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Painting their pride

City Council gives the OK for 1,000-seat performing arts center BY ANN MARIE QUILL

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From left, Alec Nathan, Owen McDaniel, Travis Block and Davis Vainer, Riverwood International Charter School students, show their spirit with body paint during a football game against Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School on Aug. 29. The Riverwood Raiders beat the Holy Innocents’ Golden Bears 34-3. More photos on page 19.

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Resident devotes time to beautifying library BY ANN MARIE QUILL

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Sylvia McAdam never expected to spend her summer putting down woodchips on the lawn of the Sandy Springs Library. “I was going to lay out,” she said. “I was going to get a tan.” As part of her relaxation plan and once her son graduated high school, McAdam went to the library on Mount Vernon Road to find a romance novel. Instead of finding a book, she says she found knee-high grass, weeds, trash and tree limbs on the grounds. “It looked awful,” she said. “I didn’t even go inside.” Instead, she went home and told her husband, Don, “We needed to go cut the grass at the library. This was on a Saturday. On Monday, I started calling Fulton County.”

Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul has repeatedly called it the “most important” project the city has ever undertaken. On Sept. 2, that project inched a little closer to reality when Sandy Springs City Council gave the goahead to developers to proceed with City Center planning that includes a performing arts center up to 1,000 seats. Options presented by City Center master developers Carter/Selig for the performing arts center have included three sizes, ranging from 600 to 1,000 seats with varying amenities and stage sizes. While a resolution adopted by the council gives planners approval to pursue the larger performing arts center option, it does provide flexibility. Adopted unanimously, the resolution, an alternative version submitted by Councilman John Paulson, gives the city leeway to determine during a design phase the specific components of the arts center. The original resolution specifically favored a black-box design for the performing arts center with 1,000 seats. Paulson said he supported a performing arts center because it will enhance citizens’ quality of life. “The eight years that we’ve been a city we have what I called the ‘taking care of the business of Sandy Springs,’” he said. “We developed a police force, developed a fire department, paved and poured sidewalks, paved streets. We have storm water system that works in probably the first time in 30 years. “We’re doing a lot of things that are fundamental to

McAdam got in touch with the libraries’ maintenance division and discovered that due to cutbacks in library services, the library lawn was not being maintained. In January the Fulton Board of Commissioners voted to cut the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System’s budget by $6 million, which resulted in a cut in hours and a reduction in staff. They “told me, ‘No, the grass hadn’t been cut at the library,’ and ‘No, the grass wasn’t going to be cut at the library.’” McAdam and her husband now spend about 45 minutes every day working to give the library a facelift. He weeds; she lays down woodchips. But they haven’t been alone. Walking over the library’s SEE RESIDENT, PAGE 4

Timeline for City Center 2012: City adopts master plan 2013: Council approves land acquisition, infrastructure 2014: June: Carter/Selig hired as master developer • July: City explores feasibility of performing arts center • Aug. 27: Planners present City Center site plans • Sept. 2: Council gives OK to 1,000-seat performing arts center

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Sandy Springs City Council on Sept. lard said, is what he called “a string of 2 approved changes to its zoning ordipearls on both sides” where apartments nance that eliminates a clause allowing could be built in commercial districts. apartment developers to obtain permits The previous ordinance allowed for in commercially zoned districts. apartments to be built on top of and beThe vote was deferred from Aug. hind retail and office uses in commer19 when city staff asked the council cial zoning districts as long as the buildfor more direction. On Aug. 19, couner obtained a permit. cil members repeated concerns they Mayor Rusty Paul has also said that have about developsome apartment deers’ ability to obtain velopers will include apartment permits just a few retail storefor areas zoned C1 fronts as a “fig leaf ” and C2 commercial, to cover up the fact without having to apthat the building is ply for a rezoning. mostly apartments in The vote now order to fall into the forces apartment demixed-use category. velopers interested in “An apartment with building apartments just a couple of small in commercial disstores doesn’t constitricts to appear before tute mixed use,” he the city council for a said. rezoning. The amended or“If you want to dinance protects build an apartment apartments that have “An apartment with [in a commercial already been built area] then you have in commercial arjust a couple of small to come to us for a even if they are stores doesn’t constitute eas, full rezoning,” Coundestroyed and must mixed use.” cilman Gabriel Sterbe rebuilt. The orling said on Aug. 19. dinance allows for He said that alapartments above – MAYOR RUSTY PAUL lows the council to or behind commerdecide whether or cial and office uses if not the project is “the their permits or cerright project in the right place.” tificates of occupancy were issued prior “I like the idea that part of the reato Sept. 2. son we passed the moratorium on C1s The ordinance change had the sup[a type of commercial development] port of the Sandy Springs Economic was because we wanted to make sure Development Advisory Committee. the council had some say in the devel“Our recommendation would be to opment standards of these units, and if please exert the greatest extent of local someone has a good market reason to go control that you can over zoning issues,” bigger, say empty nesters, they can come Jim Comerford, a member of the comand give that market sell to us, but othmittee, said on Aug. 19, though he said erwise these standards set a good precethe council should proceed carefully, dent for the city,” Sterling said. along with legal counsel. At a special called meeting on July Trish Thompson, vice president of 23, the council approved a 60-day morthe Sandy Springs Council of Neighoratorium on apartment permits for land hoods, voiced her support. She said the zoned as C-1 or C-2 commercial. original ordinance allowing apartments At that time, City Attorney Wenin commercial areas dated back to when dell Willard said the moratorium came owners of gas stations and mom-andabout as city officials are concerned pop stores wanted to live above their about an over-abundance of multifamily businesses. uses on the Roswell Road corridor, par“This isn’t applicable anymore,” she ticularly the city center area. said. “It needs to be taken out of com“Up and down Roswell Road,” Wilmercial.”

