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10/10/08 - Underground creek?9/23/08 - Park Design Kickoff Session for Our New ParkBy Mandy LeCompte On September 23, the new Friends of Little Nancy Creek Park group held its first public planning session. This was the beginning of a ten-month process to envision what features and improvements the park on Peachtree Dunwoody Road at Winall Down Road will ultimately have. The Friends group is a joint endeavor of residents of the North Buckhead and Brookhaven neighborhoods and each neighborhood was well represented among the 18 attendees. The new Little Nancy Creek Park is a five-acre tract which the City purchased in 2007. Please visit www.nbca.org/Parks to see recent photos and other information about the park. The dilapidated home and other structures on the site were demolished in August. In our July newsletter, we described the $25,000 design grant our park had been awarded by Park Pride. Nandita Godbole, Park Visioning Program Assistant for Park Pride, conducted the planning session. She outlined the ten-month process which will result in a comprehensive park master plan that will be used to guide future construction and fund raising efforts. To see other park master plans and learn more about Park Pride, visit www.parkpride.org/visio.html. Park Pride's Walt Ray, Director of Park Visioning and an expert in park design, will guide area residents in future sessions including a Design Workshop and Preliminary and Final Design Review Meetings. These meetings are open to all interested residents from North Buckhead, Brookhaven and other area neighborhoods. The first step in the process is the formation of a Park Steering Committee. If you are interested in this and/or if you are not on the e-mail list for the new park, send an e-mail to Mandy LeCompte, mandy.lecompte@mindspring.com. Mandy is chair of NBCA’s Playgrounds committee and, together with Brookhaven’s Lisa Dickerson, coordinates communications for the Friends group. If you don’t have e-mail, send a letter to LNC Park, PO Box 420391, Atlanta GA 30342 and ask to be notified of future meetings. Please include your name, address and phone number. Our next meeting is tentatively scheduled for October 21 at a place to be determined — please stay tuned. Little Nancy Creek ParkThe 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.
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.
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