As well as Victoria Estates and Mason Mill, residents of the Clairmont Heights, Medlock Park and the Laurel Ridge-Shamrock neighborhoods overwhelmingly preferred to remain in unincorporated DeKalb instead of a new city. Feeling were mixed in the Leafmore, Lindmoor Woods, Briarcliff Woods East neighborhoods, while the North Briarcliff area overwhelmingly supported a new city.
The survey results were based on a total of 687 responses from central DeKalb County residents inside I-285, including 159 responses from the approximately 400 homes in the Mason Mill and Victoria Estates neighborhoods.
Neighborhoods that were surveyed were more supportive of being annexed into an existing DeKalb County city than a new one, if they could no longer remain in unincorporated DeKalb. Eighty percent of residents in Mason Mill and Victoria Estates would prefer to be annexed into an existing city instead of a new city, with Decatur and Brookhaven as their top choices. Residents of the Clairmont Heights, Laurel Ridge Shamrock, and Medlock Park neighorhoods expressed similar views.
A lengthy analysis of the survey results can be found at http://bit.ly/2TxXSA6 . Links to respondents comments about various scenarios can be found at http://bit.ly/2BnLsE4 .