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Several Sandy Springs residents who recently looked over plans for a new network of roads connecting portions of Ga. 400 to I-285 welcomed the change, but dreaded living through the work needed to build the new collector and distributor lanes. “The things they are proposing make good sense,” said John Maynard, who lives nearby in Sandy Springs. “The only concern is the actual implementation. ... I’ll have to find some way to deal with that. Perhaps work from home more.” Georgia Department of Transportation officials say they now are wrapping a project to build collector/distributor lanes along Ga. 400 into the much larger project that will reconfigure the interchange of Ga. 400 and I-285. That project, now estimated to cost about $900 million altogether, proposes adding bridges to the interchange so it will tower five levels. Construction crews will reconfigure exits and entrances on the highways from west of Roswell Road to east of Ashford Dunwoody Road and from the Glenridge Connector to Hammond Drive. About 400,000 cars a day now travel through the interchange, GDOT officials have said. A public hearing on the project is likely to be held early next year, GDOT officials said. Construction is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2016 and end in 2019. At Hammond Drive, the larger project ties into older plans that would add connector/distributor roads along Ga. 400 from north of Spalding Drive to I-285. The idea behind the project is to separate local traffic from through traffic

along the stretch of Ga. 400 from I-285 to Spalding, GDOT says. “This separation would reduce the issues currently experienced between high-speed freeway traffic and lower-speed local traffic, including the potential for accidents and congestion,” GDOT said in a project factsheet. Project manager Marlo Clowers said the collector/distributor lanes “should alleviate weaving” by reducing the area shared by drivers trying to exit Ga. 400 and those heading south or north. “This is taking that out,” she said. Both projects were discussed during three public meetings held at Dunwoody Baptist Church in August. “It’s interesting,” Dunwoody City Councilman Jim Ritcher said as he looked over the wall-sized maps showing how the proposed new network of lanes along Ga. 400 would interconnect with the highways and local streets. “Hopefully, what it means for Dunwoody is more people use I-285 and Ga. 400, and fewer of them cut through Dunwoody. Anything that helps traffic on I-285 and Ga. 400 will help us.” David Centofanti, president of the Northridge Community Association, thought the collector/distributor lanes could help traffic through the interchange, but also said he thought they “seem to catch you off guard.” Missing an exit could mean driving for miles before a driver would have a chance to turn around and correct the mistake, he said. Still, he said he thought he’d get used to the new road configuration. “Any design using modern technology has got to be better,” he said.

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Sylvia McAdam points to debris clogging a storm drain outside the Sandy Springs Library.

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Resident devotes time to beautifying library grounds CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

2 acres of grounds, McAdam says they received some much needed help from some 30 members of the varsity football team at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School. “They put out tons of woodchips, picked up all the branches, wheelbarrowed loads of trash, including 27 baby diapers and Hardee’s wrappers,” she said, adding that the library has no exterior water due to a broken line, and that debris is routinely clogging the storm drains. “It’s not supposed to be this way,” she said. Naomi Harper, publicity chairwom-

an of the volunteer group Friends of the Sandy Springs Library, said McAdam is helping to provide a much needed service. “It is very much needed for a public facility as important as we are,” she said. “The grounds looked pitiful. I can already tell her group has made a lot of difference, but there is still much more that needs to be done.” Other groups like the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs and Art Sandy Springs have also pledged to help, McAdam said, adding that students from Mount Vernon will have a work day at the library on Sept. 11. “No one has turned me down,” said

McAdam. “I really think that [the library] just needs a little love, that it can be really be beautiful. It doesn’t have any flowers now, but it needs flowers, and could have flowers. It seems like [a lot of services have] been cut. I feel like this is something Sandy Springs needs to pick up and work out, even if it means Fulton County gives some of the property to Sandy Springs, because they have a vested interest.” To that end, McAdam started a Facebook page called “Sandy Springs Library Grounds Restoration.” She is planning workdays the second and fourth Saturday of each month, starting in Septem-

ber, from 9 a.m. to noon. “I’m not saying it needs to be a John Wieland entrance, but it ought to look nice,” McAdam said, pointing to the awning over the library’s entrance where paint is peeling off, and sidewalks that need to be pressure washed. “We’ve done a lot with very limited time. I think if we could build a public/private coalition and get people to donate time, services and maybe some money. I’d love for the library to be open more hours and have Wifi access in the whole building, but at this point we just need to start small and take care of the maintenance out here.”

