You seem to have covered the meeting content very ...

2009-07-08T11:13:15.638-04:00

You seem to have covered the meeting content very well. I am curious about one thing you said in regards to the current location of city hall. I walk there regularly because it is often quiet and shaded during the day. I don't care for bikes because I am lazy, but I do ride my scooter that way as well. I'll grant you the location is at distance from much of Dunwoody, and that may inhibit walkers, but Ashford Dunwoody Road has nearly complete sidewalks for walkers, and Perimeter Center East does as well. Perhaps some trails or paths will make their way from the neighborhoods east of there allowing better access from those neighborhoods.

"bike path cutting across Dunwoody, using the elec...

2009-07-08T08:39:46.754-04:00

"bike path cutting across Dunwoody, using the electrical power line. This idea was quickly tossed aside as soon as we learned the power line is really owned not by the utility company, but by the hundreds of homeowners whose property backs up to it."

We could buy it. Ya see, CoD snuck in an additional "Cost of Living in Dunwoody" tax, otherwise known as franchise fees. Now these here franchise fees are a significant part of the city revenue justified by the Georgia Municipal Association as a cost of doing business in the cities that simplifies utility company RoW acquisition yet addresses citizen concerns.

I digress...

Let us suggest that some of this money we collect as franchise fees be used for the GMA stated purpose. Let's purchase either the property under the lines or just an additional easement, or perhaps use the $1-100yr lease approach. If we really have to, we could use our newly minted power of imminent domain...

It is also not unheard of to use these areas. I believe Sandy Springs has some of the morgan falls golf course under them (of course that was a land fill and probably not private property). There are also grant programs like Project WINGS--converting rights of way into wildlife habitats.

I wouldn't give up so easily. Perhaps Sustainability Patty can lead the charge.

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