Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where do people in your community gather or socialize?
  - How and where does your community access services (healthcare, transportation, educational services, etc.)?

Examples of activities and services: Shopping areas, schools and universities, libraries, parks, lakes, rivers, places of worship, healthcare services, public transport, local nonprofit organizations, etc.

Your response: Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church is a physical bastion in our community and frames our community to the West. Our community also hosts the East Lake Foundation communities, the Drew Charter School campuses, and the East Lake YMCA. There is a public park, two public libraries nearby (on Candler Road and in East Atlanta Village), and several senior living communities. There is also a large Publix supermarket that serves our community and the surrounding areas. MARTA bus lines run through our community and route to the East Lake MARTA train station. There is also an independent K-12 school called the Mohammed School in our community and an Islamic Center where services are held on Fridays.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What are the cultural bonds in your community?
  - If your community has a shared history, what is it?

Examples of cultural or historical interests: Religious groups, ethnic groups, languages, age groups, immigration status, historic or arts districts, etc.

Your response: I am relatively new to my community (7 years) and am not as aware of its cultural or historic background as others. I do know that in the 1970, the Atlanta Housing Authority opened East Lake Meadows, a 650-unit public housing project that housed a generation of Atlanta's low-income, primarily African-American residents."Initially praised for the spacious units and new construction, East Lake Meadows quickly became known as 'little Vietnam,' a moniker that was intended to capture the rampant crime and violence that overwhelmed the community. Shoddy construction and a lack of funding left the project and surrounding landscape in disrepair and led to a rapid decline in the quality of life."

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  - Where are residents employed?
  - If there are environmental concerns in your community, what are they?

Examples of economic or environmental interests: Tourism industry, agricultural workers, mining town, manufacturing center, polluted natural resource, unemployment problem, etc.

Your response: My community is gentrifying quickly from its previous demographic of family-owned (often multi-generationally), 2/1 homes on the edge of City of Atlanta (DeKalb County). Developers are buying the homes and renovating them into 3/2 and 4/3's, selling for upwards of $500k. Density is also picking up with luxury apartment and housing communities being developed at either end of the neighborhood, the residents of which are not reflective of the existing community.

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  - What should politicians and/or map drawers know about your community?
  - What are the needs of your community?
  - Is there anything else you want to tell us about your community?

Examples of needs or concerns: Keep community in the same district or separate into multiple districts, shared policy concerns, need for a social service, relationship to other nearby communities, issues with current district lines

Your response: Our community is currently a mix of generations, income levels, ethnicities, and cultures, but it is quickly skewing with the increase in development. The City of Atlanta cuts jaggedly through our community with the remainder of the community set outside the City limits in Unincorporated DeKalb. There has been talk of incorporating our community into the City of Atlanta, but this has not yet happened.