Friday, March 22, 2013
The alliance said Tuesday it planned to have the bill filed by Friday.
A bill that would officially start the two-year process of creating a new city around the Lakeside High School area has been delayed, the Lakeside City Alliance said Friday. Mary Kay Woodworth, the alliance's chairman, said Tuesday the placeholder bill was to be filed with the state legislature by Dunwoody state Sen. Fran Millar by the end of the week. But the filing has been delayed, Woodworth said Friday in an email to Patch. She said she wasn't sure about the reasons for the delay because the bill has been handled by former state Rep. Kevin Levitas, another member of the alliance's organizing committee. Levitas and Millar could not immediately be reached for comment Friday evening. The placeholder bill, if filed by the end of this year'…
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The Lakeside city movement's leadership will go before the Northlake Community Alliance's board of trustees.
Northlake residents and business owners curious about how a proposed city of Lakeside would affect them will have a shot to hear firsthand Thursday. The Lakeside City Alliance, which is investigating the creation of the newest municipality in northern DeKalb County, will go before the Northlake Community Alliance's board of trustees during their meeting in the One DeKalb Resource Center at Northlake Mall at 7:30 p.m., according to an email the community alliance sent out to members this week. From the email: I have invited our friend and NCA adviser, Kevin Levitas and Mary Kay Woodworth, Chairman of the recently formed City of Lakeside Alliance. They will talk with us about this committee's effort to form the new city and its impact on the…
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Proposed city boundary would include much of the commercial district in west Tucker across I-285.
Several hundred residents turned out for the first public meeting of the Lakeside City Alliance on Wednesday night, and the vast majority said they supported a new movement that might lead to the newest municipality in northern DeKalb County as early as fall 2014. When the alliance's head, Northlake resident Mary Kay Woodworth, asked the packed Lakeside High School auditorium whether it supported the exploration of a new city of Lakeside, most of the audience raised their hands. Only a small group said they were opposed to the idea. "Everything we're doing tonight, it's about a starting point," Woodworth said. "We present this to you with an open mind." The alliance announced its existence only a week ago, and Woodworth said the group was …
Saturday, January 12, 2013
No additional cityhood meeting was scheduled at the end.
After a second meeting about the cityhood process, are we any closer to seeing another municipality sprout out of the ground in northern DeKalb County? It's hard to say. Local leaders offered conflicting views on whether the area might be a good fit for cityhood at Oak Grove United Methodist Church on Tuesday. Former Republican state Rep. Kevin Levitas, District 82, organized the second meeting to include a balance of opinions, pro and con, on the subject. Republican state Rep. Tom Taylor, District 79, and Robert Wittenstein, a former Dunwoody city council candidate, were recruited to represent the positives of cityhood. DeKalb County Commissioner Kathie Gannon, District 6, and Democratic state Rep. Billy Mitchell, District 88, were …
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The meeting is at Oak Grove United Methodist Church Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 7 p.m.
Local legislators will participate in a second cityhood meeting in Oak Grove today, Tuesday, Jan. 8, focusing on the pros and cons of creating a new city in North DeKalb County. Kevin Levitas, a former state representative, and head of the Briarcliff Woods East Neighborhood Association, will hold the meeting in Oak Grove United Methodist Church at 7 p.m. The meeting will follow up on a previous meeting Levitas held that included roughly 100 residents at the church. That meeting, which included Fran Millar, DeKalb County's sole Republican state senator, Tom Taylor, a DeKalb state represenatative and Dan Weber, a former state senator in DeKalb, left many residents frustrated. Many said they felt they were being prodded to support the …
Alison Dealy
4:23 pm on Thursday, April 18, 2013
Doctor DeKalb is on the right track -- and who the heck has and extra $30K (++) to spend on a feasibility study?? REALLY?? How about someone do the responsible thing in DeKalb - FOCUS ON TEACHING THE NEXT GENERATION OF CITIZENS HOW TO READ, WRITE, AND DO MATH WHILE TEACHING SOME BASIC VALUES AND MANNERS TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE? The students did not make this mess, they just suffer for it! We have … more ›