Morning Metro: Greg Coleson Q&A, a Potential New Neighbor Emerges, and How Your Teeth Compare to a Caveman’s
Decatur Metro | February 25, 2013
- Q&A with District 1 candidate Greg Coleson [Patch]
- Draft map of North Druid Hills city just north of Decatur [CHCA]
- Scott Boulevard Baptist Church sold, will become “retail development” [ABP]
- Car rental tax could be used to fund transit [Fresh Loaf]
- Bike maps that gives riders info they can actually use [Atlantic Cities]
- Ancient teeth were healthier than ours [NPR]
Map courtesy of Clairmont Heights Civic Association
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Just in case you didn’t know, the City of Decatur also have a Bike Suitability Map. You can download it here http://www.decaturga.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=3100
, or pick one up at Decatur Recreation Center or at Decatur Tourism. Thanks to the Bike ecatur Group for working with Decatur Active LIving, this has been available for around a year. Good chance to let people know:
Yikes- typos. Should be “has” a map, not have, and the group is Bike Decatur, not “ecatur” Where is the edit function when I need it?
So the city of Druid Hills or North Druid Hills or whatever they are calling it won’t include Druid Hills High School? Huh?
It wouldn’t make any difference if it did. That is a DeKalb County school and would remain so.
I know, but it is odd that a high school that bears the city’s name wouldn’t even be within the city limits.
Why? The middle school, formerly Shamrock Middle, was renamed Druid Hills Middle even though it is not in Druid Hills in any way, shape, or form, not the current Druid Hills community, nor the draft city. It’s just prestigious to have the Druid Hills moniker, no matter where you are located. Instead of closing failing schools in DeKalb, they should just rename them Druid Hills Elementary, or Druid Hills Academy, or Druid Hills Alternative School, or whatever. My favorite is renaming Avondale High School as Druid Hills Annex. Maybe we should rename DHS as Alpharetta Annex and then we could put CSD enrollment over the top at 10,000 students! Plus confuse the State.
Actually, it looks like Druid Hills Middle would be in the proposed city of Druid Hills, so maybe the name will turn out to be prophetic. Also, the school is in a neighborhood that is accessed on one side from North Druid Hills Rd., so the moniker isn’t a total stretch
Yeah, it’s confusing because N. Druid Hills Road isn’t in Druid Hills. IMHO, Shamrock could have been renamed North Druid Hills Middle but Druid Hills is a stretch. Unless there’s a new city of Druid Hills. In which case Druid Hills High should be renamed something else, maybe Emory High School or North Decatur High School or Everyone-who-doesn’t-go-to-Paideia High School.
My first thought was that Shamrock should have stayed Shamrock. It was disingenuous to improve it by giving it a classier name. And I thought Shamrock was a cheerful name, albeit one that had gotten tarnished when Shamrock went downhill.
Yeah, that is sort of strange, but I guess it wouldn’t really matter since the schools would be unaffected. Also, isn’t much of that area part of the proposed city of Lakeside?
This new city thing is an interesting trend. I wonder how long it’ll go on before it swings the opposite way.
I don’t know, Bulldog. but people will build careers on it.
Very true!
Regarding the sale and re-purposing of the church property: I haven’t heard or read much discussion about mainstream church’s and their futures in urban areas, but I expect we will see more of this sort of thing as their congregants age and fewer people attend traditional services. Has Decatur government ever broached this subject in terms of planning?
There’s already some of that going on in the Northeast. Churches are closing at a higher rate than you might expect because there aren’t enough people in the congregation to support the church. And those churches are becoming nightclubs, restaurants, bars, etc., which I personally don’t like to see.
It’s a good question to Decatur government. I wonder how many churches in our 4 square miles are legitimately concerned that they might have to close their doors.
On the church in question, that’s really a sad story. 60 years! And to think that it is going to be torn down after all that time for a retail development (at one of the worst intersections, too. I think there are six different streets that feed into that one intersection).
There is a former church on Ponce near the Publix that was converted to condos several years ago. The church on the corner of Ponce and Piedmont was a restaurant for many years, then was empty, now is a church again.
I rode by the church today, and was thinking it was sad. I’m not a religious person at all (despise many aspects of the organized bit), but just the thought that so many people put their hearts and souls into building it, and all the memories it’s seen over its life, and now it will be torn to rubble as if it never existed. Like Steve mentioned, I’ve seen on HGTV a church converted to a single family home, and thought was interesting, lots of possibilities, but not a fan of erasing it completely. Man, I’m getting more sappy with every year that passes.
Some churches in Decatur are growing, not shrinking.
There is another church conversion process going on in Decatur now too- the UCC church on Hibernia, next to the Rosewalk neighborhood, has been sold to a private developer, to be used for residential development. I believe there have been meetings w/ the neighborhood and the developer, but I’m not sure if the project is firm or if actual plans have been prepared and/or released.
Emory Baptist Church is now part of the Emory performing space.