North Buckhead Civic Association — October 2017

October 2017 NORTHNorth Buckhead NewsletterBUCKHEAD Page 1 Newsletter

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FALL FLING Moves to PATH400 at Old Ivy Park on Nov. 5

After a number of years on Mountain Way, our NBCA FALL FLING is moving to a new location. On Sunday, November 5, 2:30 to 5:30 pm, you’ll be able to join us at the location of North Buckhead’s newest park, Old Ivy Park, which will share some of $3 million in new park funding allocated to Buckhead parks. The location is also on PATH400, an easy half mile walk from Lenox Road, making it the first Fall Fling easily accessible for North Buckhead’s condominium residents living near Peachtree Road. For those who live too far to walk, parking will be available at Sarah Smith Elementary at 370 Old Ivy Road. A shuttle service will operate between the parking at the school and the Fling, or you can walk on the sidewalk. For the kids, confirmed entertainment includes: The event is free to members of the households • Face Painter of NBCA members. One-day memberships will • Balloon Artist be available for non-members. • Caricaturist We’ll have a variety of food from the Wing Factory (including vegetarian), as well as • P'tree Orthopedics will create fake casts. cookies, drinks and water. • Dr. Irving (the monkey) if at least 80o F. We’ll have live music and portable toilets. (Continued on page 9) Times Change: NBCA Discontinues Christmas Tree Sale

For more than twenty years, NBCA tree sales As a neighborhood, we’ll miss the convenience were a convenience to residents and often a and the chance to see old friends. We deeply big money maker for NBCA. In 2006 NBCA’s appreciate the many dedicated volunteers who tree sale made $6,000. Last year, we lost helped us sell trees and hope they can help $1,300. Our decision to quit selling trees address neighborhood needs in other ways. wasn’t due to a single year’s loss. Sales and For many, the sale was a wonderful aspect of profits have trended downward for a decade, living in North Buckhead. But, times change. and having to change tree suppliers also hurt. Inside this Newsletter

Recycling ………….………………………………..………. 2

School Discount Card ………………...... 2

Street Repaving Schedule ……………….…………. 3

Opinion Survey ……………………………………………. 3

BCN Candidates Forums …………………….………. 4

Voters Information …………………………..……….. 4

Election Candidates ……………………………...... 5

PATH400 Update ………………………………………… 6

Three Newsletters This Year ……………..………. 6

Land Use and Zoning ………………….…..…………. 8

Residential Crime Way Down ……….…….…….. 10

Get your Boo Signs! ………………...……………….. 11 Sign Cleaning …………………………….……………….. 11

Transit and Mobility ……………...…………………… 12

Blue Heron Programs …………………………...... 13 Little Nancy Creek Park …………………….……….. 16 Page 2 North Buckhead Newsletter October 2017 Keep Atlanta Beautiful Recycling Events

By Peggy Denby, The second Saturday event has relocated from Executive Director, Keep Atlanta Beautiful the former Irwin Street location in Old Fourth On the first Saturday of each month, for the Ward, to Kirkwood/Edgewood at Coan Middle past five years, Keep Atlanta Beautiful, Inc. has School, 1550 Hosea L. Williams Drive, NE, held community recycling events in Buckhead, Atlanta, GA 30317. The new site is about three at the Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church at miles from the old site. 2715 Peachtree Road (turn onto East Wesley Directions to the new location are as follows: and left on West Bolling Road). The time of the From Midtown, take North Avenue or Ponce de event is 10 am to 3 pm. Items recycled are Leon Avenue driving east. Take a right turn Styrofoam, electronics, latex paint, paper onto Moreland Avenue, then turn left onto shredding, metals, glass, books. These events Hosea Williams Drive. have been a big hit with Buckhead residents. Everything else is the same as the Buckhead There is also a second Saturday event, at location, same time, same vendors. For more another location, which many of you have used details, visit www.keepatlantabeautiful.org/ as a back-up when you could not attend the recycle, or call 404-249-5853. Buckhead event on the first Saturday.

