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- Our website, www.woodlandhillsatanta.org,
is up and running and getting better everyday. Please
log on, contribute, get on the message boards, get in
touch with each other, make suggestions and comments.
If you are not a paying member please consider joining,
we are a non-profit organization registered with the
state of Georgia so your membership fees can be looked
at as a donation and can be used as a tax write off.
- We currently have 65 households
as members, representing approximately 130 people. There
are almost 400 households in our neighborhood so plenty
of room for growth.
- Posted on the wall and our
website are 6 designs for a new entrance sign at the
corner of LaVista and Woodland Hills Drive. I have heard
that the sign we currently have there is from 1979,
I’ve also heard from another resident that it’s
from 1971. I don’t know which to believe but either
way it’s old and outdated. We, the board, would
like to update it, make it a little bigger and more
colorful. Please vote for which one you like and put
your vote in the jar back at the registration table.
You can also vote online at our website by using the
forum link. One of our residents, Scott Pressman, owns
his own sign business on Cheshire Bridge Road and has
offered to donate his services to make our new sign.
All he asks is that we pay for materials which he said
should be minimal. So please vote for your favorite
sign, and tell your neighbors to vote as well.
- Some of you may have noticed
rezoning notification signs posted on Lenox Road and
Woodland Avenue. The owners of single family houses
as well as the few duplexes along Lenox road, and the
Apartment building at 1073 Woodland (behind Leo’s
Car Wash), have gotten together to try and rezone their
properties to MR-3 w/conditions. MR-3 stands for multi-residence.
It looks like they are trying to get their properties
to appeal more to developers who may like to come in
and build townhomes on their lots, the zoning they are
applying for may help them do just that. MR-3 building
height allows for 50ft high structures. Lindridge Martin
Manor has asked they keep it 40 ft maximum. That would
be one of the conditions. Please go online to our website
to see in much greater detail more zoning descriptions
and conditions proposed for their request. Lindridge
Martin Manor was hoping to get them to agree to MR-2
zoning but could not, so the parties agreed on MR-3
with conditions. If developers buy these lots after
a rezone, it may mark the beginning of developers wanting
to buy, demolish, build townhomes where the many apartment
complexes sit on Woodland Ave. We shall see. The rezoning
vote goes before the city in March
- In other development news,
the lone apartment complex hold out on Lindbergh Ave
that has yet to be sold and demolished across from the
new Lindbergh Plaza is owned by Connie Rose and Associates.
Connie Rose is an elderly lady who supposedly has vowed
to never sell her apartmewnts over there until she dies…unless
the Developers pay her 2 million per acre. The other
apartment complexes reportedly received anywhere from
1 to 1.5 million per acre and find her request ludicrous.
Connie Rose also owns some apartments in our neck of
the woods. She owns the Lenox Hills apartments. She
could prove challenging one day, we shall see.
- I have also heard from Lindridge
Martin Manor that the six houses along Lenox Road between
Hampton and Ogilive have been approached to sell so
that multifamily townhomes could be put in. I would
hate to see that given those are single family homes
currently. Demolishing high density apartment complexes
to put in high density townhomes is one thing, but demolishing
single family homes to create more density is another.
I’ll keep you posted on that situation.
- The board’s request for
sidewalks along Woodland Hills Drive and Woodland Ave
from LaVista to Cheshire Bridge road is still undetermined.
I called our contact at the public works department,
Alan North, and he told me the county’s “wish-list”
results will be unveiled in February. This is assort
of a budget approval list for things like sidewalks,
traffic lights, crosswalks etc. So I will call him back
and Feb and keep you posted.
- N. Druid Hills/B’Cliff
intersection improvements that were presented to the
public over at the Sidney Marcus center on Oct. 9th
will be ready to bid out in May. Not sure how long the
bidding process will take or when they are looking for
construction to start. The plans for the improvements
and widening are on our website in full color, please
check it out.
- Dekalb county has posted the
results of a 2004 study on how to handle growth and
other quality of life improvements for Dekalb County
from now until the year 2025. It is a mission statement
of sorts, it’s very idealistic, and full of things
like green space, and towncenters, bike paths, pedestrian
friendly amenities which is all great, we’ll see
how they proceed. The three newest additions to the
study are that the county has deemed, and is proposing,
that the intersections of LaVista/N’Druid Hills,
LaVista/Briarcliff, andBriarcliff/N’Druid Hills
as “towncenters” These are areas that are
live/work/play. They have everything you need to “survive”
as far as business, health and personal needs. They
are pedestrian friendly with greenspace, sidewalks,
and bike paths, and are supposedly to be developed to
encourage more walking and less driving.
- The Clifton Corridor Transit
feasibility and Connectivity study is holding anope
house, the final open house meeting on Thursday Februray
8t, 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Clarimont Presbyterian Church.
1944 Clarimont Road. They are looking to connect MARTA
with Emory, Sage Hill shopping center area, Lindbergh
station, and Decatur square station. Which are all great
things, I’m curious to see their plans to do it.
It may end up affecting our neighborhood for better
or worse, we’ll see. So please attend the meeting
or staty tuned to our website for further info.
- Woodland Hill Crime report
from Sgt. Hightower. We must get block captains to start
our neighborhood watch program. At the very least, the
nice benefit of starting it is getting this crime report
every quarter from the police so we can see what’s
going on in our backyards and stay vigilant and aware.
So if you like this amenity please help us form the
Neighborhood Watch program
- Questions from residents.
- Next Quarterly meeting is the
last Thursday of April
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