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Last night at the Evening with OTH, there was talk about Austin not being handsome enough for the network, but handsome enough to make Joe Davola go gay for him. Of course in the season 9 highlights they show that handsome mug getting the beat down.
Later they asked what would you be if you weren't an actor. Austin's answer?
A pirate.
And on this day of make believe and hijinks you have to wonder what kind of pirate would he be?
Maybe he's talking the Hollywood pretty pirate?
Hey his long wig and Jake's hair accessories from PoP he's half way there.Yes, that is a hornpipe in my pocket and I am happy to see you.
Or it could be The 1979 Pittsburgh PiratesWe are Family!
Maybe he's a little nostalgic with childhood memories of the Princess Bride's Dread Pirate Roberts. Now who could his real life Buttercup be?
Or the Spongebob's Painty the Priate impressions that Jake does got to him. (Halloween M&M's to M&M)
Or the buck he keeps talking about being is a Buccaneer?Maybe he just loves the clothesWell blow me down.
Or like Black Bart the jewels and jewelry.
Or maybe he wants to be a literary pirate and little Treasure Island"They don't call me Long John because my head is so big."
You know it's all about the Pirate booty and when you got it you got it.
This oneor this one?
And for a guy with a bourbon for a name, and a vodka for a "nic name" you have go for the trifecta of alcohol personae..... Captain Morgan.Avast, me proud beauty! Wanna know why my Roger is so Jolly?
But just could be that he loves
Jake and the Pirates
Here's to lots of sweets and not too many screams.
And if they ask, tell 'em Frank sent you.
photo credit: OTH-twitpic
Monday, October 31, 2011
Shiver My Timbers!
Last night at the Evening with OTH, there was talk about Austin not being handsome enough for the network, but handsome enough to make Joe Davola go gay for him. Of course in the season 9 highlights they show that handsome mug getting the beat down.
Posted by Special K at 4:15 PM 57 comments
Labels: Austin, Crazy Tree, OTH, Pirates
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Out Spotlight
Today's Out Spotlight is someone who has not been out for a long time, in fact they just came out this past week. A pro athlete and captain of his team, he made the courageous step at the age of justtwenty-two and early in his sports career. Today's Out Spotlight is Welsh rugby player Jed Hopper.
The 22-year-old back row rugby forward for Old Redcliffians Rugby club came out to family and friends earlier this year but hadn't come out publicly until last week.
Hooper played his first game for his hometown Bristol, England club at the age of six on a youth team, before he went on to Gloucester Academy. As young man he went on to play rugby for Hartpury, Cinderford and Newbury, returning to his hometown team two seasons ago.
He said he first became aware that he might be gay when he was 14. "Even then I had a bit of a hard man image because of my rugby, and that made me think 'no I'm not gay', but at the age of 15, in my heart of hearts, I was sure. At school, I didn't want to be with a girl and I couldn't be with a boy."
He, like many others have, grappled with his true identity. No one would ever know what the rough and tough rugby playing teen was going through, the anxiety from working through his sexuality identity and the turmoil of a leading a double life led him to drink into a stupor at different points over past 7 years. Hooper also admitted there short period when he cut himself, "because I thought I might be able to cut this out of me."
Known to speak as directly off the pitch as he does in his pre-match talks with his teammates, he had never spoken openly about his sexuality. Just a handful of people who knew after he told them at the beginning of 2011.
After meeting a guy who told him that he could not be with someone who was still in the closet he was spurred to come out.
"Before that, I think I had already told about ten friends and their reaction was very positive so that gave me an inkling of what might happen. And I also thought if the crap really hits the fan then at least there are ten people on my side!"
Despite his decision to come out , it wasn't that easy to carry out. Even with the support of those who already knew he still agonized over it.
"I was never going to do it bit by bit, that would have been too drawn out, so I decided to text everyone and also put it on Facebook.
"I was horribly nervous. I wrote and rewrote the text four or five times, and I had my finger on the 'send' button for ages before I finally pushed it.
"The text basically said something along the lines that 'I've been hiding it and fighting it for too long, and I can't hide any more. If you can accept me this way then great ... and if you can't then I don't need you and you can get lost!'
"I then cried my eyes out as I was thinking to myself 'what have you done?, but very quickly I must have had 40 replies and all of them were positive."
He said as soon as he made the announcement it he felt relief. "A massive weight came off my shoulders. If I couldn't accept myself the way I am, how could I expect my friends to?"A team captain, who knows the honor and importance of the position, the Old Red's chairman as one of the first people he went to talk to after his announcement.
"I said that if the club doesn't want a gay man as its figurehead I would understand and step down. But he was brilliant and said 'you're our captain and this doesn't change anything'. That support was massive to me."
