Letters to the Editor
Lakeside Alliance Should Stay Out of Century Center
A Dresden East Civic Association member said he does not want the major commercial area annexed into a proposed city of Lakeside and calls it a "land grab."
To the Lakeside City Alliance, Most of us in the proposed area to be annexed by Chamblee understand the frustrations that are driving the Lakeside City Alliance to attempt to study "whether the formation of a new city is both necessary and feasible to provide local control to our community." However, I am concerned not enough "study" went into delineating the preliminary boundaries of a city of Lakeside beyond arbitrarily following lines enclosing ripe commercial properties on an existing map. Not much thought seems to be given to the areas that make up the communities that are split apart by the intended boundaries of Lakeside. Complaints were made at the Wednesday night meeting on Feb. 13 that the Northlake boundaries split apart …
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Tracy White
9:55 am on Monday, April 22, 2013
Again the LCA has managed to piss people off. They seem incapable of learning from their initial start that they need to include the entire unincorporated area of DeKalb County north of the logical division of Highway 78. LCA "does not identify" with DECA and the demographic on "the other side" of 85. Cheer up DECA, it's not as bad as Randy tries to make it. They don't identify with Emory either… more ›