Get Your Sarah Smith Discount Card

By Jenn Ingham, Co-chair, By purchasing the card, enjoy discounts all year Sarah Smith Education Foundation Star Fund long (card expires 7/31/18) at your favorite local restaurants and retailers. Buy yours for Support Sarah Smith Elementary School by $35 (or two for $50). Cards will be mailed to purchasing a Dine & Shop card! 100% of the your address. proceeds benefit the Sarah Smith Education Foundation, a non-profit organization that Go to tinyurl.com/SRSCard to buy your card supports the quality of education at Sarah Smith today. The card pays for itself in no time! through strategic investments in curriculum and instructional programs that directly enhance the Questions? [email protected]. school's mission of academic excellence for all Sarah Smith students. Visit sarahsmithelementary.com for information about the Sarah Education Foundation. October 2017 North Buckhead Newsletter Page 3 North Buckhead Repaving Schedule

hood to recommend those in worst condition. Funding was identified in the RENEW ATLANTA plan for paving work on these North Buckhead streets:

• Loridans Drive • Old Ivy Road

• Mountain Way • West Wieuca Road

• North Ivy Road • Wieuca Road

Back in 2015, Atlanta voters approved the We recently asked the RENEW ATLANTA staff for RENEW ATLANTA TSPLOST (transportation a status report for this newsletter. Michele special local option sales tax), a five-year 0.4% Wynn, Program Management Officer, responded increase in sales taxes to address some of promptly on September 29 as this newsletter Atlanta’s transportation infrastructure problems. was in final edit. The table below shows her NBCA surveyed roads throughout the neighbor- response, reorganized for the newsletter.

Construction Start* Road Status If Weather Permits Loridans Drive Completed -

Mountain Way Completed -

North Ivy Road Currently advertising. Bids are due October 4. December-January

Old Ivy Currently advertising. Bids are due October 4. December-January

West Wieuca Road Procurement scheduled to advertise in October. January-February

Wieuca Road Procurement scheduled to advertise in October. January-February

*Construction schedule will be more defined when contractor is on-board.

Neighborhood Opinion Survey—Tell Us What You Think

Periodically, NBCA asks residents how they feel MARTA’s role in North Buckhead about current issues. This issue we’re asking Last fall, Atlanta voters approved a 40-year about two topics that we haven’t explored in sales tax increase to fund improvements to much detail: The Park Over 400 proposal and MARTA within the city limits. Some are excited MARTA’s role in North Buckhead. about this initiative helping to address one of Park Over 400 the city’s biggest problems: traffic. Others wonder if North Buckhead will see any benefits This is a proposal approved in a 4-3 vote by the Buckhead Community Improvement District at all. We want to explore your thoughts about (BCID) board for a new park. It would be a MARTA. Would you ride MARTA if the “last mile” issues in North Buckhead were addressed? Or, major gathering space built in the space above GA 400. It would be big, extending north-south is there nothing that you can think of that would get you on a MARTA bus or train? half a mile between Lenox Road and Peachtree Road. It would be very expensive; cost Our October 2017 Opinion Survey includes these estimates mention amounts around a quarter of two topics as well as others that may concern a billion dollars! Most people wonder who’s you. The survey is being announced both in this going to provide that kind of money (and hope newsletter and by email. If you don’t get it by it’s someone else). Some think it somehow email, take it at www.nbca.org/survey17. won’t make our traffic congestion worse. We’ll publish all responses (fit to print) without Others wonder how that could possibly be. But, identifying names or exact addresses. it would definitely raise Buckhead’s profile, so do these issues matter? Page 4 North Buckhead Newsletter October 2017

BCN Conducts Forums for Candidates for City Offices

The Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods, Questions asked in both forums were based on founded in 2008 by NBCA and three other questions proposed by BCN neighborhoods neighborhoods adjoining Roswell Road, now (including North Buckhead). If you want to includes 21 Buckhead neighborhoods. It review those questions, go to http:// provides a non-political forum for Buckhead tinyurl.com/BCN-2017-Forum-Questions. neighborhoods to explore common interests and solutions to common problems involving all levels of government, as well as non- governmental issues such as area history. One of the services BCN has provided is forums for candidates for city, county, and state offices. In 2009, BCN’s Mayoral Forum was reportedly the most heavily attended in the entire city. BCN’s 2017 Atlanta City Council Candidates BCN City Council Forum participants, above, await Forum was held on September 27 in the North the beginning of the forum. Atlanta High School Auditorium. The moderator The three candidates for City Council President are was Loretta Lapore. BCN invited candidates for on the left are (L-R) Felicia Moore, C. T. Martin, District 8, President, Post 1 At-large and Post 2 and Alex Wan. All currently serve on the City Coun- At-large. BCN had previously set a requirement cil. that City Council candidates must have raised In the middle are City Council Post 1 At-Large $5,000 in campaign contributions. District 7 candidates Michael Bond and Courtney English. candidate Rebecca King did not, so neither she nor her opponent, incumbent Howard Shook, On the right are Post 2-At Large candidates Matt participated in the forum. Westmoreland and Cory Ruth. Bond currently serves on the City Council. English and Westmoreland The Atlanta Mayoral Forum, also at the North both serve on the Atlanta Board of Education. Atlanta High School Auditorium, is to be North Buckhead residents will be able to vote in all moderated by Jim Galloway on Wednesday, three of these races. October 18, about the time this newsletter is to The complete video of this forum (two hours) is avail- be delivered to neighborhood mailboxes. Since able at BCN’s Facebook page accessible at http:// there are a large number of candidates for tinyurl.com/BCN-2017-Forum1. If you haven’t decid- mayor, BCN established fund-raising thresholds ed whom to vote for, consider watching at least some to limit participation to the plausible contenders. of this video.

