Dunwoody City Council Agenda for Monday March 11, 2019 - Council Rules, Sidewalks on Tilly Mill, Andover Crosswalk, Grubb, Easements, Austin, Traffic Calming Spalding Estates

Monday, March 11, 2019
Dunwoody City Hall
4800 Ashford Dunwoody Rd

Dunwoody, GA 30338

6:00 p.m. - Watch Live

Agenda

Resolution Amending the Rules and Procedures for City Council Meetings.
  Thought this was passed at last meeting but am happy to see the full set of rules published.

Funding Authorization for Sidewalk Construction on Tilly Mill Road from Womack Road to North Peachtree Road

Funding Authorization for Stormwater and Pedestrian Improvements at Tilly Mill Road and Andover Drive

Approval of an Amendment to Lowe Engineers' Public Works Basic Services Contract

Approval of Private Development Agreement with Grubb Properties

FIRST READ: Permanent Easement Agreement for Palisades, LLC

FIRST READ: Permanent Easement Agreement for Georgia Power Company along Roberts Drive for New Austin Elementary School

Resolution to Establish a Traffic Calming District for Spalding Estates

Funding Authorization for Traffic Calming Construction on Coronation Drive

Dunwoody City Council Agenda for Monday Feb 25, 2019 - Austin Elem road / traffic signals, Storage Unit, Resolution against H.B.302 and Public Comment at meetings

Monday, February 25, 2019
Dunwoody City Hall
4800 Ashford Dunwoody Rd

Dunwoody, GA 30338

6:00 p.m. - Watch Live

Agenda

Funding Authorization for Storm Drainage, Curb and Sidewalk Construction for the new Austin Elementary School - $760,750.00

Approval of a Contract for Traffic Signal Installation at the New Austin Elementary School - $171,660.00

SECOND READ:SLUP 19-01: Adevco Corporation, on behalf of Shallowford Road Storage, LLC, owners of 4444 N Shallowford Road, request a Special Land Use Permit per Chapter 27, Sec. 27-73 to permit a three story storage facility in the Office-Distribution (O-D) zoning district. The tax parcel ID is 18 344 03 001.

Resolution in Opposition to H.B. 302 - Preemption of Local Building Design Standards (Lynn Deutsch)

• Articles regarding HB 302 - AJC, Athens, Gainsville, Bibb County, Saporta Report, GMA

Rules and Procedures For City Council Meetings: Modifying the Order of City Council agenda items to move Public Comment to the beginning. (John Heneghan)

In a representative government trying to figure out what the citizens want, allowing and listening to what they have to say is an important concept of proper govenence, therefore the City of Dunwoody has always allowed public comment near the begining of our City Council meetings.  After several instances whereby the citizen public comment period was delayed for well over an hour because of various proclamations, reports and presentations; I am proposing that public comment be moved in front of these items.

Knowing that we sometimes have new Dunwoody Police Officers being swarn in and police officers recieving recognition, I am also proposing that because police shift change is at 6 pm (meeting start time) and that officers want to be in attendance to support their fellow officers, I have also suggested an item to make this happen so that our dedicated police force can either get out on the streets or go home to their families ASAP.   My proposal is a modest one whereby most nights like this Monday, public comment will be towards the very begining of the meeting becuse there are no proclamations, reports or presentations, but it corrects the issue in such a way that so that everyone no matter what is on the agenda can count on open public comment at the start of the meeting in a uniform and consistant manner.  John

Dunwoody City Council Agenda for Mon April 21, 2014

Monday, April 21, 2014
Dunwoody City Hall
41 Perimeter Center East

Dunwoody, GA 30346

6:00 pm - Work Session

7:00 p.m. - Voting Meeting

Watch Live at 7 pm on City Site

Agenda 6 pm CAD2CAD & Agenda 7 pm Everything Else.

Update on the CAD-to-CAD Interface Project.
04222014_Cad2Cad.PDF

Discussion of AED Ordinance.
042212014_AED_DavieFL.PDF
042212014_AED_Memo.PDF
042212014_AED_ProgramAdmin.PDF

Discussion of Amendments to Chapter 8, Buildings and Building Regulations.
042212014_Chap8_Buildings_Memo.PDF
042212014_Chap8_ConstructionMemo.PDF
042212014_Chap8_DCA_Response.PDF
042212014_Chap8_IBC_Ord.PDF
042212014_Chap8_StorySample.PDF

