Category: Neighborhood Issues

WHNA Meetin May 24 – Meet your Gov’t Reps and IMPORTANT INFO

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Thursday Night Meeting:
Meet your Representatives, Book your seat on the Beltline Tour w/ WHNA, & Learn about the latest and BIGGEST issue our neighborhood has faced
Woodland Hills Neighborhood Association Events

Hello Everyone,

This weeks General Assembly meeting is a unique and important one.

First, we are excited to announce the following special guests...

Mary Margaret Oliver (Georgia House Representative)
Burrell Ellis (Dekalb County Chief Executive Officer)
Kathie Gannon (Dekalb County Commissioner)
Gary Cornell (Dekalb Director of Planning and Sustainability)

Please join us in an open discussion with our government representatives. Bring your questions, concerns and ideas to share with the people that directly make things happen for our community.

Secondly, WHNA has booked our group reservation for 15 residents to take a Beltline tour on June 23rd from 9:30am-12:30pm. Since our space on this tour is extremely limited, we will accept reservations from our residents on a first come first serve basis. RSVP for this tour AT the general assembly meeting this Thursday.

Finally, The City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management is planning on building an overflow sewage capacity system less than a mile from our neighborhood. Two tanks, between 10-12 million gallons and anywhere between 15-30 feet above ground will be put at 2061 Lidell Dr NE (Right near the Barking Hound Village).

In the event of overcapacity in the main trunk, a tunneled pipe would carry diluted sewage overflow via active pumping to two above ground tanks on the Lidell property, and as capacity in the main trunk dissipated, would then release the overflow back into the main trunk via gravity flow.

We will talk more about this at our quarterly meeting, however a public meeting is being held Wednesday, May 30, at 6:30 pm at Rock Springs Presbyterian Church (1824 Piedmont Ave).

PLEASE MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO MAKE THIS MEETING. IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER FOR OUR VOICES TO BE HEARD.

Thursday, May 24
7:30 pm
Peachtree Baptist Church
Corner of LaVista and Briarcliff

Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative Announces Locally Preferred Alternative

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MARTA Planning staff has completed the review of community feedback and technical analysis and have finalized a recommended locally preferred alternative (LPA) for the Clifton Corridor. The LPA is the alternative that, based on technical analysis and stakeholder input, would most effectively address the needs of the corridor and goals and objectives of the project.

The recommended LPA includes 8.8 miles of new light rail transit (LRT) service connecting the Lindbergh MARTA Station to the Emory/Clifton Corridor and beyond to the Avondale MARTA Station. The recommendation for the locally preferred alternative includes several tunnels and one of those tunnels extends from an area west of Lenox Road to an area just west of Briarcliff Road.
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Final Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative Meeting

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Title: Final Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative Meeting
Location: Silverbell Pavillion in the Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329
Link out: Click here
Description: The final open house for Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative, Alternatives Analysis study, will be held Tuesday, October 25 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. located at the Silverbell Pavillion in the Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329.
Your participation is highly encouraged since this project will have a direct impact on our neighborhood.
Start Time: 17:30
Date: 2011-10-25
End Time: 20:30

Clifton Corrdior Transit Initiative

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For those of you unable to attend last Sunday's meeting regarding the upcoming development of the Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative, LCCC has created minutes of the meetings to keep you up to speed.

To view the minutes from the first meeting held in Woodland Hills click Here.

Thanks again to the Lapse's, Jane Rawlings (LLCC's transportation head, LLCC, and Heather Alhadeff (a Perkins + Will Senior Transportation Planner) for putting together such a great meeting.

Ms. Alhadeff has been hired to help as an adviser to work on behalf of the concerned residents and businesses of Lindridge-Martin Manor, LaVista Park, Woodland Hills, and Morningside-Lenox Park, the Cheshire Bridge Business node and the Zonolite Business node.

Her goals are to conduct the tasks listed below for each of the neighborhoods until the Alternatives Analysis study is finalized.

1.Provide facts and technical information about the project

2.Answer questions

3.Collect and share outstanding questions for MARTA and to provide their responses

4.Collect feedback, concerns, and ideas from residents to be compiled into an area-wide report to be shared with MARTA

For those of you not aware, this project will use the CSX corridor (south or Arnold Ave) as a transportation route from Lindbergh Station to Emory and end at Avondale.

For more information on the project, please visit.

Sincerely,

Brad Grulke, President WHNA

president@woodlandhillsatlanta.org

LLCC Announces Upcoming Clifton Corridor Initiative Neighborhood Meetings

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Title: LLCC Announces Upcoming Clifton Corridor Initiative Neighborhood Meetings
Location: 1805 Lenox Road NE Atlanta, GA
Link out: Click here
Description: LLCC will begin its series of neighborhood meetings regarding the Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative. The Clifton Corridor Alternatives Analysis involves investigating the need for high-capacity transit connections between the Lindbergh Center/Armour Yard area in north-central Atlanta to Clifton Road employment centers and the City of Decatur in west-central DeKalb County.

To assist LLCC in evaluating the proposed project\'s direct impact on our community and its compatibility with our own long-term vision, we enteredinto a contract with the Perkins +Will design firm. We\'re pleased to have Senior Transportation Planner, Heather Alhadeff, providing additional analysis.

Heather Alhadeff, Senior Transportation Planner

Ms. Alhadeff has been hired to help as an adviser to work on behalf of the concerned residents and businesses of Lindridge-Martin Manor, LaVista Park, Woodland Hills, and Morningside-Lenox Park, the Cheshire Bridge Business node and the Zonolite Business node.

Her goals are to conduct the tasks listed below for each of the neighborhoods until the Alternatives Analysis study is finalized.

1. Provide facts and technical information about the project

2. Answer questions

3. Collect and share outstanding questions for MARTA and to provide their responses

4. Collect feedback, concerns, and ideas from residents to be compiled into an area-wide report to be shared with MARTA

In order to gain this public input, Ms. Alhadeff will lead a series of meetings in the surrounding neighborhoods.

The first meeting will be held on Sunday, August 28 beginning at 5:30pm, at the Woodland Hills home of Brian and Alyson Lapes located at 1401 Arnold Avenue NE MAP.

The second meeting will be held in the Morningside Lenox Park neighborhood on Thursday, September 1, beginning at 6:30 pm at the home of Alan and Dianne Olansky located at 1805 Lenox Road NE MAP.

A third meeting is planned for the business communities of Cheshire Bridge Road and the Zonolite Business District at Nakato Japanese Restaurant located at 1776 Cheshire Bridge Road NE MAP date and time to be determined.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2011-09-01
End Time: 20:00