Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Local Government
GDOT will close the existing Exit 5 ramp on southbound SR 400 on Saturday, Aug. 29, and open temporary exits 5A and 5B to maintain access to North Springs MARTA, Abernathy Road and Hammond Drive during express lanes construction.
Local Government
GDOT will close the existing Exit 5 ramp on southbound SR 400 on Saturday, Aug. 29, and open temporary exits 5A and 5B to maintain access to North Springs MARTA, Abernathy Road and Hammond Drive during express lanes construction.
GDOT will close the existing Exit 5 ramp on southbound SR 400 on Saturday, Aug. 29, and open temporary exits 5A and 5B to maintain access to North Springs MARTA, Abernathy Road and Hammond Drive during express lanes construction.
Local Government
Brookhaven's Project Portal has processed 2,153 permits in the first eight months of 2026 with about 13,000 registered users, and the city plans a redesigned system for summer 2027.
Local Government
DeKalb County commissioners unanimously deferred a proposed unauthorized camping ordinance for 30 days on Aug. 25 after the county sheriff warned it could increase jail admissions, with a final vote now set for Tuesday, Sept. 29.
Local Government
DeKalb County Commissioner Ted Terry's proposed noise ordinance would cap daytime residential sound at 65 decibels, effectively requiring homeowners and landscapers in Dunwoody and Brookhaven to replace gas-powered equipment with electric alternatives.
Local Government
The Brookhaven City Council on Aug. 25 removed the Windsor Parkway multi-use path from city plans after neighborhood opposition, approved a rezoning for multifamily housing at 4170 Ashford Dunwoody Road, and accepted a nearly $588,000 TAD grant for the Peachtree Creek Greenway Connector Bridge.
Local Government
The DeKalb County SPLOST II Resident Review Committee meets Thursday, Aug. 27, at 6:30 p.m. in Decatur with a public safety presentation and open public comment period relevant to Dunwoody and Brookhaven taxpayers.
Local Government
MARTA will raise long-term parking at Dunwoody station from $5 to $7 per day and cut the free window from 24 to 14 hours starting Sept. 14, the agency's first system-wide rate hike since 2009.
Local Government
About 100 Brookhaven residents packed an Aug. 18 community meeting to protest the Windsor Parkway roundabout project's planned removal of 206 trees, prompting Mayor John Park to say the $7.3 million project is "in a natural pause" and the unfunded multi-use path needs its own separate process.
Local Government
The Dunwoody Planning Commission unanimously recommended two housing rezonings on Aug. 11: 33 townhomes priced $500K–$650K on the former LifeSouth Blood Bank site at 4891 Ashford Dunwoody Road, and three homes starting at $800K on a tract behind North Atlanta Church of Christ.
Local Government
Shadowbox Studios and affiliated real estate company Henrico 183 are suing DeKalb County, alleging the county's data center moratorium destroyed $200 million in property value on a 200-acre south DeKalb site after planning staff issued written letters from 2023 to 2025 saying data centers would be allowed there.
Local Government
Dunwoody City Councilman John Heneghan announced the council will review the city's public Flock Safety Transparency Portal after the surveillance company issued updated privacy safeguards cutting default data retention to seven days and making misuse detection mandatory.
Local Government
A national anti-surveillance campaign called DeFlock is launching a Week of Action Aug. 16–22 with Dunwoody as a named target, arriving as the city's deferred $500,000 Flock camera contract has no scheduled return date.
Local Government
A DeKalb County judge ordered Dunwoody resident Joe Hirsch to pay the city $182,478.10 in attorney's fees after ruling his open records lawsuit against three city employees was "substantially frivolous and vexatious." Hirsch says the case is under appeal.
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