This story has been updated. The Tucker cityhood bill was brought up by House Rules Committee today, March 5, bringing it closer to a full vote of the state House. Committee members did not bring up ...
This story has been updated. A copy of legal ads provided by the DeKalb Champion newspaper shows that annexation bills for Avondale Estates and Decatur, as well as a Greenhaven cityhood bill, could soon be ...
This story has been updated. Decaturish has learned that there may be yet a fifth city in play during the current legislative session. The DeKalb Champion has confirmed that someone has purchased a legal ad ...
This story has been updated. Members of the state House introduced bills today on behalf of two cityhood proposals: Tucker and LaVista Hills. Copies of the bills weren’t immediately available. The Tucker bill’s sponsor is ...
This story has been updated. This week’s edition of The Champion newspaper has three legal notices for three proposed cities in DeKalb County: LaVista Hills, Tucker and DeKalb County. The notices were provided to Decaturish.com ...
This story has been updated. DeKalb County residents spent a great deal of time during the fall trying to make sense of proposals that would expand and create new cities. Whether those proposals move forward ...
Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Meria Carstarphen has sent a letter to Inman Middle School parents informing them that the plans for expanding the school are on hold. One of the reasons is a proposal by residents ...
State Rep. Pam Stephenson, D-Decatur, has agreed to sponsor a bill that would begin the process of turning most of unincorporated South DeKalb County into Georgia’s second largest city. Greenhaven, formerly the City of South ...
This story has been updated. Organizers behind the creation of a City of South DeKalb have called a press conference for Friday, Jan. 30, to announce a new name for the proposed city: Greenhaven. The ...
The Georgia Assembly is in session and there are currently no bills regarding annexation or cityhood under consideration. Bill Floyd, Decatur’s former mayor, who is now Executive Director of the DeKalb Municipal Association, told Decaturish that ...