Photos

Little Nancy Creek Park

The City purchased this 5 acre park site last year (2007). We hope to prepare a park master plan during 2008 and start on park fund raising and construction during 2009.

Map showing park's location
Click to enlarge

Topographic map of park site
Click to enlarge

Our park's temporary sign

From 6/11/08 e-mail to neighborhood —

In February we applied to Park Pride (the non-profit which works closely with the City's Parks Department) for a "visioning grant" for our new park on Peachtree-Dunwoody Road. The visioning process is intended to result in a park master plan that reflects the desires of its neighbors, given the characteristics of the park. Late last month, Park Pride announced that our application for the visioning grant had won! Work will start in the late summer. We are told that the award's design services are valued at $25,000. The visioning process last about ten months and will involve a number of neighborhood meetings. Once we have that park master plan we can start working on turning the land into an actual park. We will make sure that all neighbors will be invited to these visioning sessions.

The park will be called "Little Nancy Creek Park". It is on the border between North Buckhead and the Brookhaven neighborhood, so a joint steering committee representing both neighborhoods has been established. The first steering committee meeting was held last month.

We also had our first joint work day in the park this past weekend - we didn't advertise this work day widely because we are just getting organized and need to get our bearings before we involve large numbers of volunteers. As it was we had 11 volunteers who worked in the park for about three hours on Saturday morning - the work was to remove invasive plant species and haul yard waste to the street for pickup. Pictures of those volunteers and their results are on our web site in the second section below..

Yesterday, we had a second work day involving 16 volunteers, State of Georgia employees who participate in the "Keep Georgia Beautiful" program. Pictures of them and their accomplishments at the park are shown immediately below. We really appreciate their contributions to our park.

The next work day has not been scheduled but will not be held for at least several weeks.

'Keep Georgia Beautiful' Work Day at Little Nancy Creek Park - June 10, 2008
(Click pictures below to see larger versions)

This group's work day was organized by Kim Portmess, Program Coordinator, Keep Georgia Beautiful, Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Office of Environmental Management.

We will add the participant's names when they are available.

B
E
F
O
R
E

A
F
T
E
R

Our 'Inaugural Work Day' at Little Nancy Creek Park - June 7, 2008 (Click pictures below to see larger versions)
		The day's volunteers Left to right: Gordon Certain, Lisa Dickerson, Carol Cahill, Jim Braun, Darden Braun, Mark Stovin, Emmett Doerr, Lisa Mason, Boyd Johnson, Tucker Greene, Mandy LeCompte
B E F O R E
A F T E R (3 hours later)

Park Pride's Ayanna William's Tour of Little Nancy Creek Park - March 15, 2008 (Click pictures below to see larger versions)
L-R: Lisa Dickerson, Ayanna, Tatianna (sp?), unk (Ayanna's sister) and Mandy	Gordon, right
	The driveway bridge has a strong steel frame


One of two garage sheds to be removed		The second of two garage sheds to be removed

Park Pride's Walt Ray's Tour of Little Nancy Creek Park - February 12, 2008 (Click pictures below to see larger versions)

The pictures above and the one on the left of the next line are the front of the park, looking west, across Peachtree Dunwoody Road
Traffic whizzes by at 45 MPH and more...	Invasive species include bamboo.	Little Nancy Creek was muddy because of golf course work in Brookhaven	Invasive species include English ivy.
			The house, in poor condition, will be removed
Collapsed BBQ pit's building.
	Walt Ray and Mandy LeCompte		The sewer easement at the back of the park.
Lots of towering mature pines.	Trees blown down in wind storm.	Lots of trash.	We hope to keep the house's chimney.

The Playground Committee visits the park site - 10/27/07

The Playground Committee visits the park site - 9/22/07