Comments on: Come get NIMBY with us tonight! http://pecannelog.com/2008/10/20/come-get-nimby-with-us-tonight/ ladyblogging atlanta Sat, 19 May 2012 10:47:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: marquis http://pecannelog.com/2008/10/20/come-get-nimby-with-us-tonight/#comment-1944 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:29:57 +0000 http://pecannelog.wordpress.com/?p=1477#comment-1944 I don’t in Atlanta now, I used to, and i am moving back in two weeks….and my background is land and transportation planning. I know zoning and development. Without knowing full details and taking the design discussion out of the equation, what’s the main problem? Va-Hi turned into Buckhead-lite 5ish years ago, so people who are clinging to old Va-Hi — its over, been over, will never be the same — and i loved old Va-Hi. How is creating (free?) public parking spaces bad? Is running around the neighborhood searching for a spot on the street part a right of passage? 12 condos won’t make a dent in traffic. 25K retail will. But then you have 200+ off-street, in garage parking. Normal parking required for something like this would be 124, assuming 4 per 1000 retail and 2 per unit. That means almost 100 cars will be taken off the streets for current residents and their guests. Please explain negative aspects. Don’t say new = bad. That’s silly. It’d be different if they were tearing down historic structures.

]]> By: Gordon Lamb http://pecannelog.com/2008/10/20/come-get-nimby-with-us-tonight/#comment-1904 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:31:42 +0000 http://pecannelog.wordpress.com/?p=1477#comment-1904 Yep, it’s “private”. Go check out the photo album. I guess if you’re a member you can rub elbows with celebrities like Shawn Mullins.

BTW those gray apartments gray Highland and North were built in the 1920′s. They are a historical part of the neighborhood. And they’re actually very cool inside. Lots of original tile, arched room passageways and real hardwood floors (i.e. not laminates). I love those apartments.

]]> By: e/b http://pecannelog.com/2008/10/20/come-get-nimby-with-us-tonight/#comment-1898 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:35:20 +0000 http://pecannelog.wordpress.com/?p=1477#comment-1898 I have never heard of the Warren but I have two useless things to say.
1) When I first read “The Warren,” I thought it might be the huge gray apartment building at the corner of Highland & North. It seems very (rabbit) warreny to me.
2) @ Gordon Lamb: You have to be a member to go to the Warren? That’s like… Chapel Hill-style but so much worse, because it isn’t a law, it’s just faux elitism. Faux Vaggie Hi elitism. Ickeh.

]]> By: Gordon Lamb http://pecannelog.com/2008/10/20/come-get-nimby-with-us-tonight/#comment-1896 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:55:39 +0000 http://pecannelog.wordpress.com/?p=1477#comment-1896 I just checked out the membership costs for The Warren. I dunno. Any place that costs only $50 a month to be a member of isn’t terribly exclusive. What were they thinking?

]]> By: Navin http://pecannelog.com/2008/10/20/come-get-nimby-with-us-tonight/#comment-1889 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:59:23 +0000 http://pecannelog.wordpress.com/?p=1477#comment-1889 The Mix is the brainspasm of a demented developer. You don’t need to look any further than the design of this horrid building (even their website) to see the lunacy behind it. You can certainly expect a low budget, low class, low quality building. It will Exactly what VaHi does NOT need. Anyone considering buying into this place needs to have an MRI done on their brain.

]]> By: pecanne log http://pecannelog.com/2008/10/20/come-get-nimby-with-us-tonight/#comment-1888 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:26:35 +0000 http://pecannelog.wordpress.com/?p=1477#comment-1888 Morningside is in the same NPU (F)! You could have voted – it was to recommend the City change the zoning from commercial (C-1) to neighborhood commercial (NC). The Mix is coming whether I like it or not, and I don’t.

]]> By: kevin chmiel http://pecannelog.com/2008/10/20/come-get-nimby-with-us-tonight/#comment-1886 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:07:04 +0000 http://pecannelog.wordpress.com/?p=1477#comment-1886 I was just running over by Hillside and saw a billion cars and went to CL.com to find out what the heck was going on. They had a link to your page here.

I don’t officially live in “Vaggie-Hi”, I live in “Mo-Side” so I couldn’t vote.

It appears The Mix is your pet peeve. Mine is people who drive 70 on Monroe (no exaggeration). I’m sure you’ve seen them. However, I doubt many people care. Two weeks ago a car sawed a power pole off at ground level, took down two trees, bounced off a stone retaining wall and kept going. She eventually decided to stop, but the front of her car including the bumper was left behind as a souvenir for the trash guys.

]]> By: Lori http://pecannelog.com/2008/10/20/come-get-nimby-with-us-tonight/#comment-1885 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:24:10 +0000 http://pecannelog.wordpress.com/?p=1477#comment-1885 Additionally, The Mix has one of the worst websites I’ve ever seen. BLECH!

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