11-24-17 Sandy Springs Reporter

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NOV. 24 - DEC. 14, 2017 • VOL. 11— NO. 24

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► I-285 transit meeting is latest cross-city planning effort PAGE 4 ► Cross Keys students join immigrant book project PAGE 7

Mount Vernon widening debate focuses on transit

A peek inside Mercedes-Benz USA’s new headquarters

BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net

KATE AWTREY

Mercedes-Benz USA’s new headquarters is rising in Sandy Springs. Officials from the luxury automaker recently led a media tour of the building, which is designed to encourage collaboration among its 1,000 employees. For story and more photos, see p. 22.►

EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATOR Teaching English with an artsy eye Page 6

OUT & ABOUT There’s something about sipping coffee and eating a cinnamon roll that brings back so many memories. It’s the little things! 22-YEAR-OLD WOMAN

How important are family traditions in your holiday celebrations? See COMMENTARY, Page 8

Get into the Holidays 14 Ways to Celebrate the Season

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Controversy over a potential widening of Sandy Springs’ Mount Vernon Highway for alternative transportation shifted topics, from now ruled-out house-takings to transit types, at a Nov. 14 city meeting. Around 150 people attended the meeting, held at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church, to hear about the project, which at minimum will add a multiuse path and at maximum, two additional on-street lanes for alternative transportation. Officials from the church’s school and the Sandy Springs Branch Library were among the attendees. The still-conceptual idea triggered enormous neighborhood controversy in recent weeks as city officials repeatedly said they could not rule out the eminent-domain taking of houses for a future project. Mayor Rusty Paul definitively ruled out such housetakings at the Nov. 14 meeting, while declining to explain why he could not do so just See MOUNT on page 14

Runoff Election is Dec. 5 For full coverage of the Fulton County Commission chair and state Senate District 6 races, see pages 12-13.


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