Remember this post about getting new or improved Scott Blvd sidewalks from a while back?

Well, now we’re hearing from Scott Blvd. resident, Xenia, that someone “has ripped up all of the grass on the Venetian pool side of Scott down to about Westchester”. And that “Some weird green stuff was sprayed over all of the barriers and all the sewers are marked with caution sawhorses.”

So what’s going on? Does the city know? I’m aware that this is a state road so any and all work being done is GDOT, but I assume the city has been given a heads up. Also, even though we are talking about GDOT, I’m a little surprised that residents weren’t at least informed if sidewalks were being replaced/installed in their front yards.

UPDATE: My wife says she didn’t see anything out of the ordinary on the way home…so maybe its not as big as a sidewalk replacement.  We’ll have to wait and see.

I’m a couple days late with this, as many other DeKalb blogs have already posted it, but due to its importance I’ll still follow through.

If you had wandered up to the Square last week, you may have thought you spotted protesters in front of the Old Courthouse. While you thought to yourself “what the heck are they protesting now?” you might have realized that they were actually supporters of the democratic candidates for DeKalb CEO, chanting the rallying cries of their candidate of choice, who were currently debating inside our esteemed Courthouse. Then, if you were like me, you would have quickly crossed to the other side of the road, for fear of them trying to engage you in some conversation about DeKalb County government. (I decided if approached I would just start yelling something about HOST taxes and scare them away)

So, why am I bringing all of this up post-debate?

Because Decatur resident Rusty Tanton has made the whole darn thing accessible online by posting each posed question individually on YouTube. So below you will find the opening statements video. The subsequent nine questions with the corresponding video will be located in the continuation.

Thanks for doing the footwork Rusty!

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Those opposed to the creation of a city of Dunwoody have recently pointed to Decatur to make a point.

In this morning’s AJC, the opposition to city creation note that the new city would have only 28 full-time officers compared to Decatur’s 36.  For some, this is cause for concern, since Dunwoody has nearly double the population of Decatur.

But Ken Wright, president of Citizens for Dunwoody Inc, points out that the proposed four patrols is an improvement over what they’re getting now with DeKalb County services.

“A city of Dunwoody will have four patrols,” Wright said in an e-mail, “fully dedicated and assigned only to serving Dunwoody. Right now, because our ‘assigned’ patrols can be called away at any time to service other parts of the county, we have somewhere between zero and three police patrols.”

Plus, North DeKalb has “substantially lower than average crime rates,” according to a 2006 Dunwoody study by the Vinson Institute.  Comparatively, Central DeKalb’s a bit more rough and tumble by my own estimations (which are as highly-regarded as a Gallup Poll).

Sounds like those Dunwoody opponents are trying to stir up trouble prior to the city vote.  But any comparison to Decatur doesn’t really make any sense unless Dunwoody was secretly trying some impossible breakaway from Decatur and not DeKalb.