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Tuesday, June 14th
7-9:30 pm
—Local Artist—
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ATHENS NEWS AND VIEWS
Decision on Parking: When the Athens-Clarke
County Mayor and Commission vote on their
June 7 agenda (conveniently, at the moment
this paper hits the street), they are likely
to approve an option for downtown parking
rates that raises metered spaces to 75 cents
per hour and extends collection times to 10
p.m., while leaving hourly deck prices where
they are now. That's the plan worked out by
staff with input from
Commissioner Mike
Hamby, who says it
has the support it
needs to pass. The
option also provides
for the two-hour time
limit for metered
spaces to be lifted
at 6 p.m., allowing
downtown restaurant
patrons to park for an
entire evening with
out having to move
their cars.
While it's certain
few will be delighted
with any kind of hike
in downtown park
ing rates, this is a
far cry from the ACC
staff-recommended
increase to $2 per
hour across the board—and eventually to
$2.50—that was said to be necessary to pay
the debt on the new multi-use deck currently
being built around the Georgia Theatre. Hamby
says that the newly proposed rate structure
will be sufficient to pay the debt, and that
once the debt for the existing College Avenue
deck is paid in two years, it might make sense
to raise on-street rates to $1 per hour while
lowering deck prices to the same amount.
That would presumably encourage long-term
downtown visitors to fill the 540 spaces
in the neW deck, which wouldn't be subject
to a time limit, while freeing up metered
spaces for short-term parking. Hamby also
says the Athens Downtown
Downtown metered parking
cents per hour—for now
extended until 10 p.m.
Development Authority, which is contracted by
ACC to handle parking services, will look into
replacing more of the old single-space meters
with the programmable multi-space meters
that are already in use on Broad and Clayton
streets, which would help facilitate non-time-
limited evening parking. And lest it be imag
ined that we may be finished talking about
this stuff anytime soon, Hamby's looking into
a system in use in
Decatur, among other
cities, that allows
parking patrons to
refresh their meters
with their phones.
Let's start holding
our breath!
A Belated
Acknowledgment:
Brent Buice, execu
tive director of
Georgia Bikes! and
longtime local cycling
advocate, recently
offered the Dope a
gentle reminder that
he'd forgotten to
congratulate Athens
on receiving, just
over one month ago,
recognition from the
League of American Bicyclists as a bronze-
level Bicycle Friendly Community—one of
only three in the state. The award is a mean
ingful one, the result of a rigorous application
process in cooperation with BikeAthens, and
positions Athens to work with the League as
it strives to improve its certification to sil
ver, gold or platinum status. Let's hope this
will serve as motivation for ACC to continue
moving forward not only with its in-progress
alternative transportation initiatives, but with
new ones as well. You can find out more on
BikeAthens' spanking-new website at www.
bikeathens.com.
Dave Marr news@llagpole.com
rates will go up to 75
and collections will be
Krazy Korner
While some Americans might find it unsettling for a member
of Congress to align himself with a foreign leader in opposition to
our own, Congressman Broun assures you. it's all part of the plan.
, God’s plan. In Congressman Broun's May 24 anti-Obama, pro-lsraei
opinion piece for the Daily Caller, he eventually admits that ft is not
international law that concerns him, but scripture, quoting the Bible
(in bold type, no less): 'the Lord promised blessings to those who bless
Israel." This is something Broun has said repeatedly.- that the govem-
' ment of Israel (a nation roughly the size of New Jersey) should be supported
because of 2,500-year-old religious texts.
You see, Muslims aren't the only folks who use religion to dictate politics in the
Middle East. Ultra-conservative Israeli Jews ere engaged in a project to annex the
Palestinian territories (in contravention of international law), restoring Israel to some
thing like its Old Testament-defined territorial dimensions. Meanwhile, many ultra-
Christian Americans see this as needing to happen to have their own scripture fulfilled:
in order for the glorious end times to commence, the Jews have to be collected in old
Israel, at which point two thirds of them will be killed by God simply for being Jews. The
other third convert to Christianity, thereby finally eliminating Judaism from the Earth.
An amalgam of scripture from the books of Revelations and Zechariah (13:8-9) out
lines the unthinkable violence that occurs once Israel is restored to its Old Testament
makeup. It is horrifyingly anti-Semitic. Israel is, to these Christians, a sort of final ghetto
for the Jews. These Christians place Jews in a position where they've been many times
throughout history: as subservient to Christians, and expendable. While Broun tends
to throw Hitler comparisons around at his opponents with aba noon, nothing could be
more powerfully anti-Semitic than this sort of “love” for Israel. [Matthew Pulver]
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