The AJC summarizes the story we broke a couple days ago that 315 W. Ponce developer, JLB Partners, have put their apartment plans on hold to allow more time to address residents’ concerns.

The one new item in the piece is a quote from JLB’s Hudson Hooks saying, “Yes, we deferred it, but we’re not going away.”

OK.  So what now?  Does this mean the developer is willing to be more flexible in terms of density? Because for better or worse that still seems to be the real thorn in the craw of the neighborhood.  Parking-shmarking.

Where did I go?

OK, so I was double-checking when the Atlantic’s fiction editor, C. Michael Curtis, would be talking at this year’s Decatur Book Festival and I now can’t find him anywhere!

Here’s the old page for the writer’s conference and here’s the one currently linked to off the homepage.

Notice a difference?  Steven Corey of the Georgia Editor’s Review has mysteriously replaced a now absent Curtis!

Perhaps Ty Pennington and C. Michael Curtis are BOTH on Oprah this weekend?

Beyond all this, remember that the DBF kicks off this afternoon at 3pm with the Writer’s Conference this afternoon at Agnes Scott.

Rus is good enough to send in this pic of our newest Chinese food restaurant, Jin Jin, at 614 Church Street.

Hope its good!  My wife won’t let me go back to the Chinese food restaurant in the Kaplin plaza on Clairmont since they’re health inspection rating fell into the low 80s last year.

So I’m sure you’ve all heard about Clayton County losing its accreditation yesterday?  Third time in the past 40 years, ring a bell?

Well, apparently the article written by the Associated Press originally had the story based in Decatur, GA.  See here.  Since then, many of the original postings have changed the lead of “Decatur, GA – ” to “Jonesboro, GA -”, but not before the popular blog “Hit & Run” used Decatur as an example for allowing parents to choose where their kids go to school.  (You know, since apparently we’re located in Clayton County!)

Now, we really can’t be that judgemental.  Even among Atlantans, it seems that everything from the city of Decatur to the southern DeKalb County line gets dumped into the “Decatur” bucket these days.  Soon alligator attacks in the Okefenokee Swamps will be attributed to “Decatur, GA”.

But I guess we just have to grin and bear it.