THE Inman Park Advocator Atlanta’s Small Town Downtown News • Newsletter of the Inman Park Neighborhood Association November 2015 [email protected] • inmanpark.org • 245 North Highland Avenue NE • Suite 230-401 • Atlanta 30307 Volume 43 • Issue 11 Coming Soon BY DENNIS MOBLEY • [email protected] Inman Park Holiday Party I’m pr obably showing my Friday,2015 December 11 • 7:30 pm – 11:00 pm age, but I can remember the phrase “coming soon to a The Trolley Barn • 963 Edgewood Avenue theater near you” like it was yesterday. In this case, I The annual Inman Park Holiday Party returns wanted to give our readers a heads-up as to what they can to The Trolley Barn this year. Don’t miss this expect with our conversion to chance to meet and visit with fellow Inman President’s Message the MemberClicks-powered Park neighborsHoliday over food, drinks Party and dancing. IPNA website and associated membership management software. Enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres catered by Stone By the time you read this November issue of the Advocator, some Soup and complimentaryAnnouncement beer and wine. A 400+ of you will have received an email from our Vice President DJ will be there to spin a delightful mix of old of Communications, James McManus, notifying you that you standards and newMissing favorites. So don your are believed to be a current IPNA member in good standing. (We holiday fi nest and join us for a good time! gleaned this list of 400+ from our current database and believe it to be fairly accurate). You will be invited to access the “test” version of our new website infrastructure and will be urged to update or Everyone is welcome. Admission for current create a Member Profi le. This will extend your IPNA membership IPNA members is complimentary. Members for a full year, and you may recall that (based on a vote of IPNA should have received an email Evite as of members in August) our “basic” membership is FREE! Also note mid-November. Non-members may attend that it is on an individual (not household) basis. MemberClicks for $25 each. only thinks in terms of individuals who make decisions to join organizations! So if you have a “better half” or other adults in the household, encourage them to update or obtain their individual Email [email protected] for free IPNA membership as well. any questions regarding IPNA membership. Later in the process when the online payment module is up and running, you will be invited to express your love for the Inman Park Security Patrol by opting for one of the payment levels adopted as part of the new membership structure approved in August: each individual IPNA member has the option of paying annual amounts of $50, $100, $200, or $300 to support of the Patrol. The website will list the benefi ts of each level. continued on page 9 Festival Holiday Light Halloween in Kick-off Balls Inman Park It is never too early to We are going Take a look at start planning Festival to decorate the some photos from 2016! neighborhood! Get the neighborhood involved! festivities. Page 10 Page 11 Page 13 What’s Your Porch Worth? Contact Leigh for a Free Market Analysis Office404.604.3100 direct 404.402.4554 Each office is independently owned and operated. Information e-mail [email protected] is believed to be accurate but not web www.LeighHays.com guaranteed. Tired of basement offices and a coffee house HQ? Find your productivity. Your Neighborhood Coworking on the Atlanta Beltline 404.475.4850 alkaloid.net Chairs & Coordinators Adopt the BeltLine: Anne Roberts [email protected] ● 404-242-5300 Archives: Teresa Burk ................................... [email protected] ● 404-449-3000 Beautifi cation & Sidewalks: Inman Park Millie Astin ............................................. [email protected] ● 404-589-9012 Neighborhood Association Education: Galit Levitin [email protected] ● 404-518-7978 Festival 2016: Karin and Jacques Mebius ................. [email protected] ● 404-584-0355 OFFICERS Freedom Park Conservancy: President, Dennis Mobley David Hamilton ................................... [email protected] ● 404-663-5151 678-612-3286 Graffi ti: Chuck [email protected] ● 404-668-2620 [email protected] Hospitality: Patsy Fisher ........................ [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, Tonya Marlatt Lifelong Inman Park: 404-518-8787 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 ...... [email protected] ● 404-993-7577 404-729-6662 Porch Parties: Pat & Richard Westrick [email protected] ● 404-523-4801 [email protected] Special Events: Karen Goeckel [email protected] ● 678-612-1776 VP • Communications, James McManus Springvale Park: 404-550-4570 Stephanie & Cameron McCaa .............. [email protected] ● 404-414-2496 [email protected] Amy Higgins (Master Plan) ........... [email protected] ● 404-593-8253 Treasurer, Barbara Leach Eric Goldberg (Playground) [email protected] ● 678-467-2096 404-521-2672 Transportation: [email protected] Danny Feig-Sandoval ................... [email protected] ● 404-791-8497 Secretary, Beverly Miller 404-804-8141 To advertise in the Advocator, please contact [email protected] KDA Communications at (678) 905-4842 or [email protected]. the Advocator is a publication of KDA Communications. Subject matter published is the opinion of the author and does ADVOCATOR not necessarily refl ect the opinion of the publisher of this newsletter. Professional advice should be obtained before making Editor: Alex Kronemeyer any decision in which a professional is readily available. Advertisers assume responsibility for the content of the ads placed in this publication. 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Inman Park Advocator 3 November 2015 IPNA Business Meeting Minutes - October 21, 2015 BY BEVERLY MILLER, SECRETARY • [email protected] President Dennis Mobley called the support the immediate neighbors. was motioned, seconded, and approved to meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. sign the letter of support. Cathy Berger, Barbara Leach, Treasurer: Lifelong Inman Park Committee, reported Motions were made, seconded, and The MemberClicks payment requires they will meet at the Trolley Barn on Nov. approved to add to the agenda: 1) approval. The payment was motioned, 5 at 9:30 a.m. Springvale Park letter of support; seconded, and approved. It was then 2) certificate of appropriateness for motioned, seconded, and approved to pass Rick Bizot, NPU-N: 1079 Colquitt Ave.; 3) approval of the the 2016 budget. Upcoming issues include: 1) 299 MemberClicks payment implementation. Moreland Ave., the former dry cleaners, For Period: Sept 2015 with an application for a special exception Newcomers: Cash Balances at Sept 30 for parking for a possible Chipotle; 2) Patricia Ricia, Desiree Heimann, Doug Operating Accounts .......................328,555 BeltLine, Inc. is working to realign the MacDonald, and Linda Aab. CD’s ................................................48,790 corridor at DeKalb Ave and the BeltLine Total ..............................................377,345 and needs a zoning change. Minutes: A motion was made, seconded, and Revenues and Expenses Tonya Marlatt, V.P. Zoning announced