More Information For Voters

By Justin Wiedeman, Early Voting – City of Atlanta (Buckhead) Chastain Park Neighborhood Resident • Early voting (including Absentee) October The Fulton County Board of Registration and 16 to November 3. Elections has published registration and election information on their website. The user-friendly • Mondays through Fridays: 8:30 am to website provides all information necessary for 7:00 pm registration, absentee voting, early voting, elec- • Saturday, October 28: 8:30 am to 7:00 tion-day voting and voting locations. pm For a broad range of Fulton County voter information go to: fultoncountyga.gov/rae-home. • Sunday, October 29: Noon to 5:00 pm For more information call 404-612-7020. Atlanta/Fulton 2017 Election Deadlines Buckhead Early Voting Locations Include: Buckhead Library – 269 Buckhead Avenue NE • October 10 – Voter Registration Deadline for General Election Northside Library – 3295 Northside Parkway NW • October 16 to November 3 – Early/ Note that the Chastain Park site is not included. Advance Voting (including Absentee) • November 7 – General Election Day (Voting For updates on early voting go to: Day) fultoncountyga.gov/registration-elections- cd/7448-early-voting. • December 5 – Runoff Election (Voting Day For an Absentee Ballot Application go to: for Runoff as appropriate) fultoncountyga.gov/registration-elections- cd/7450-absentee-voting.

October 2017 North Buckhead Newsletter Page 5

Candidates North Buckhead Can Vote For in November

The list below includes all candidates North BOE Member, District 9 At Large Buckhead residents can vote for. Please get a • Jason Esteves (I) sample ballot, when available, to verify our list.

Take time to learn which candidates are compe- Fulton County tent and have good policy positions. Research them yourself, talk to knowledgeable friends, Fulton County Commission Chair and look at yard signs in the neighborhood for • Robert L. Pitts clues about who’s electable. Then, please vote. • Robert Gabriel Sterling • Keisha Waites City Of Atlanta State of Georgia Mayor • Keisha Lance Bottoms State Senator, District 6 • Ceasar C. Mitchell • Charlie Fiveash (R) • Kwanza Hall • Jaha Howard (D) • Mary Norwood • Jen Jordan (D) • John H. Eaves • Kathy Eichenblatt (R) • Vincent Fort • Leah Aldridge (R) • Cathy Woolard • Matt Bentley (R) • Peter Aman • Taos Wynn (D) • Rohit Ammanamanchi • Glenn S. Wrightson This Georgia Senate Special Election is not a • Michael T. Sterling primary. Candidates from both parties run • Laban King together. If a candidate gets a majority, they win outright. If not, the two top vote City Council President getters will be in a runoff. (This is just like • Felicia Moore the Ossoff/Handel election earlier this year in Georgia Congressional District 6.) • C.T. Martin • Alex Wan Note: Candidates are listed in the same order as the source government web pages we copied, which is City Council District 7 likely the order in which they registered to become • Howard Shook (I) candidates. • Rebecca L. King

City Council Post 1 At-Large • Michael Julian Bond (I) • Courtney D. English

City Council Post 2 At-Large • Matt Westmoreland • Bret R. Williams • Cory Ruth

City Council Post 3 At-Large • Andre Dickens (I)

Atlanta Board of Education

BOE Member, District 4 • Nancy Meister (I)

BOE Member, District 7 At Large • John Wright • Nathaniel Borrell Dyer • Patricia "Granny P" Crayton • Kandis Wood Jackson • Micah A. Rowland

BOE Member, District 8 At Large • Cynthia Briscoe Brown (I) • Ben Stone • Charlie Stadtlander

Page 6 North Buckhead Newsletter October 2017 PATH400 Updates and Happenings

By Denise Starling Executive Director of Livable Buckhead Construction Update While those of you living in North Buckhead are enjoying the completed one-mile section of PATH400, construction continues farther to the south. This month, work is beginning on a small section of trail along Adina Drive between Garson Drive and Lindbergh Drive. We are removing a left-turn lane on Adina Drive, in order to make room for a 12-foot-wide sidewalk/trail, which will have the added benefit of improving the alignment of the Adina Drive wall on PATH400, Out of the Box Yoga will lead intersection with Lindbergh Drive. This section free yoga sessions, and lululemon Atlanta will of PATH400 is relatively small, but every step provide water stations. The event is open to forward puts us closer to completing the entire everyone — from beginners to serious 5.2 miles. practitioners, and kids as well. Participants need to bring a mat, water bottle and a towel.