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Reconsider city center plans To the editor: I have been a Sandy Springs resident for 41 years and I am active within the community. In my personal opinion, Sandy Springs can benefit from the construction of a place where local government offices are headquartered and where people are provided a place to connect, recreate and celebrate Sandy Springs. However, when planning such a project, we must carefully balance community needs with the negative impacts unbridled development has on the community. Above all, city leaders must exercise extreme financial responsibility when planning such a project, especially during uncertain economic times. We should not consider a plan we cannot afford. Period. Many Sandy Springs citizens are confused over plans for the future city center, especially when significant project details are changed without public input or notification. In my opinion, city leaders should be clear, honest and open about city center's plans. When significant changes to the plan are necessary, the public should at least be notified, if not asked for approval. A precarious situation of the city playing roles of property owner, developer, plan approver, code enforcer and landlord is made more questionable when details are changed behind closed doors. I support the planning and construction of a smaller city center that accommodates the needs of the city government, some local county government offices, and a limited amount of space for public meetings, presentations, storage and perhaps library space. Perhaps the inclusion of a limited amount of supportive retail or living space is possible, but not without consideration of traffic and infrastructure impacts. If such a facility's success leads to the need for future expansion, that is possible, assuming it is approved by the public and it is financially affordable. I do not support the planning of an over-sized, unnecessary, outrageously expensive city center project spanning from Johnson Ferry Road to the Perimeter. In my opinion, we do not need, nor do we want, a huge city center that includes a 1,000-plus seat performance auditorium, four or five five-story apartment buildings and a plethora of retail and business establishments within a relatively small footprint area.

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Please do not over build a project that results in more than the city needs, wants or can effectively afford, especially during a shaky economy. I encourage you to act responsibly and refrain from spending the city's financial reserves on this project -- or worse, go into debt over it. There are many worthwhile projects in need of funding, not just the city center. And much of the area's retail, living and business space is currently vacant, so why do we need such a large-scale project? A “build it and they will come” mentality is dangerous in today's economic environment. Furthermore, current traffic congestion, infrastructure, quality of life and storm water issues place pressure on surrounding neighborhoods. Adding significant construction issues and thousands of cars and people to this highdensity area is irresponsible. Neighboring property values will certainly be impacted by such a large scale project, as will quality of life. I challenge each city leader to thoroughly research and re-evaluate the Sandy Springs city center plans. Please consider scaling down the project to one that better fits the neighborhood atmosphere that is so attractive to the residents of this area. Most residents are open to the idea of building a city center -- within reason. However, in doing so, we must preserve the local neighborhood integrity while responsibly protecting our finances, infrastructure, watersheds, natural environment and way of life. The Abernathy Greenway & CityWalk are two examples of developments supported by Sandy Springs leaders that were oversold and under-delivered to our neighborhoods. Each took significantly longer and cost significantly more than was planned, and both projects negatively impacted our neighborhoods. Let's work together to prevent future negative impacts by incorporating the community voice into a development plan that is environmentally, socially and economically feasible. Cindy S. Mayer

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The primary responsibility of every elected official is to serve the interests of the citizens they represent. In turn, the citizens have the privilege to select their elected officials by casting their vote on Election Day. But when some elected officials in Fulton County consistently fail to act in the best interests of their constituents, provisions in Georgia law provide methods of relief. For too many years, Fulton County Commissioners have approved deficit budgets, spending more than $100 million in reserve funds. Hard-earned tax dollars have been spent on frivolous projects while core service delivery funding and critical infrastructure needs have been neglected. The Fulton County jail has been under a Federal Consent Decree for years due to poor management decisions, and instead of resolving this, precious financial resources have been squandered on non-essential projects such as a performing arts center, amphitheater and aviation museum. Other government buildings have become toxic work environments due to a lack of responsible maintenance. Chronic challenges in leadership have led to frequent management turnover and extended vacancies in key positions. Taxpayers should be able to expect quality service delivery, but in Fulton County, this has not been the case. Sadly, Fulton County taxpayers have been subjected to this repetitive pattern of willful disregard of fiscal constraints, and the Fulton County Commission has failed to recognize the eventual outcome of their actions – the money runs out! In 2013, we sponsored House Bill 604 as a measure to perform our responsibility to our constituents. HB 604 limits the commission’s authority to increase the property tax rate prior to January 2015, and will require the affirmative vote of a super majority of Commissioners in subsequent years to increase the millage rate. The provisions of HB 604 are based on a 1951 local constitutional amendment that applies only to Fulton County, and gives the Georgia General Assembly authority over the time and place that the Fulton County Commission may levy of ad valorem taxes. We recognized the peril of a tax increase in Fulton County, and the negative consequences that will result. A jump in property taxes – especially when property values and, therefore assessments are already increasing – will force rents to increase, prices of goods and services to be hiked, and businesses to move out of Fulton County. We cannot afford to place ourselves at a competitive disadvantage with our peer counties in economic development. The Fulton County Commission deliberately chose to violate the provisions of House Bill 604, and proceeded with steps to increase property taxes in 2014. We immediately filed a petition in Superior Court on Aug. 6 to seek preliminary and permanent injunction of this attempt. The citizens of Fulton County may rely on us to remain steadfast in our pledge to defend their interests and uphold the laws of our great state of Georgia. Reps. Jan Jones (R-Milton), Wendell Willard (R-Sandy Springs), Joe Wilkinson (R-Sandy Springs), Chuck Martin (R-Alpharetta), Harry Geisinger (R-Roswell), Lynne Riley (RJohns Creek) and former Rep. Ed Lindsey of Buckhead brought suit against the county over its tax increase.