The club included their captain's announcement on their website. And it wasn't just the front office who was supportive but his teammates as well on and off the pitch.
In the clubhouse the traditional locker room dissin' and talk didn't stop it just took a bit of turn.
"No punches were pulled with questions from the rugby lads, that's for sure. I can't repeat some of the things I was asked, but I've always been someone who has been at the centre of any banter flying around, and the only thing that's changed is the type of banter."
Reaction to his news has been overwhelmingly positive among the community, the fans, and other players. Hooper said there has been only one comment said on the pitch, that he had to step in and stopping his teammates "from kicking things off" to defend him.
But don't look for him to change on the field, saying he might be a little less aggressive now that his anxiety of being in the closet is gone, but he's still the rough tough aggressive competitor he's always been. He's just a much nicer guy in the bar after the match.
Posted by Special K at 6:33 PM 38 comments
Labels: Jed Hooper, Out Spotlight
Saturday, October 29, 2011
...Farm living is the life for me....
Jake was wheeling and dealing last Wednesday, and it wasn't Soul Cycle, but food and that for Jake it is where his soul is-food, along with friends, and family and.... farming
Jake dusted off the fanciest duds he has for his East Coast adventure and did his best Rumplejakeskin for an evening event to raise money for the Edible Schoolyard program in NYC.
The host was fashion designer Lela Rose and her husband Brandon Jones who opened their TriBeCa loft to chef Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune restaurant (a Jake fav) and guests who each contributed a $1000 to the schoolyard program.
Jake's childhood friend designer Sophie Buhai was there as well.With a table that wowed the crowd, it almost compete with the food for the main attraction.
Starting off with radishes dipped in butter, the dinner moved on to Spanish mackerel poached in kalamata olive oil and braised duck legs with lentils, black chickpeas and chanterelles.
Jake took a few minutes to speak to the gathering that raised $120,000 and spoke to a couple of columnist inthe fashion world. What about? Food, family, friends and farming.
He spoke about how family dinners around the table were especially important to him, how they grew food in their garden and shopped at the Farmers Market.
"I got involved because the dinner table was always a place, since I was a young child, where we got to get together, and I actually got to know my family there more than any other place in the world. I grew up growing my own food in our family garden."
And while it was a little upscale in menu selections Jake brought back down to earth with talks about pizza.
"I love going to these schools and making kale pizza with the kids."
Jake talked about how important home gardens and farmers market played in his life and how he was a part of the slow food movement growing up without even knowing it.
"I didn't realize that I grew up in the slow food movement. I see children who didn't know any of these things—that they can grow their own food and learn about vegetables when they are at a primary level. It was everything to me, so I wanted to be involved. Since knowing about this organization, I've done everything I can."Talking more about ESY, he said:
"To me, this is a fiercely political topic, even though it seems like an easy one to actually put into practice. Even though an event like tonight's might seem elitist, it is about incorporating one of the least expensive things you can do. It just takes time, attention and love, which oddly is an incredibly difficult thing for people to do in this world."
A fashion reporter got a little one on one time with Jake and got a few more insights of the "the sexiest farmer alive". (Like maybe why he makes kale pizza with kids)
"I got involved because the dinner table was always a place, since I was a young child, where we got to get together, and I actually got to know my family there more than any other place in the world. I grew up growing my own food in our family garden. One of my best friends is a farmer. It's been a primary focus of my life. "
And the kale?
Asked what his favorite veggie is, he picks an Italian kale that some may know as black leaf kale.
"I'd say right now, after an extensive search over the years and living the wonderful life that I've had so far, and after tasting many, many vegetables...cavolo nero. It's like a really soft kale. You can eat it any form: cooked, raw..."
And going Green Acres from there it's about farming and one of his best buds Chris.
"I was raised in Los Angeles, but I spent my summers, since I was born, in Martha's Vineyard. My best friend, since we were little kids, lives there, and he's a farmer. His whole family farms. I know it might seem odd, but it's what I love more than anything. Being in gardens have been some of the most wonderful times of my life. Washing lettuce and watching things grow...you feel connected to the world. You'd be hard-pressed to find anything that connects you to the universe in the same way that planting a seed does."
And their follow up for the friend of farmers:
That's so sweet! And now you've got a beard like a real farmer.
Seeds of growth!
A programming note:
See Jake go au natural in a whole different way tonight at 8pm EDT when Love and Other Drugs premieres on HBO.
Posted by Special K at 6:06 PM 27 comments
Labels: Edible Schoolyards, Farm Fresh, Farmers Market, Jake, Jake in the City, LaOD, NYC
Friday, October 28, 2011
Tricked out of Treats
Get the coffeeGet something healthy for breakfast.It has pandas on it... it has to be healthy.