Trails, Tails & Ales On Saturday, November 4, PATH400 goes to the Bike Share Comes to Buckhead dogs. Please join us at Mile 0 of PATH400 (the If you’ve ever wished you could get around intersection of Adina Drive and Piedmont Road) Buckhead by bike but you don’t have one of for an afternoon of dog-friendly fun. Our second your own, we’ve got a solution for you. Livable annual Trails, Tails and Ales event will feature Buckhead worked with the City of Atlanta to music, yard games, trail tours, photo install three Relay bike share stations in opportunities, food trucks, beer and wine. The Buckhead this summer. Relay offers multiple event is from 1 to 5 pm. This is a walking event rental options with both pay-as-you-go and for residents of and visitors to the Lindbergh membership plans that are created and area, and there is no parking available. managed via an app on your smartphone. The station located in Tower Place Park — along a future segment of PATH400 — is within easy Yogtober reach of North Buckhead and the completed It’s time to get bendy! Every Saturday in segment of the trail, making it ideal for October from 10 am to noon at the Buckhead weekend exercise and recreation. There are also stations at Piedmont Center and the Lenox MARTA station.

Keep In Touch Want to get the latest updates on PATH400? Visit www.path400greenway.org where you can sign up to receive our monthly e-newsletter. And be sure to follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/livablebuckhead) and Twitter (twitter.com/LBI30326) too!

Three Newsletters in 2017

We discontinued our annual Christmas Tree Sale as reported in the article at the bottom of page 1. With no tree sale, we didn’t have a good reason to follow our normal schedule of quickly following our October newsletter edition with one for December. As a result, there will just be three North Buckhead newsletters this year. Advertisers’ ad subscriptions will be extended in time to ensure they get the number of ads they paid for.

NBCA’s board will consider the future schedule for the newsletter in upcoming board meetings and will let you know what to expect in 2018 and beyond. October 2017 North Buckhead Newsletter Page 7

Did you know that the North Buckhead Civic Association has a Facebook page? It has been around since 2013. We were excited when our Facebook page had 100 “likes”. Now it has over 700 “likes” (705 at last count), so we are very pleased. In our neighborhood, we have three main ways of communicating with you: this Newsletter, emails, and Facebook. The Newsletter goes to all homeowners in North Buckhead, plus about 200 government officials, non-profit organizations, and member businesses. So that’s almost everybody, but it only comes out three times a year. Email blasts come out frequently, with the latest breaking news you want to know. You’ve lost a dog, you’ve found a cat? That’s information for an email blast. Finally, our annual meeting in March is a good way to get to know your elected officials, and Facebook is timely and topical, and features what they are doing. You can communicate human interest postings, photos, and relevant with them directly by sharing your problems, news, usually not as frequently and not always questions, or appreciation. You can get to know the same as the emails. Facebook is your neighbors better, too. interactive. If you want to make a comment, you can make it then and there. But, back to Facebook. We are grateful to Jackie Goodman, who does most of our postings There are other means of communication. One and really knows what’s going on. You’ll enjoy is our website, www.nbca.org. Newsletters are learning about happenings in and near our posted online here as well as weather (for community, seeing photos, and adding your example, rain gauge information letting you thoughts if you’d like. know how much it rained here in the past week), park information, and more. Follow us on Facebook!

