DeKalb County is a slum –DeKalb County Commissioners

I could see our Commissioners using this reasoning. -gretchen

DeKalb County as a slum Urban Redevelopment in DeKalb County

Erica Byfield reported for WSBTV yesterday, DeKalb commissioners declare most of county a slum,

What’s this urban redevelopment zone about? Tax breaks for businesses that produce new jobs, leaving taxes to be paid mostly by… those slum-dwellers! How about affordable fast Internet everywhere instead?

Typical DeKalb County slum Timothy Darnell wrote for Tucker Patch yesterday, Is Your DeKalb Neighborhood a Slum? The board of commissioners created an urban redevelopment commission, declaring much of DeKalb a slum. Patch wants to know what you think about the county’s latest travails. How about your Lowndes County neighborhood? Is it a slum because your road isn’t paved or it isn’t solid subdivisions or it doesn’t have a golf course or it isn’t an industrial park?

And DeKalb Officers Speak (as in police officers) asked back in 24 November 2010, What Do You Expect, It’s In A Slum: Not enough money? Didn’t the commissioners just allocate 43 million dollars to refurbish Recorders Court? I think there are better uses of county money than some of the alarmist security measures in the TV report the police officers posted, but I can’t help being reminded that our County Commission about that time spent about $29 million on the county palace. Which has no solar panels on it and while they did nothing solar for jobs or Internet access for business, education, and health care.

-jsq