Friday, March 22, 2013
The alliance said Tuesday it planned to have the bill filed by Friday.
A bill that would officially start the two-year process of creating a new city around the Lakeside High School area has been delayed, the Lakeside City Alliance said Friday. Mary Kay Woodworth, the alliance's chairman, said Tuesday the placeholder bill was to be filed with the state legislature by Dunwoody state Sen. Fran Millar by the end of the week. But the filing has been delayed, Woodworth said Friday in an email to Patch. She said she wasn't sure about the reasons for the delay because the bill has been handled by former state Rep. Kevin Levitas, another member of the alliance's organizing committee. Levitas and Millar could not immediately be reached for comment Friday evening. The placeholder bill, if filed by the end of this year'…
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The city, as it is currently proposed, would be about two-thirds white, said a former state representative last week.
Hundreds of residents turned out last week for the biggest meeting yet regarding the creation of a new city in northern DeKalb County. It was hosted by the newly created Lakeside City Alliance, which is investigating the possibility of starting a new city that would encompass much of the Lakeside High School attendance zone but also stretch west toward Century Center and east toward west Tucker. At the end of the meeting, former state Rep. Kevin Levitas, one of the alliance's organizers, raised the issue of race in this proposed city. Under its current proposed boundaries, he said, Lakeside would be about two-thirds white, roughly 17 percent black, roughly 17 Hispanic and the rest would be of various other racial groups. (He admitted those…
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The former state representative, who has organized cityhood panels in Oak Grove, declined to say whether he supported the creation of another city in the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
The former state representative, who has organized cityhood panels in Oak Grove, declined to say whether he supported the creation of another city in the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area.
Kevin Levitas, a former state represenative and organizer of two recent cityhood panels in Oak Grove, declined last week to tell a reporter whether he supported cityhood in the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area. The former District 82 representative was quoted in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story published Saturday about DeKalb County's image problem in the wake of recent county government and school system scandals. From the story: Some residents are doing more than complain. Home owners in north-central DeKalb, around the Oak Grove neighborhood, are talking about incorporating their own city. And a Dunwoody legislator is pushing to change the State Constitution to empower the city to create its own school system separate from the …
Monday, December 10, 2012
The meeting will be held in Oak Grove United Methodist Church on Jan. 8 at 7 p.m.
Local legislators will participate in a second cityhood meeting in Oak Grove early next month focused on the pros and cons of creating a new city in North DeKalb County. Kevin Levitas, a former state representative, and head of the Briarcliff Woods East Neighborhood Association, will hold the meeting in Oak Grove United Methodist Church at 7 p.m. Jan. 8. The meeting will follow up on another meeting Levitas held last month that included roughly 100 or so residents at the church. That meeting, which included Fran Millar, DeKalb County's sole Republican state senator, Tom Taylor, a DeKalb state represenatative and Dan Weber, a former state senator in DeKalb, left many residents frustrated. Many said they felt they were being prodded to …
Alison Dealy
4:23 pm on Thursday, April 18, 2013
Doctor DeKalb is on the right track -- and who the heck has and extra $30K (++) to spend on a feasibility study?? REALLY?? How about someone do the responsible thing in DeKalb - FOCUS ON TEACHING THE NEXT GENERATION OF CITIZENS HOW TO READ, WRITE, AND DO MATH WHILE TEACHING SOME BASIC VALUES AND MANNERS TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE? The students did not make this mess, they just suffer for it! We have … more ›