About TABASCO
TABASCO consists of stakeholders that live or work in and around the Shallowford Road interchange with I-85, in an area that has been defined by DeKalb County as a neighborhood center. TABASCO has taken on the task of defining what that neighborhood center should look like in the future.
We envision a safe, attractive, economically prosperous village which expresses our distinctive community identity. We support responsible, planned redevelopment that celebrates the natural environment, provides local opportunities for work and play, and helps builds community for all ages and cultures. We value quality schools, businesses that serve community needs, alternatives to automobiles, and “green” as both an appearance and a way of life.
This is a working draft of the vision statement.
RE-IMAGINING SHALLOWFORD – Public meeting #2
When
8:30 registration & coffee; 9-noon meeting, St Pius High School, 2674 Johnson Rd NE, Atlanta 30345
Where
St Pius High School
2674 Johnson Rd NE, Atlanta 30345.
The May 22 meeting was a good beginning; on June 19 we dig deeper. We began to form a Vision of our “village”; a subgroup has tried to coalesce the many visions into one vision for review on June19. We will also review a summary of the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknessses, Opportunities, Threats) exercise from May 22. Then participants, in small groups, will talk about how that Vision Statement breaks down into details, like what it means in terms of land use, transit, parks, etc. We’ll end with a “Road Map” to implementation of the Vision.
Please COME AGAIN if you attended the first meeting!
Please COME EVEN IF you didn’t attend May 22; there should be enough review to bring you up-to-speed.
Sponsors:
TABASCO Coalition (DECA & NBCA) & Commissioner Jeff Rader.
Facilitator:
Davis Fox.
Please use these fliers to tell your neighbors about this meeting:
Last meeting
Date: May 22 @ St. Pius High School
Commissioner Jeff Rader opened the meeting and expressed his support.
Approximately 75 stakeholders were present.
Groups discussed Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
Created a committee to develop a vision.
Other committees formed to work on specific issues.
Tom Doolittle posted a review of the meeting online.
More notes to come!
Documents
- Preliminary summary of May 22 meeting – SWOT outcomes
- Shallowford Neighborhood Center map (PDF)
- Pages from the DeKalb Comprehensive plan that briefly explain the Neighborhood Center concept (PDF)
- An aerial view of the interchange area (JPG)
- A map of potential geographic area that the interchange Neighborhood Center could be expected to draw from (JPG)
- A map, similar to the one above, with the study area’s boundaries (JPG)
- A presentation on TABASCO and re-imagining Shallowford Road
Map of Neighborhood Center
The boundaries of the area that TABASCO is working on are highlighted in the image. These boundaries are approximate.
