In the Loop
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Morehead Says No to UGA Domestic Partner Benefits
Jere Morehead isn't off to an auspicious start for Athens progressives. The new University of Georgia won't pursue efforts to extend health coverage to gay and lesbian (and unmarried straight) UGA employees' domestic partners.
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Downtown Property Owners: We're Being Ignored
Some downtown property owners say they've been left out of the process of making a master plan for downtown Athens.
Janey Cooley, senior vice president for First American Bank & Trust, told the Athens Downtown Development Authority that UGA College of Environment and Design professor Jack Crowley, who is writing the master plan, hasn't spoken to her since a meeting with the Downtown Athens Business Association a year ago.
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Superintendent Rules in Favor of Challenged Book
After the Clarke County Board of Education ordered him to review his initial decision last month, Superintendent Philip Lanoue has again overruled objections that And the Earth Did Not Devour Him contains too much profanity for middle school students.
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Fourth of July, I Mean Star-Spangled Classic, Canceled
Nope.
First my barbecue, and now this? Another day of bummer summer weather, another holiday casualty. This just in from ACC: -
Commission Approves Selig Development
After two hours of public input and debate, the Athens-Clarke Commission voted 8-2 tonight to approve a special use permit for the development at the Armstrong & Dobbs property, all but ending nearly two years of wrangling over the mega-project that will change the face of downtown.
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BikeAthens, People for a Better Athens Weigh in on Selig
People for a Better Athens is turning out its members to today's 7 p.m. Athens-Clarke County Commission meeting at City Hall, where commissioners are set to approve Selig Enterprises' development at the Armstrong & Dobbs site near downtown.
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Girtz: It's Hard to Legislate 'Funky' Development
Commissioner Kelly Girtz passed along some background information Sunday night on the Selig development. He intends to make a motion at Tuesday night's meeting to require Selig to include a bike path and a sidewalk connecting Firefly Trail to the UGA campus across Oconee Street.
While it doesn't include the flat rail spur that some believe has been reserved for a rail-trail link to campus, the path along Hickory Street extension would have a grade of no more than 5 percent. In a month or two, Selig would also have to come back to the commission for design approval for the plaza along the rail-trail.
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Opposition to Selig Is Growing
What used to be the Beltline rail spur. [credit: Larry Tenner]
Local activists are hard at work organizing last minute opposition to the downtown Selig development based on former commissioner Carl Jordan's revelations about an old rail spur through the Armstrong & Dobbs property. But it looks like the Athens-Clarke County Commission is moving full speed ahead on rubber-stamping the development Tuesday night.
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