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City officials adopt Vermack Park plan By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — Local officials have approved a master plan for Dunwoody’s next park to be located on Vermack Road. The Dunwoody City Council signed off on the design of the future 9.3-acre park at a March 27 meeting. The action paves the way for development to begin once funding is secured and final plans are approved. Master plan documents for the future Vermack Park show the park will include pickleball courts, walking trails, a wildflower meadow, an open playfield, a sensory garden and an ADA-accessible playground. The park will also include a pavilion with solar panels and an
existing historic home that will one day be used as a community building, Dunwoody Parks Director Brent Walker said. “The design is based on a lot of public input,” Walker said. “These are the amenities that were requested through that public input process.” Since Vermack Park’s designs were last discussed in February, several features have been removed, he said, including any reference to how the park might be connected to Dunwoody’s future trail system and the formal connections between the park and the adjacent neighborhoods, Village Mill and Heritage of Dunwoody. PROVIDED/CITY OF DUNWOODY
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Renderings show Dunwoody’s future park on Vermack Road. The City Council adopted a master plan for the park at a meeting March 27.
Dunwoody sets list of priorities at annual retreat By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — Dunwoody officials got out of the city and into the North Georgia mountains to buckle down, collaborate and strategize during City Council’s 2023 retreat March 22 and 23.
Held at the Forrest Hills Resort in Dahlonega after a brief visit to the City of Canton, officials spent most of the retreat listening to presentations from city staff and workshopping the projects that need to be completed in the upcoming year. Greater North Fulton Chamber of
Commerce President Kali Boatright moderated this year’s retreat discussion, and councilmembers were able to create a list of more than a dozen priorities, as well as several lower priority “parking lot” items for 2023. Here are some of the key items Dunwoody leaders discussed this year.
Diversity and inclusion initiatives To kick off the retreat, Mayor Lynn Deutsch announced Dunwoody has grown much more diverse over the past 10 years, with its Asian population
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