Politics & Government

Dunwoody to hold Open House on Georgetown Redevelopment

City officials and representatives from the developer will be at City Hall Thursday to answer questions for the first time.

Dunwoody will open up the floor to questions Thursday for the first time since it named a developer to partner on the in Georgetown - the city's biggest such effort to date.

City officials and the developer, John Weiland Homes and Neighborhoods, will be on hand at City Hall at 7 p.m. to present an and take questions from the public.

Wieland's proposal, which the city selected from the two it received, calls for 110 homes on 13 acres. Wieland proposes to carve out the 13 acres for the residential part of the project from two properties totaling 35 acres the city either owns or has a contract to purchase.

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The residential part of the redevelopment could begin as early as 2013 on the 16-acre 'PVC Farm' the city owns. Wieland outlines an urban aesthetic in its plan that would include houses starting at 2,100 square feet, including many "paired homes" that share a wall and are clustered around future parks, multi-use trails and other amenities in the development.

City officials say that residential units could spur retail and neighborhood commercial development on the properties on the 4500 block of North Shallowford Road.

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The developer compared the planned development in Dunwoody to ones the firm has built at One Ivy Walk in Smyrna and downtown Woodstock, both of which are live-work communities that bring retail, parks and other amenities into the planned communities.

The city has not yet discussed who would pay for the public parks outlined in Wieland's proposal that would be a major amenity in the development. A bond referendum that would have paid for improvements at city parks failed in 2011.


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