August 2017 Neighbor
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Photo by Arthur Thompson Joyce Page 6 Cabbagetown Neighborhood Improvement Association Volume Twenty-six • Issue Number Eight • August 2017 Neighbor “Radio stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it." ~ Robert Glasper Neighborhood Meeting The next neighborhood meeting will the at the th Meet Artists Pool! be held on Tuesday, August 8 , 7p at By John Dirga the Cabbagetown Community Center. Join us at The Stacks & Fulton Cotton Mill Lofts This project is made possible through for a Pool Party on Sunday, August 27th, 4-7p. the generous support of The Stacks COA, 6:45p: Welcome and Snacks Cabbagetown Initiative, and CNIA. 7:00p: Meeting begins We’re raising money and awareness for the Welcome & Announcements Stacks Squares Mural Project, a rotating Swim, party, and socialize! Meet artist and Review and approval of July minutes exhibit on the corner of Carroll & Tennelle. organizer Austin Blue, plus other participating It's FREE to attend this donation shakedown; 1. Valencia Hudson – City of Atlanta muralists including special guests. featuring music, drinks, and snacks. 2. Atlanta Police Department Tax deductible 3. Financial Report – Dan Thompson contributions gladly Committee Reports accepted; cash, NPU – John Dirga credit, or checks to “Cabbagetown Historic Preservation and Land Use Neighborhood Committee – Nicole Seekely Improvement Public Safety/Neighborhood Watch Association”. Committee – Peyton Stinson Donations of Volunteering – Chelsea Arkin supplies are also Cabbagetown Initiative – Chris McCain gladly accepted, but Transportation Committee – please don’t bring Shaun Houlihan buckets of paint to Property Tax/Affordable Housing the pool. Did I really Committee – Kendall Rawls have to say that? :) Imagine Memorial – Greg Giuffrida Please RSVP to Old Business StacksSquares@ gmail.com, or New Business Facebook.com/ 1. Stacks Squares Pool Party: StacksSquares Sunday, August 27th, 4-7p Artist Sign-up: 2. Request neighbor support tinyurl.com/ for Amphitheatre dedication (TBA) y99uy365 Stacks Square murals as depicted in 2008 (As an invited guest, 8:00p: Adjourn The Mural project will be a quickly changing please respect the pool rules. Absolutely no Final June minutes will be series of ten squares (7’x7’) open to ALL glass. Shower before swimming. Children adopted at the July meeting. artists, launching Autumn 2017. Some must be accompanied by an adult. The Community Center is located space will be reserved especially for new & Snakes are not permitted. at 177 Estoria Street. emerging artists from Cabbagetown, the Unruly guests may be asked Stacks, and nearby neighborhoods, but to leave.) YOU MUST RSVP Rock residency is not a requirement. for GATE ACCESS! & Roll Radio See Page 8 Page 2 • Cabbagetown Neighbor August 2017 City of Atlanta Service Numbers Missed Trash Pick-ups 404.330.6333 Bureau of Parks Work Order Office 404.817.6813 Illegal Dumping 404.330.6333 Bulk Rubbish 404.330.6333 Cabbagetown Neighbor is a monthly newspaper produced by the Potholes 404.546.0311 Cabbagetown Neighborhood Improvement Association (CNIA), a Traffic Concerns 404.330.6501 non-profit organization. This publication is supported by advertisers. Zoning Enforcement 404.330.6175 Please submit news articles, announcements, and ads to: newsletter@ Housing Code Compliance 404.330.6190 cabbagetown.com. Previously published issues are available for Atlanta Job Hotline 404.658.9675 download under the CNIA tab at www.cabbagetown.com. Drinking Water Call Center 404.658.6500 Sewer Operations Call Center 404.624.0753 CNIA Officers and Chairpersons Mayor’s Office of Constituent Services 404.330.6023 President Atlanta Police Department 404.614.6544 Katie Butler Atlanta Fire Department 404.853.7000 Vice President Community Cyber Centers 404.880.7220 Kristy Joseph Treasurer KEEP UP WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD Dan Thompson Join the Cabbagetown online community at Secretary groups.yahoo.com/group/CNIA Karyn Corell and cabbagetown.nextdoor.com Historic Preservation & Land Use Planning Chair And the parents’ network of Cabbagetown kids at Nicole Seekely groups.yahoo.com/group/cabbagekids NPU Representative John Dirga ADVERTISE WITH US Public Safety Chair Advertising with the Cabbagetown Neighbor is an inexpensive Peyton Stinson way to reach over 650 homes in the Cabbagetown neighborhood Public Safety & Neighborhood Watch including the residences of The Stacks Lofts. 