On April 2nd the Georgia Senate passed House Bill 1378, the Doraville annexation legislation. The bill calls for a referendum in the area to be annexed as part of the General Election on November 4. Gov. Perdue will have to sign the bill and the Justice Department will have to approve it before the referendum can take place.
The Dunwoody North Civic Association worked closely with the Citizens for Dunwoody and the City of Doraville in order to hammer out the proper boundaries between the two cities. The final plan is identical from that of a January 2006 proposal except that it was decided that the Dunwoody & Doraville boundaries would now extend all the way to the Gwinnett County Line.
Below is a brief recap of the Doraville Annexation as it relates to Dunwoody (& the Dunwoody North Subdivision).
The new City of Dunwoody will snake along the Southern portion of I-285 and cross at the Doraville line, go behind the Gardens of Dunwoody (located on N. Peachtree Road) and will follow the Carver & Ridgeway property lines until it reaches the creek behind the gas station.
The Carver Circle area which is land locked between I-285 & Peachtree Industrial is already part of the City of Doraville and is only accessible by the PTI access road. Ridgeway Drive is a small subdivision in unincorporated DeKalb just North of Carver that is only accessible by the same access road. For the efficient delivery of city services (like police) it made sense to allow Doraville to annex the Ridgeway property since they are already serving the Carver area and it didn't make sense to force Doraville to travel through Dunwoody in order to service an existing part of Doraville.
The intersection boundaries at the Northwest corner of Peachtree Industrial & Tilly Mill were cleaned up by allowing Doraville to annex the gas station on the corner so that there would be no ambiguity over future road maintenance and law enforcement. Doraville City Limits will control the Tilly Mill Road right of way up to it current boundary and one lot on the east side of the street will be annexed into Doraville. At one point the city boundaries were going to meet in the middle of the road, but when auto accidents happen under those circumstances both police departments have a hard time proving jurisdiction, therefore it was decided that Doraville would have the official responsibility of maintaining and policing Tilly Mill Road located between the two cities.
The new City of Dunwoody boundary line will cross Tilly Mill just N of Stonington Rd. heading E to follow the current Doraville boundary until it meets the Peachtree Industrial access road. Dunwoody will control all access roads north of the main Peachtree Industrial roadway until it meets the Gwinnett County Line at Winters Chapel.
The City of Doraville of course will retain all jurisdiction on the main Peachtree Industrial Boulevard within it's boundaries, so lead foots beware.
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