Dunwoody Parks

Dunwoody is mulling over plans to spend $10 million to continue to redesign Brook Run Park. See Dunwoody Reporter May 25-June 7 edition.  This is a city with total revenue of $24 million a year reporting a budget of $34 million in 2018.

The City of Dunwoody has entered into an agreement with Peachtree Middle School that is located next to Brook Run Park to share the middle school’s existing ball fields. The city will use the ball parks on evenings and weekends and will maintain the fields. Peachtree Middle School will use them on weekdays.

The 100 acre Brook run Park was once occupied by the Georgia Center for Retardation at Brook Run.

The Georgia Center for Retardation at Brook Run opened in 1966 and closed in 1997 as a result of the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which mandated that residents move into group homes or back to their own homes. For 29 years, Brook Run trained, educated and cared for people of all ages with a variety of mental and physical disabilities. The patients, called residents, lived there full-time, year round. The teachers and caretakers worked year round, usually with the same residents year after year.

http://www.thecrier.net/news/article_9096b52c-66b3-11e5-bee9-3b7a0a7d38ac.html

After the closure of the retardation center in 1997, DeKalb County took charge of the property and made it a park. This was an open park with thousands of trees and connecting roads to open fields and picnic areas.

When the City of Dunwoody was formed in December 2008 and the park became city property. This was also the year that UN Agenda 21 implementation in Georgia began with the establishment of unelected Regional Commissions. The Agenda 21 plan was adopted by the Dunwoody City Council shortly after it formed to replace Land Use, Planning and Zoning to be UN Agenda 21 compliant. It required central planning by the American Planning Association and use of ICLEI compliant consultants. The Agenda 21 requirement for parks was 10% of the city land mass, we had 3% and had no idea what to do with that.

The purpose of UN Agenda 21 was to destroy the US economy to make way for global governance under the UN. It required wasting $trillions on high density megacities with public transit, the US infrastructure was already in place for subdivisions, roads and cars. 

After the Trump election in 2016, funding for the “fundamental transformation” began to decline. From 2008 to  2016 Obama spent $trillions in the US on UN Agenda 21 compliance and it still isn’t dead. The Georgia legislature has not repealed the Regionalism Bills passed in 2008 and 2010.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader