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• Don’t forget about our website, logon create a user name and participate in our chat rooms, there’s people talking about schools, hobby’s, offering their services, talking about neighborhood issues. www.woodlandhillsatlanta.org

CRIME REPORT

• If officer is present, if not they said they might be busy due to the rain today having a lot car accidents.

SUBSTATION ON LENOX ROAD

• You may have noticed the substation construction at 2020 Lenox road has started
• Working with the community for a year and half planning screening options and amenities
• Planting lots of trees to screen but trees won’t be mature for a long time
• Trying to get sidewalks on the west side of Lenox road from Woodland Ave to the existing sidewalks in morningside, there’s a good chance we will get those. No commitment in writing, we do have a loose commitment in email which is sort of in writing although it was not their “official” commitment letter.

SIDEWALKS ON EAST SIDE OF LENOX ROAD

• Good news from the good folks at Lindridge Martin Manor, the city of Atlanta has released “Quality of Life Improvement” Bond Money to install sidewalks on the East Side of Lenox Road this summer from Hampton Way to Cheshire Bridge. Why not from Morningside to Cheshire Bridge? Not enough money in the bond that will probably come a t a later date. So what the substation committee is trying to do is not only get sidewalks on the west side of the street but have GA Power fill in the missing gap of sidewalks from Hampton way to Morningside. I will keep you posted I am extremely hopeful at this point

NPU-F REQUESTING A TRAFFIC STUDY OF LAVISTA/CHESHIRE INTERSECTION

• As we all know the intersection of Lindbergh/Lavista/and Cheshire Bridge is a nightmare so NPU-F has requested a traffic study of that intersection to see if turning lanes can be extended or added and lights retimed to make things flow smoother. My guess is that it’s a no brainer the way things back up something will have to be done. I’ll keep you posted as I find out more.

LENOX ROAD REZONING REQUESTS GO BEFORE THE CITY IN JUNE

• Properties looking to rezone from single family to multifamily on the west side of Lenox Road at Woodland Ave go before the city in June looking for approval. Looking to put in high-priced town homes, not high density.

6 HOMES FROM HAMPTON WAY TO OGILVIE HAVE BEEN APPROACHED BY DEVELOPERS TO AQUIRE THEIR LOTS FOR TOWNHOMES.

• That is all I know from lindridge martin manor right now, is that they’ve been approached. Don’t know how many they want to put in. We’ll keep an eye on that development.

4 HOMES ON LAVISTA LOOKING TO SELL TO DEVELOPERS TO BUILD 9 HIGH PRICED HOMES

• From what I’ve heard, I’ve heard gated community of 9 homes and in a cul-de-sac. Lavista Park is opposing the plan. I know they don’t like the idea of a gated community shutting themselves off from Lavista Park. They have a lot of that on Sheffield Drive and a lot of those communities are their own little communities instead of being part of the larger picture in LaVista Park

HOPEFUL OUTLOOK FOR THE TRAFFIC WOES ON SHEPHERDS LANE

• I contacted Jeff Rader regarding the heavy traffic volume on Shepherds Lane. I knew he was aware of it; he talked about it during his campaign for county board commissioner. He represents our district in Dekalb county, district 2. I knew he had concerns for Shepherds Lane and he has been so responsive to doing something about it. We talked about the upcoming intersection improvements and how it would be a good time to save Shepherds Lane if you will. I proposed that there be no thru traffic from 8pm to 7am. He told me that included in the plans for the b’cliff/Clifton intersection is a no left turn onto Shepherds from Clifton. So I asked if he would help us push for cut thru restrictions during certain hours. For example no thru traffic from 8pm to 7am and their response was not only overwhelmingly supportive of that, they seem to believe that once all the intersection improvements are made they could close Shepherds to all thru traffic saying the newly improved arterial roads can handle the traffic flow with ease. So I think that is fantastic, we’re going to continue this discussion with Jeff; we’re going to hold him to these improvements.

RAIL PROJECT IN THE WORKS FOR OUR CORRIDOR, THE CLIFTON CORRIDOR

• There was an open house held by GA DOT in march at the clairmont presbytarian on N Druid Hills Roadlaying out results of a 5 year study of our corridor and how to work in a rail system that connects the Clifton corridor area including hospitals, university, cdc, and surrounding neighborhoods into Lindbergh Station. There’s basically two ideas both hit very close to home. One idea is to widen LaVista Road to make room for a rail system going right down the middle of LaVista. That goes from Lindbergh to sage hill and on to the cdc and emory area. The other way is a cheaper alternative, use the exsisting CSX tracks which are in our neighborhood right behind Arnold Ave. They would lease use of the tracks from CSX and CSX would adjust its freight times to make way for commuter trains. This is all in the planning phase I recommend you attend these open houses to see pictures and simulations and talk to people. There will be more open houses, I believe 5 more before the study is complete and they submit a formal proposal. Talking to one of the representatives there, he says Emory is the biggest proponent of this. Having rail on their campus with the CDC, and students, and employees, and faculty, and hospitals is a big selling point. GA DOT says based on their surveys with people 60% of the traffic in our corridor comes from east metro area, Lawrenceville, tucker, Athens. If they can put 20% of those commuters on the rails it relieves our corridor of a ton of congestion. And this is all part of the larger Athens to Atlanta rail plan which they’ve been talking about for years.

ENTRANCE SIGN WINNER IS SIGN #6

• It received a total of 20 votes
• Sign #5 came in second with 7 votes
• One of our residents owns a sign company and he has donated his services to create the sign. He ask that we pay for materials. We’re hoping to unveil this at the next meeting in July.

BLOCK PARTY

• Arnold Ave block party, June 9th 5pm. It’s not an official neighborhood party, what started as just some neighbors getting together just grew a little bit. Come on down and enjoy some food and some music. We’ll have a couple grills out there, bring your own food and beverage, throw it on our grills. We’ll be in the cul-de-sac on Arnold Ave. Bring your kids, strollers, wagons meet your neighbors, have a drink, have some food. We’ll just be out there a couple of hours, they’ll be kids playin and people talking and a little music goin’.