Read the column here (02 October 2011).
The column that I had originally planned ran very much along the same lines of Myra Blackmon’s most recent one. After all, pointing out that we need a shared vision of what constituted “historic” for the purposes of historic preservation is an obvious corollary to my point that we need a shared vision for the purpose of economic development. Anyway, Myra beat me to the punch.
As a fallback, I was preparing one of my “informational” efforts concerning the Athens-Clarke County Historic Preservation Commission. Then, in last Tuesday’s edition there appeared the story about our betters down at City Hall enacting yet another development moratorium – naturally with no public notice of which to speak – and the current column pretty much wrote itself. Perhaps I will revisit the one about the A-CCHPC later on.
For the “moratorium on moratoriums” comment, see:
I’ve been carping about this development moratoria business, which I regard as quite serious, for a long time. As evidence, see these letters to the editor:
http://onlineathens.com/stories/071305/let_20050713014.shtml
http://onlineathens.com/stories/030906/letters_20060309028.shtml
These news articles:
http://onlineathens.com/stories/022202/let_letter3.shtml
http://onlineathens.com/stories/103102/new_20021031094.shtml
http://onlineathens.com/stories/102606/election_20061026095.shtml
And these blog posts:
http://theotherathens.blogspot.com/2007/10/and-hits-just-keep-on-coming....
http://theotherathens.blogspot.com/2008/06/damned-if-they-didnt-do-it-ag...
http://theotherathens.blogspot.com/2010/05/fire-station-no-6-update.html
http://theotherathens.blogspot.com/2010/05/both-witty-and-wise.html
http://theotherathens.blogspot.com/2010/11/impertinet-observations-local...
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