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Meeting Thursday focuses on potential new cities in south DeKalb
By April Hunt
Sept 24, 2013The prospect of new cities in south DeKalb County will be the focus of a meeting Thursday .
DeKalb’s legislative delegation has filed placeholder bills for at least five possible cities in all corners of the county.
The session will focus on the possibility of a City of Prosperity, to cover the bulk of east-south DeKalb and a city of Stonecrest, to run south from Lithonia and include Stonecrest Mall. Other potential cities, some with overlapping boundaries, include Briarcliff/Druid Hills, Lakeside, LaVista Hills and Tucker.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at Southwest DeKalb High, 2863 Kelley Chapel Road, near Decatur .
