New Little Free Library on Adair Street, Decatur GA (pic courtesy of Amanda)

Decatur residents have organized a brick-and-mortar “community listening session” with three City Commissioners and four Decatur School Board members for this coming Sunday, December 7th at 4pm regarding all things that fall under the umbrella of “Decatur annexation”.

And though the focus will be on listening to our elected officials, there may be time at the end for a few questions. So organizers have requested your questions.  **Feel free to post your annexation-related questions to our elected officials in the comments section below.**

Here are the details for the event:

Featuring:

Decatur City Commission & City Schools of Decatur Board Members

• When: Sunday, Dec. 7, 4:00 P.M.
• Where: The Church at Decatur Heights – 735 Sycamore Dr., Decatur, Georgia 30030

Confirmed Attendees:

Decatur City Commission

• Fred Boykin
• Scott Drake
• Patti Garrett

City Schools of Decatur Board

• Annie Caiola
• Garrett Goebel
• Lewis Jones
• Julie Rhame

**Come hear their views on the potential annexation of new areas into the City of Decatur.**

This community listening session is organized by City of Decatur residents, for City of Decatur residents. Please join us!

If you’ve driven down the western loop of Commerce Drive lately you may have looked up at 5 stories of solid concrete wall close to the road – which is the new parking deck for the  Paces Clairemont/Fidelity building – and thought, “Is that sort of street frontage allowed in Decatur??”

Well, first off, congrats, you are officially an amateur zoning geek.  And secondly, the answer is no.  And soon you won’t be able to see any of that lovely gray wall anymore.

DM has obtained (that’s a fancy way of saying that the city gave it to us) overhead renderings of 160 Clairemont, which show there will be an actual building built between the parking structure and the street on that northern facade.

Plans show a lobby and leasing office will be constructed on the first floor of that portion of the building and two single apartments will be built on each floor above.

As of yesterday afternoon, there’s already digging going on at this very spot, so there’s only so much time left to drag the family down Commerce Drive and take that family photo for the holiday card in front of this lovely monolith.

Now you know!