Comments on: DeKalb zoning overload! http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/20/dekalb-zoning-overload/ Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:21:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: E http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/20/dekalb-zoning-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-91305 E Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:25:20 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/20/dekalb-zoning-overload/#comment-91305 Though in reading more carefully I should probably apologize. I think the article almost made it look like Stand Up was supporting Sembler at Doraville when it may be that they were merely supporting the idea of dense live work play there. My apologies if that is the case. If its well done, since its next to the Doraville Rail station this is one place where the Town Center Designation is appropriate. Druid Hills it is not because a local bus route does not equate to transit service. Though in reading more carefully I should probably apologize. I think the article almost made it look like Stand Up was supporting Sembler at Doraville when it may be that they were merely supporting the idea of dense live work play there. My apologies if that is the case. If its well done, since its next to the Doraville Rail station this is one place where the Town Center Designation is appropriate.

Druid Hills it is not because a local bus route does not equate to transit service.

]]> By: E http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/20/dekalb-zoning-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-91304 E Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:22:15 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/20/dekalb-zoning-overload/#comment-91304 And by the way Stand Up DeKalb, Doraville isn't your neck of the woods. Take that together with the fact that Sembler's not a very good developer in general and that their live work play is half hearted and still car oriented. Take all that and maybe wait until you heap praise on something. Or are you trying to get props of not being against everything by supporting something in someone else's backyard? And by the way Stand Up DeKalb, Doraville isn’t your neck of the woods. Take that together with the fact that Sembler’s not a very good developer in general and that their live work play is half hearted and still car oriented. Take all that and maybe wait until you heap praise on something. Or are you trying to get props of not being against everything by supporting something in someone else’s backyard?

]]> By: E http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/20/dekalb-zoning-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-91302 E Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:18:15 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/20/dekalb-zoning-overload/#comment-91302 Duh! Mike loves to jump in on the obvious, and he writes it like there is a problem with the present zoning process in DeKalb. I believe that area is covered by Commissioners Gannon and Rader. If the two home commissioners are against something the zoning gets turned down. Simple as that. This thing won't go anywhere if the neighborhood is against it for valid reasons. The reason Dunwoody claimed bad zoning was that zoning loophole that got closed AND the fact that the commissioner THEY voted in, Elaine Boyer sometimes votes big business instead of neighborhoods. But hey State reps often get involved in Zoning Issues....NOT! Just hope he gets involved in making sure his constituents get a new police station because the City of Dunwoody which he supported is taking the one that serves many of his constituents (as well as a fire station). Or maybe Mike can look into why Secretary of State Handel is politicizing her office and distorting the law to deny people the right to vote, the latest instance being her kicking Mike Jacob's only potential challenger, Michelle Conlon, out of the race......... Duh! Mike loves to jump in on the obvious, and he writes it like there is a problem with the present zoning process in DeKalb. I believe that area is covered by Commissioners Gannon and Rader. If the two home commissioners are against something the zoning gets turned down. Simple as that. This thing won’t go anywhere if the neighborhood is against it for valid reasons.

The reason Dunwoody claimed bad zoning was that zoning loophole that got closed AND the fact that the commissioner THEY voted in, Elaine Boyer sometimes votes big business instead of neighborhoods.

But hey State reps often get involved in Zoning Issues….NOT!
Just hope he gets involved in making sure his constituents get a new police station because the City of Dunwoody which he supported is taking the one that serves many of his constituents (as well as a fire station).
Or maybe Mike can look into why Secretary of State Handel is politicizing her office and distorting the law to deny people the right to vote, the latest instance being her kicking Mike Jacob’s only potential challenger, Michelle Conlon, out of the race………

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