By Pam McNall
DeKalb County Commissioners have produced site drawings of where the 34-thousand square foot animal shelter facility and 64-spaced parking lot would go at Johns Homestead Park and nature preserve.
It shows the first example, with the parking lot just 50 feet away from the 1828 Farmstead Heritage Site and right next to Rehoboth Baptist Church. Notice a second parking lot at the bottom. Some of the last existing old-growth forest in the county would need to be bull-dozed.
The vote is this Tuesday, June 25.
As you can see, they want to keep hiking trails on the property, hence our WORK DAY WEEKEND IS ON for this Saturday, June 22 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and this Sunday from 11 a.m. -4p.m! Join us to tour this untouched green space and to help blaze walking trails before the Commissioner's vote to build the county's animal shelter at this wildlife sanctuary - Park at Rehoboth Baptist Church on Saturday and Zemory Drive on Sunday; please wear work gloves and long pants and bring a shovel and/or rake if possible.
We thank you for supporting this wildlife habitat, and look forward to showing you the Great Blue Heron rookeries down by the lakes. PLEASE forward this to other interested parties. We need MANY PEOPLE WEARING GREEN at the Commissioner's meeting on the 25th to show our support for Johns Homestead Park. This is happening whether we like it or not. Please try to attend the June 25, 9 a.m. meeting at Maloof Auditorium at 1300 Commerce Drive in Decatur.
Sincerely,
Friends of Johns Homestead Park
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