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Lakeside City Alliance Postpones Monday Meeting

At issue is the size of the venue.

The Lakeside Community Alliance announced Friday that it has postponed its previously scheduled April 1 meeting at Clairmont Presbyterian Church to accommodate a larger audience than the Church hall can hold. LCA has committed to rescheduling the meeting as soon as possible for a date later in April to receive further community input on a proposed city in northern DeKalb County.

The April 1 meeting was scheduled to feature Oliver Porter, a Sandy Springs
resident who has won an award for his expertise on the creation of efficient cities. Porter is the author of the book: “Creating the New City of Sandy Springs: The 21st Century Paradigm.”

Last week in Tucker, the DeKalb fire marshal had to turn away more than 100
DeKalb County residents at Tucker Middle School who turned out to hear about
the potential City of Lakeside. An estimated 350 or more residents from the Tucker and Central DeKalb communities packed the meeting hosted by DeKalb
Commissioner Elaine Boyer.

“We are excited about the interest people in this community have expressed in the idea of exploring incorporation for our community,” said Mary Kay Woodworth, chairman of the Lakeside City Alliance. “We thought it would be unfair to host a meeting in a space that could not accommodate the size audience that has been turning out in numbers far larger than we expected.”

Also last week, State Sen. Fran Millar introduced legislation to authorize creation
of the City of Lakeside. Known as a “placeholder” bill, the legislation will be
reviewed when the General Assembly reconvenes in 2014. The filing placeholder
bill enables LCA to continue its community-wide meetings and to begin fundraising for a feasibility study to determine whether a city is financially viable.

The proposed city boundaries include a population of approximately 63,000
residents with slightly altered boundaries from the LCA concept map proposed in
February, based upon revisions made with community input.

The current boundaries – to which some further changes may be made with
additional community input – include North Druid Hills Road to the south,
Interstate 85 to the west and the Embry Hills community to the northeast.

“Just like the name of our community, the map is a work in process,” Woodworth
said. “The opportunity to hear from our fellow residents about what they think a
potential city should look like is crucial to the success of this proposal as it moves forward between now and the 2014 session of the Legislature.”

LCA will hold its next community meeting in a larger venue to house as many
citizens as possible, Woodworth added.

From a press release by the Lakeside City Alliance

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