Dunwoody will receive $850,000 as part of Congressman Hank Johnson’s $15.8 million Community Project Funding, which was part of a spending bill that was signed into law by President Joe Biden last week.
The money will be used to make progress in the city’s quest to extend a bike/path trailway from Two Bridges Park in Perimeter Center to the Georgetown Corridor, according to city officials.
“We are thrilled to receive an appropriation from Congressman Hank Johnson for the Georgetown segment of the Top End 285 Trail,” Dunwoody Mayor Lynn Deutsch said in a statement released by Johnson’s office. “This trail segment will provide regional connectivity, recreation, and additional commute options for major employment centers and dense residential areas. These funds will allow the city of Dunwoody to make necessary progress towards improving connectivity in our community and beyond.”
The city had originally asked for $3 million to fund the project, according to documents obtained from Johnson’s original request.
The $850,000 will likely be used for design purposes, Dunwoody Spokesperson Jennifer Boettcher said.
The comprehensive proposal was submitted by the city as part of an overall vision of its trailway master plan.
The segment in question would involve extending the existing Georgetown Bridge Trail behind the Endeavor Montessori School near the newly opened Two Bridges Park and continuing along the west side of the Nancy Creek north along parcels owned by the city, according to the master plan.
The path would then wind through several office complexes, multi-family homes, and residential areas. This part of the trailway system is still in the planning phases, the report said, and neither easements and/or agreements, nor funding for the actual construction have been identified.
Along with the $850,000 for the Georgetown segment, Johnson’s funding for District 4 includes:
- $960,000 for Newton County for the Brown Bridge Road Widening Project
- $850,000 for DeKalb County Line Park Improvements
- $500,000 for DeKalb County Community Schoolyards
- $800,000 for Women’s Resource Center for Domestic Violence for Housing Projects for Domestic Violence Survivors in DeKalb County
- $145,335 for Increasing Pedestrian and Vehicular Safety via the Realignment of Chestnut at Buford Highway in the City of Doraville
- $850,000 for DeKalb County for Kittredge athletic fields
- $800,000 for North Fork Peachtree Creek Trail (Phase 1) in DeKalb County.
- $1,000,000 for PDK Airport Design and Demolition Administration Building
- $959,752 for Rockdale County for Almand Branch Wastewater Treatment Project
- $959,752 for Rockdale County for Honey and Scott Creek Pump Stations and Force Mains Project
- $959,752 for Rockdale County for River Street Water and Sewer Improvements
- $959,752 for Rockdale County for Salem Lake Pump Station Replacement Project
- $1,166,279 for MARTA’s Safe Routes to Transit Program
- $4,000,000 for YMCA of Metro Atlanta in South DeKalb County.