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By Walda Lavroff, Our July 2017 meeting dealt with one zoning Chair NBCA Land Use and Zoning Committee variance. V-17-178, 4044 North Ivy Road, Zoned R-3. Our June 2017 committee meeting dealt with a Applicant/owner Wesley Stewart seeks to reduce subdivision application and a zoning variance the required north side-yard setback from 10 application. feet to 4 feet for expansion of an existing SD-17-010, 3616 Old Ivy Lane, Zoned R-3. garage attached to a single-family dwelling. Applicant/owner Andrew Hamilton seeks to From our site visit and the applicant’s subdivide the property into two R-3 lots. The presentation at the meeting we found: This applicant was represented by expeditor Monica house was built in 1941; the lot configuration Woods of Canaan Permit Service. The meeting pre-dates current zoning code. The lot is 65 was attended by one adjoining property owner. feet wide, “skinny” but not uniquely so on this This property is currently one lot of 1.051 acres. street. The side-yard setback expansion will Applicant’s home is situated on what would be enable the garage to accommodate one car with space to open the doors. The style of the house “Lot 1”, consisting of 0.612 acres. “Lot 2” would be 0.439 acres. Both new lots would meet R-3 will remain the same. The impervious lot size requirements. coverage will remain unchanged. The applicant showed letters of support from adjoining The plan also stated that no portion of this property owners. Our committee voted to property lies in a Flood Hazard Area according to recommend approval. the FEMA Flood Map. But it also stated that “State Waters are present within 200 feet of Project site”. This suggested that Watershed Our August 2017 committee meeting dealt with regulations may come into play when building a subdivision application. on Lot 2. SD 17-18, 760 Old Ivy Road, Zoned R-3. We were unable to verify from the submitted Applicant Ken Collier of CDK Partners, LLC seeks plan that the required frontage at the setback to divide subject property into two 0.44 acre R- line was present for the proposed Lot 2. We 3 lots for property owner Robert Desha Dawn. further noted that topographical issues exist The current structures, which are to be which would have to be considered for building demolished, seem to be unoccupied. The yards on Lot 2. are overgrown, posing a risk for adjoining home Our committee noted that unless these issues owners in terms of safe ingress/egress, and for were resolved, we could not support the using the sidewalks. This lot is at the corner of proposed subdivision. Wieuca and Old Ivy Roads where traffic is Note: When this application subsequently came hazardous even without overgrowth. We to NPU-B, the applicant presented an updated recommended approval. site plan which showed the corrections necessary for NPU-B approval. We received no applications for our September V-17-159, 4185 West Oaks Court, Zoned 2017. That meeting was cancelled. R-3. Applicant Jeffrey H. Baker, architect for owner Bratcliff LLC, Mahesh Patel, seeks to reduce the required front yard setback from 50 feet to 21 feet to construct a single family dwelling. We found: This lot is difficult to build on because of the presence of large oak trees, which the builder wants to protect and incorporate into his plan. While we appreciate Lost/Found Cats and Dogs the tree protections, we also realized that constructing a building around these trees without damaging them and their roots may If you lose a pet or find one, send an email to need intense supervision. [email protected]. Please include your contact information and a description of Applicant provided approval notes from five the pet. Include a photo if possible. Please do adjoining property owners. Our Committee not use [email protected] for lost/found pet expressed its concerns but we recommended reports (or anything else) — that email account approval. was deactivated years ago.

October 2017 North Buckhead Newsletter Page 9 FALL FLING — continued

(Continued from page 1)

When you arrive at Old Ivy Park for the Fall Fling, you will notice that there is a sign saying it is a park, but not much else has been done to make it into a real park other than some mowed grass.

Fall Fling participants may reach the location from either Old Ivy Road near GA 400 or from Lenox Road via PATH400. There will be greeting tables on PATH400 for Fling attendees coming from the north and the south.

The terrain at the park is steep near Old Ivy Road, so we won’t try to enter the park there. We plan to make a temporary entrance from PATH400 to the park as shown by the star in the diagram below. Once you enter the park, you’ll see the amazing view of the neighborhood with skyscrapers on the other side of Lenox Road in the distance.

We’ll have areas set aside for live music by the JustCuz duo, face painting and kids’ games, and a place to sit. You may want to bring a folding chair, or a blanket to sit on the grass.

ADA compliant access to the park is a key part of the park’s master plan, but like most of the park’s planned improvements, it is not yet a reality. Should handicapped attendees need a little assistance, let us know and you’ll be assisted. Page 10 North Buckhead Newsletter October 2017 2017 North Buckhead Crime: Residential Crime Way Down

By Gordon Certain President, North Buckhead Civic Association Last December’s North Buckhead Newsletter reported an alarming 90% year-to-date crime increase in North Buckhead’s core residential areas compared to the same period the previous year. This article revisits that topic. APD provides detailed crime statistics online. (If you like to delve deep into data, go to www.atlantapd.org/i-want-to/crime-data- downloads.) While APD’s statistics are often organized by neighborhood (e.g. “North Buckhead”), understanding trends in North Buckhead’s subparts leads us to our neighborhood’s patrol beats, 208 and 209. (See map at right.) Tracking crime in North Buckhead requires This figure shows how APD’s patrol beats 208 and looking at two parts of the neighborhood. Most 209 intersect with North Buckhead (red outline). crime happens in the commercial and mixed-use parts of the neighborhood. This area includes The drop is much more than resulted from the the high-rises, parking decks, the MARTA I-85 bridge outage suggested in the bar chart. station, etc. in beat 208 plus a commercial sliver But, the bottom table shows there was not along Roswell Road in APD’s beat 209. The much change in the rest of the neighborhood. remainder of the neighborhood along both sides In January, Major Barry Shaw became APD’s of Wieuca Road is the second part, North Zone 2 Precinct Commander. He reallocated Buckhead’s residential core in beat 209. personnel, focusing less on things like traffic The bar chart below shows weekly North enforcement and more on crime fighting. That Buckhead data split by beat — 208 (blue) and change seems to be helping, at least in our 209 (red). It confirms that more crime happens residential areas. in our smaller beat 208 mixed-use area than in the larger, mostly residential beat 209 area. The annual crime summaries at the right took more work than simply looking at neighborhood crime by beat. Here, we went street by street to define the parts of beat 209 that are North Buckhead’s residential core. The crime summary for that core is shown in the top table. (Each year includes data through September 28.) The remainder of the neighborhood is lumped together in the second table. The top table indicates that the 2016 crime surge in the residential core has been reversed. This core area had 65 crimes year-to-date 2016 versus just 27 this year.

