{"id":3816,"date":"2013-06-04T10:02:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2013-06-04T10:05:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T14:05:58","slug":"dekalb-county-is-a-slum-dekalb-county-commissioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/dekalb-county-is-a-slum-dekalb-county-commissioners.html","title":{"rendered":"DeKalb County is a slum –DeKalb County Commissioners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI could see our Commissioners using this reasoning. -gretchen\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n\"DeKalb<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\"Urban<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\nErica Byfield<\/a> reported for WSBTV yesterday,
\n
\nDeKalb commissioners declare most of county a slum<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n

\n<\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat’s this urban redevelopment zone about?
\nTax breaks for businesses that produce new jobs,
\nleaving taxes to be paid mostly by… those slum-dwellers!
\nHow about
\n
\naffordable fast Internet everywhere<\/a> instead?\n<\/p>\n


\n\"Typical<\/a>
\nTimothy Darnell wrote for Tucker Patch yesterday,
\n
\nIs Your DeKalb Neighborhood a Slum?
\nThe 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.<\/a><\/p>\n

How about your Lowndes County neighborhood?
\nIs it a slum because your road isn’t paved or it isn’t solid subdivisions
\nor it doesn’t have a golf course or it isn’t an industrial park?\n<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>
\nAnd DeKalb Officers Speak (as in police officers)
\nasked back in 24 November 2010,
\n
\nWhat Do You Expect, It’s In A Slum:
\nNot enough money? Didn’t the commissioners just allocate 43 million dollars to refurbish Recorders Court?<\/a>
\nI think there are better uses of county money than some of the alarmist
\nsecurity measures in the TV report the police officers posted,
\nbut I can’t help being reminded that
\nour County Commission about that time
\n
\nspent about $29 million on the county palace<\/a>.
\nWhich has no
\n
\nsolar panels on it<\/a> and while they did nothing solar for jobs or Internet access for business, education, and health care.\n<\/p>\n

\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I could see our Commissioners using this reasoning. -gretchen 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,132,88,22,24],"tags":[726,6362,8701,8699,8741,8702,12,7,8734,8712,6363,8714,6364,6],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-internet-access-speed","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-politics","category-solar","tag-county-palace","tag-dekalb-county","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-internet-access-speed","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-politics","tag-slum","tag-solar","tag-urban-redevelopment","tag-valdosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3821,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}