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Article in Up Close and Personal in Tucker

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Community Gardening Comes to Tucker By Susan Farrar Interest in community gardening continues to grow as gardens crop up in all sorts of green spaces.  Metro Atlanta is now home to approximately 175 community gardens.  Our neighbors in Clarkston, Decatur, and Dunwoody have them.  So far, though, community gardening doesn’t seem to have taken root [...]

Henderson Park Meeting 2 Summary

Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Turnout was great. Raigan Carr of jB+a presented two master plan options. The group voted for the second option (with the incorporation of some of the features of the first option), which preserves more green space and locates most of the additional parking next to the existing soccer field lot. Next to the community garden [...]

Henderson Park Meeting Summary

Friday, December 4th, 2009
Presenters/Speakers: Revonda Moody, Park Planning and Development Marti Watts, Silverman Construction Program Management Steve Provost and Regan Carr, jB+a (the landscape architects awarded the master plan contract) Revonda and Marti provided an overview of the master plan process for the 7 acres adjacent to the Henderson Park soccer fields. The second meeting will be held [...]

Master Plan for Proposed Site

Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Dave Butler called to say that the parcel of land, of which our proposed garden site is a part, is subject to the county’s master plan process and we’ll have to work through that process to get our garden started. Initial steps in the master plan process include putting the contract out to bid, selecting [...]