This chart shows 2017 North Buckhead serious crime by patrol beat by week. It ends with a partial week on September 28 (week #38). As is apparent in the chart, most of the neighborhood’s crime occurs in beat 208 (our mixed-use area). Notice the interesting drop in crime during the period the I-85 bridge was out of service. October 2017 North Buckhead Newsletter Page 11 Get your Boo Signs! School Area Sign Cleaning

Announcement provided by Kristen Schettino Last August, NBCA VP Robert Sarkissian shared of North Buckhead Friends of CHOA these before/after photos with NBCA’s Board: Please support Children's Healthcare of Atlanta “Here are some before and after pics from during the annual Buddy Boo Campaign! my sign cleaning stint. I did about 25 signs on Old Ivy near SRS Primary Campus.” All proceeds directly benefit CHOA and, for every Boo purchased, a patient at CHOA will receive a Buddy Boo on their hospital door. Your children will have a blast "Boo-ing" their friends during the month of October.

Please visit choa.org/buyaboo, and choose “North Buckhead” during the checkout process. Thank you for your support of CHOA!

Boo signs are for sale through Tuesday, October 31, 2017.

Great work, Robert! Need any help? Jackie Goodman

404-844-4977 (office) 404-966-9220 (cell) [email protected] www.JackieGoodman.com

Realtor/Associate Broker Pay NBCA Dues Online Resident of Loridans Drive since 1980 Office address: 1801 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta 30309 To pay dues and/or make other donations, go to Native Atlantan, 4th Generation www.nbca.org/dues.htm. You will receive an email confirmation of your payment from NBCA. “Let my energy, enthusiasm, and We have added the capability for you to select a one or two year renewal period. These actions love of North Buckhead work for you!” can be repeated to get membership periods longer than two years. -- Representing Buyers and Sellers since 1994 -- Page 12 North Buckhead Newsletter October 2017 North Buckhead Transit and Mobility Get Attention

By Robert Patterson • Encourage MARTA to provide more bike Chair, NBCA Transit Committee parking at MARTA stations, especially at This summer, NBCA set up a group to the Buckhead Station that is now investigate improving MARTA service and non- accessible via PATH400 car mobility within North Buckhead and to • Encourage other transit agencies (Cobb, increasing the use of transit by those traveling Gwinnett, and GRTA) to provide direct to and from Buckhead. The group has also service to Buckhead, reducing the number reached out to establish relationships with key of people driving to Buckhead people at MARTA. • Provide discounts on monthly MARTA Some of the initial ideas being pursued include: passes to NBCA members • Make Bus Route 5 on Roswell and Piedmont • Invite MARTA to use North Buckhead as a Roads a “showcase” transit corridor test area for new initiatives • Greatly increase the number of bus • Support the Lenox Corridor and Buckhead passenger shelters along Roswell and Cultural Loop Trail proposals Piedmont Roads • Organize fun activities using MARTA, such • Explore how MARTA could provide as a MARTA pub crawl automobile parking at selected bus stops on Roswell and Piedmont Roads We are looking for more ideas and more • Encourage MARTA to provide an “Uber Pool committee members. Please send ideas or your -type” service within North Buckhead willingness to volunteer to Robert Patterson at [email protected]. October 2017 North Buckhead Newsletter Page 13 Blue Heron Nature Preserve Education Programs

By Amy Zvonar options for children ages 5 and up. For a full Education Director, Blue Heron Nature Preserve listing of school break camps available for the 2017-2018 school year, and to register, visit December Festival of Native Trees: Call for bhnp.org/school-break-camps. Entries!

