Sandy Springs family builds up instead of out

HYOSUB SHIN/hshin@ajc.com

Jennifer and Scott Reiser, and their son, Dylan, recently moved into a home they designed and built in Sandy Springs’ Westfield Park. A neighboring pond was one of the things that attracted them to the site, but it – along with the city’s ordinances – made it necessary to build within the footprint of the 2,100-square-foot, 1950s-era ranch house that had occupied the lot.