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Who We Are?

• Non-profit 501(c)3 organization
  
• Board of Directors is comprised of Druid Hills residents, Emory University staff and faculty, business and property owners in Emory Village
  
• Concept for the organization originated from community workshops sponsored by Georgia Tech and the Urban Land Institute in 2000
  
• Our Mission was written by the community at those workshops:
  Create a safe, economically viable, walkable and compact mixed use community that is an asset and resource to Emory University and the surrounding historic neighborhoods
• Funded by Druid Hills Civic Association, Emory University, DeKalb County and individual contributors

What Have We Accomplished?

• Completed a Revitalization Plan for Emory Village
  
• Involved the community throughout the process
  
• Encouraged interim improvements to the Village such as the steps near STATravel
  
• Encouraged BP to redevelop in a manner consistent with the master plan
  
• Established new design guidelines for commercial development within the Druid Hills Historic District
  
• Received designation as a "Livable Center" from the Atlanta Regional Commission

What is in the Revitalization Plan?

• Traffic calming and improved intersection for safety of pedestrians, vehicles, and bicycles
• An improved mix of retail and restaurants that appeals to residents, nearby workers as well as students. Increased amount of retail space from 77,000 to 106,000 SF.
  
• An upscale, pedestrian friendly village environment with sidewalk cafes along tree lined streets
  
• New owner occupied housing above the retail and overlooking Druid Hills Country Club and a restored Peavine Creek
  
• Design guidelines to promote architecture that is distinctive and memorable, but complements the surrounding neighborhood
  
• New parks, public gathering spaces and a new bridge
  
• Bicycle lanes along North Decatur Road
  
• Structured parking hidden from the streets
  
• A movie theater
  
• Calmer traffic and safer pedestrian environment by narrowing North Decatur Road from 4 lanes to 3 lanes and construction of a traffic roundabout at Oxford, North Decatur and Dowman
  
• More restricted turning movements for cars using north Oxford Road

What are the Next Steps?

• Test the feasibility of the road diet and roundabout to determine the implications upon traffic congestion, cut-through traffic, pedestrian safety and convenience to the community
  
• Prepare a zoning overlay for Emory Village that will permit mixed use developments and the kinds of development proposed in the revitalization plan
  
• Continue to involve Emory Village businesses and property owners, Druid Hills residents, Emory University, Clifton Corridor institutions and DeKalb County officials in the planning processes
  
• Raise additional financial resources to test the road diet and implement the public improvements

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version of the AIEV revitalization plan