In the Loop
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Broken Downtown Parking Meters Will Be Replaced
When you come downtown, do you drive around looking for a broken parking meter so you don't have to pay?
Enjoy it while you can. The Athens Downtown Development Authority is about to replace most of its old, coins-only meter—including 60 broken ones—with new models that also accept credit cards.
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Planning Commission OK's Selig Development
The Athens-Clarke County Planning Commission unanimously signed off on Selig Enterprises' massive mixed use development on Oconee and East Broad streets Thursday night.
The planning commission recommended that the county commission approve a special use permitallowing Selig to build 15 residential units on the ground floor, where ACC requires commercial space in downtown developments. The county commission is scheduled to vote Tuesday, July 2.
About 20 people spoke out against the development, mainly complaining that, with 100,000 square feet of commercial space, 375 apartments and 1,485 parking spaces in two hidden decks, it's too big and too auto-centric.
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Athens-Clarke Commission Fires Auditor
The Athens-Clarke Commission opted not to reappoint longtime Auditor John Wolfe for another two years at its voting meeting Tuesday.
A majority of commissioners indicated they would not vote to reappoint Wolfe after his recent biennial perfomance review, Mayor Nancy Denson said.
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UPDATE: Red & Black Publisher Harry Montevideo Has Resigned
Harry Montevideo has resigned as publisher of the Red & Black, the University of Georgia student newspaper.
The decision was a mutual one between Montevideo and the nonprofit's board of directors that stemmed from financial struggles in the online world, said board member and spokesman Chuck Reece.
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Rand Paul Thinks Paul Broun Is Nuts
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who wants to take government back to the 1950s, thinks Rep. Paul Broun (R-Athens) is going too far.
Paul had this to say to a Silicon Valley group on Tuesday, according to The Daily Beast:
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ACHF Preservation Award Winners
Here are the winners of the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation's Preservation Awards, announced Monday night at the Morton Theatre.
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Public Hearing on High Speed Rail Today
Free this afternoon? Why not go to Suwanee to support high-speed rail through Athens?
The only public hearing in Georgia is at 4 p.m. today at Suwanee City Hall, 323 Buford Highway.
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ACC Planners Give Nod to Selig Development
An Athens-Clarke County Planning Department report released this afternoon says that the planning commission and the county commission should approve the Selig development.
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