The Brookhaven City Council, at its Jan. 27 meeting, committed about $50,000 to evaluate a third alternative alignment for the Peachtree Creek Greenway Phase III project.
The move is in response to concerns expressed in a community meeting in September 2025 from apartment residents. There are several apartment complexes in the proposed path area, including the Hendrix and Avana Uptown Apartments, but it’s not known which community expressed concerns about access to the path.
“The apartment complex has made it clear that they don’t want any access to the greenway,” said District 4 Council Member John Funny during the meeting.
Brookhaven officials said the objection is not to the path itself, but having access it to it from the community.
According to a staff memo regarding the request, the Peachtree Creek Greenway Master Plan, adopted in 2016, “served as the initial baseline for the conceptual development of the two alignments of Phase III.”
History of the project
“Following the completion of initial concept designs, the city held a community meeting on September 15, 2025, to present project information, alignment alternatives, and conceptual renderings to the public and gather input,” the memo said.
Following the community meeting, the council requested several revisions
to the two developed concept alternatives and requested a third alignment alternative to interface with existing private businesses.
The third alignment option will cross the North Fork Peachtree Creek near Barone Avenue, the memo said.
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“Due to the nature of the project area, including environmental, topographic, and geometric challenges, the third conceptual alignment must be developed to the level of the other alternatives to develop a meaningful and comparable costs,” the memo said.
“We want to be able to compare apples to apples for alignment options for Phase III,” said Brookhaven Acting Public Works Director Tom Roberts at the meeting.
The pink line shows alternative route 2, and the green line is alternative route 3. The yellow line is one that the council was considering, but did not act upon. (Provided by City of Brookhaven)
The Peachtree Creek Greenway, according to the city’s website, is a three-mile section “of the proposed 12.3-mile North Fork Peachtree Creek multi-use trail linking to the major Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Trail systems, and providing last-mile connectivity to transit, centers of employment, and passive green space for the densely populated Buford Highway corridor.”
The council voted unanimously to authorize the funds.
Other action taken by council
In other action, the council:
• deferred for 60 days a public hearing on a text amendment to allow vehicle sales and service uses within the North Druid Hills Road node of the Buford Highway Character without the requirement to obtain a Special Land Use Permit;
• heard that Funny will hold his District 4 quarterly town hall meeting on Feb. 26 in PEP building. Jennifer Owens will hold her District 2 coffee and conversation on Feb. 14 from 9-11 a.m. at Brookhaven City Centre;
• voted to realign several dates in its meeting calendar to realign with second and fourth Tuesdays;
• will hold its 2026 City Council Advance, which was postponed from Jan. 24, on Jan. 31 starting at 8 a.m. at Brookhaven City Centre;
• approved $164,000 task order to redirect stormwater runoff, collected at the intersection of Starr Drive and Sylvan Circle, through a new 36-inch storm drain. “The purpose of this new conveyance is to separate runoff from public streets from the runoff from backyards on Cartecay Drive to mitigate periodic nuisance inundation … by routing surface runoff away from the undersized private drainage system to the natural channel to the south.”