The Dunwoody City Council discussed a proposal to add entertainment districts and expand others within the city.
At Council Member Rob Price’s request, the staff prepared four scenarios of boundary expansion that were reviewed at a July 27 meeting. The council looked at four scenarios, according to a staff memo:
Option 1: No change
Option 2: Expansion parcel by parcel
Option 3: Expansion district-wide
Option 4: Expansion citywide
During that meeting, council members expressed their preference to consider option 3, which proposes district boundaries similar to the current Dunwoody Village entertainment district, according to a staff memo about the districts.
Under that scenario, “entertainment districts will have easily identifiable boundaries
that emphasize the district nature of each area,” the memo said. “The staff has now mapped the new and updated entertainment districts. No changes are
proposed to the existing Dunwoody Village entertainment district, while the existing
Perimeter Center entertainment district will grow north and east to include all commercial areas of Perimeter Center.”
A new Georgetown entertainment district will include all commercial areas of the Georgetown neighborhood, and a new Jett Ferry entertainment district will include the commercial areas on both sides of Jett Ferry Road.
Several council members, along with Mayor Lynn Deutsch, questioned the need for entertainment districts in the Georgetown and Jett Ferry areas, other than during special events.
The council will take up the proposal at its next council meeting.
High Street modifications passed
In other action, the council on second reading approved GID Development Group’s request to modify plans for the $2 billion High Street campus along Perimeter Center Parkway at the DeKalb-Fulton border.
The three-phase development is limited to 1,500 condominiums, 1,500 apartments, 400,000 square feet of retail space, a combined 635,000 square feet of office space, and two hotels. After the first phase, the developer wants to change its 2018 site plan while maintaining the 2007 use limits.
The first phase, completed in 2024, includes 150,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, 600 luxury apartments, 90,000 square feet of new loft office space, and 222,000 square feet of existing office space connected by a .75-acre park.
At the Oct.13, the council discussed limiting surface parking, surface parking design, sidewalk width, phasing of the trail development, and delivery parking at the adjacent restaurant.
Several changes to the proposal were made in response to the council’s feedback, including increasing sidewalk widths and modifying the trail construction to accommodate the various phases of development.
The measure passed unanimously.
In other action, the council:
- voted 5-1, with John Heneghan as the dissenting vote, to approve funding to build a public safety storage building at 4470 N. Shallowford Road;
- met Cuther, a 42-pound, six-month old LifeLine Animal Project dog available for adoption;
- discussed an amended contract for additional stormwater design for the Happy Hollow Road sidewalk between Kingsland Court and Peeler Road;
- heard from several residents who oppose Flock cameras within the city.