FIRST READ: SLUP 14-031: Candace Johnston, Owner of 4789 Coldstream Drive, Dunwoody, GA 30360, Seeks the Permission to Operate a Child Day Care Facility in a Single-Family Zoning District Under the Approval of a Special Land Use Permit. The Tax Parcel Number is 18 358 06 017.
042212014_SLUP_CandaceJohnston_Application.PDF
042212014_SLUP_CandaceJohnston_futurelanduse.PDF
042212014_SLUP_CandaceJohnston_locationmap.PDF
042212014_SLUP_CandaceJohnston_memo.PDF
042212014_SLUP_CandaceJohnston_ord.PDF
042212014_SLUP_CandaceJohnston_PC_Meeting.PDF
042212014_SLUP_CandaceJohnston_zoningdistrict.PDF

Discussion of Facility Improvement Partnership Program 2014 Project Selection.
042212014_Facility_Improvement_Partnership_DNC_2014_Application.PDF
042212014_Facility_Improvement_Partnership_DPT_2014_Application.PDF
042212014_Facility_Improvement_Partnership_DSB_2014_Application.PDF
042212014_Facility_Improvement_Partnership_memo.PDF
042212014_Facility_Improvement_Partnership_Project_Descriptions.PDF
042212014_Facility_Improvement_Partnership_SCFA_2014_Application.PDF

Discussion to Exercise Option Year for Municipal Service Providers.
042212014_Exercise_Option_Year_MunicipalServices.PDF

Discussion of Chamblee Dunwoody at Spalding Intersection Improvement Project.
042212014_ChambleeDunwoody_Spalding_Crash_CompPlan.pdf
042212014_ChambleeDunwoody_Spalding_CrashDiagram.PDF
042212014_ChambleeDunwoody_Spalding_memo.PDF
042212014_ChambleeDunwoody_Spalding_ppt.PDF  Large
042212014_ChambleeDunwoody_Spalding_Traffic_Volumes_Crashes.pdf

Discussion of Chamblee Dunwoody-Georgetown Corridor Design Contract.
042212014_ChambleeDunwoody_Georgetown_ActionPlan.PDF
042212014_ChambleeDunwoody_Georgetown_Corrido_ARC_Funding.PDF
042212014_ChambleeDunwoody_Georgetown_Corrido_Memo.PDF
042212014_ChambleeDunwoody_Georgetown_Corrido_Tier1a_Table.PDF

Discussion of 2014 Paving Contract.
042212014_2014_Paving_Contract_Attach.PDF
042212014_2014_Paving_Contract_memo.PDF
042212014_2014_Paving_Contract_Plan.PDF
042212014_2014_Paving_Contract_Plan_2014.PDF

Discussion of SLUP Time Limits.
042212014_SLUP_Time_Limits_memo.PDF
042212014_SLUP_Time_Limits_Zoning_processes_transfer.PDF
042212014_SLUP_Time_Limits_Zoning_Survey.PDF

Discussion of Mayor and Council Rules and Procedures.
042212014_Mayor_Council_Rules_Procedur.PDF

Executive Search Firm Update.
042212014_Executive_Search_Firm_Update.PDF

City Manager Warren Hutmacher's last Council Meeting.

Dunwoody tidbits and other items that have crossed my desk.

http://www.thecrier.net

I read most of my news on line and am excited to see some upgrades to the Dunwoody Crier webpage. It has rss feeds, twitter & Facebook sections along with much more, including an e-edition just for tablets like the I-Pad. It looks like a work in progress but I really look forward to the changes.

During a recent walk through Brook Run with the family, I stopped by Skate Park to check out the conversion from a pay facility to a use at your own risk - free facility. I talked to Mr. John Kurg the former Manager who took over the concession contract and moved his Woody's Halfpipe Skateboard Shop into the facility. Everything is going smoothly, but the biggest news is that he has a full snack bar in the facility available to anyone in the park. He has coffee in the morning for the parents at the playground, 40 types of bottled drinks for the joggers running by, 8 different ice cream bars for the kids on a hot summer day, as well as candy bars, pizza and hotdogs for you junk food junkies. Tuesday June 21st is "Go Skateboarding Day" with a contest for those who know what they are doing, as well as an excuse for me get back on my long board to try not to kill myself.

The Atlanta Business Chronicle reported that Dunwoody was the most expensive home market in Georgia with an average price of $379,866.  The data was pulled from a Coldwell Banker site and when you scroll down to the bottom of the second page of the list, there is a link for listings.  Upon clicking that, then removing the price limits, I see flaws in the information as there are houses are outside our city boundaries.

Public comment is actually one of my favorite segments of a City Council meeting as we have a few colorful regulars, surprises that no one expects and it allows everyone the opportunity to communicate freely and openly to your elected officials. My friends over at the DeKalb Officers Speak blog posted a doozie of a comment showing a citizen communicating freely and openly to the DeKalb Board of Commissioners.

The Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon officially shut its doors on Sunday after 15 years. The museum will return some items in its 31,000-piece collection to donors who want the items back and return other artifacts that were on long-term loan to the hall. Other items will be loaned to other museums to put on display before the hall's staff will begin taking inventory to put the items in storage in archives at three universities.

