‘It Is Wrong’: DeKalb Residents Fight Industrial Facility Near Their Neighborhood

Residents of south DeKalb County are trying to stop an industrial development next to their neighborhoods.

They say the project never should have been permitted and that it threatens people’s health and property values in their area. The fight has escalated to a lawsuit, with a backdrop of political turmoil in a newly created city.

‘This Is A Business Coming’

Pyper Bunch first realized something was going on near her subdivision when she began reemerging from her home after the early pandemic days of sheltering in place. She said she’d been working from home and had barely left the house.