Dresden East Residents Organize to Fight Brookhaven Boundaries
Residents here are angry that their residential area was left off the map, but their commercial district was included.
Dresden East residents resolved Thursday night to organize the community of more than 1,200 homes in an effort to stop or slow down a process that seeks to include its commercial district into the proposed City of Brookhaven, but leave out its residential area. Questions rang out among the more than 60 residents at a second meeting hosted by Rep. Elena Parent, District 81, at St. Pius X Catholic High School cafeteria. Residents here said they are worried that their commercial district was “cherry picked” to add additional tax base to the area currently being studied by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia. They said their options to annex or incorporate themselves at a later date is threatened by the plan. "…
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Cheryl Huvard
12:40 pm on Sunday, October 2, 2011
Thanks for the article. It is helpful that this issue is getting press. I would like to point out a couple of other facts. One, only approximately 400 people of the tens of thousands who live in the area were polled to ask whether they would be interested in forming a city. Most residents have no idea this is going on or that it is proposed to be voted upon in 2012 by the General Assembly, … more ›