Sounds like Decatur can now get New York-style pizza late into the evening!

Ever-reliable Rus reports that Zucca Pizza – on the Square, next to the Brick Store – is now open.  And adds this special note…

If you felt sorry for them when they got a couple of TVs stolen last month .. Don’t worry they have a TV in every booth

Wow…kinda like the antithesis of a Brick Store.  Instead of no TVs, lots! Could serve as good contrast.  Pick your poison!

Also, I noticed their Decatur website is now up and running with background info, events and menus.

They aren’t even open yet and according to the December Crime Report put out by the city, Zucca Pizza had a flat-screen TV stolen last month!

Summarizing the report, there were 24 burglaries in the city during the month of December. The southwest zone experienced the most with nine, followed by “northwest” (which I believe includes most of downtown) with six. I don’t know if its any consolation, but only 10 of those 24 burglaries were deemed “forced entry” according to the email.

The detailed list of each burglary can be found after the break. If you’d like to receive this data every month too, email Juanchella Francis at Decatur PD to get on the email distribution list. Juanchella.Francis[at]decaturga.com Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to feedback given on this site, the city, as promised, has started posting all relevant documents to city commission meetings on their website.  Previously, prior to the Monday meeting, we would only see a basic agenda posted online.  However, today we have access to a schedule (which shows a ‘dinner session’ and a ‘work session’ to talk about East Decatur mixed use prior to the meeting), an agenda, and 41 pages of supporting “materials”.

The materials section includes the minutes from the last commission meeting, along with documents like liquor license applications, letters regarding construction bids, and memorandum that go into detail on other agenda items.

This is another great step forward in terms of easy access to information.  Many thanks to the city for quickly following through on this promise!

As for actual items of interest on tonight’s agenda:

• Leon’s Full Service and Zucca Pizza (opening in the old Zocalo space which is now painted black) have applied for their liquor licenses. (Decatur trivia – I certainly didn’t know that the Brick Store Boys corporation is officially known as “Giggling Otter Enterprises”.)
• Pilot Commerical Recycling Program – Altmod, I know you expressed concern about this in the past….it looks like the city is getting ready to do something about it!