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Want to Get Involved?

There are many opportunities to engage with SAND and help us work together in building our community, these include:

• Becoming a member - help us raise funds for our operations and community improvement initiatives, become a member today!

• Joining our email list - learn about upcoming events and significant issues impact our community

• Attending our meetings - engage directly with the SAND community, elected officials, and vote on issues impacting our community, including land use and zoning

• Becoming an officer or committee chair

Purchase a Trolley

The trolley was chosen as the neighborhood symbol due the history of our community as one of Atlanta’s original streetcar suburbs. This trolleys serve to link the SAND neighborhoods together, as well as our history and future as light rail is planned to return to the neighborhoods along the Atlanta BeltLine. The purchase of the trolley also raises valuable funds for SAND.

All trolley signs can be picked up at Keller Knapp Realty at:
471-A Flat Shoals Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30316. Trolley signs are only sold online.
Contact president@sandtatlanta.org, or treasurer@sandatlanta.org for further information.

History

SAND was born in 1973. Why South Atlantans for Neighborhood Development? The organizational structure followed the pattern of the revivalists in the Little Five Points neighborhoods. They had formed B.O.N.D., the Bass Organization for Neighborhood Development to coordinate the work of Candler Park, Inman Park, Little Five, and Ponce Highlands. The only place where you will still find B.O.N.D. in the name is that of the Credit Union.

So what did SAND do? Not much at the start. There were only four of us in the first meeting. We did get a boost from the work of prior leaders who had formed the 30th House District Town Hall meeting led by State Representative John Savage. At first we were a “stationary” organization which means we wrote letters to city officials complaining about the lack of quality municipal services on the south side of I-20. We held a Community Flea Market and Carnival in the parking lot of the Ormewood Presbyterian Church (now the Community Church) with booths and children’s games.  We concocted a Kudzu Soup for another festival, and created a float in one of the July 4th parades downtown. One year SAND permitted a parade down Moreland Avenue which attracted candidates running for Governor, culminating in a festival in the parking lot of Moreland Shopping Center. Yes, we closed down Moreland and created a huge Saturday afternoon traffic jam. (Try doing that today!)