Comments on: Townhomes Coming to Hillyer Site

By: J_T

J_T — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 16:44:29 +0000

Yes. What Macarolina said, and in a much nicer way than I would have. I, too was a (very) long-term renter who eventually bought in (albeit at a great price thanks to our awesome realtor and friend Conner Allred!). I certainly hope that we don’t effectively close our borders to all except those with the financial resources to buy our artificially inflated housing stock.

By: Macarolina

Macarolina — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:33:36 +0000

Re renters and investment into the community- I first rented here, fell in love with the potential of Decatur, and came back to buy a house & became involved in the community. I think it is great to provide the opportunity to get hooked on Decatur for young people starting out or newcomers to the Metro area testing out location. There are also many long term renters who are wonderful assets to the community. It disappoints me to hear “must have dollars to live here” comments.

I’m also not too worried @ Buckhead party town here. If anything more like Virginia Highland scene- which will help support all our fabulous establishments (we residents alone aren’t enough).

By: unclecharlie

unclecharlie — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:19:10 +0000

Not clear from the plan is that there will be a roughly 6 ft high retaining wall along the North and West property lines that will essentially level the site. This is so they can drain the runoff to Howard rather than down through the R-60 properties as is currently the case. There is no storm water sewer line on Howard, so that will have to be dealt with. I don’t know if the developers will have to build that line or what their contribution will be if the city builds it.

Currently all the runoff on Howard turns the corner onto Barry after passing the old Spencer’s building and some of the houses at the bottom of the hill suffer basement floods during serious downpours.

Interestingly, (to me at least), this lot drains into the Gulf of Mexico (Chattahoochee) and the lot across Hillyer drains into the Atlantic (Ocmulgee).

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:40:22 +0000

Perhaps one of the live/work purchasers will open a little erotic novelties shop called “T’aint Misbehavin'”.

By: Hudsucker

Hudsucker — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:25:12 +0000

That would have be “Tainte Chase” in developer speak.