Lindridge-Martin Manor
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Lindridge/Martin Manor is an intown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It consists mostly of the single-family homes located off of Lindbergh Drive in between I-85 and Cheshire Bridge Road. In addition, it includes a small commercial area of three streets west of I-85 bounded by Peachtree Creek, Piedmont Road and the Southern railroad. The neighborhood's boundaries are I-85 on the northwest (except for the small area across I-85), Morningside-Lenox Park
Morningside-Lenox Park
Morningside/Lenox Park is a residential neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia founded in 1931. It is located north of Virginia-Highland, east of Ansley Park and west of Druid Hills...

 on the south, and North Druid Hills
North Druid Hills, Georgia
North Druid Hills, known alternatively as Briarcliff, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 18,947 at the 2010 census. The center of the area is the intersection of Briarcliff and North Druid Hills roads...

 in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia
DeKalb County, Georgia
DeKalb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population of the county was 691,893 at the 2010 census. Its county seat is the city of Decatur. It is bordered to the west by Fulton County and contains roughly 10% of the city of Atlanta...

 on the east.

Government

The neighborhood is part of Neighborhood planning unit
Neighborhood planning unit
The Neighborhood Planning Unit is a neighborhood-scale governmental structure used in the city of Atlanta, Georgia.The system was established in 1974 by Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Holbrook Jackson...

 F. The neighborhood association is the Lindridge/Martin Manor Neighborhood Association (LMMNA). The LMMNA participates together with the neighboring North Druid Hills communities of LaVista Park and Woodland Hills in the Lindbergh LaVista Corridor Coalition (LLCC).

Issues

In 2011, issues facing Lindridge/Martin Manor included:
  • the planned Clifton Corridor
    Clifton Corridor
    The Clifton Corridor is a proposed public transportation corridor in and near Atlanta, Georgia. It stretches from Lindbergh Center eastwards, following the existing CSX rail corridor to Emory University, with possible continuation along the northern edge of Decatur via Suburban Plaza on N. Decatur...

     transit line which passes through the neighborhood on its route from Lindbergh
    Lindbergh (Atlanta)
    Lindbergh, officially known as Lindbergh/Morosgo, and also known as South Buckhead, is a neighborhood in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia...

     to Emory
    Emory University
    Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...

  • building of ramps to connect I-85 with Georgia 400: presently traffic is directed onto Cheshire Bridge Road
  • traffic congestion in particular at the intersection of Cheshire Bridge Road and Lindbergh Road/LaVista Road

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