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County: We are defending Home Rule By John Eaves Business had to keep going. Cases had to proceed in Fulton County Courts. The restaurants that we frequent had to be inspected to make sure they were safe for us to visit. Our libraries had to continue educating and informing. Emergency patients in the trauma ward at Grady had to be treated. The 911 systems sending those patients to the hospital had to keep serving us. The elections process had to continue so that everyone could exercise their right to vote. These are some of the reasons the Fulton County Commissioners passed a budget in January including a request for an increase in the property millage rate. The Board of the Commissioners took none of these moves lightly, and we understand why some are not pleased with them. Tough calls are often not popular ones. As a historic recession forced states, counties and municipalities to charge taxpayers more for services they deliver, Fulton County attempted to weather the storm without taking that measure. We were quite proud of the fact that the last countywide tax increase had been more than 20 years ago. As we asked for more of our residents we did some belt tightening of our own. We made cuts. Libraries lost hours. Seniors had to pay more for meals. Grady Memorial Hospital lost much of its county funding. Since 2008, our county workforce has been reduced by more than 500 people overall, with our temporary and part-time staff cut by more than half over that period. This year alone, we trimmed $25 million from programs. Our employees didn’t see a pay raise in seven years. The median home value in Fulton County is around $200,000. If you are the owner of that average home, we are requesting about $7 more a month in property taxes. We all would prefer to keep that money in our pockets, but we also would prefer to keep those services that $7 funds. As Fulton County asks more of our taxpayers, you have asked more from us as well. The County Manager has begun an extensive restructuring of the county government. We are looking for new revenue streams and additional cost savings to make sure we are eﬃcient. We are centralizing and outsourcing services where feasible. As for the pieces of litigation filed against the county by a group of lawmakers and a separate one filed by another citizen, the county’s position is that they have no merit whatsoever. The county exercised its authority and obligations under the constitution and laws of the state of Georgia. We chose to repeal House Bill 604 not out of spite for those who passed it, but because government functions needed to be funded, and many have become more costly to provide. We want the same freedom that is given to governments from Palmetto to Alpharetta, which is the right to made our own financial decisions. A majority of seven duly elected representatives make that call on behalf of the county taxpayers that elected them. State lawmakers would balk (and have) at the federal government taking the same liberties with state law, and would never allow us to forward budgetary mandates onto any of the cities in our county. That is not good public policy and sets a dangerous precedent. It is wrongheaded, and amounts to “Big Government” overstepping its bounds, no matter what government is doing so. John Eaves is chairman of the Fulton County Commission. SS

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Forget the Terrible Twos. How about the Terrible 22s? I knew what to do with a 2-year-old, but what do I do with a 22-year-old? By the miracle of life, the 2-year-old boy who was toddling around our house — it couldn’t have been 20 years ago — has suddenly become a full grown man. He’s in that nebulous area of space and time, waffling between higher education and independent living. He’s old enough to drive, vote and serve our country, but he still doesn’t know how to load a dishwasher. It’s that age between learning how to cite your sources and learning how to scramble an egg. Some say it’s just a phase. He went through phases when he was in his terrible twos. I remember that. There were books on that. There was the colicky phase, the phase of exploration, the “my little potty” phase. And although I ran myself ragged during that time, I knew that (fall-down-and-die exhaustion aside, I can’t say it enough) this would not be the most difficult part of mothering. He still took naps. I was still bigger than he was — and continued to be, until he turned 12. Above all, I knew that the crap I dealt with then I could flush down the toilet. But the age of unflushable crap has arrived. Still, the similarities between a 2-yearold and a 22-year-old are remarkable. When he was 2, he waddled around the house half-naked, wearing nothing but his diapers. It was very cute. At 22, he lumbers around the house, with his 6-foot-tall, extremely hairy body, wearing nothing but boxers or a wet towel— never both at the same time. It’s not so cute. When he was 2, he pattered gleefully from room to room, marking his territory with squeaky toys and sippy cups. At 22, he plods from den to kitchen to bedroom, leaving a trail of stained coffee cups, half-eaten cookies and stacks of books in his wake. When he was 2, he would wake up at 3 in the morning, crying from night-

mares. At 22, he comes in at 3 in the morning. And I’m the one having nightmares. I remember when he was born, how I labored ROBIN JEAN for 26 hours MARIE CONTE until he finally came into ROBIN’S NEST the world, how my doctor presented me with him, saying, “It’s a boy! And he’s perfect!” I remember how I spent the night in the hospital, my first night as a mother, lying there with my brand new baby boy asleep on my stomach. It was the most magical night of my life. I spoke to him as he slept in his infant oblivion. I told him about the room we had waiting for him at home, lined with stuffed animals and decorated with cheery colors. I told him about the grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins and friends who couldn’t wait to meet him or see him again. I told him that his father and I were so happy to have him, about all the things we would do together, the fun we would have. Then my husband entered the room, ever the eager one, actually trying to give me lessons on breast feeding. The summer is almost over and my son will be leaving in a few days. I could say that I’ll miss his stacks of debris and barely-clothed hairy body. But I won’t. What I will miss is his company — his humor, his conversation, his incredible intelligence. So as I close the door to his train wreck of a room, I remind myself: This is all just a phase.

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about $500,000 – half a million dollars – in Reporter Newspapers communities? What’s a half-million-dollar house these days? “Well, it’s not what it used to be,” joked Sandy Springs Realtor Katie Brinkman, who’s been in the business a quarter century. “But people get good buys for their money, particularly in the suburbs.”