Blue Heron Nature Preserve is the forest in the city, and we love our trees! Join us this December for our first ever Festival of Native Trees. To showcase the value of our native trees, we are decorating the living trees lining Adult Natural Science Illustration Classes the trails at the Preserve. We invite any member at Blue Heron Nature Preserve of our community to submit an entry to Do you enjoy drawing or painting the natural decorate a tree on our trail. Decorated trees will world? Do you wish you knew how to capture be showcased at our December 9 Festival the vibrant colors of fall in a sketch? Adults Opening Ceremony, and decorations will interested in quality time in the field and studio remain on display throughout the month for our will have the opportunity to work with award- community to enjoy, and to vote on their winning naturalist artist, Christy Knight, at Blue favorite. Prizes will be given for People’s Heron Nature Preserve this fall. On the lookout Favorite, Blue Heron Staff Pick, and to one lucky for signs of the golden season, artists will draw member of the voting public. and paint berries, mushrooms, leaves and other We will accept detailed drawings and treasures using traditional watercolor and descriptions of proposed tree decorations until colored pencil techniques. All levels of November 15, 2017. Accepted entries will be experience are welcome! A small list of basic art notified by November 20, and must pay an supplies will be provided upon registration. All entry fee of $15.00 for individuals and couples workshops will be held from 1 to 4 pm. We are or $25.00 for groups of three or more by offering workshops on September 30, October November 28 in order to participate. For details 28 and November 11. Visit bhnp.org/adult- on how to enter, guidelines on creating a education/ for details and registration. winning entry, and other important information about the Festival of Native Trees, please visit bhnp.org/festival-of-native-trees.

School Break Camps at Blue Heron Nature Preserve Blue Heron is hosting School Break Camps and Nature Days throughout the 2017-2018 school year. Campers enjoy outdoor play throughout our 30 acres of woodlands, meadows, and wetlands. Led by professional naturalists and environmental educators, our camps promote hands-on explorations of nature and grow your child’s awareness and connection to the natural world. We offer a Little Blue Herons group for ages 2-4, and a Great Blue Herons group for ages 5-13. Daily registration is available, along with half-day options for all ages and full-day Page 14 North Buckhead Newsletter October 2017 NBCA’s Email Updates Provide News & Help Lost Pets

This newsletter is published only three times a Please do not use [email protected] — that email year, but neighborhood news happens more of- account was deactivated years ago. If you get a ten, sometimes so fast we can’t cover it here. response from it, it is likely to have come from an imposter in Latvia whom we hear from occasionally. Each North Buckhead Update email’s subject line lists the contents so recipients can (and we hope, do) skip emails about topics they don’t care about. What does our email look like? See the example at the right. NBCA has 2,200+ addresses on its email list. Our typical 50% “open rate” means that NBCA emails are read. Join our list at www.nbca.org or email us at [email protected]. NBCA membership is not required. It’s free for everyone. If you lose a pet or find one, send an email to [email protected]. We generally do not repeat items posted on Nextdoor, so if you want to reach NBCA’s list, send an email to NBCA. Please include (1) a description of the pet, (2) your contact information, and (3) a photo of the pet, if you have one.

NBCA Officers, Board, Staff

NBCA Officers President Gordon Certain Vice Pres. Robert Sarkissian Secretary Jackie Goodman Treasurer Dieter Franz

NBCA Board Andrea Bennett andrea0599 @gmail.com 404-231-4130 Gordon Certain NorthBuckhead @yahoo.com 404-231-1192 Rita Christopher ritachristopher @bellsouth.net 404-237-5878 Dieter Franz cdfranz @comcast.net 404-261-8697 Jackie Goodman [email protected] 404-966-9220 Rebecca King [email protected] Above: Parts of a recent NBCA email. Waldtraut Lavroff waldalavroff @gmail.com 678-686-4575 Lauren Panetta [email protected] Adam Pollock castlehaven @bellsouth.net 404-233-1706 Pete Rogers petali @comcast.net 404-239-9004 Robert Sarkissian oversark @bellsouth.net 404-504-9444 New Businesses Member Bob Young [email protected] 404-255-1315 Since our July Newsletter edition NBCA gained Beautification NPU-B Representative Liaison Lauren Panetta NPU-B Chair one new business member. Kevin McCauley Andrea Bennett Kim McCauley Pedestrian (Sidewalk) CALIBER enterprises: Business/Entrepreneur Christmas Tree Sale Liaison Peter Rogers Liaison Robert Sarkissian Branding, Consulting, Management, Speaking Social/Special Events Code Enforcement Liaison Adam Pollock Engagements, PR & other services. Liaison Open www.calibereliteconsulting.com 404-824-7991. Crime Reporting Traffic Liaison Peter Rogers Liaison Robert Sarkissian

Land Use and Zoning Chair Walda Lavroff Transit Vice Chair Andrea Bennett Liaison Robert Patterson