Yesss.. you went shopping....ohhh yeah ...Halloween candy here I come.........wait a minute!?!?!?
Ohh come on... I got you coffee and ate the panda cereal, why can't I have a Snickers? Kale is not a snack.
Happy Austin Friday
Posted by Special K at 5:06 PM 26 comments
Labels: Austin, Austin Fridays
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Back to the House
When Destiny pointed out how she had completely forgotten about House of Usher, it sounds like it's time to go home again.
Back in the Spring of 2005, Austin came east to Massachusetts to shoot House of Usher.
It's the retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.
Austin played Roderick "Rick" Usher contacts his former lover Jill Masters (Izabella Miko) after three years, when her best friend, Madeline "Maddy" Usher, and Rick's twin sister suddenly passes away. Maddy's last wish was for Jill to attend the funeral. Conflicted, Jill returns to the Usher family home to fulfill Maddy's wish and during her stay rekindles her affair with Rick.She learns Rick suffers from the same disease that robbed his twin sister, of her sharp mind and ultimately her life.
The illness is a rare nerve condition, which makes Rick hypersensitive. He is under the very careful watchful and controlling eye of the caretaker, Nurse Thatcher (Beth Grant). Staying on at the Usher's, Jill seems to be haunted by the ghost of her best friend and finds out that she is pregnancy with Rick's child.She also discovers the Usher family secret....On a limited budget it allowed for just 16 days of shoot and an unusual location stood in for the Usher home. It was the Sea View nursing home in Rowley, MA that served as the house and the cast and crew work in unused areas of the building, and on off hours when the residents were sleeping.
They also got the opportunity to shoot a more few scenes in the coast town of Newburyport as in Danvers, MA.
The Sea View was perfect for a horror movie because of its age, size, and grounds and the owner of the nursing home agreed to donate the location for the film. He welcomed the activity that the film brought to his residents.The nursing home's basement and attic were used. Storage spaces were turned into the bedrooms with peeling paint and aging wallpaper. The greenhouse, and secret passage discovered in the house nursing home was incorporated into the story.
Twisted and dark, it's Austin like you haven't seen before.
One more thing: Austin talked about the People's Choice Awards. You think he voted for someone else when he was writing in his name in the TV category?
Posted by Special K at 5:55 PM 19 comments
Labels: Austin, House of Usher, People's Choice


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The Klout Android app release has taken full effect today as users of the platform around the world circle in. This app is part of an ecosystem in which Social Media users find themselves ranked according to how well they're received in the world of social networks. Klout also acts as a center point from whens users are able to share through said social networks.
Klout has been released for iOS for some time now, and has been a web browser-based network from the start. Inside Klout, users receive points for doing well in services like Twitter or Facebook, gaining standing whenever they're shared widely or commented on in great numbers.
This Android app allows you to see your Klout score based on your popularity on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Google+ account. You can connect your accounts from each of these networks through the app, and can share from the Klout app with Facebook or Twitter.
In the future we expect that this Klout app for Android will add the ability to share and update services with Google+, Linkedin, Instagram, and Foursquare as well. For now this service serves its purpose well – it does what it says it'll do right off the bat.
You can grab Klout from the Google Play app store today by searching for "Klout" – it's developed by Klout, Inc – you can't miss it. The same is true of the iOS app, and the web console through Klout dot com.

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I'm a big fan of Meetup.com. It's the Justin Bieber to my inner 12-year-old girl, without the incredibly bad hair. There aren't too many websites and/or online services I appreciate more. Gmail is one. Facebook is an another. And Fred's Potato Chip and Plumbing Supply Emporium is still another. Where else can you get Old Bay crab chips and the Waste King Legend 8000TC 1 horsepower disposer in one online shopping cart, besides Amazon? That's right, nowhere. And the site's emoticons are second to none. Long live Fred!
Meetup is a worldwide network of local groups organized around a wide variety of topics. The site helps individuals set up these groups, and helps others join them. The groups then get together to discuss their topic of choice, whether it be sewing or shuffleboard or Canadian teen idols. Meetup is an online vehicle for person-to-person meetings, pushing people away from their computers and toward each other. It connects people in a meaningful way, unlike many social networking tools.
I started using the site to connect with other online marketing types about three years ago. I attended various meetups in an official capacity, representing my previous employer. The meetings kept me abreast of all the happenings in the industry and put me in touch with a few of the movers and shakers. I kept at it after the layoff. The people in these groups have ins at good companies and the potential to help me find gainful employment. And they knew things… lots and lots of things. And not just things, but stuff… and whatnot, the grand poobah of all vague descriptive terms. As any two-bit unemployment site that isn't Jobless and Less will tell you, networking is key to finding a job. My participation led to some interviews and freelance projects. Whereas, online job boards just gave me a raging case of carpal tunnel syndrome.
