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Chief Lumpkin: “A police building can
only stabilize communities and increase land
values. It will improve your overall environ
ment, and it will make it safe.
“You cannot in a physical sense support
police buildings throughout the county.
Criteria have to be developed of where
police facilities will be located and for what
reasons and causes. We continue to work on
trying to develop some legitimate objective
criteria."
VA VA VOONI
Adult entertainment has been a fact of life
on Baxter Street since at least 1977, when
the Banner Herald reported that one Janet
Stegeman complained of a newly-opened
Baxter Street adult shop, saying at a public
meeting that no laws existed to keep such
establishments “from springing up like a
spreading blight.”
Currently, Baxter Street is home to
Chelsea’s, a strip club, and Fantasy World, a
nude modeling establishment.
Joe Causey, Farm Electric: “It does give an
area a problem attracting new business..., I
think that there’s so much traffic there it
may have had a positive effect on the crime."
Sander Heilig “Chelsea’s, by the nature of
its business, has to police their problems
absolutely. So they take care of their poten
tial problems. They take care of the property
— they put a new roof on the place. And I
don’t find it particularly offensive.”
Manager, Pro v mb's restaurant (who pre
ferred to be unidentified), when asked if
Chelsea's was a good neighbor “1 don’t know
sir I've never been up there."
THE FIX
Melissa Saunders, partner, Nelessen and
Associates (administrators of Athens’ Visual
Preference Survey): “There’s no doubt that
people want that street in particular to be
improved. What we have been trying to pro
pose is that parking lots get infilled with
buildings. That you put green buffers
between sidewalks and parking lots, so that
you create a more pleasant pedestrian expe
rience. That's what people said they wanted
in ihe visual preference survey.
“The city needs a more intensive down
town plan that begins to examine on a lot-to-
lot basis how you go about programming the
entire downtown. Right now there’s certainly
not enough growth and development to have
Mattie Dious in front of her Baxter Street flower garden.
the entire strip of Baxter as a thriving com
mercial entity because of ihe competition,
especially from Atlanta Highway.”
Professor John Waters: ‘This would be a
marvelous opportunity for the city and oth
ers to redevelop Baxter as a demonstration
project. Part of what it would demonstrate is
the value and beauty to streets of trees as a
contributor to the quality of the environ
ment — I’m talking about large trees, not
those lollipop trees. They should come up
with a series of planning standards for mean
ingful development of that street. Until then
it’s a no-man’s land."
Lynn Beard, owner of Perteet's: “I mean,
where are you going to walk to down here?
Downtown you go and you piddle, but that’s
just not what this is.”
Melissa Saunders, Nelessen and Associates:
“There’s usually a cycle. First you renovate
those buildings into son.e kind of other use.
Unfortunately, most of the buildings [on
Baxter] were not built to last forever, like the
buildings on North Campus Those Sizzler-
type buildings will only last 30 years or so
because of the materials that were used.
They’ll probably get renovated into other
uses, then property values will get too high,
and it won’t be reasonable from an economic
standpoint to have a one-story building on a
vast, paved lot.”
Art Jackson, Downtown Development
Authority: “Some of the techniques that you
use downtown can be used on the Strips.
The main elements [for businesses] are
cooperation, coordination with government,
and organization."
Sander Heilig: “We’re getting organized "
Steve Storey, consultant. Georgia
Department of Community Affairs: “There
have been a few cases where towns created
downtown development authorities that
include the old downtown plus maybe a
strip area that runs away from the down
town. I don’t know if Athens could do that or
not, since their legislation was tailor made
for the city....
“A city business improvement district
might be a possibility. That’s essentially
when property owners get together to tax
themselves. That money is used to leverage
grant money and other funds for improve
ments. They could use it to hire a manager
to look for grants and put together a plan for
improvement [to attract private invest
ment]. I think the best way to look at it is
those extra taxes would be like seed money."
Victoria Pate: “Make Baxter physically
attractive. That’s a quick fix. The long, hard,
ugly fix is what are we going to do about get
ting single families and businesses back in
Clarke County. Taxes in this county are unbe
lievably high compared to other counties.”
Chief Lumpkin: “The beautification of an
area could improve the way people feel
about their area and the activities that occur
in the area. But we also must insure we main
tain whatever we create."
Manager, Provino's, when asked if he
would support a Baxter redevelopment author
ity: “I wouldn’t think so. We pay enough
money to the county and city already. They
ought to be able to settle anything." (Richard
Fausset)
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