A well-known attorney who has been fighting for a decade to cut three lots in Druid Hills into seven smaller properties won a bit of his battle recently in DeKalb County.
County commissioners agreed with Robert Buckler that the county’s Historic Preservation Commission overstepped its boundaries in not allowing him to erect a wall and fence on his land on Clifton Road.
The two commissioners who represent the area, Kathie Gannon and Jeff Rader, dissented.
The victory is tangential to the lawsuit from the Druid Hills Civic Association, which is suing to drop the project it says will erode the historic character of the neighborhood laid out by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
That lawsuit remains in DeKalb Superior Court.
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