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Alpharetta plans upgrade to fix downtown parking By JON WILCOX jon@appenmedia.com
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At center, Andrea Brantley, executive director of Family Promise of North Fulton/DeKalb, and the Rev. Remington Slone, senior pastor of St. David’s Episcopal Church, join members of the Roswell City Council for a groundbreaking Aug. 15. St. David’s donated an adjacent house to the nonprofit as part of a 10-year reduced rent agreement intended for two families in transition from rotational sheltering.
Family Promise chapter gets 1st transitional home By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — A recent donation to Family Promise of North Fulton/DeKalb will give two families in need of transitional housing a place to call home early next year. Family Promise is a nationwide nonprofit that fights homelessness by providing resources, transitional housing, and support to struggling families. The North Fulton/DeKalb chapter received
the donation, its first transitional home, from St. David’s Episcopal Church as part of a 10year reduced rent lease agreement. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Aug. 15 on the lawn of the roughly 1,800-squarefoot home off Old Roswell Road, next door to the church. It featured remarks from Executive Director Andrea Brantley, Rev. Remington Slone of St. David’s, and Roswell Mayor Kurt Wilson.
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta City Administrator Chris Lagerbloom presented council members a presentation on downtown parking solutions Aug. 19, beginning one of the first steps in tackling the long-standing issue. “For the last six, seven years, we were hoping to have this problem,” Lagerbloom said at a special City Council meeting. “Because we always said in the very beginning, ‘We hope one day we have a parking problem in the downtown, that we hope it’s so attractive that people want to be there.’” Lagerbloom discussed options for gathering and analyzing data as well as creating a plan to improve parking options for residents, visitors and businesses. After receiving bids and ideas from three companies, the city administrator recommended Alpharetta-based Pivot Parking. Lagerbloom said he would present a contract for Pivot to council members for consideration at their Aug. 26 meeting. The work to improve downtown parking is in the early stages and still “ambiguous,” Lagerbloom said, but the city hopes to resolve a few main issues. If hired, a firm could take a little more than two years to gather, analyze and interpret data. The city hopes to improve parking spot turnover near restaurants and retail spots to allow customers better access to the businesses they are visiting.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE ROSWELL City to keep lodge standing pg 3 SCHOOLS Fulton bus drivers wanted pg 7
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