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Commission Approves
Arnocroft Frat House
Oespite continuing objections from nearby
neighbors, UGA's Chi Phi fraternity won
approval Dec. 7 to build a new fraternity
house on Mi Hedge Avenue near Five Points.
The decision capped a dramatic evening of pro
and con speeches at Tuesday's ACC Commission
meeting by both Chi Phi reps and citizens—
and a two-year effort by the fraternity to gain
the “special use" permit which all new frater
nity houses in Athens must now have.
Frat life is “incompatible" with single
family neighborhoods, said Mark Cooney, a
Dearing Street-resident who (along with many
other speakers) anticipated more noise and
parking problems. “We like to go to bed early
and get up early," he said. “They like to go to
bed late and get up late." While game-day cel
ebrations are an accepted “part of the price"
of living in Athens, he said, “what is not OK is
regular nocturnal noise' at other times: mid
night parties and frisbee games, or shouts and
conversations in the wee hours. Such sounds
can cany farther than people may realize,
and can repeatedly wake nearby residents, he
said—but being intermittent, they are hard to
cite under the noise ordinance.
Jim McGown and others said their neigh
borhoods "are at a tipping point" with noise
and with increased car and pedestrian traffic
threatening safety, especially for schoolchil
dren. Chi Phi's 'declared intention of provid
ing the biggest and best fraternity house in
Athens," McGown said, “translates, among
other things, to bigger and better parties."
Lack of on-street parking was a concern of
many residents who addressed commissioners.
But Athens' nine-year-old residential parking
A Roowp
program (which issues parking permits to
neighborhood residents along certain streets
near UGA, while barring others from parking
there) has “done what it's supposed to do,"
said Marla Whittington of ACCs transportation
department. Commissioners could extend that
program to streets near the Chi Phi house if
enough residents request it.
And the fraternity's defenders (who
included some neighbors) said Chi Phi has
done everything it was asked to do. It volun
tarily met "dozens' of times with neighbors
and "endless" times with county staffers,
said Jon Williams of Williams and Associates,
a local design firm working with Chi Phi.
It repeatedly redesigned the building plan,
downsizing it at the request of the Historic
Preservation Commission to appear more in .
scale with adjacent buildings, and agreed to
an enforceable list of conditions that don't ,
apply to other frat houses (including no
amplified music at the house's rear; providing
a resident manager who's not an active Chi Phi
member; and meeting every year with neigh
bors). The addition of the frat house is prefer
able to having six retail stores built on the
lot, which would be permitted by the current
zoning if the fraternity doesn't build there,
Williams suggested.
The commission agreed, despite their
“angst," as Commissioner Alice Kinman put
iL They voted unanimously to add another
Greek house to the 25 already on Milledge.
"We're in a situation legatly where we're bound
to put this here," Commissioner Ed Robinson
said. "There are more coming. We need to
find space for them," perhaps on Lumpkin, he
said. ACC allows Greek houses in commercial
and several other zoning districts, but not in
single-family districts.
John Huie
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