffic at schools located on busy streets, such as The Weber School at the intersection of Roswell and Abernathy roads, and North Springs Charter High School near Dalrymple Road.

“Traffic coming out of schools is no different than traffic in the rest of Sandy Springs, which can be a nightmare at times, but it’s not consistent,” Rose said.

He said Sandy Springs police are available to the school resource officers from Fulton County schools. “We’re always working with school resource officers if they need something,” Rose said.

The DeKalb County School System has its own police force that serves the schools. School resource officers are typically posted at middle and high schools.

The county also provides crossing guards to help students safely cross the road.

Fecht said there typically are not school resource officers in elementary schools. In March, the Dunwoody Police Department created a program for elementary schools called SAFE: Safety and Friendship in Education.

“We started that early this year in light of events that happened in Newtown, Conn.,” Fecht said.

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Friday, Nov. 8, 6 p.m. – Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery hosts “Strength for the Journey: Art

by Art Therapists,” an exhibit and symposium in which Georgia art therapists reflect on the power of art-making in their own lives. Free and open to the public. Bring a toy or food for the Atlanta Food Bank. Exhibition continues through Dec. 31.

Therapists’ symposium on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2:304:30 p.m. 199 Armour Dr., NE, Atlanta, 30324. To learn more, contact Gayle Torres at 404-917-4254 or email: wheeliecelt@gmail.com.

Holiday Festival Saturday, Nov. 9, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. –

The Dunwoody United Methodist Church holds their 22nd annual Holiday Festival, with proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity. Check out over 120 artisans, photos with Santa, book nook, silent auction, petting zoo and more. Breakfast available at 8 a.m. Indoors. 1548 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody 30338. Visit: www.dunwoodyumc.org/holiday-festival or call 770-394-0675 for details.

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Kristallnacht Monday, Nov. 4, 7-7:30 p.m. – The Marcus

Jewish Community Center of Atlanta commemorates the anniversary of Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass. Program includes a brief ceremony, song performance by the Israeli Scouts, and lighting of six torches representing Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust. At 7:30 p.m., the MJCCA Book Festival features Harry Rosenfeld, who discusses his memoir, “From Kristallnacht to Watergate.” The ceremony is free and open to the community. In the Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden, 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For additional details, email: rabbi. glusman@atlantajcc.org or call 678-812-4161.

“Seeds” Thursday, Nov. 7, 7 p.m. – The Upper School at Mount Vernon Presbyterian presents “Seeds,” part courtroom drama and part social satire, which documents the 2004 Canadian Supreme Court showdown between a Saskatchewan farmer and a multinational biotech firm. Additional shows, Nov. 8 and 9, 7 p.m.; matinee at 1 p.m., Nov. 9. In the MVPS Black Box Theatre, on the Glenn campus, 510 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Tickets, $5. Register online: www.mountvernonschool.org or call 404252-3448, ext. 2801 for information.

Pro-Mozart Society Sunday, Nov. 10, 3-5 p.m. – The Pro-Mozart

Society of Atlanta presents organist Brink Bush and pianist Frank Mitchell Bush in a joint concert, at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church. Free; $15 per person donation is encouraged to help raise funds for the organization’s scholarship program. 805 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30327. For information about the concert or the society, visit: www.mozartatlanta.com, call 404-667-4700 or email: kevin15120@aol.com.

Harpsichord Concert Sunday, Nov. 10, 4 p.m. – Enjoy “Round and ‘Round La Ronde: Chaconnes, Passacailles and other Rondeaux from the Court of the Sun King,” featuring David Buice on the Harpsichord. General admission, $10; free for Oglethorpe University Museum members and those with a Petrel Pass. 4484 Peachtree Rd., Brookhaven, 30319. For more information email: brunnels@oglethorpe.edu or call 404364-8555. www.oglethorpe.edu.

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rooms can be found during just about any walk in the woods. Join mushroom expert Mary Woehrel for a glance into the mysterious lives of mushrooms. Participants will look for native mushrooms, then head inside to learn how to identify edible and poisonous mushrooms, and more. $12 per person. Space is limited. RSVP by calling 412-398-1101. Blue Heron Nature Preserve, 4055 Roswell Rd., Atlanta, 30342.

