Politics & Government

Sen. Millar: Only Lakeside Cityhood Bill Will Move Forward

The Dunwoody state senator said other cityhood bills in DeKalb County will likely fall to the wayside.

 

The only bill out of DeKalb County with any chance of moving toward the creation of a new municipality is the Lakeside City Alliance's bill, state Sen. Fran Millar said last week.

The Dunwoody legislator told Reporter Newspapers that bills that have led to new cities in the metro Atlanta area over the last several years have been mostly Republican-led, and the alliance's bill is likely to be the only serious cityhood contender.

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From the Reporter Newspapers story published Friday:

Millar, who sponsored the Lakeside bill, said he doesn’t expect any serious cityhood efforts will come out of the flurry of last-minute placeholder bills.

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“Do I think some of these bills are going to be going anywhere? Absolutely not,” Millar said. “I think the only one that will go anywhere — if they can raise the money — is the city of Lakeside.”

Millar noted that the creation of new cities has been a partisan issue in the past, with the bills to create cities in the metro Atlanta area led almost exclusively by Republican lawmakers. But this year, all of the last-minute incorporation bills were sponsored by Democrats.

Several legislators have submitted bills that could lead the path toward other cities in DeKalb County. Here are several stories about those efforts:

  • Carter Files 'City of Lavista Hills' Bill
  • Cityhood Bill Filed for Tucker
  • Lakeside Alliance Files Cityhood Bill

The cityhood debates have gotten a lot of people talking, and one Patch reader put together the map attached to this article, which attempts to sketch out how things might shake out after the dust has settled.  

Both the new "cities" of Briarcliff / Lakeside and Tucker are shown, as well as the possible (probable?) annexations by Chamblee, Doraville and Decatur to clean up the leftovers. 

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