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SITE PROPOSAL

In keeping with Friends of Refugees’ (FOR) core values of Partnership,

Empowerment and Stewardship, our plans to construct a sustainable
center (the Jolly Avenue Development Center) epitomizes FOR’s conviction

that we should design and build in a way that lowers operating costs;
dramatically reduces the waste sent to our landfills; enhances and protects

biodiversity and the ecosystem; conserves our energy and water; provides
environmental education and training opportunities; helps the local
economy through job upgrading and entrepreneurship; comprehensively

increases the value of our neighborhood; and creates the healthiest
possible environment for visitors and guests to the JADC.

The site development team particularly embraces these values and goals in
developing our ideas for the JADC site development. Three of the eight

JADC goals have been incorporated in this design along with other
sustainable ideas and suggestions. Due to our analysis of the site we

determined the locations for the parking lot, handicap parking, location of
the playground and the leach fields. The viaduct and bog swales were
previously detailed per the Dekalb County approved site layout for the

building and the gardens. The handicap parking was located to avoid
crossing traffic and creating extensive ramps to access the entrance to the

building.
EXISTING SITE PLAN

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