A narrower Glenridge Drive with pedestrian-friendly medians, protected bike lanes, more left-turn lanes and several roundabouts. That’s the vision coming soon in a conceptual study that will inform Sandy Springs’ future “Complete Streets” policy for all major roadways. The idea of a “Complete Streets” plan for Glenridge between Roswell Road and the Glenridge Connector was […]
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican presidential candidate, will hold a town hall campaign event Tues., Feb. 23, 5-6 p.m. at Sandy Springs City Hall, according to the city. The city said it is making City Hall available to any presidential candidates for such town hall style events in advance of Georgia’s March 1 presidential […]
Steve Grossman has a passion for the arts, but not the restaurant business. So, after nearly four years of operating Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs, a place where musicians and artists have performed to appreciative audiences over hummus or vegetarian quesadillas, the venue itself may soon be closing unless Grossman can find a partner […]
Planning for the PATH400 multi-use trail’s missing link between Buckhead and Sandy Springs could begin soon under a grant recently secured by Livable Buckhead. Originally proposed as a 5-mile trail, PATH400 current runs between Lenox and Old Ivy roads in Buckhead and has phased extensions north to Liordans Drive either under construction or already planned. […]
Major crime in Sandy Springs was down 7 percent last year for the lowest total reports since 2012, according to the police department’s year-end statistics. Most of that drop was in property crimes—from 2,730 in 2014 to 2,531 in 2015. Violent crime numbers remained similar, with 151 reports in 2015 and 154 in 2014. However, […]
Mansions Senior Living presented early conceptual plans for expanding its senior residences campus along Spalding Drive in Sandy Springs at a Feb. 9 meeting, drawing positive response from the sole neighbor in attendance. The proposed assisted living facility would front on Spalding Drive and stand behind the existing Mansions Sandy Springs independent living residences at […]
Dads and daughters packed Spalding Drive Charter Elementary School for a night on the town Saturday, Feb. 6, as Sandy… Posted by Reporter Newspapers on Monday, February 8, 2016
Better pedestrian and bicycle travel on Glenridge Drive could be coming in a “Complete Streets” plan the city of Sandy Springs will present at a Feb. 17 meeting. The plan aims to improve Glenridge Drive between Roswell Road and the Glenridge Connector. The city eventually will include “Complete Streets” principles in any major road work, […]
Massage parlors that offer illegal sexual services could be shut down as “public nuisances” under a new Sandy Springs city ordinance in the works. At the Feb. 2 City Council meeting, City Attorney Wendell Willard said that certain problem massage parlors and spas continue illegal business by changing owners after police crackdowns. “Even though you […]
A 1-acre extension of Sandy Springs’ Abernathy Greenway Park is in the early planning stages, and the city is seeking community input on what it should include. The parcel, at the northeast corner of the Abernathy and Wright Road intersection, was originally slated as parking, but residents complained about that. The city held a Jan. 20 […]
The city of Sandy Springs will buy a Hammond Drive residential lot as a placeholder for its long-planned road-widening project, the City Council decided Feb. 2. The $375,000 purchase of 590 Hammond sparked some community concerns of the road widening secretly beginning. But City Manager John McDonough said the project still needs years of planning […]
Roswell Road remade as “Roswell Boulevard” with a tree-lined median? That’s among the “big ideas” coming out of Sandy Springs’ “Next Ten” planning process that were previewed by City Council at its Jan. 26 retreat at Lost Corner park. The general public can weigh in on the draft results at a Jan. 27 public meeting […]
Work on a controversial project to build roundabouts at the Riverside Drive/I-285 interchange in Sandy Springs will begin Feb. 1, weather permitting, and continue through November, according to the state Department of Transportation. The $5.6 million project will replace ramps with roundabouts and rehab the Riverside Drive bridge over 285. GDOT says the roundabouts will […]
Note from Audra: I’m sharing because there are 8 listed in the article that look yummy. Seven are not so close to us but #1 happens to be in Sandy Springs and my hubby and I stopped by for apps and a drink last Friday night and enjoyed great live music. … Read More »
Sandy Springs’ single-family homeowners are off the hook for building new sidewalks in front of their houses for now—and maybe for good, as the city considers ways to pay for such projects out of municipal coffers. In its quest to create sidewalks in a suburban city, the City Council has repeatedly tweaked a policy that […]