Kudos to Brian and Page Olson the owners of Cafe Intermezzo who will now be opening their fifth European coffee house in the Atlanta area, as well as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Int'l.

Tuesday must have been a slow news day because Peach Pundit pulled a Georgia Gang trick out of the bag and had a special DeKalb County Segment.

I hear Georgetown Kroger redevelopment is starting soon.

Save Our Skin 5K race in Dunwoody on Sat June 25th

Could this work here?  The City of Decatur has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to upgrade, operate and maintain the city’s existing municipal WiFi network. The network currently serves educational, residential, commercial, and municipal customers within the City of Decatur boundaries.

Tennis Court Lights at the Branches, Cheating in School and goodbye Flip-Flops

• Lighting the tennis courts at the Branches comes to the ZBA on July 2nd.

Today's Dunwoody Crier (the legal organ of the City of Dunwoody) on pages 22 & 23 contain the legal notices for upcoming meetings and proposed zoning changes coming in front of the Dunwoody Zoning Board of Appeals and the Dunwoody Planning Commission. I quickly reviewed them and saw that the Branches Club would like to add lights to a tennis court and the notice shows that this will be heard by the Dunwoody Board of Zoning Appeals on July 2 at 7 pm at City Hall. On the surface that sounds straight forward but I understand that this is a long standing issue in the community that I heard was even the subject of a prior lawsuit.

Also on the ZBA agenda for July are a few hold over items from the previous meeting, including the Goddered School playground issue in the Dunwoody Village which is mentioned in a letter to the editor in the Crier, but there are also a number of other new items to be heard involving the corner of Ashford Dunwoody & Hammond. (Ravinia expansion?)

I was hoping to find these same legal notices on the City of Dunwoody or the Dunwoody Crier websites so that I could do a copy and paste of the text in order to list all of the items but unfortunately they are nowhere to be found on-line. Since I believe that these public notices need to be available via the web (sooner rather than later, though I do believe that the city will post the agenda and background information about 15 days in advance on a calendar announcement on the Dunwoody website), I will be asking if this information dissemination can be improved. The City Manager, Mr. Warren Hutmacher stated on Monday that the RSS feeds (currently under utilized) could be used for this purpose and I would like to see that happen when rezoning or variance applications are accepted and placed onto the appropriate meeting calendar. As soon as the City schedules a zoning issue, informs the applicant of the hearing date; the residents should also be notified by some basic online notification system or voluntary mailing list subscription.

• Senator Dan Weber proposes criminal sanctions for cheating in school.

The CRCT testing scandal has officials considering whether to make it a crime to tamper with standardized test scores. Head of Georgia's Senate Education committee Dan Weber wants educators to know just how serious it is to mess with them.

"If you cheat and change answers... there should be criminal sanctions for that," said Senator Weber(R-Dunwoody), "These people, they're professionals. They're put in a position of trust and these families and our state rely on them to do the right thing or else the kids are cheated."

According to the AJC the DeKalb County principal found at the center of this controversy resigned quickly. (I wonder if he gets to keep his credentials to teach elsewhere and shouldn't he have been retained, investigated & then fired.)

• Death of the flip-flop in the DeKalb County School System - new system wide dress code.

Of course the Charter schools in Dunwoody set their own dress code and the 4 / 5 Dunwoody Elementary will also have a dress code based on the catch phrase of "Plain is Perfect, and Spirit Wear is Super!"

Official City of Dunwoody discussion board is available for comments and questions, other improvements to the website.

The City of Dunwoody website is finally being overhauled and I would like to bring a couple of recent additions to your attention. The first is a City of Dunwoody Discussion Board available for residents to post comments, questions, complements & concerns knowing that City employees will be monitoring and answering if needed.

I am really proud that the City of Dunwoody posts copies of documents that will be discussed in advance of the meeting taking place as well as maintains past agendas & related documents.

The City has implemented a Request for Service page whereby residents can ask for specific city services and upload attachments (pictures) describing the request. Once registered in the system, I believe you will receive a work order number and/or a confirmation as to the status of the request, as well as a confirmation as to the completion if applicable.

Finally the City has implemented on-line collection of Municipal Court fines and I believe will be implementing other on-line financial payments where possible.

In closing, the "services" being offered by the City of Dunwoody website fosters a level of transparency in government that we the residents of DeKalb County are not use to, but that we the residents of Dunwoody have demanded. I believe that there are number of improvements in development and yet to be brought on-line that will make it even better. As far as I am concerned the City website will always be under development and in a constant state of flux, so what improvements do you want to see to the City of Dunwoody website?

Additional Public Comment Segment being requested for City Council Meetings.

