Comments on: Decatur Proposed Moratorium on Residential Demolition and Tree Removal Now Being Considered Separately

By: SteveC

SteveC — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:06:44 +0000

By: Scooter

Scooter — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:02:49 +0000

The tree moratorium passed unanimously. The demo moratorium failed, with Boykin and Baskett voting in favor. The difference seemed to be that the staff expects to have a fully-baked tree ordinance ready within 90 days, so it made some sense to stand down until January. On the tear-down ordinance, it is clear that there’s no common vision of what the city should be doing on this issue, although everyone seems to agree it should be doing more than is. Since it will clearly take beyond January to formulate a policy and write an ordinance, the moratorium just wasn’t logical. Neither of the two commissioners voting in favor of it articulated anything like a thoughtful basis for their position — they just wanted to do something whether it would help address the problem or not. Not an inspiring display of statesmanship, IMO.

By: FM Fats

FM Fats — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 03:41:37 +0000

Boykin and Baskett voted for it and it lost.

By: NOLA

NOLA — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 03:40:14 +0000

Hey TeeRuss, This is officially my favorite post of the year. Nothing better than a little perspective.

By: marais

marais — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:30:00 +0000

Hah! I always wonder what those folks thought when 30 years or so later hundreds of little 1,500 sf cottages began to sprout all over town. They don’t get much more cookie cutter than our houses on Shadowmoor. Houses and Winnona Park School built on a former cotton field, by the way — not a tree in sight back in the day.