City Council Preview: Paving Plans, Updates on Zoning, Sustainability

Fresh off of a 10-hour retreat all day Friday, the Dunwoody City Council will take on paving plans in the city, and get updates on the zoning code rewrite and from the city's Sustainability Commission.

The regular council meeting will start at 7 p.m., with a work session starting at 6 p.m.

2012 Paving List

The $2.5 million paving plan for 2012 and the five year paving plan area on the agenda for approval by the council.

The plan includes about 70 percent major thoroughfares, 10 percent for lowest rated neighborhood streets, 10 percent for bidding/asphalt contingency and 10 percent for construction contingency. Any additional funds will be used for paving additional residential streets.

At the last meeting, the council asked for alternatives for the plan, asking for some additions, including bike lanes on Spalding and Chamblee Dunwoody.

Director of Public Works Michael Smith has produced four plans, which will be presented to the council Monday (plan A, plan B, plan C and plan D).

Signal Optimization and no cost to city

The council will vote, in the consent agenda, on a memorandum of understanding for regional traffic operations Monday night.

The memorandum will team up Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, unincorporated DeKalb County and the Perimeter Center Improvement Districts in coordinating traffic light signals between the cities.

The signal optimization will come at no cost to the city, and instead by covered by $2.78 million in funding over three years, which the PCIDs received through the Regional Traffic Operations Program, which requires no local match.

The locations of the signals that will be included can be found here.

The council will also:

• vote on a policy for links from the city’s website.

• approve its 2012 meeting schedule.

• recognize the fourth graduating class of the Dunwoody Police Department’s Citizen’s Police Academy.

• introduce new Community Development Director Steve Dush. Dush joins Dunwoody after being the community development and neighborhood services director for Fort Collins, Colo.

• hear the annual presentation from the Sustainability Commission.

• get an update on the zoning code rewrite.