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Folklore Hike Saturday, Nov. 9, 6-9 p.m. – Join Horticulturalist Lisa Cole in an evening journey through illuminated, woodland trails at the Chattahoochee Nature Center. Identify common species in our region, as well as get insight into the “Spirit of the Trees.” Topics include Celtic and American folklore, medicinal properties, and the associations with Hobbits and Winnie the Pooh. Evening ends with marshmallows, plant-infused teas and more. $15 general public; $10 CNC members. Register by Nov. 6. 9135 Willeo Rd., Roswell, 30075. Call 770-992-2055 with questions. www.chattnaturecenter.org.

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“DISCOVER YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD: THREE SIMPLE QUESTIONS” Saturday, November 16, 11 am Heritage Sandy Springs 6110 Bluestone Rd, Sandy Springs 30328

Stormy Falso, a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science, will share inspiring accounts of healing through prayer and show how you can prove for yourself the healing truths in the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

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The picture of a 9-year-old Kim Phúc, naked and screaming as napalm singed skin from her body, remains a potent symbol of senseless conflict.

Phúc on Oct. 23 told a group of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School students that while the Pulitzer-prize winning photo is forever burned into the historical record of the Vietnam War, her anger is not eternal.

She forgives the pilots who dropped napalm on her village, Trang Bang, in 1972. She forgives the communist government that forced her to drop out of medical school so she could serve as a prop for its propaganda machine.

In time, she even grew to love the people who had wronged her.

“It sounds easy, but it wasn’t,” Phúc told students gathered in the school’s Fine Arts Building. “It was the hardest work of my life, but I did it. If I can do it, I believe all of you here can do it too, right?”

Phúc becoming a Christian was the first step in her lifelong journey toward healing her heart.

She recalled her reaction to reading Luke 6:27-28, which says, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”

“Do you know how difficult that is?” she said. “I didn’t know how to do it. It seemed impossible. I had a lot of scars.

I had endured so much pain emotionally and physically. At first I thought, ‘No way, Jose.’”

Phúc, aware that the “No way, Jose” expression would sound dated to her young audience, smiled and said, “You use that, right?”

She recalled the events leading up to the moment Associated Press photographer Nick Ut snapped the photo. On June 8, the villagers were told to hide in the local temple. Phúc thought the temple, a sacred place, was safe. She was wrong.

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denly there were bombs and explosions of gasoline. You know what happened.

My clothes were burnt off by the fire, and my skin was on fire. Someone began screaming, ‘Too hot! Too hot!’ That someone was me.”

Ut carried the 9-year-old girl to the local hospital. She was transferred to the children’s hospital. Staff there thought there was no hope of saving her, so they moved her to the morgue where she remained for three days. Her parents eventually found her and she spent the next 14 months in a burn clinic.

Phúc underwent 17 operations, but scars remain. She wears long sleeves most of the time. After spending so much time surrounded by doctors, Phúc decided she’d become a doctor, too. She was accepted into medical school in Vietnam, but the government had dif-

a fellow student. While on their honeymoon, the couple defected to Canada.

“It was only when the soldiers yelled for us to run that we got really “We were allowed to stay in scared. The airplanes were so loud and so close. We were running Canada, but we had no money, no friends, no knowledge of up the road. Most of the children ran first and suddenly there were the culture,” Phúc said. “We had bombs and explosions of gasoline. You know what happened. My nothing but faith.” clothes were burnt off by the fire and my skin was on fire. Someone Faith was enough. Since moving to the West, Phúc has transbegan screaming, ‘Too hot! Too hot!’ That someone was me.” formed herself into a new symbol for the power of forgiveness. She’s – KIM PHÚC become a public speaker and created the Kim Phúc Foundation, a charity that helps children affected by war. ferent ideas about her future.

Phúc learned English while studyLike her physical recovery, her “They thought I should be a war ing at the university in Havana. The spiritual recovery took time. It was a symbol for the state,” Phúc said. “The Vietnamese government allowed her to necessary rehabilitation, she said. officers would pick me up from school study medicine in the communist na“I didn’t just wake up one day and to do a lot of interviews with the fortion, but remained overly interested in say, ‘Yes, I forgive,’ but I knew that in oreign press. They tried to control me, and how she spent her time. der to be free I had to learn to forgive,” eventually they cut short my study. I It was there she met her husband, she said. wanted to be left alone, but they didn’t care what I wanted, so I became a victim all over again.”

