City of Atlanta Parks Department Presentation October 1, 2012

What follows is the presentation made to the City of Atlanta Parks Department. Click on any slide to enlarge.

Presentation to City of Atlanta Parks Department

Meeting with City of Atlanta Parks Department

Rich Godfrey and I met with City of Atlanta Parks Commissioner George Dusenbury along with his team Mr. Paul Taylor (Director Office of Park Design) and Mr. Doug Voss (Director, Office of Parks) yesterday, Monday October 1^st.  Summary:

• A very positive meeting.  A strong disposition on their part to deal with facts.


• Acknowledged our concerns regarding South Fork Conservancy’s misrepresentations regarding neighborhood support of the SFC proposal.


• Indicated that SFC has proposed a couple of projects on the western end of their map, i.e. around Radio Tower and which City of Atlanta Parks will be supporting.


• Affirmed that nothing has been proposed by SFC for the area between Morningside Nature Preserve and Johnson Taylor Nature Preserve.


• Affirmed that if and when anything is proposed by SFC, that there will be a rigorous review process which will include the neighborhood.


• Indicated that City of Atlanta Parks has become aware in the past twelve months of just how widespread a problem aggressive off-leash dogs has become in many Atlanta parks.


• As of six months ago Doug Voss has launched a program of hiring off-duty APD officers to write tickets for off-leash dogs in City parks.  The program is being trialed at a number of parks already and might be extended to Johnson Taylor as well.