Scott Drake writes in…

Guess who was out eating at 246 last night?  Mike Wolfe from American Pickers…did not get a picture with him but did tell him I like the show.

Okay, I know it stings but it’s good medicine. So temper it with a little sugar and suck it up.

For those outside our city borders who still consider themselves a part of the Decatur community, this morning’s AJC features a fine instructive example of what should have happened prior to our latest Walmart dust-up at Suburban Plaza.

In short, circulating rumors of the big box giant’s arrival in Sandy Springs’ downtown mixed-use district — no development proposal, mind you, or even validated interest, just floating possibilities — got people questioning: “Hmmmmm. We have a vision for what we want that area to become. I wonder if our zoning regulations ensure that’s what we’ll get.”

Turns out they don’t, so the city proactively dropped a 90-day moratorium on land-use petitions to allow enough time to “put its ordinances in line with its land-use plan for downtown.”

Well, howzabout that. Seems so much simpler than what happened here, and that’s for some very specific reasons:

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• C&A and 246 meals rank among Kessler’s Top 10 Dishes of 2011 [AJC]
• Free Billy Collins event at Emory January 29th [Emory]
• DeKalb spends over $400,000 to prep for another winter storm [Champion]
• DeKalb water and sewer rate increase to benefit local creeks [MANA]
• Atlanta’s murder rate was down again in 2011 [CL]

Photo courtesy of Be Active Decatur