Earlier this week the long-awaited High Street Development dropped off at Dunwoody City Hall the initial plans for the land disturbance permit for phase 1. I haven't gone through the 100 MB of plans, but I did read with interest the initial conditions that DeKalb put upon the project.
If you are into downloading huge files and reviewing technical drawings, enjoy.
2019 0975 2019-08-19 High Street Phase 1 Hydrology Report.pdf 2019 0975 2019-08-16 High Street - Phase 1 LDP Part-1.pdf 2019 0975 2019-08-16 High Street - Phase 1 LDP Part-2.pdf 2019 0975 2019-08-16 High Street - Phase 1 LDP Part-3.pdf 2019 0975 2019-08-16 High Street - Phase 1 LDP Part-4.pdfNews Article by the Dunwoody Reporter Dyana Bagby from Aug 23, 2019
GID and North American Properties have proposed the $2 billion development on about 42 acres in Perimeter Center. It would total 8 million square feet of mixed-use development, including 400,000 square feet of shopping and chef-driven dining; 635,000 square feet of Class A office space; and a 400-room hotel. A small public park area is included in the central area. The scope of the first phase is to build four blocks of mixed-use development, parking decks, private internal streets, and stormwater pipes and other utilities. The development has been zoned for 3,000 residential units, but the first phase shows just one 8-story apartment tower being built with 600 units. The plans for the first phase also include construction of 200,000 square feet of retail.....
John is there nothing we can do to protest about this. The apartments and extra crowding into our schools just drives me crazy. I know it was all approved before Dunwoody become a city but would any sort of speaking out against this do anything?
ReplyDeleteYes - how can the city work with the developer and the county to come up with an innovative way to include school space into this plan? Several floors in an office building for some sort of theme or charter high school? With it being right on the MARTA line it could be accessible to kids from all over the county. Or why couldn't several floors be used for an elementary school? I know it is not the county prototype for a school but given the trend toward more dense urban areas maybe we could look to how schools are incorporated into dense areas such as new york or chicago? The reality is that we will not be able to find a large enough site any where near this area that the school system can afford.
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