Brookhaven new name "Ashford" (Atlanta, Sandy Springs: house, neighborhood, live)

[tre_maine]

Committee OKs Brookhaven name change | www.wsbtv.com

Came across this the other day. Any thoughts from local residents in the area?
Yay? Nay? Don't care?

Personally, I like the name Brookhaven. Ashford belongs to the Dunwoody/Sandy Springs area IMO.

[JPD]

There's already a thread on this.

Ashford sounds like the name of a kid who is born vastly wealthy and grows up rubbing it in everyone's face.

[ATL Golfer]

Brookhaven belongs to area btwn Peachtree Dunwoody and Ashford Dunwoody. North of Ptree and South of Windsor Pkwy. Basically historic Brookhaven and its outskirts.

The Dresden corridor needs to remain Ashford Park (even the Deer Valley Side).

For the area north of Windsor, btwn Ptree Dunwoody and Ashford Dunwoody, we can remain nothing (I live there).

[waronxmas]

This is the best possible compromise to me. Since the actual neighborhood of Brookhaven would be included in this new city, it's identity as a specific place would be lost if they had the same name.

It's also a good way to form a new city identity from such a socially and economically disparate community. You have the old money mansions of Brookhaven to the south, first rung middle class suburbia centered around Ashford-Dunwoody Road all along the north (which I suppose will be called Main Street), and the high density immigrant community that straddles Buford highway in the east (and don't forget this includes Plaza Fiesta).

My question is where shall Ashford's Downtown be centered? The Cherokee Plaza Kroger parking lot? Mellow Mushroom?

[DTL3000]

Originally Posted by JPD

There's already a thread on this.

Ashford sounds like the name of a kid who is born vastly wealthy and grows up rubbing it in everyone's face.

That's how I feel about it. It sounds obnoxiously WASP-y. Sort of like Milton.

[arjay57]

Not so fast. Apparently those folks up in Brookhaven who think they can haul off and form their own city have overlooked the fact that they'd be diluting minority voting strength in DeKalb County.

Opponents of the proposed new city say they are also thinking about imposing damages on the individual legislators behind it.

Hughley [president of the Brookhaven Chamblee Homeowners and Neighborhood Business Alliance] said one of the main issues is that the bill to create the city was introduced as general legislation before the entire House of Representatives, instead of going through the DeKalb County delegation as local legislation.

“The 700,000 people in DeKalb elected people to represent them. When they went around these people, they diluted the minority voting strength in DeKalb County,” Hughley said.

Although, unlike the Fulton County lawsuit, Hughley said this one would specifically name as defendants the Brookhaven bill’s sponsors, Reps. Mike Jacobs, R-Atlanta, and Tom Taylor, R-Dunwoody.

“At this point, they penalized the community. We think the community should seek some kind of damages against these two legislators,” Hughley said.

Some opponents consider taking new city to court | Reporter Newspapers