January 2016 [email protected] • Inmanpark.Org • 245 North Highland Avenue NE • Suite 230-401 • Atlanta 30307 Volume 44 • Issue 1
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THE Inman Park Advocator Atlanta’s Small Town Downtown News • Newsletter of the Inman Park Neighborhood Association January 2016 [email protected] • inmanpark.org • 245 North Highland Avenue NE • Suite 230-401 • Atlanta 30307 Volume 44 • Issue 1 The State of the Neighborhood BY DENNIS MOBLEY • [email protected] As I said in January’s issue last year, it is The dozen or so neighbors who serve as the Atlanta and Edgewood customary for presidents of organizations Street Railway Company Board of Directors are now preparing to large and small, to take stock at the start buy the Trolley Barn from the City. What better example of a strong of a new year. So, at the risk of sounding neighborhood than to know we will soon own our own “civic center”? presumptuous yet again, let me paraphrase This didn’t just happen, it has been literally years in the making, a the words of our national leaders through result of untold hours of effort, much of it hum-drum and undramatic. the years by saying “the state of the neighborhood remains strong.” Further improvements will unfold at Springvale Park and our other President’s Message parks will continue to be tended. Neighbors are learning about aging Last year I supported this assertion with statistics about our growing gracefully in Inman Park, and “some” crosswalks are being updated neighborhood population, a shout-out to then new attractions such as Krog Street Market, and a quote from Curbed Atlanta that began as with new paint. A modern new middle school will emerge at the follows: “Atlanta’s fi rst planned suburb has emerged from the depths historic Howard School in the adjacent Fourth Ward and a new IPNA of 1960s decrepitude to gain mention as one of America’s loveliest website now invites you to link in and join up. neighborhoods.” These and other indicators of our neighborhood strength don’t just Last year I reported that the fi nances of the neighborhood association happen all by themselves. It is part of the culture that has been were strong. A year later they are stronger still, but how do I go painstakingly built since the days Inman Park and other in-town beyond statistics and bank balances to make my point? neighborhoods triumphed against the machine in the great Road Fight. If this isn’t ringing a bell, visit the Atlanta History Center’s This year I support my assertion by continuing last month’s theme exhibit on Inman Park this spring. that the true lifeblood of a successful organization of any kind is having people willing to persistently spend energy doing undramatic, We will need every ounce of this kind of collective strength to meet sometimes boring day-to-day things in support of a greater, shared the challenges of 2016 head-on. For example, will we fi nd a place for vision. all the additional cars our growth has occasioned, as our “KLENH” traffi c study takes its place in the City’s (long, long) funding queue? The Inman Park neighborhood is strong because we DO have an abundance of people committed in this way. Examples abound. Can we fi nd a way to be a diverse yet united community in the face of The committee executing the 2016 Inman Park Festival and Tour rapidly-rising rents and home prices? Can we attract more than 1% of rd of Homes is comprised of four dozen souls who have been meeting our population to the Trolley Barn on any given 3 Wednesday of the monthly and working since September towards the climactic event month to serve as our “legislature” for important zoning and historic which unleashes a thousand volunteers in support of the Southeast’s preservation issues? Will we fi nd fi ve or six more homeowners largest grassroots festival. If you’ve not helped out before, this is your willing to be part of our 2016 Tour of Homes? ticket to gazing into the soul of this neighborhood, one beer at a time. I am confi dent that if YOU get involved, we will prevail in typical Photo: RIP Weslee K. Mobley 1998 - 2016 Inman Park style. Happy New Year! Book Club IPNA Holiday Inman Diners Party 2015 Book Club starts up Want to join a fun for an interesting See some familiar dinner club? 2016. faces in the photos! Page 5 Page 9 Page 11 we LOVE Inman Park, we LIVE in Inman Park. 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[email protected] ● 404-550-0790 VP • Planning, Michaela Kendall Inman Park Tree Watch and Arboretum: 404-808-7757 Oreon Mann ......................................... [email protected] ● 404-402-6486 [email protected] Jim Abbot .................................................abbot.jim@gmail.com ● 404-281-0638 VP • Zoning, Rick Bizot Lifelong Inman Park: 404-954-2490 Cathie Berger ...................................... [email protected] ● 404-584-6309 [email protected] NPU-N Representative: VP • Historic Preservation, Brian Roof Rick Bizot ................................................npu.n@inmanpark.org ● 404-954-2490 404-189-6002 Social: [email protected] July Fourth: Carol Mitchell ................ [email protected] ● 404-659-2579 VP • Public Safety, Chris Coffee Holiday Party: Alex & Andy Coffman ...... 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