Brookhaven News, Updates and Resources The Brookhaven Blast Brookhaven News, Updates and Resources CITY OF BROOKHAVEN NEWS A message about fireworks safety and laws from the Brookhaven Police Department All you need to know regarding fireworks in Brookhaven including City Ordinances, Georgia Laws, and how to celebrate safely this New Year 2021. Have a safe and happy holiday! COVIDCareGA is hiring! Want to help in the fight against COVID-19 while also getting paid? COVIDCareGA, which operates the vaccination and testing site at Northeast Plaza in Brookhaven, is now hiring at all locations for traffic control to aid in the increased demand for testing. Pay is $16 an hour, and hours are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Email Skhan@covidcarega.com if interested in applying for a traffic control position. Be sure to include your phone number. The Brookhaven location offers rapid and PCR testing, boosters, and vaccines for adults and children every weekday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Wednesdays, and weekends from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Brookhaven site will be closed on New Year’s Day. COVID Care also operates testing and/or vaccination centers in Peachtree Corners, Duluth, Lilburn, and Gainesville. Visit www.COVIDCareGA.com for addresses, hours, and more information. Park Bond News: Lynwood Park splashpad groundbreaking on Thursday A groundbreaking ceremony for the Lynwood Park splashpad project is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 6, at 1:30 p.m. at the existing Lynwood Park pool, 3360 Osborne Road. The project is included in the Park Bond approved by voters in 2018. More information can be found here and here. Dresden Drive webpage updated; tentative project completion schedule below Based upon community feedback, Brookhaven is revamping the Dresden Intersection Analysis study, currently underway. The enhanced project scope will address revised development assumptions, multiple growth assumptions, and a review of potential bicycle facilities. We have updated the project website for this effort. The updated page includes the dates for the remainder of the project and some additional documents outlining the path forward. Tentative project completion schedule: New traffic counts - week of 01/24/2022. Public meeting to present new data and assumptions - week of 02/07/2022. Publish first draft traffic study, recommendations to project website - week of 03/14/2022. Public meeting to present draft recommendations - week of 03/21/2022. Publish revised draft traffic study, recommendations to project website - week of 04/25/2022. Mayor and Council Presentation - week of 05/09/2022. Publish final traffic study, recommendations to project website - week of 05/16/2022. The updates can be found here. 'Rain Brigade' sweeping your street soon! As part of the City’s Stormwater Management Program, our team sweeps all streets in the City at least once per year, collecting over 40 tons of dirt, pebbles, cigarette butts, leaves, and debris! That’s over 40 tons of material that is diverted from our creeks and streams. Street sweeping has begun, but it is a continuous and linear operation, so we can’t pinpoint when the sweeper will be on your street. Each street will receive two passes. Once down each curb line. Please review the DOs and DON’Ts below. DON’T Sweep your yard trimmings, leaves, or other debris into the street before the sweeper passes Tailgate. The sweeper has limited visibility, especially behind it. Pass. Try to refrain from passing the sweeper on our narrow residential streets DO Be patient with the process. The sweeper moves slowly, so there may be some temporary slowdowns on the streets. Try to park off-street whenever you can. (We won’t be sweeping Christmas Day, New Years Day, or on the weekends) Take a picture of the street sweeper in action, as we’re in the process of creating a Street Sweeping web page. Send photos to stormwater@brookhavenga.gov City Council renews sponsorship of Front Yard Tree Program Back by popular demand, Brookhaven is once again partnering with Trees Atlanta to sponsor the Front Yard Tree Program. In this partnership, Trees Atlanta will plant up to 40 trees (max. 2 per household) in the front yards of Brookhaven residents. Homeowners can choose one of six varieties of oak; Tupelo, River birch, Tulip poplar, American sycamore or Bald cypress, all between six and eight feet in height. Trees Atlanta will plant the tree and provide the initial mulching and watering and include a two-year replacement guarantee. More information here. UPCOMING CITY EVENTS & MEETINGS Brookhaven will honor MLK Day at drive-in event Jan. 17 Brookhaven will host its sixth annual MLK Day Dinner and Program Monday, Jan. 17, in the Apple Valley Road parking lot of the Brookhaven MARTA station, 1268 Apple Valley Road NE. The event, with featured speakers and “dinner in a bag,” will begin at 5:30 p.m. “I am excited that we are returning to last year’s format for one of Brookhaven’s most popular events,” said District 1 City Council