She described the experience as a low point in her life. She cursed the pilots. She cursed the propagandists. Phúc wanted them to suffer.

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Morgan has been taking art classes for as long as she can remember, and is a part of the art club at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School, which she has attended since first grade. She has always liked painting landscapes and images of nature, and while as a freshman, she found that she could create interesting designs using paper towels.

“It creates a lot of different textures, and I never know exactly what I am going to get,” she said. “Sometimes I really love it, and sometimes I really hate it; it just happens.”

It is not only with her art that Morgan is willing to experiment. As a junior, when she knew the leader of her school’s poetry club would be graduating, she founded a creative writing club.

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Parents and teachers in north DeKalb County shared their ideas for improving the struggling school system as part of a reboot of the district’s five-year plan.

During a brainstorming session at Cross Keys High School on Oct. 29, stakeholders gave their input on the five strategic goals that have been identified for the school system: student success; staff efficacy and excellence; stakeholder engagement; internal/external communication; and operational and organizational effectiveness and efficiency.

The Georgia School Boards Association began the five-year strategic planning process with DeKalb in 2010, but upheaval in the school district’s administration shelved the process. The Oct. 29 meeting was held for stakeholders in Region 1 of the DeKalb County School System, which includes the Cross Keys High, Chamblee Charter High and Dunwoody High school clusters.

Laura Reilly, a consultant with the GSBA who let the meeting, said suggestions from parents during the 2010 process were used as a starting point this year. “We actually used all that input we had gotten to come up with these five strategic goal areas,” Reilly said.

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Michael Thurmond believes very strongly in the need for a five-year plan.

“There’s been a sea change of leadership here in DeKalb County,” Reilly said.

Parents expressed frustration over the lack of action from the school system.

Allegra Johnson of Dunwoody told Reilly it may be difficult to engage parents in the planning process. Those who were involved in the past but have seen no results from their efforts.

“We went through it with [former Superintendent Cheryl] Atkinson, we went through it with [former Superintendent Crawford] Lewis, and now we’re going through it again. The third time is not a charm,” Johnson said.

Several students were included in the discussion as well. Their ideas ranged from the relatively simple - make sure there are enough textbooks for every class - to the more ideological, such as moving away from teaching to standardized tests and including more enrichment opportunities during the school day.

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“We have families in crisis and those children come to our schools every day,” said Terry Segovis, principal of DeKalb International Student Center. “Without wrap-around services, it’s just not going to be successful.”

Kim Gokce, president of the Cross Keys Foundation, said the school system needs to do a much better job of sharing information with the community through proactive, targeted communications efforts.

“I give us an ‘F’ on communicating to stakeholders who don’t walk into this building every day,” Gokce said.

Reilly said she is holding meetings in

each of the five regions in the DeKalb County School District to get input on issues and how to address them to “come up with workable solutions to address these five goal areas.”

This information will be sent to action teams, who will create plans to address issues and measure success, Reilly said.

Page Olson of Dunwoody recommended bringing the planning process to the cluster level - each high school and its feeder middle and elementary schools. She said DeKalb County has such diverse schools that the needs of one don’t necessarily apply to the others, even in the same region.

“They’re going to get lost in this whole system-wide recommendation process,” Olson said.

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 1900 block of Peeler Road – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, resulted in the theft of a purse and a passport, and was reported on Oct. 17.  1st block of Dunwoody Park South – A burglary to a non-residence, using forced entry, resulted in the theft of laptops, and was reported on Oct. 17.  4600 block of Peeler Mill Court – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, resulted in the theft of a handgun, ammunition and men’s jewelry, and was reported on Oct. 20.  6100 block of Charleston Place – A burglary to a residence, without using forced entry, resulted in the theft of computer equipment and shoes, and was reported on Oct. 21; a burglary to a residence, using forced

entry, resulted in the theft of a TV, jewelry, a tablet and cellphones, and was reported on Oct. 21.  1900 block of Village Mill Road – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, resulted in the theft of $5,000 in jewelry, and was reported on Oct. 22.  10000 block of Perimeter Trace E. – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, resulted in damaging a door frame. Nothing reported stolen on Oct. 23.  1st block of Perimeter Center East – A burglary/suspicious activity at a residence was reported on Oct. 24.

A U TO T H E F T  100 block of Perimeter Center Place – Theft of an auto was reported on Oct. 19.

