City to hold meeting to get input on signs

The City of Morrow will hold a kick-off meeting about its new sign code revision, which will address things such as sign styles, designs, size, and location.

The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. March 23 in the Morrow City Hall community room, 1500 Morrow Rd.

The public can share ideas about signage, concerns regarding how the legislation will impact its commercial areas, and opinions about the current sign situation in Morrow.

Information: www.cityofmorrow.com a budgetary information presentation followed by a citizen input session.

“Citizen Chalkboard” sessions are from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., April 12, and from 6 to 8 p.m., April 13, at Hapeville police headquarters, 700 Doug Davis Dr.

Citizens who can’t make either session can email input to: budgetquestions@hapeville.org

Topics of the second annual Citizen Chalkboard event will include the city’s current fiscal overview, a five-year fiscal history of the city, how the budget is formulated/ allotted, as well as a look at future budgetary projects. Citizens will be able to give input on relevant budgetary project ideas.

Information: www.hapeville.org Fairburn Branch, 60 Valley View Drive, Fairburn. Learn basic computer skills. 770-306-3138, afpls.org.

Fuel for Fitness. 1-2 p.m. Friday. Free. Fayette Senior Services, The Gathering Place, 203 McIntosh Trail, Peachtree City. Chris Moore with Piedmont Fayette Hospital Fitness Center will be the speaker. Register: 770-461-0813 or email register@fayss.org (include name, phone number and event title). Fayss.org.

■Teen Tech Week. Library hours Monday to March 11. Free. South Fulton Branch, 4055 Flat Shoals Road, Union City. Complete an Internet Scavenger Hunt for prizes. Use the website at afpls.org or come into the branch to answer the questions. 404-613-3092.

Pet Adoption Day. 1:30-3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Free. Fayette Senior Services, The Life Enrichment Center, 4 Center Drive, Fayetteville. Adoption fees may apply. 770-461-0813, Fayss.org.

Apartment complex proposed for site

Atlanta-based Enfold Properties has submitted a set of preliminary plans for a 102-unit apartment complex in the two-acre triangle at North Acadia Avenue and Winn Way in Decatur.

No commercial uses are proposed for the development. About 75 percent of the apartments will be one-bedroom, 25 percent two-bedroom and none are three bedroom.

Because Enfold is not requiring a zoning change — the parcel’s zoned mixed-use transit subarea — the plans didn’t come before the city commission. The property is all that remains of the old DeVry University campus, most of which has been redeveloped into a VA clinic.

As Planning Director Angela Threadgill points out, however, the plans haven’t been finalized by the city’s development team and no permits have been issued by the city.

Enfold hopes to begin construction late this year, but it still faces two hurdles: securing financing and purchasing the property, now owned by Greenstone Properties.

Enfold recently completed 881 Memorial, a four-story, 80-unit apartment project in the Reynoldstown neighborhood near the eastside Beltline Trail.