Dunwoody Traffic Alert - Vermack Road Temporary Closure & Isolated water outages

Avoid Mt. Vernon & Vermack if possible.

The City of Dunwoody's contractor is currently completing major utility tie-ins at the Mount Vernon Road and Vermack Road Intersection project. Road closures will begin on Friday morning, March 1^st, at 8:30 a.m. They will continue for the next 72 hours.

The north end of Vermack Road (between Dunwoody Square and Mount Vernon Road) will be blocked during this 72-hour period. Detour signage will be in place to redirect traffic.

The City of Dunwoody Public Works Department is in direct contact with DeKalb County School officials and administrators at Dunwoody High School and Vanderlyn Elementary School, as well as the staff at St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church. Weather permitting, normal traffic will resume on Sunday evening, March 3^rd. 

Isolated water outages are also planned for Saturday, March 2, as tie-ins occur on Vermack Road. Flyers were posted at all homes this morning that will be affected by the water outage on Saturday. 

We appreciate your patience as we make progress on this project.

Few places around Dunwoody you might find me.

All Saint's Community Bingo, Tonight - Thursday, Feb 28th - 6:30 doors open for free dinner - games at 7:30

Dunwoody Wildcat Theatre presents Once Upon a Mattress

March 1, 2, 8 and 9 at 7p and March 3 and 10 at 2p 

Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway. The play was written as an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Princess and the Pea. Tickets are available at:

https://www.showtix4u.com/events/DHSTheatre

www.DunwoodyWildcatTheatre.com

Caffeine and Octane is this Sunday, March 3 [8am-11am] Perimeter Mall, Dunwoody GA

Community Bike Ride on Sunday 2:45 - starts at Village Burger

Dunwoody Dad's Meeting at Dunwoody High

·  When: Wednesday, March 6th, 7am-8am in Room #2122

·  Guest speaker: Eric Linton, City Manager, City of Dunwoody

·  Mr. Linton will share and discuss the policies, goals and vision for the city of Dunwoody

City of Dunwoody, GA offers strong opposition to Georgia #HB302 & #SB172 violating Home Rule and jeopardizes residential safety. #gapol

Full Press Release

Dunwoody’s Mayor and City Council voted unanimously Monday night to oppose Georgia House Bill 302 and Senate Bill 172, which would prevent local governments from enforcing and regulating building design elements for residential homes. Members of Dunwoody City Council have been in close contact with our elected State Representatives, Senator Sally Harrell, Representatives Mike Wilensky, and Matthew Wilson, all of whom have taken strong stands against these proposals. The City has been in discussions with the Georgia Municipal Association, the DeKalb Municipal Association and has been in constant contact with our lobbyist in opposing these proposed actions.

Ten years ago the City of Dunwoody was created to allow us the right of self-determination and it is my opinion that this over reach proposed by the State Legislature not only erodes the home rule doctrine in the Georgia Constitution, which allows municipalities to have self-government over building and housing codes; but it completely eliminates the municipalities allowance of home rule.

Dunwoody Council Member Lynn Deutsch introduced a resolution respectfully requesting that the General Assembly oppose the bill. The Council voted unanimously to approve the resolution during Monday night’s City Council Meeting.

“We do not take this decision lightly. Most housing in the City of Dunwoody would be impacted by this,” said Council Member Deutsch. “This is an issue of local control. We have set minimum building standards that protect the safety of our residents and enhance the quality of construction.”

“This is an encroachment that is unbelievable to me,” added Dunwoody Mayor Denis Shortal. “We became a city to keep decisions close to home. This bill strips us of the rights to keep Dunwoody the way the citizens want it.”

Council Member Pam Tallmadge encouraged concerned residents to e-mail lawmakers who are backing the bills (Georgia House Bill 302 and Senate Bill 172.

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

DeKalb School System provides enrollment forcasting and redistricting information for Dunwoody Cluster.

I attended the meeting last night at Kingsley with about 100 neighbors, parents, school charter representatives, teachers and various DeKalb school administrators in attendance.  Meeting started about 6 and the first half discussed the process of enrollment forecasting and the second half started to get to the discussion on overcrowding but was cut short as the meeting was scheduled to end at 7 pm.

Long story short, little short term relief may happen at the elementary level because of Austin redistricting but capacity issues still abound. DHS enrollment continues upward with little improvement in sight.  Financial issues and build schedules were touched upon but no definitive information or answers were given. 

Here is the full Powerpoint presentation from last night.

DeKalb School System to provide update on Dunwoody High & PCMS construction plans - Wednesday Feb 20, 6PM at Kingsley Elementary at Peachtree Gateway Council on Schools meeting.

Update on DHS & PCMS expansion plans.

Kingsley Elementary - Media Center
2051 Brendon Dr, Dunwoody, GA 30338
Wed, Feb 20, 2019
6:00pm

I saw a notice for a community meeting on Wednesday evening being sponsored by the Peachtree Gateway Council on Schools on DeKalb Commissioner Nancy Jester's Facebook Page.  The meeting's purpose is to discuss issues that affect the Dunwoody community specifically and is intended for Dunwoody parent leadership inside the local schools.  There are lots of interesting comments on Nancy's page regarding the planned classroom addition at Dunwoody without adequate resources (expanded lunch room, band room, gym space and other ancillary needs besides just classrooms that students will need) vs the idea of a new Doraville area high school that might reduce the attendance zone of Dunwoody therefore reducing the total attendance.

In case you don't remember, back on 2016 the school system vetted various options for District-wide feedback and our local Peachtree Middle School Foundation and Dunwoody High School Council both pressed hard for the additions at Dunwoody & Peachtree Middle School to reduce the overcrowding issues in the cluster as well assure that the cluster remains intact.

If you are interested in what’s going on with the plans for the additions to Peachtree Middle School & Dunwoody High School - please go to the Peachtree Gateway Council on Schools meeting on Wednesday where Mr. Dan Drake, DeKalb County School District COO will be presenting.