Dunwoody Parks I

Look at Section 7 of the Dunwoody Park Master Plan on the Dunwoody.gov website. It is the section on funding park improvements. It will give you some idea of what the city plans to spend your $33 million. It includes:

$3.5 million for the Dunwoody Nature Center, including a new $1.2 million building.

$3 million for Donaldson Farm including a $1 million in renovations.

$1.5 million for Perimeter Park

$2 million for Windwood Hollow. It would be cheaper to build them a swimming pool and give the park to the homeowners’ association. The same goes for Vernon Oaks and the PVC Farm.

$16 million for Brooke Run. It still include $6 million the three baseball fields for the Senior Baseball League. Four tennis courts will cost $4.5 million. The picnic, roads and trails portion will cost $6 million.

At $1000 each, all the signs, picnic tables and trash cans look too expensive.

It would be cheaper for the city to donate the land to the Nature Center and the Preservation Trust and let them pay for the improvements. Dunwoody would be the first city to privatize its parks and get that expense off the books. That leaves Brook Run for Spring and Fall concerts.

If the city chose to give parks away, I would really object to the city buying any more land for parks. There are only so many parks a city can afford to give away. Anybody else who wants to donate land for parks would see the Preservation Trust and leave the city alone.