Dave Kell reports that he and some of his neighbors will meet tomorrow at 4pm to discuss next steps in bringing a case against the Peer Support and Wellness Center at 444 Sycamore Drive.

Soren Christainsen has invited any interested parties to a meeting at 4 p.m. Sunday at his home at 631 Sycamore Drive [between the stop signs at Pinehurst and Fairview] to discuss developments regarding 444 Sycamore Drive and to develop a path forward.

The City Manager has notified the Commissioners of the Staff’s determination that the operations at 444 Sycamore fall within R60 residential zoning. [See a 1/19/2010 inDECATUR post for details.] Some Decatur Heights residents don’t agree. A survey has not yet been taken, the percentage cannot be reported.

An email sent out to neighborhood residents by Mr. Christiansen, featured on Dave’s site, goes into some detail as to their specific grievance.

“The city’s position is that the center is legal and that 25 walk-ins a day are “visitors” and not persons receiving therapy. We disagree. The state contract makes it clear that if the center does not average at least 12 walk-ins a day that they will lose their funding. We believe this is a business.”

Jonathan Cribbs wrote a front page story about DeKalb’s three most prominent local, community blogs in this week’s issue to the Champion Newspaper.

John Heneghan, Dave and I, all give our thoughts on the rise and importance of our county’s community blogs. Good reading if you don’t already get enough of us on a daily basis.

BTW, I’ve decided to retire the term “hyper-local” from my lexicon.  From here on out I will be employing “community” in its stead.  Why?  Because I’ve come to realize that the “hyper-local” descriptor doesn’t go far enough in describing these types of blogs.  In my estimation the unifying aspect of blogs like those profiled in the article is not just that they are more local-centric than the city dailies, but that they actively support their communities.  Our tactics may be different, but our motive is universal.

Its a small, but I think, important semantic change if you care about such things.