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The Cabbagetown Neighbor is distributed the weekend before the Classified ads of 25 words or less and announcements CNIA meeting (the second Tuesday) each month to the residents are free of charge to Cabbagetown residents. of Cabbagetown. If you have any delivery problems let us know at: Cabbagetown Neighbor ©2017. Permission to use material from this newspaper is granted as long as the [email protected] use is not-for-profit. All material must be reprinted as written with proper and full accreditation given. Page 3 • Cabbagetown Neighbor • August 2017 President's Letter Taxes and Axes It is rough these days, y’all, and I don’t By Kendall Rawls just mean the July heat. Regardless of Calling home owners, renters, and those who own rental your politics, the daily headlines make property! we have all been feeling the squeeze that the real me feel alternately motivated and estate tax hikes have had on our budgets. Thanks to the power helpless. Anyone else out there? Show of the people, we have a reprieve for 2017, but what does the of hands? So, how do we cope? I’d like future hold if there is no reform? to offer an old slogan as an option: Currently the real estate tax structure has no cap as to how much think globally, act locally. it can be raised in a given year. this potentially provides a great KATIE About a year and a half ago, we held unknown to property owners as to how to properly budget BUTLER a series of pot-luck block parties in year over year. Also, these tax hikes impact rental rates in our Cabbagetown to talk about what community, which in turn impacts affordable housing and the folks might want to see in a renovated or new Cabbagetown diversity of our communities. Community Center. The first question we asked was, “What With real estate taxes being a current hot topic in an election makes Cabbagetown unique?” We loved reading through your year, CNIA has voted to form an adhoc committee to focus on answers to that question. You said that our sense of community, influencing real estate tax and affordable housing reform. Where neighborhood pride, and our quirky/weird/funky art and style real estate taxes may not sound like the most exciting committee keep you here, along with the historic architecture and walkability to join, the payment of real estate taxes likely will hinder many of of the community. You know what makes up that sense of us to do some exciting things like vacation, home improvements, community, neighborhood pride and quirky/weird/funkiness? or whatever indulgence you have in mind. People! It’s made of people! (In a good way, though.) We are looking for committee members who have a passion There is a group of about 50 or so people who keep Cabbagetown towards creating affordable housing, want to meet some cool running the way that it does, including the folks who write, people in the neighborhood and have an hour or so a week compile, print, and distribute this newspaper, the CNIA board to commit to the cause. If you are interested, please email and its many committee members, folks who work to put on the [email protected] for further details. neighborhood parties, the Cabbagetown Initiative (CI) folks who make sure we earn the money for and take care of our parks, the Chomp and Stomp committee, who put on the best party in Atlanta once a year, and many others. CNIA Aug Calendar Are you one of them? If so, THANK YOU! If you aren’t yet one of Monday, 8/7/17, 6p Monday, 8/21/17, 7p them, join us! It’s actually really fun! In the coming weeks and Fulton County Chief Appraiser Historic Preservation and Land months, we will be introducing more and more ways for you to speaking at Cabbagetown’s Tax Use Committee. Public meeting get involved. Keep looking here, and look to the Cabbagetown Commissioner’s District Dialogue that does the most to keep Facebook page, Nextdoor, and the bulletin boards at our local meeting.