Public Comment prior to Votes
may be worth the additional time.

A couple of meetings ago, I proposed that we include public comment prior to any vote affecting legislation and it was voted down by a slim margin. Immediately following that vote another amendment was made which allowed any member the council to defer any item for one meeting and that in turn passed by I believe the opposite slim margin. I couldn't find the meeting minutes from Dec 18th but that is when it happened.

These last minute amendments are scary for a lot of reasons, but the main one is that they have not been publicly vetted and nor does the public have a means to stop us from making a mistake until which time the deed is already done. This is why I am in favor of the additional public comment prior to votes as I have crafted below as well as in favor of the deferral option.

In an e-mail to the City Attorney on December 31st, I asked that we revisit public comment prior to votes and it was mistakenly not added to the agenda I received and posted to my site today. Therefore I have again requested that the following amendment be added to the agenda separately from the amendment already being proposed which would now reverse course and remove the ability of any member of the Council to defer any matter, one meeting.

In order to give you notice of what I intend to propose at the meeting here are the proposed changes in RED.

Section 19. Public Participation. Public participation in meetings of the City Council shall be permitted in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(a) Public Comments. The floor shall be open for public comments at three points during the meeting. The first public comments section will be provided immediately following the approval of the meeting agenda. This public comments period will last a maximum of thirty minutes, and speakers’ comments will be limited to three (3) minutes each.

Prior to the vote on any legislation, the chair of the meeting invites remarks from the public. Each speaker will be entitled to a total of two minutes to speak to any such item. Council will hear from one speaker in support – the Mayor will ask persons in the audience who are also in support to stand to be recognized. The Mayor will then entertain one speaker in opposition and follow the same process as for the speaker in support. The Mayor retains the ability to limit the number of speakers speaking on a subject depending upon the number of speakers and the number of items on the Council agenda that night.

In addition, the final agenda item of the meeting shall be reserved for comments from the public. Speakers’ comments during this period will be limited to three (3) minutes each. All members of the public wishing to address the City Council shall submit their name and the topic of their comments to the city clerk prior to the start of any meeting held by the City Council; provided, however, that if the applicants of rezoning actions or individuals who wish to oppose a rezoning action have contributed more than $250 to the campaign of a Council Member, the individual shall file a campaign disclosure form as required by O.C.G.A. § 36-67A-3 at least five (5) calendar days prior to the first hearing by the City Council. Individuals will be held to established time limits. These limits may be waived by a majority vote of the City Council. [Cross-reference: O.C.G.A. § 36-67A-3]

Tuesday Dunwoody City Council - Zoning, Speeding Ticket Fees & Allowing Drinking in the Park

Special - Tuesday Meeting of the Dunwoody City Council
Dunwoody United Methodist Church - 7 p.m.

Full Agenda

PUBLIC HEARING – City of Dunwoody Interim Comprehensive Plan

PUBLIC HEARING – City of Dunwoody Interim Future Land Use Map

Second Read, discussion and vote on Ordinance to adopt and approve the City of Dunwoody Interim Comprehensive Plan.

Second Read, discussion and vote on Ordinance to adopt and approve the City of Dunwoody Interim Future Land Use Map.

Second Read and vote on Ordinance to adopt the International Property Maintenance Code.

Second Read and vote on Ordinance to adopt the City of Dunwoody Budget for Fiscal Year 2009. It was amended at the last meeting but we didn't receive an updated copy for this meeting.

Second Read and vote on Ordinance to adopt the City of Dunwoody Fiscal Year.

Second Read and vote on Ordinance Authorizing the City of Dunwoody Tax Anticipation Note.

Second Read and vote on approving Ordinance granting Comcast of Georgia a Franchise Agreement for Cable and Video Services (deferred).

Discussion and vote on approving Resolution adopting a Fee Schedule for various planning and zoning functions (deferred).

Ordinance to adopt and approve the updated City of Dunwoody Zoning Ordinance (Chapter 27) and the updated Zoning Maps

Discussion and vote on approving a Resolution setting a Fee Schedule for the City of Dunwoody Municipal Court. Speeding 20 mph over = $225.00 fine. 1st DUI = $1,041.00

Discussion and vote on re-approving the Resolution for Rules and Procedures for City Council Meetings (as amended). Removes authority of any council member to defer an item for one meeting and I have requested additional public comment prior to all votes.

First Read of Ordinance to amend certain provisions of Chapter 16 (“Offenses and Violations”) of the City of Dunwoody Code of Ordinances. Allows drinking in the park with a permit, think bottle of wine at the Dunwoody Nature Center Concert.

Discussion and vote on approving a Resolution appointing an acting assistant city clerk.

EXECUTIVE SESSION for the purposes of legal, real estate, and personnel discussions.