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Sometimes, comparing houses can even take on the look of an algebraic calculation: Does 5 BR + 4 ½ BA in Sandy Springs = 4 BR + 3 ½ BA in Dunwoody? To try to cut through some of the numbers, we decided to pose a simple question: What can you get for

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Real estate snapshot: Single family home sales Sandy Springs: 30350 High Low Median

# BRs 7 2 5

Sq. Ft. 10,307 760 3,958

List Price $2,300,000 68,000 549,900

Sales Price $2,199,000 64,050 525,000

Days on Market 1,218 0 60

Sales Price $6,300,000 305,000 646,000

Days on Market 871 0 36

Sales Price $2,325,000 169,150 444,000

Days on Market 560 0 25

Buckhead: 30305 High Low Median

# BRs 7 2 4

Sq. Ft. 12,705 928 2,698

List Price $6,900,000 290,700 672,500

Brookhaven: 30319 High Low Median

# BRs 7 0 4

Sq. Ft. 6,811 840 2,452

List Price $2,500,000 175,000 450,000

Dunwoody: 30338 # BRs Sq. Ft. List Price Sales Price Days on Market High 6 31,873 $1,250,000 $1,160,000 567 Low 3 1,265 150,000 120,000 0 Median 4 2,889 424,950 415,375 24 This information is compiled from First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS) from January-August, 2014. This information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed, and is not a complete list of activity. Data provided by Judy Soden, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Sandy Springs office.

Real Estate Briefs Ashton Woods Homes has opened the new model home at Gramercy, its latest Dunwoody townhome community. Priced from the $400s, luxury amenities include an optional elevator, master suites, media/game rooms, decks with fire rings and built-in bars. For more visit www.ashtonwoods. com/Atlanta. Engel & Völkers Buckhead Atlanta has announced the hiring of Suzy Smith as a new real estate advisor. She brings 15 years of experience with in-depth market knowledge of the Atlanta area. Engel & Völkers also named a new senior vice president of business development, Valerie Levin, who has 25 years of real estate experience in sales, management, training and recruiting. GROUNDFLOOR, the first microlending community for real estate, has opened its headquarters at Atlanta Tech Village. This comes immediately after the company raised $1 million in seed round funding from angel investors including Michael Olander, Bruce Boehm, Mark Easley Sr. and the Inception Micro-Angel Fund. The company selected Georgia as its new home to grow its business due to the state’s progressive stance on crowdfunding policies and citizen-backed real estate development.

The map above, prepared by the Atlanta Regional Commission using demographic data from ESRI, shows areas with these median home values:

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Sanctuary Tour lanta Audubon Society offers its annual Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary Tour, showcasing five sites running along an 18.6 mile route between Dunwoody, Sandy Spring, Peachtree Corners and Berkeley Lake. Tickets: $15 for AAS members; $20 for non-members. Children aged 12 and under are free when accompanied by a paying adult. Proceeds support the AAS. Go to: www.dunwoodynature.org to download a route map. Register: www.atlantaaudubon. org/order-form.

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Thursday, Sept. 18, 5-9 p.m. – Kingswood

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BY ART HUCKABEE In this Top Chef crazy restaurant town, can Aunt Bella make it? “Aunt who?” you ask. That would be former University of Georgia professor and now restaurateur, Dr. Kim Grady’s aunt, the woman who helped raise her and gave her the inspiration for Bella’s Best Organic Gourmet, a newly opened bakery restaurant tucked among the boutiques, art galleries and antique shops on Bennett Street in south Buckhead. As Kim tells the story, while working on her doctoral dissertation, she would bake nightly to relax. The next day she would bring her baked goods to class. Kim’s students were the first to urge her to consider going into the baking business. Kim reconnected with her childhood friend, now husband, Ray Grady, several years ago. Ray, a big, soft-spoken man, and Kim’s number one fan, likes to tell of the first time he sampled Kim’s baked goods. He says, “The first time I tasted (it), I cussed… It was that good.” You can tell that Ray doesn’t cuss very often. Kim and Ray began selling their allorganic vegetarian baked goods and other goodies at local farmer’s markets in Sandy Springs, Emory and Tucker. Even now, with the demands of their new restaurant, they still have a stall at each market. It was a reader who suggested that I visit Bella’s Best. They had been open just a month and a day when I stopped in with two friends for lunch. It’s a space with lots of potential and is clearly a work in progress. Ray was behind the baked goods counter. Save for him and Kim in the kitchen, we were the only

others in the place. In addition to the sweet baked goods, the savory offerings consisted of a spinach quiche, a stuffed red pepper, a vegetable pie and a pastry Kim calls “strucla” which on this day was filled with portabella mushrooms. All are individually sized so we chose to share one of each. Strucla is Kim’s pièce de résistance. Originally made by her Aunt Bella as a treat at Christmas time, this pastry has its roots in Polish baking. The dough has cream cheese in it but remains light with a firm, chewy texture. Kim fills each pastry with a variety of homemade organic fruit preserves and vegetables. The portabella strucla was excellent and with a side salad, would make the perfect lunch for those well-heeled shoppers who frequent Bennett Street. On other days a tomato basil strucla and a spinach artichoke strucla are in the offerings. The stuffed red pepper was filled with cooked grains, red onion, corn and peas. It was the perfect doneness with all of the veggies still having a brightness and toothsome crunch. The spinach quiche and the vegetable pie were also quite good. Kim uses the same dough for these as she does her strucla. The lack of a side or garnish makes it feel like you’re dining in a bakery more than a restaurant. Kim later explained that when their traffic picks up she will have the ability to include more garnishes and sides, but for now, she tries to limit her perishables. All of her baked products are made fresh each day. For dessert, we tried Kim’s signature strucla, a “classic” apricot. As Ray explains, “It has apricots, walnuts, golden

RESTAURANTS A stuffed red pepper, right, and far right, a spinach quiche, are both on the menu at Bella’s Best Organic Gourmet in Buckhead.

