Irene Schweiger of the Sandy Springs Education Force, center, addresses the community forum. The others, left to right, are Linda Bain, Sandy Springs Conservancy; Trisha Thompson Fox, Sandy Springs Council of Neighborhoods; Sherry Epstein, Watershed Alliance of Sandy Springs; and Cheri Morris, Art Sandy Springs.
A study for transit-oriented development around the Brookhaven MARTA station calls for a mix of retail, office and residential. MARTA developments require that 20 percent of residential units meet affordable/workforce housing standards.
Plans call for a mix of shops, offices and homes --including 'affordable' housing - in a 'transit-oriented' development around the Brookhaven MARTA station.
