Did you know that each and every one of the below-listed City of Dunwoody Public Works projects in the approved and budgeted pipeline has a separated bicycle and pedestrian facility designed in it? And many also include traffic calming measures, new pedestrian crossings, landscaping, street trees, and lighting. They always include stormwater and drainage improvements, as well.

These projects are identified in the city’s 2017 Comprehensive Transportation Plan, as well as the 2023 Trail Master Plan.

*** AND *** they are all scheduled to be built within the next five years!!

Funding sources include the one-cent SPLOST sales tax, Dunwoody’s Hotel/Motel Tax, Federal transportation grants disbursed by the Atlanta Regional Commission, Georgia DOT, and partnership with the Perimeter Community Improvement District (self-taxing corporate business entity).

NOTE: These funding sources cannot be used for payroll or ongoing operations.

Care to review where these projects are budgeted as approved by the City Council? Checkout Dunwoody’s latest approved budget for 2025. Go to PDF page 45 and review the Capital Projects Budget.

What Exists Today: May 2025

Legend:

Source: City of Dunwoody’s GIS mapping utility. Under Layers, select “Pedestrian and Bicycle Network” –> Existing Bicycle Facilities”

What’s Planned For The Future: to 2043 (+/-)

All of these projects could easily take 20 or more years to build out at current funding levels.

Legend:

Reality: What’s Actually Going to be Built in the Next 5-7 Years

We created this map that exclusively shows the to-be-built projects listed below identified in BLUE. The number next to them represents the number on the list below.

Putting It All Together by 2030 or so

At the end of the day, this is all about building out a connected network of high-quality separated facilities.

Everything highlighted in FAT / WIDE PURPLE depicts the CURRENT separated bike/ped facilities with the FUTURE projects that will be constructed by 2030 / 2033 or so. Except for Mt. Vernon from Vermack to the Village as depicted with the purple dashes. See item #12 at the bottom of this page for details.

Another missing node that jumps out is along Peeler from near Lakeside Drive (Adjacent to Windwood Hollow Park, 1/3 of a mile east of Happy Hollow Rd.). In the Trail Master Plan, this is identified as E4. Heading westward, the path would stop at Cherry Hill, where the user would then travel on Neighborhood “Calm Streets” taking the back way westward across Tilly Mill through the Dunwoody North neighborhood, connecting into the existing Dunwoody Trailway in Brook Run Park.

This path segment is not currently identified in any funding stream. No concept, design, etc. So maybe this gets built in the 2033-2035 timeframe???

Next 5-7 Years Reality: Check out this list and share with your friends & neighbors!

#1: Multi-Use Trail Connecting Eidson Road and Cherry Hill Lane

Construction underway now!

#2: Old Spring House Lane Path

Construction scheduled to start by Q3, 2025

#3: Mount Vernon Intersection & Path

Construction should start by the end of 2025

#4: Ashford Dunwoody Path Phase 2

Estimated Construction Start: 2027.

Funded by the Perimeter Community Improvement District and the Hotel / Motel Tax.

#5: Village Crossing – Chamblee Dunwoody Road

Estimated Construction Start: 2029

#6: Mount Vernon Path Phase 2: Vermack to Mount Vernon Place

Estimated Construction Start: 2029

#7: Peeler Path: Winters Chapel Road to Windwood Hollow Park

Estimated Construction Start: Late 2026 / early 2027

And a couple more projects of significance to be constructed within 5-7 years:

#8: North Shallowford Path

#9: Winters Chapel Path Phase II: Charmant Place to Peeler Road

This project is supported by the 2015 Peachtree Corners – Dunwoody Winters Chapel Road Area Study

#10: Special Mention 1 – Ashford Center Parkway

This roadway is currently four lanes with a landscaped median, posted at 30 mph with many school children and families living along this corridor. The city is proposing to redesign this segment utilizing the existing curb & gutter built footprint and reconfigure to create a separated space for bicycle / pedestrian facilities. Expect in the next 12-18 months draft details being published on the city’s website, advertising for public input and feedback, and then going in front of the council for a vote on the concept plans. With construction and funding sources identified in future years. The cost of building this will be less than other sidepaths and similar facilities, because it will be built between the existing curb & gutter. Although there is no “concept” document to present yet, potentially it could look like the retrofit that the PATH Foundation did near the campus of Georgia Tech a few years ago on Tech Parkway west of the downtown connector:

“PATH Parkway was created by repurposing one side of a divided parkway into a dedicated bikeway and pedestrian way (sidewalk).”

It could possibly change from this

To something like this

And this

#11: Special Mention 2 – Perimeter Center East

See the notes above about Ashford Center Parkway. When Dunwoody became a city, this street was four lanes. Two lanes in each direction. When it was repaved many years ago, the city did a road diet and went to one lane in each direction and added in striped buffered bike lanes. The city is analyzing retrofitting this street for a dedicated separated bike/ped facility similar to Ashford Center Parkway. By building this, it will connect the existing Dunwoody Trailway segment adjacent to Two Bridges Park and the bike/ped bridge that crosses the West branch of Nancy Creek immediately east of the townhomes, to the Ashford Dunwoody network.

Estimated Construction Start: TBD

#12: Mt. Vernon Path: Vermack to Village

This is a critical missing link that once built will connect the Village to Jett Ferry and all of the adjacent neighborhoods along that corridor of Mt. Vernon. For 2025, the city is budgeted to prepare an initial concept plan for this segment. We would like this segment to begin at Chamblee-Dunwoody. If it starts at Dunwoody Village Parkway, it will leave a critical missing node to connect to separated facilities being built on Chamblee Dunwoody as part of the Village Crossroads project. Like every public works transportation project, the plan will include outreach directly to the adjacent project owners and hold a public information open house and solicit feedback. Expect to have public input on this concept in the fall of 2025. One can only guess when this segment could get built as the funded 5-year capital project list going out to 2028 is completely full.

If we don’t get another revenue stream and depend on SPLOST, this segment may not get built until 2035.

2023 Parks Bond Referendum: Lost Opportunity for Funding

Had the Parks & Trails Bond Referendum passed in November 2023, funding would have been secured to build this.

Bike Walk Dunwoody