raisins, coconut and some hmmm, hmmm, hmmm.” It was gooey and not too sweet. We also tried a fig strucla, a ginger cookie and the pecan shortbread. All were very good with the ginger cookie packing a spicy punch. Kim emerged from the kitchen to inquire how we liked our lunch. It’s clear that she and Ray have big plans for this restaurant even talking of eventually opening a kid’s baking school and a meals-to-go section. It’s also clear that those plans are firmly rooted in values that honor family and community. Making it in the restaurant business is tough. Kim and Ray have already fielded offers to sell their products through grocery chains and other restaurants, but have resisted, fearful that they would not be able to maintain the quality and high standards that are the bedrocks of

their business. As to the original question, will Aunt Bella make it? It’s clear that she already has. Bella’s Best Organic Gourmet is located at 25-D Bennett St. For more information, call 404-603-4733

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More than 100 residents showed up at a public meeting on Aug. 27 to hear updates and speak out about the city center plan. Steve Levetan, chairman of the Sandy Springs Conservancy, said his group was in support of an option for the project that includes a 1,000-seat performing arts center. He said he was pleased with the green space that is incorporated into the plan by city center landscape architects JB+a. Options presented by city center master developers Carter/Selig for the performing arts center have included three sizes, ranging from 600 to 1,000 seats, with varying amenities and stage sizes. The owner of Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs, Steve Grossman, agreed the city should build a performing arts center with 750 to 1,000 seats that could draw first-class acts. “You can’t do that at Steve’s,” he said. Cheri Morris, who, along with Grossman, serves on the board of Art Sandy Springs, said that the nonprofit group “is very much in favor” of a performing arts center. “We will use all of it,” she said. She said a center is a key factor of bringing back money that is often spent outside of the city by Sandy Springs residents. But Mark Griﬃth, who recently conducted an informal neighborhood survey that indicated many residents were against a center, urged caution. “We’re not dealing with a lot of space,” he said. “What does that take away from? Less housing? Is walkable retail space compromised?” He said he doesn’t think the city needs a performing arts center to draw folks in, pointing to downtown Roswell and the Decatur Square as examples Sandy Springs could emulate. “Some people don’t think we need a performing arts center, and I understand that opinion,” said May-

or Rusty Paul at the beginning of the meeting. “Others think it’s essential to have a place to meet.” Paul said he had to give his “State of the City” address earlier this year in Brookhaven due to lack of event space. “We know whatever decision this council reaches, some people will disagree,” Paul said. “[Hopefully we’ll] reach a consensus that can make everyone reasonably happy.” He said city officials have been cautioned by performing arts center operators in other locations not to build too small. We should either “build it right or don’t do it,” he said. City Manager John McDonough said building a city center will not require a tax increase and that site plans with a performing arts center do not decrease green space. He also said the city has a plan to pay for a performing arts center, which could cost from $24 million to $40 million. The total city center cost that includes the addition of meeting space, offices, parking and road improvements is estimated to be $169.3 million to $196.6 million. McDonough said funding options include money set aside for three years; using the money the city currently pays to lease City Hall offices, which would move to the city center; land sales to developers; private placement bonds; and a capital campaign to raise funds, which the mayor has pledged to lead. “I’m convinced Sandy Springs citizens in the private sector will be generous,” Paul said. City center planners were on hand to go over the options of site plans, performing arts center sizes, landscaping and green space, and retail and restaurant goals. George Bushey with Rosser International, the city center architect, went over sizing options for the per-

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Steve Provost with City Center landscape architect JB+a talks about the development’s green space on Aug. 27.

forming arts center, as well as four possibilities for the overall city center site plan. All options include a city green, parking deck, homes and shops. Three of the plans propose two buildings housing city oﬃces, meeting space and a performing arts center. A fourth houses the oﬃces, meeting space and arts center in one building. Steve Provost, with city center landscape architect JB+a said “open space and green space are a critical component” of the plan. He said one of the goals is to create a green space network. He described the city center as the middle piece of a “big green arc” through Sandy Springs. Jo Ann Chitty, with city center master developers Carter/Selig, said the plan for a tenant mix uses the performing arts center as the anchor. “Tenant mix is the most important part of any retail project,” she said, adding that resident feedback has indicated that people want to see unique shops and chef-driven restaurants, not chains.

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running a city and running a city eﬃciently. This development in my opinion is truly a project that will enhance the quality of life for the Sandy Springers.” The council has mulled four designs for an arts center, each with 600, 800 and 1,000 seats. The smaller prototype A includes no orchestra pit or “fly loft,” a large above-stage area for storing and manipulating scenery. A larger prototype B includes a fly loft, orchestra pit and cinema/ concert seating, while a full performing arts facility (prototype C) includes a large fly loft, orchestra pit and theater seating. The plan that the council favored in the original resolution was titled “B+” and included theater-style seating with side boxes. The adopted resolution also contained a tentative City Center site plan that includes one building with government offices, meeting space and the performing arts center, as well as a parking deck, city green and a separate mixed-use development including residential, restaurants and shops. The total project budget is expected to be up to about $196 million. Councilman Andy Bauman said he was voting to support a performing arts

center in part because it creates a community gathering place. “If this project was proposed to go forward without some significant community amenity such as a performing arts center . . . to me it became more of a city hall that happened to have a couple of nice public pieces - the park and some retail,” Bauman said. “But when you include the performing arts center and you include this great public space that will be built that has been made bigger and more user-friendly as a result of a plan right now to combine the features into one building, it’s really the other way around. It becomes a community connector, a community gathering place that happens to have a city hall.” Bauman also spoke to mixed community reaction to building a performing arts center. “There’s no doubt that the community is not unanimous on this, there would be almost no way to expect that to be the case,” he said. But he said he thinks the community will embrace the plan, and that he’s noticed the conversation moving from cost to value. “The status quo was not acceptable,”

