Brownwood Park Master Plan Options AvailableThe intial results of the Brownwood Park Master Planning process are available. Three options will be discussed. Please review the plans at the following sections. The three concepts vary from minimal site changes (Concept A) to a comprehensive redesign of the existing park layout (Concept C). Please feel free to submit any positive and/or negative feedback on these preliminary conceptual plans. Please also keep in mind that you can mix and match areas or elements from all three designs. Pick one overall site plan that is the most interesting, subtract elements you don’t like or incorporate the elements from the other plans that you do like. For example: you may like concept A’s north side design but with concept B’s playground space and concept C’s south side design without the pavilion.
Option A:
Minimal Intervention
Few Trees Impacted
Small Playground
Plaza Area
Minimal Pavilion Improvements
Small Play Lawn
Additional Pedestrian Access
Small Performance Space
Additional Trails
Option B:
Significant Intervention
Dog Park (enclosure encompasses rougly 30-40% of southern end of the park)
Several Trees Impacted
Large Playground
Small Water Park
Major Pavilion Improvements
Significant Play Lawn
Additional Pedestrian Access
No Performance Space
Additional Trails
Option C:
Total Renovation
Dog Park (enclosure encompasses roughly 75% of the southern end of the park)
Many Trees Impacted
Large Playground
Small Water Park
New Pavilions
And Improvements
Large Play Lawn
Additional Basketball
Courts
Street Closure at
Pendleton
Additional Park Land (Pendleton Ave land)
Additional Pedestrian Access
Larger Performance Space
Large Natural Area
Additional Trails
Preliminary Options for a Master Plan of Brownwood Park (pdf)
Option A
Option B
Option C EAV Streetscape Improvements Starting!!You may notice in the next few weeks that the East Atlanta Village is getting a facelift that will make it more appealing and pedestrian friendly. This is the culmination of almost ten years worth of work and countless hours by community volunteers. Particular thanks goes to Councilwoman Archibong for tirelessly championing this project. In addition, we also thank the steering committee of volunteers who have been meeting over the past two years. Thanks should also go to the Southstar Community Development Corporation which coordinated the planning for the project. For more information see the full article 2005 Battle of Atlanta Day !
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In East Atlanta, the Signs of Chic Are Emerging (excerpted from New York Times)In the sprawling, 6,000-square-mile metropolis of Atlanta, where public transportation is limited and neighborhood hopping is best done by car, it's nice to know where to go for what. Sleek boutiques? Virginia-Highlands. Faux-bohemian cafés? Little Five Points. Glitzy shopping malls? Buckhead, of course.
And now Atlantans are quickly adding another cultural hub to their list: East Atlanta, home to a lively sprinkling of quirky shops, restaurants and nightspots that's reaching the crest in what has been a steadily rising wave of cool.
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East Atlanta Earth DayIn support of the development of a park master plan, East Atlanta Earth Day activities will focus on Brownwood Park this year. The event will kick-off at 9:00 with all volunteers meeting at the Pavilion.
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EAV featured in Creative Loafing
East Atlanta: The Epitome Of Cool – And A Neighborhood's Neighborhood, Too
BY REBECCA FORD
Sure, it's got tree-lined streets and a few stunning Victorians, a vociferous neighborhood association and an active Baptist church. But a picket-fenced utopia East Atlanta ain't.
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East Atlanta Streetscape in Construction!East Atlanta's Streetscape finally in construction!
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Thanks to HOA for your help in cleaning East Atlanta!Over 200 volunteers showed up in East Atlanta to work on projects which included clean-up, painting and planting in the Village, Brownwood Park and Sylvester Cemetery.
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Earth Day East Atlanta!Earth Day East Atlanta was a TREMENDOUS SUCCESS with more than 60 volunteers helping to pick-up 350 discarded tires that will be recycled as well as mounds of garbage.
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Kid's Club Gets Important Grant and Selected for Award in International Film Festival!!East Atlanta Kids Club will be able to serve more children and to expand its programs in the coming year, thanks to a $39,450 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The grant, administered by the state’s Children and Youth Coordinating Council (CYCC), will allow EAKC to fully fund the staff positions of executive director and program director, to expand the times that kids club meets, and to launch a one-on-one mentoring program (this fall).
As part of the grant performance goals, the Kids Club will be tracking the school attendance and behavior of its child members, and also any encounters that kids club members have with the juvenile justice system. The primary goal of the grant is to continue supporting our child members to do well in school, to provide quality after-school activities, and to help them develop their individual talents and interests in a safe and nurturing environment. For those of you who do not know this, EACA was one of the founding sponsors of the East Atlanta Kids Club. For more info: vist www.eastatlantakids.org.
In addition, "East Atlanta: Goin' Through Some Changes" a film documentary produced by the Kid's Club was selected as a finalist for the International Youth Media Festival to be held in San Francisco on Sept. 28-Oct. 3. Several of the kid's will be able to travel to the festival. Thanks to Jill Seider and Kevin Banks for all their hard work for giving kids a safe space to thrive in East Atlanta!! Keep Your Trees Healthy -- Free Them from Damaging VinesVines can kill and maim your trees. Many vines live compatibly with trees. The vines that do the most damage to trees are twiners and usually exotic. Twining vines encircle their supporting structure, in this case a tree. Many vines choke trees as they get older and their trunk grows in diameter, squeezing the tree to death. Some of the vines include;
Chinese and Japanese Wisteria (Wisteria sinensis and floribunda)- This popular vine is planted for its purple pea-like flowers and its’ green velvety fruit. Wisteria needs precise care to keep it blooming. It becomes a bloomless killer when abandoned, choking even the largest trees. Wistertia frutescens is less invasive and native to the southeast.
Porcelain vine (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata)-This vine is popular in gardening circles because of its berries, but it shouldn’t be. Birds also love the attractive porcelain berries and drop their seed all along hedgerows and the forest edge. Then porcelain vine engulfs the trees and shrubs that provide food for animals and scenery for travelers.
English Ivy (Hedera helix)- This common vine has naturalized in southern woodlands, smothering everything green in its’ path. Ivy, attaches itself by rootlets and can weigh down and break branches, prevent photosynthesis by blocking sunlight, and decrease air circulation, promoting diseases. Visually, ivy can cover a tree’s silhouette destroying its winter character.
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