The Decatur Beer festival announced this morning that they will be offering 300 $100 VIP tickets to the October 18th event.

A summary in the latest Decatur Focus – not yet online – states that VIPs will be let into the Festival an hour early at 11a, receive exclusive craft beers, have an “exclusive” entrance and receive complementary snacks.   All this same info is shown throughout the graphic shown above.

Reminder: the non-exclusive $40 tickets go on sale next Monday at noon and will likely sell out in 15-20 minutes if prior years are any indication.

Last week, the city posted another Unified Development Ordinance question on Open City Hall to solicit feedback from the community.  The Decatur Minute sums it up …

We’re wrapping up our online polling with questions about how the UDO should handle high performance (green) buildings. The proposed UDO includes new high performance standards for both residential and commercial buildings.

The proposal would require some manner of third-party green building certification for new construction or substantial renovations that exceed 50% of a building’s pre-renovation market value.  It would also require new construction buildings to achieve higher tightness standards, making them less leaky than Georgia Residential Energy Code currently allows.

In other green building news, at the last Decatur City Commission meeting, City Manager Peggy Merriss announced that Fire Station #1 recently received Platinum LEED certification.

Photo courtesy of nfdecatur

From Decatur Police Sgt. Jennifer Ross…

As of Monday, September 8, 2014 at 8:00 am, the administrative, patrol, investigations and communications divisions of the Decatur Police Department will be located back at 420 West Trinity Place, Decatur, GA 30030.  Decatur Municipal Court is still located at 120 West Trinity Place, Decatur, GA 30030.  The temporary offices located at 250 East Ponce de Leon Avenue, Suite T130 and 314-C Church Street will be closed.

If you have any trouble locating the office you need, please call the non-emergency number 404/373-6551.