Membership North Buckhead Parks Liaison Gordon Certain Volunteer Coordinator Liaison Open New Neighbor Greeting Liaison Rita Christopher Online Services If you are interested in parks, we have lots of Lauren Panetta NBCA Gordon Certain information on North Buckhead area parks on Newsletter Zoning Andrea Bennett Editor Gordon Certain Facebook Sue Certain our web site. Go to www.nbca.org/Parks/. Assoc. Ed. Sue Certain Jackie Goodman Proofing Jackie Goodman Tessa Turner If you have suggestions or would like to volunteer to keep our neighborhood beautiful, go to NBCA is a 501(c)(4) Georgia Non-profit Corporation. [email protected]. October 2017 North Buckhead Newsletter Page 15 Area Businesses Support NBCA

These businesses support your neighborhood association with their NBCA business memberships. Please support them. 10 Terminus Place Condominium Association Jones & Kolb, CPAs 404-262-7920

Atlanta Audubon Society ww.atlantaaudubon.org Kazoo Toys 3718 Roswell Road

Blue Heron Nature Preserve www.bhnp.org McManamy McLeod Heller ww.mmhfirm.com Brookhaven Oaks Homeowners Association Paramount at Buckhead 3445 Stratford Rd

Buckhead Coalition 3340 Peachtree Road#560 Park Avenue Condo Association 750 Park Ave

Buckhead Grand Condos 3338 Peachtree Rd

Park Regency Condo Assn. 700 Park Regency Pl

2000 Cheshire Bridge Rd

Peachtree Mosquito Control 404-447-6607

Buckhead Tire & Auto Repair 3830 Roswell Road

Piccadilly Puppets 404-636-0022 CALIBER enterprises www.calibereliteconsulting.com

Private Bank of Buckhead 3565 Piedmont Rd#210 Diazo Specialty Printing 3872 Roswell Road #A8

Realtors, *The Hinsons * 404-231-1113 Laura Dew, Realtor-Atl. Fine Homes 404-974-4372 domainatphippsplaza.com 404-233-MARC

DWHInteriors.com

Shirley Irek Piano Studio 404-467-9451 Ivys Condominium Association Elsie & Holden Thompson, HN Realtors 404-814-5421

Can you think of another way to get visibility for your area business for so little money? Businesses, join NBCA and get listed here. Send $100 (non-profits, $50) with the coupon below or join online.

NORTH BUCKHEAD CIVIC ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP  Join  Renew Pay Online at www.nbca.org/dues.htm Or Mail to: NBCA, PO Box 420391, Atlanta, GA 30342

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 Christmas Tree Sale  Parks / Playgrounds Dues: $50 year—Business $100

 One year  Two years $90/ Bus $200  Code Enforcement (Eyesore Resolution)  Security $______

 Landscaping / Streetscape  Sidewalks / Crosswalks Optional donations:

 Legal/Professional Services (for NBCA)  Social Events (Fall Fling & etc.) Park Landscaping $______

 Membership  Houses  Condos  Business  Stuff Envelopes Legal Fund $______ Neighborhood Cleanup Projects  Traffic Greenspace $______ Neighborhood History and Art  Web site / Facebook Master Plan / General Fund $______ New Neighbor Greeting  Zoning/Land Use Total Check Amount $______

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New construction at Little Nancy Creek Park

This is the new pavilion overlook- These are the new bench swings This is the new bridge the City of ing the field/meadow on the north overlooking the south side of the Atlanta installed to replace the side of the creek. (This is where park. (The swings are sited on an original wooden bridge that was the metal shed stood years ago, old house foundation.) destroyed by the June flooding. before the park was started.) These park improvements are funded by a Park Pride Legacy Grant and matching donations. The next grant project is improving the parking entry and defining 17 spaces. Friends of Little Nancy Creek Park still has three spots left in its Legacy Club. See Littlenancycreekpark.org for more information. Little Nancy Creek Park is an Atlanta City Park at 4012 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, across from Winall Drive. Pictures and captions were provided by Mandy LeCompte, Friends of Little Nancy Creek Park.

LNCP Sidewalk News: It has taken quite some time to piece together the needed segments for the com- pletion of the sidewalk along Peachtree-Dunwoody from Stovall Boulevard to Little Nancy Creek Park. For several months, the District 7 office has worked to reassign required sidewalk segments from subdivision projects located elsewhere that would have otherwise built "sidewalks to nowhere" in order to fill the gaps along Peachtree Dunwoody. It can now be made public it has finally been accomplished. A few issues with private property owners have held up installation of these sidewalks. The Department of Public Works is working diligently to resolve these issues, but at present the date of the installation of the sidewalk cannot be determined. We will keep the NBCA informed as things progress so that an announcement can be made as soon as we have the dates of installation. Provided by Sally Silver, City Council District 7 office.