I feel it is my civic duty to pass this on. In case you didn’t know, there is a massive retail development being planned on Moreland Ave, right next to Little Five Points. If you live in Atlanta, read this:
Dear Neighbors:
In the interest of supporting smart growth, SCALE asks that you come to the Rezone Hearing for the Atlanta Gas/Light-Sembler retail compound planned on Moreland ave. Sembler is requesting C-3 zoning , the traditional stripmall category, so that they may erect a mall with 4 anchor stores, 600,000 square feet of commercial space, with an abysmal 1/4 acre of green for a park, and loading docks and trash dumps that are within 100 feet of existing single family homes, and parking deck entrances across from churches. NPU-O is asking for 15% greenspace and continued negotiations. NPU-N has voted to reject the C-3 rezone request, and has passed a resolution in support of SCALEing back Sembler’s plans, increasing green useable public space, protection for the residential streets, etc. These are all principles that SCALE was founded on. The issues of scale and design CONTINUE TO BE unaddressed by Sembler, and it seems only a public showing at the hearing will impress them with our resolve.
Please come on March 13, at 5:30 pm (if you want a seat), or 6:00 pm to the 2nd floor City Council chambers at 55 Trinity downtown at City Hall. Most neighborhoods are organizing around this zoning hearing, and it is critical that we have a strong showing of support for either a deferral (so that meaningful negotiations can begin), or a rejection of the application outright, if need be. SCALE will be there with stickers and t-shirts and everyone we can get to come. Thanks for all your support up to now; as a unified community, we can all work for a great, new urbanist development that will sustain, rather than deplete, our community’s resources.
Peace,
Sara Simmons & Judy Butler, Edgewood Residents and SCALE Instigators
foozlecat@hotmail.com and judybutler2u@yahoo.com
EDGEWOOD at 1333 LaFrance Street, Atl 30307
I think it’s amazing that the neighborhood managed to get as much as they have in terms of concessions from the developer.
Personally, I’m FOR the development, ASSUMING it meets the conditions of the neighborhood in which it will be placed.
I don’t really care too much about Inman Park’s take on it. They had their chance, made their money and now they want to impose their will on a different neighborhood.