Clean House. Really!

The bureaucrats at city hall are asking for citizens to step up and clean up the community. This does not mean you, and you know who you are, can gather up the trashy signs littering out community. 

It might be nice if the seven dwarfs stepped up with some leadership and cleaned up their own house. The obvious first step is removal, with cause, of police command that is costing us hundreds of thousands of dollars. Similarly the out of control management hell bent on doing anything but serve the residents of this community should be shown the door. And at a time when we all face a financial downturn maybe it is time for the dwarfs to consider offloading activities that rightly belong with a chamber of commerce onto, well, a chamber of commerce. 

Indeed, it would be nice. Just don't hold your breath. 

PSA: Ahead Of The Curve

This week's Boycott Bad Business award was going to the Mexican eatery in the village that has been most egregious in their violation of the overlay ordinances.

But the good folk of Dunwoody already have this covered having named Los Rancheros the best Mexican cuisine in Dunwoody. This is one vote that Dunwoody got right. Los Rancheros has consistently knocked it out of the park for more years that Dunwoody has even been a city. Which brings up another very interesting point: Los Rancheros is not actually in Dunwoody but is across the line in Sandy Springs. As it turns out Your Dunwoody is out front on making sure that the city loses support for the bad behavior of breaking city ordinances.

Kudos to the best Mexican eatery around!

PSA: Put Some South In Your Mouth

This is, as it always has been and always will be, a very touchy subject. You are safer discussing politics on FeceBook that talking barbeque anywhere. But as a recent offender in the Village Proper is a purveyor of low and slow, or so they say, let's just jump right in to the deep end.

The south has many sub-regions and you're blessed to be in the coastal south, the southeast, where barbecue means pork. Yes, you can apply the same techniques of low, slow, spicy and mopped to other large dead quadruped or even flightless birds, but that don't make it barbeque. This is one of those cases where to get to the destination the starting point is absolute. If it ends with barbeque, it begins with pork.

Since the option in daVille is a disrespector of Your Dunwoody and a serial violator of sign ordinances, supporting Your Community means getting your fix elsewhere. But that's OK. If measured by number of locations to partake, the religion of Q exceeds ordinary religions by a significant margin. So let's look at a few nearby options, none less than four out of five on the star rating system.

JR's Log House just up PIB must be doing something right because they've been doing it a very long time.

Slope's, just over the border in Sandy Springs, is a local favorite with multiple locations in the area.

Another, more regional favorite is Dreamland with a convenient location over the river and through the woods in Roswell. While originating in Alabama, you do not have to scream "Roll Tide!" to get some of the best Q in area.

For something unique scoot over to the west, in Snob County, to the Heirloom Market BBQ, sporting BBQ and burgers with a slight hint of Asia.

Since BBQ has always taken casual to the extreme, often served in to-go containers even when sitting in the restaurant, this cuisine begs to be ordered and taken out or home. There is no better digestif than a car filled with the smells of pork à la Q.

By patronizing these fine establishments you'll not only treat your mouth to some of the best the south has to offer, you'll also help clean up the Village, hopefully opening a slot for a business that respects Your Dunwoody.

PSA: Boycott Bad Business Behavior

There is not a politician out there who is not trying to turn the pandemic to their own benefit. As are businesses especially those in Dunwoody Village who appear to have pent up hatred of the requirements of the community as expressed in the Village Overlay. Pent up no more. They're mad as hell and they're ready to say "screw you" to anyone who thinks this is not their land to rule. And they'll get no disagreement from our elected officials, who for all practical purposes are asleep at the wheel, or city staff who are actually fanning the flames.

So it is now as it once was before we had a city--it is time for the Citizens OF Dunwoody to pick up the litter with which others have arrogantly and rudely polluted our landscape. Not since Memorial Highway of the late '80s has any area been as trashy looking as Dunwoody Village at this very moment.

Could it be any trashier? We may well find out.

Referencing Giggle we find a very workable definition of litter: "trash that is left lying in an open or public place" but these litterings are more than just trash, they are trash that is in violation of duly passed city ordinances and therefore the most odious form of litter. So now might be the time you can aid in the beatification of Your Dunwoody, any part of it, by picking up and disposing of litter. You may even reach for celebrity status so that you too may get a garbage truck named in your honor.

It is also time for the inaugural selection for the TOD Boycott Bad Business Behavior award. It would be really nice if it went to worst offender but that is the City Economic Development group and as you know you cannot boycott paying your taxes. So they are in the position of using your tax dollars to deface Your Dunwoody and your only leverage is indirect. By boycotting bad behavior you'll also reduce, ever so slightly, some of the resources they use to screw you over.

The choice is made difficult because so many businesses were vying for the top slot, but after much deliberation you just must pick the dope. If cannabidiol is a key part of your diet there is a very good (so say the yelpers) option that fits with the BBBB goals:

The Georgia Hemp CBD Company
290 Hilderbrand Dr B-3
Sandy Springs, GA 30328
(404) 343-2796

Stop by or give them a ring. Just give them your business.