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he said. “Roswell Road, the central part of our city, was not acceptable and we need to find a way to move forward.” Paulson asked City Manager John McDonough if online feedback from the community would be made public, but McDonough said those comments have

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 6300 block of Powers Ferry Road 30328 – On Aug. 17, a man reported that he was at a bar and brieﬂy left his iPhone on the table unattended. The phone was taken. Later, the phone showed, via GPS, that it was in Kennesaw. No further tracking was found on it.

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 9400 block of Roberts Drive 30350 – On Aug. 18, a cellphone was taken from the apartment pool area, after it was left unattended momentarily.

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ROBBERY  Mount Vernon and Dupree Road 30328 – On Aug. 16 a 35-year old man said he was car jacked around 3 a.m. at the intersection. He was driving on Powers Ferry Road south of Mt. Vernon when a car passed him and then stopped in front of him. A man got out, pulled a gun and then took his iPhone, wallet and $400 cash. The victim was ordered out of the car and the suspect drove off. The car was later found on North Devereux Court. The cops were able to pull several ﬁngerprints from the car.

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 200 block of River Springs Drive 30328 – On Aug. 19, a resident who was gone from Aug. 14 to Aug. 19 reported that someone entered by forcing a rear door. Police said the burglar tried to enter the front door by breaking a side window and reaching in, but was not successful. Evidence of another unsuccessful attempt was found in the carport. It appears the burglar ﬁnally tried and forced the back door. A lap 4500 block of Rotop and digital camswell Road 30342 era are missing. The Read more of the – On Aug. 20, a man said he returned Police Blotter online at 34-year-old womhome and found sevwww.reporternewspapers.net an reported that eral items in the around 9:30 p.m. home were gone. He she was in the parkdiscovered the beding lot of Popeye’s Chicken, after driving room window was open and the screen gone. across the street from Walgreen’s where she made a purchase. A man approached asking  5900 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On for change and then reached inside her car Aug. 20, someone shattered the glass front in an attempt to steal her Walgreen’s bag, of a cellphone store and took a $200 phone. which contained candy and a Red Bull drink. He tried to take a television from the wall, She pushed him and drove off. The man but managed to only damage it and the wall. ran. He was recognized as a local homeless Video showed a man with facial hair, wearing man who frequently panhandles for money gloves, baseball hat, a long-sleeve hooded in front of Popeye’s. He is known by other shirt, jeans and white shoes, throw a rock to homeless people in the area. He’ll be picked shatter the glass. He had a mark on the back up and charged. The woman received a cut of his neck, possibly a tattoo. He left in a on her arm. black sedan with silver or aluminum wheels.

BURGLA RY  1000 block of Brentwood Way 30350 – On Aug. 16, sometime between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., someone door-kicked the resident’s apartment. At the time of the report, nothing was missing, but the apartment had been rummaged through. Pill bottles were found on the floor and the victim’s things were tossed around, showing evidence that someone was looking for something. Unfortunately for the resident, the officer found that she was wanted in Henderson County for Transporting Tools for Forgery/Counterfeiting. The warrant was issued in February of last year.  300 block of Winding River Drive 30350 – On Aug. 17, the resident took the trash out and someone came in and took his Asus Intel i5 custom computer tower, Acer monitor and a Nexis tablet. The victim’s roommate was at home in her room, but said she did not hear anything. An office was burglarized and $132 cash was taken from a desk.  500 block of Heards Ferry Drive 30328 – On Aug. 18, sometime between 7:30

p.m. and 7:30 a.m., someone entered the home that was involved in construction, and stole a number of tools.

 8340 Roswell Road 30350 – On Aug. 19 at 5:58 a.m., the gas station manager called police and said someone shattered a front door and entered the business, and took $1,000 SS

 1700 block of Marlborough Drive 30350 – On Aug. 20, the resident said as he returned home, and as he was pulling up to the house, he saw a man walking out of his front door. The man walked past the resident and said something to the effect “Am working here” and then ran. The resident discovered several pieces of jewelry missing. 

6500 block of Whispering Trail 30328 – On Aug. 20, someone

opened a side door to a home and gained entry, subsequently taking items from the home. A witness said a burglary was committed in July, when a white box truck was seen. The witness said he followed the truck through several streets before it left the neighborhood on that day. He said earlier on this date, he saw a white pickup truck. The truck had a camper shell on it. The case was sent to detectives for follow up.  1st block of Long Island Drive 30342 – On Aug. 21, a

homeowner said someone entered the vacant home by forcing a rear door. A Wolf oven was taken.

T H EFT  1000 block of Johnson Ferry Road 30342 – On Aug. 16, a woman reported her Betty Boop purse was stolen from a hospital room. A worker later found the purse in a trash can, but her bank card and $100 cash were missing. She immediately called to cancel the cards. No activity was found on the card.

 1100 block of Mount Vernon Highway 30328 – On Aug. 19, a 26-year old man said his iPhone was stolen from the basketball court area of a gym. The GPS later located the phone on Memorial Drive.  6000 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30328 – On Aug. 20, an employee of a counseling center said someone snatched a cash box, normally kept unlocked in a drawer. The box was found under a table in the waiting room with $85 missing.