THEFT/LARCENY  4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Shoplifting was reported on Oct. 10; shoplifting of perfume was reported on Oct. 13; a larceny of a laptop, headphones, computer equipment, a raincoat and medication from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 21.  4500 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – A larceny of an iPad from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 10; a larceny of a purse from a nightclub was reported on Oct. 11; a larceny of a laptop from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 22.  1st block of Perimeter Center East – A larceny of a purse from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 10; a larceny of cash from a residence was reported on Oct. 10; a larceny of a $2,000 laptop from a residence was reported on Oct. 11; a larceny of power tools from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 21.  4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Shoplifting of clothes was reported on Oct. 10; shoplifting of household goods was reported on Oct. 10; shoplifting of clothes was reported on Oct. 13; a larceny of a $5,000 watch from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 21; a larceny from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 21.  4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – A larceny of a wallet and two laptops was reported on Oct. 10; shoplifting of clothing was reported on Oct. 11; a larceny of a wallet was reported on Oct. 12; shoplifting of phone cases was reported on Oct. 14; shoplifting of jewelry was reported on Oct. 16; shoplifting was reported on Oct. 16; shoplifting of clothing was reported on Oct. 17; shoplifting of scarves and purses was reported on Oct. 18; a larceny from a building was reported on Oct. 18; two larcenies from a building were reported on Oct. 19; shoplifting of Polo clothing was reported on Oct. 19; shoplifting of sunglasses was reported on Oct. 19; shoplifting of sunglasses was reported on Oct. 20; a larceny was reported on Oct. 23; a larceny of laptops, a knife and sunglasses from a veDUN

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 100 block of Perimeter Center West – A larceny of a GPS from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 13; shoplifting of books was reported on Oct. 15; a larceny of a laptop from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 16; a larceny of a purse from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 18; a larceny of a purse from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 20; a larceny of a laptop from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 21; a larceny of a laptop from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 23; a larceny of a laptop, umbrella and reading glasses from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 23.  2800 block of Montclair Court – A larceny from the mail was reported on Oct. 14.  1900 block of Olde Village Run – A larceny of a campaign sign was reported on Oct. 15.  1400 block of Dunwoody Village Parkway – A larceny of an iPad from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 15.  1000 block of Crown Pointe Parkway – A larceny of camera equipment and accessories from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 15; three larcenies of laptops from vehicles were reported on Oct. 15; a larceny was reported on Oct. 19.  300 block of Perimeter Center North – A larceny was reported on Oct. 17.  1200 block of Hammond Drive – Shoplifting of clothes was reported on Oct. 19.  5300 block of Roberts Drive – A larceny of a purse from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 20.  2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing – A larceny was reported on Oct. 22.  5100 block of Corners Drive – A larceny of landscape equipment from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 22.  1200 block of Ashford Crossing – Two larcenies of laptops from vehicles were reported on Oct. 22; a larceny of an iPad and medical equipment from a vehicle was reported on Oct. 24.  5500 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – A larceny from a building was reported on Oct. 23.

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 5400 block of Trentham Drive – Two incidences of family battery/simple battery were reported on Oct. 15.  6600 block of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard – Simple assault/battery was report-

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 2100 block of Peachford Road – A sexual offense was reported on Oct. 17.

FR AUD  1700 block of Mount Vernon Road – Credit card fraud was reported on Oct. 11.  300 block of Perimeter Center North – Fraud through impersonation was reported on Oct. 11.  4600 block of Peachtree Place Parkway – Swindle was reported on Oct. 12.  200 block of Perimeter Center Parkway – Credit card fraud was reported on Oct. 13.  4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Swindle was reported on Oct. 14.

O T H ER  1400 block of Bunky Lane –Harassing communications were reported on Oct. 10.  1st block of Perimeter Center East –Harassing communications were reported on Oct. 11.  1100 block of Hammond Drive – Solicitation violations were reported on Oct. 11.  6800 block of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard – Disorderly conduct was reported on Oct. 11.

 1600 block of Parliament Drive/Leeds Court – Disorderly conduct was reported on

Oct. 12.

 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Harassing communications were reported on Oct. 14; aggravated stalking was reported on Oct. 15; harassing communications were reported on Oct. 17.  5400 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – Disorderly under the influence was reported on Oct. 15.

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