Cabbagetown Neighborhood Improvement Association Manny's Volume Twenty-eight • Issue Number Four • April 2019 Page 5 Neighbor "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.” ~ John Lennon Neighborhood Meeting The next neighborhood meeting will be held on Tuesday, Apr. 9th, 6:45p at Are Y'all Aboard? the Cabbagetown Community Center. By Sean Keenan, Curbed Atlanta AGENDA A collective of neighborhood organizations Lord Aeck Sargent urban designer Matt I. Welcome and announcements is raising tens of thousands of dollars to Cherry said the firm began working on II. Review & approval of March minutes enlist an architecture firm to help draft the project last week and plans to host III. Atlanta Police Department a redevelopment plan for Hulsey Yard, a pop-up studios to help inform the four IV. City of Atlanta – Valencia Hudson colossal chunk of intown railroad property neighborhoods’ vision for the site. V. Financial Report – that isn’t even for sale. He understands this approach to urban Saundra Reuppel, Treasurer Talk about community pro-activism. planning isn’t exactly traditional. VI. Committee Reports “Is it unorthodox? Yes. Is it something Atlanta • NPU – John Dirga, But to some, this initiative, spearheaded by needs? Undoubtedly,” Cherry said, noting that Cabbagetown Representative residents from Cabbagetown, Reynoldstown, starting a community-led conversation now • Historic Preservation and Land Use Old Fourth Ward, and Inman Park – the is better for neighborhoods than waiting for a Committee – Nicole Seekely, Chair neighborhoods lining the roughly 70-acre CSX major developer to conjure its own vision. 1. 195 Pearl Street - Type III CoA - Transportation property stretched along DeKalb Rear addition, side dormer, Avenue – is little more than a pipe dream. The property, which sits between the King accessory structure Local leaders backing the plan, however, Memorial and Inman Park-Reynoldstown 2. 152 Berean Triplex- Type II CoA - believe the land containing the active rail MARTA stations, supports a sizable leg of the New windows, replace awnings, yard, which bisects part of the Beltline’s transit agency’s eastbound-westbound heavy replace doors Eastside Trail, will one day be more valuable rail lines in Atlanta. 3. 650 Gaskill - Status Update than the activity happening upon it, and that What changes would come to the neighboring • Cabbagetown-Reynoldstown CSX will want to sell. MARTA line, if any, is unclear – an infill MARTA Transportation Committee – Officials from neighborhood groups station, perhaps. But observers say the CSX lines Shaun Houlihan, Chair representing those adjacent communities running underneath would likely remain active • Cabbagetown Initiative – have launched a fundraising campaign to reel if a multi-million-dollar (or billion-dollar) mixed- Kendall Rawls, CI President in $40,000 for a prominent intown architecture use development arose on the current rail yard. VII. Old Business firm to draw their vision for the massive site. (CSX has yet to respond to our inquiries.) VIII. New Business Thus far, the Hulsey Yard Study Committee Seekely stressed that, although the land is 8:35 Adjourn – a group that’s been kicking Hulsey Yard’s not currently for sale, neighbors want to be Final March minutes will be proverbial tires for about two years – has proactive about the potential project site. adopted at the April meeting. collected at least $34,000, which will go to The freight train lines’ current site would need The Community Center is located architecture firm Lord Aeck Sargent. to be rezoned in order to accommodate the at 177 Estoria Street. kind of redevelopment some neighbors are Committee Chairwoman Nicole Seekely, a hoping for – increased density with plenty of Cabbagetown resident, told Curbed Atlanta new green space. that Lord Aeck Sargent is on board with the mission and even willing to provide some pro- The fundraising and design bono work. initiative is still in its infancy, Because we love music. Seekely said, and residents th Committee leaders expect the envisioning Saturday, April 6 , 2019 at 2p should have ample time to Mind Your project could eventually cost around $75,000. The Patch Works Art & History Center weigh in on the tentative plans. Rubbish! At the corner of Gaskill & Carroll Street See Page 15 Page 2 • Cabbagetown Neighbor • April 2019 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 Potholes 404.546.0311 Cabbagetown Neighbor is a monthly newspaper produced by the Traffic Concerns 404.330.6501 Cabbagetown Neighborhood Improvement Association (CNIA), a Zoning Enforcement 404.330.6175 non-profit organization. This publication is supported by advertisers. Housing Code Compliance 404.330.6190 Please submit news articles, announcements, and advertisements to: Atlanta Job Hotline 404.658.9675 [email protected]. Drinking Water Call Center 404.658.6500 CNIA Officers and Chairpersons Sewer Operations Call Center 404.624.0753 President Mayor’s Office of Constituent Services 404.330.6023 Katie Butler Atlanta Police Department 404.614.6544 Atlanta Fire Department 404.853.7000 Vice President Chelsea Arkin Community Cyber Centers 404.880.7220 Treasurer KEEP UP WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD Saundra Reuppel Join the Cabbagetown online community at Secretary Karyn Corell groups.yahoo.com/group/CNIA and cabbagetown.nextdoor.com Historic Preservation & Land Use Planning Chair Nicole Seekely And the parents’ network of Cabbagetown kids at NPU Representative groups.yahoo.com/group/cabbagekids John Dirga Public Safety Chair ADVERTISE WITH US Daniel Black Advertising with the Cabbagetown Neighbor is an inexpensive way to reach over 650 homes in the Cabbagetown neighborhood Hospitality Chair including the residences of The Stacks Lofts. 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All material must be reprinted as written with proper and full accreditation given. Page 3 • Cabbagetown Neighbor • April 2019 President's Letter Hi, neighbors! It’s Chelsea Arkin, your It's Your Turn By Paul Freeman & Kendall Rawls new CNIA president. A huge thanks to Being new or ‘seasoned’ to Cabbagetown means that you queen Katie Butler for her amazing work as have experience that is valued by your neighborhood. Come president over the past two years. With her and join us to share that experience and learn more about leadership, CNIA accomplished SO MUCH. It’s the ever changing needs right here in this small yet friendly impossible to recount all the amazing things historic neighborhood. that Katie has accomplished during her two years as president, but here are a few... Cabbagetown Initiative Community Development Corpora- CHELSEA We (just barely) survived Trashmegeddon tion, better known ‘CI’, would like your assistance. We are look- ARKIN 2018. We started a concert series. We had ing for committed community members who either own or our first Cabbagetown Olympics We had rent a home in our neighborhood. Continue to show you care one of the most memorable (or not memorable for me, especially at about the funk, the history and the culture of Cabbagetown by the end of the night) Cabbagetown Crawls to date, and we held an your own involvement. amazing volunteer fair at Mouth of The South and talked to so many Contact Kendall Rawls (CI President) at [email protected] people about getting involved in the neighborhood. if you are interested in learning more about the CI and its Board. For you who don’t yet know me, I’m one of those rare Atlanta natives. I moved to Cabbagetown in 2013 after a short stint in CICDC has existed as a 5013c since 1999, with a focus on Baltimore. Before Baltimore, I lived in Reynoldstown from 2007- Chomp and Stomp, oversight of our parks, Community Center 2010. After I bought my house on Carroll Street in 2014, I thought and community garden. about trying to get involved in the neighborhood (NOT THAT YOU CAN’T GET INVOLVED AS A RENTER, I WAS JUST LAZY AND DIDN’T). Besides volunteering for Chomp, I never made any real effort until King of (Cool) Pops Katie approached me a few years ago and asked if I’d like to be part of the Board.