 6200 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30328 – On Aug. 20, a U-Haul truck was taken from a hotel sometime between 11:30 p.m. and 10 a.m. the following morning.  1000 block of Gettysburg Place 30350 – On Aug. 21, a resident said she thinks her neighbor took several OxyContin pills from her bathroom medicine cabinet.

FR AUD  A 60-year old man said someone used

his MasterCard information to purchase two round-trip plane tickets from Chicago to Florida in the amount of $736. He was able to pull the names of the two people, which were turned over to detectives.

 7700 block of Spalding Drive – A grocery store reported that on Aug. 17, employees were presented with and cashed checks for $423, $453, $437 and $445 respectively, before being informed by the bank the checks were fraudulent.  7500 block of Roswell Road –- On Aug. 17, a grocery store reported that someone came in and purchased a money order for $1,000 using real and counterfeit money. The manager of the store found $460 in counterfeit $20 bills.  A man reported that he briefly lost his wallet in Boston around Aug. 6, but it was located and returned. He found out that someone made some online purchases, which totaled $375 on his card.  A man reported that he received a bill for

$2,600 for five Verizon cellphones. The bill was addressed to his father’s home in Staten Island, New York, and this lead him to think one of his relatives may be the culprit.

 A 27-year-old woman said someone used

her Social Security number to file taxes in 2010.

 A woman reported that someone opened

an account with a diamond retailer, but never made a purchase.

 A 66-year-old woman said she noticed that

on at least two checks, the payee name was changed from the store to which she mailed it to an individual, and cashed. The amount was only $40, and was for a monthly payment.

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 A 62-year-old caretaker said she received

a call from India from a woman who convinced her to send $50 via Western Union. For some reason, she did it.

 A manager for AT&T said an employee be-

gan using her company credit card for personal purchases, amounting to more than $15,000. The now ex-employee said she was allowed to make the purchases, which were initially investigated by the company’s assetprotection employees.

ARRESTS  2300 block of Spring Creek Lane 30350 – On Aug. 16, a man was arrested following a domestic call. A woman’s boyfriend struck her and cut her lip. The argument started when the couple was out and apparently he decided to play another game of pool after telling her they would leave.  8000 block of Adair Lane 30350 – On Aug. 16, an officer saw a car driving on Roswell Road just before 3 a.m. The car was halfway into the center turn lane driving north at a fast pace. The officer turned around, finally catching the car on Morgan Falls Road, but the driver did not stop. They continued on, at about 30 mph, until they reached the apartments. The man threw something out of the car and then disregarded the officer’s commands to stop reaching into a glove compartment, where he had cocaine and a rolled up $1 bill with cocaine residue on it. He was charged with possession of cocaine and DUI. He told the officer that the officer was ruining his life, job and future relationship with his fiancé.  8200 block of Colquitt Road 30350 – On Aug. 16, a

man reported that between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. the following morning, someone stole his car. An officer later spotted a man driving the car and stopped it. The man was arrested for Theft by Receiving and jailed. There was no connection between the victim and suspect.  6300 block of Powers Ferry Road 30327 – On Aug. 17, an officer was checking a hotel parking lot around 5:30 a.m. when he saw a black SUV parked behind a bus in the rear parking lot of the hotel. He noticed the windows were fogged, so he checked it out since there had been some recent thefts from cars. He found two women in the car, and they said they were not doing anything. In the process of checking ID’s, one woman lied about her identity, but she admitted it when the officer figured it out. She was charged.  2100 block of Monterrey Parkway 30350 – On Aug. 19, a 26-year-old woman said she was helping her friend move from an apartment when another woman (roommate) became angry. She pushed and hit the victim, and was charged with Disorderly Conduct.  On August 19, around 6 p.m., an officer ran a tag showing the car to be stolen. He stopped the car and found that Enterprise Leasing listed the car stolen as of late July. The woman who was in possession of the car said she had the car legally. Records showed that the car was rented in early July, but the company extended the return per request, for three days. The woman disregarded the agreement and continued to use the car. She was arrested for Theft by Conversion.  8700 block of Roswell Road 30350 - On CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

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Does Sandy Springs police force reﬂect those they serve? Following protests in Missouri after a police shooting of a young black man, some residents have questioned how well local police agencies mirror the communities they serve. Here are racial and ethnic compositions of the Sandy Springs Police Department, compared to the overall population of the city of Sandy Springs.

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Sandy Springs Police Blotter CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 Aug. 19, security staff watched a woman take several items from the shelves of Publix, before leaving the store without paying. She was detained and later charged (on citation) with shoplifting the items valued at just over $22.

OTHER THIN GS  8300 block of Roswell Road – A man said his ex-girlfriend sent him a text photo of her holding a gun to the camera and saying that she was coming over to a house of his friend.

 5600 block of Glenridge Drive 30342 – Around 7:30 p.m., officers were called to a parking deck on a report of a “person down.” Emergency Medical Services were called for a 16-year old juvenile, who was heavily intoxicated. He could barely stand, but told officers he was drinking with friends. Although he had longer hair, it was noticed that a shaved strip was cut into his hair. Due to his heavily intoxicated state, he was taken to the hospital. He told the officers that he was at a party in the apartments and believes he was punched—evident by a cut lip. His father was contacted and came to the hospital and later took the boy home. The

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