MEETING SUMMARY

Core Team Meeting #4

October 26, 2016 | 5:00 7:00 PM
DeKalb County Government | Clark Harrison Building | 330 W. Ponce de
Leon Avenue, 1st Floor | Decatur, GA
Core Team Member Attendees
Carlos Arenas, Avondale Hills
Jana Johnson, Fellsridge Subdivision
Jason Yowell, Metropolitan Design & Construction
Joe Arrington, PRISM
Kemerudi` Omer, Property Manager
MaLika Hakeem, DeKalb County Government, ONE DeKalb
Joe Stephenson, Resident (on behalf of Kate Dekoker)
Christiana Clerk, Constituent Services for Commissioner Mereda Johnson
Non-Core Team Member Attendees
Ray Johnson

Project Management Team Attendees

Cedric Hudson, DeKalb County Government Planning & Sustainability
Sylvia A. Smith, DeKalb County Government Planning & Sustainability

Materials/Handouts
Presentation
Materials available at http://memorialcorridoroverlay.weebly.com/data-presentations.html

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Summary
Sylvia Smith welcomed the attendees, thanked them for their participation,
and asked everyone to introduce themselves.
Comment: Heavy trucks are parking along Memorial Drive and also in
Momas Prime Time Parking Lot.
Comment: There are businesses along Memorial Drive that arent in
zoning compliance and conditions.
Comment: Tax Relief Programs should be included to encourage owners
to redo facades.
Comment: DeKalb should consider assisting some property owners with
demolition of buildings
Comment: In the mixed use approval process, there were some concerns
about the developer/building completing the
apartments/housing and not completing the other parts of the
mixed use. One option is to hold permits for the second phase.

At the last public meeting, the citizens proposed changing the name of the
overlay district to Stone Mountain Park District. The Core team stated that
it could take infancies off the park and proposed changing the name to
Memorial Drive/Covington Hwy Overlay District.

Tier I: Covington Gateway

Theme: Showcase Gateway
Include the lot next to the Public Storage
Under other importation considerations change remove burglar bars
on windows to read Retractable burglar bars on windows or inside the
glass or white bars.
Tier II: DeKalb Business and Lifestyle Center
Give more details at the public meeting on the DeKalb Countys
Government Center and include source of funding.

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 Look at relocating the garbage at Sanitation.

Look at relocating the helicopter pad.

Tier 3: Indian Creek Wellness Community

Include the trail from the CTP in the plan
Expand the boundary 100 on the east side of the station.
Include the 10 acres the will be developed in the overlay
Tier 4: Memorial Drive Gateway consider changing to I-285 Gateway
Consider allowable uses - Residential units as part of a mixed use
development
Tier 5: Institutional and Cultural District
Under uses not to allow: add Car Repair and Car Dealerships
Tier 6: Hambrick Road Film and Entertainment District
Theme : Innovation Entertainment or Film & Entertainment
Type: No alcohol after 2AM
o 24 hour restaurants are prohibited but no alcohol
o No adult establishments
o No sex shops
The next public meeting is TBD.
The meeting was then adjourned at 8:00 p.m.

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