SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Sandy Springs city staff and Lowe Engineers personnel hosted an open house Feb. 27 to highlight improvements planned for Peachtree Dunwoody Road and Lake Hearn Drive.
The forum, held at the Palisades Office Park, drew a handful of people, including two commercial real estate brokers.
Because of the concentration of office and medical within the Peachtree Dunwoody corridor, the project will affect few residents directly, City Communications Director Dan Coffer said.
The Peachtree Dunwoody Road corridor, which includes a portion running under I-285, is a major thoroughfare connecting Sandy Springs and Perimeter Center to Buckhead. It accommodates some 23,000 vehicles daily.
The project, with preliminary engineering underway, will construct bicycle and pedestrian improvements along Lake Hearn Drive from Alterra Avenue to Peachtree Dunwoody Road for about a quarter of a mile.
The work includes widening and repaving Lake Hearn Drive to include a left-turn lane, through-left lane and right-turn lane at the intersection.
A 10-foot-wide multi-use path with buffers is slated for the north side of Lake Hearn Drive. On the south side, a 6-foot-wide sidewalk is planned.
The project also covers a little more than a quarter-mile on Peachtree Dunwoody Road between I-285 and Hammond Drive.
A 12-foot-wide multi-use path is proposed along the west side of Peachtree Dunwoody Road, that will tie into the path constructed for the Transform I-285 and Ga. 400 project. The path ends at Hammond Drive.
The Transform project is nearly wrapped up, with the three I-285 bridges complete and final paving in progress.
Relatedly, the Sandy Springs City Council voted Feb. 20 to apply for $14.2 million in federal funds for its PATH 400, a pedestrian mobility project that will run along Ga. 400.
The PATH 400 project will extend the multi-use trail north…
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