I still belong to multiple Meetup groups and attend events every so often. Here's a selection of my favorites…
- Internet Marketers of New York
- SEMPO New York
- NYC Brandhackers Happy Hour Speaker Series
- WordPress NYC Meetup Group
The SEMPO and WordPress meetups are particularly productive. The SEMPO group, an offshoot of the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, brings in experts to discuss the fast-moving field of Search Engine Marketing. The group for WordPress, the popular content management system I use for Jobless and Less, covers issues related to the software. Maybe you sense a theme here… a geeky, nerdy, online marketing-focused, career-related theme. And wouldn't you know it, the settings in my Meetup account follow suit.
I don't spend much time on the Meetup site each day. Trolling for new groups isn't terribly helpful or informative. And the limited online social functions aren't among the site's strengths. Besides, the site is set to notify me of any new group that fits my location and interests. Far be it from me to do work I don't have to. Here's a sampling of the kinds of groups I've asked Meetup to ping me about…
- Weblogger
- WordPress
- Search Engine Optimization
- Website Marketing
- Social Media Marketing
Alas, though the Meetup concept is slick, the execution is often clumsy. I receive five or more notifications for new groups each day. Maybe 20% of these groups are remotely relevant, or even within the parameters I set up. The rest are either ridiculous or hilarious or both. I began saving my favorites a couple months ago to share with the world. The folder now contains 121 emails. Many more were deleted. Here are the best of the worst, as I received them…
- Bronx Ladies Who Lunch: This group is a social network for ladies 25 to 35 to get together and create lasting friendships. The point of the group is to support and uplift each other. There will be many events that will make this mission possible. Our outings will center on the Bronx but there will be events city-wide.
[Don't be fooled by the lunch that I got, I'm still Normy from the block. So it needs a little work. J-Lo has been too busy crying to return my calls.]
- Flexyn: Flexyn stands for Fly, Sexy and Fun. And that's just what our group is about. Being Fly, Living Sexy enjoying life to the fullest and having Fun. Whether single, dating or married, our get togethers will encourage all to live life to the fullest. Responsible and safe fun is what we're all about. Networking, parties, events and trips are our focus. We will constantly have something fun planned. Some type of wonderful activity for people to come together and have a blast.
[Well, I am fly, sexy and fun. They got that right. And I do enjoy making up words out of other words to describe myself. Unguatam, for example, stands for Unemployed Guy Hates Spam. It's also the name of the tiny banana republic I plan to start when I become the next George Clooney.]
- Drum Circle International House: International House is a residential facility in Morningside Heights/Harlem NY for over 700 graduate students from all over the world studying in a very diverse array of fields. The facility has a modern gymnasium where we conduct a drum circle every Friday 8pm-10pm. We have just started the endeavor with two drums and any additional drums/instruments would be great.
[Shooting hippies is indeed one of my favorite activities. So maybe Meetup got this one right too.]
- Women 24 and Over and Colored Men: I decided to start this group as a result of being involved with an interracial meetup that was, ironically, too exclusive. Realizing that changing the mentality and make up of the group would be too time consuming, and probably even unrealistic, I've started my own group. This network has been designed for women who are interested in Colored Men. When I say colored, I'm referring to a broad spectrum of individuals from dark-skinned to light-skinned, Black, African, Asian, Latino, Middle Eastern, Indian, bi-racial and multiracial men. We value and would like to develop a network of open minded, respectful, and sociable members who welcome and are interested in interracial dating.
[This group managed to include everyone except me. It's so nice to be discriminated against in my own inbox.]
- Daddyhunt NYC: Daddyhunt is a community of over 200,ooo hot gay men of all ages. We bring together older men, masculine guys and the guys who love them in a dating and socializing environment that is supportive and attitude-free. We welcome Dads, Older Bros, Bears and hunters of all ages. NYC/Metropolitan members are welcome to attend our premiere Meetup event on December 15th.
[And to think I first thought this was a group that got together to play cruel tricks on orphans. Boy was I embarrassed at that first meeting.]
- Argentine Tango Beginners: FREE for 4 men only!! We have the women already!
[All this time I thought it only took two to tango. Who knew?]
How can a site that touts its personalization, in an age of hyper-social media, be so misguided? I expect this from the the big job sites, which continue to insist that I become a nursing assistant in New Jersey. But I thought Justin, I mean Meetup, knew me better than that. The site just spams the crap out of me, over and over, day after day. It was funny at first… look at all those cute, funny, totally irrelevant emails from that site that doesn't really know what it's doing. Now it's just annoying. So this once-satisfied user is blocking all new groups until Meetup gets its floppy hair out of its eyes and fixes this problem.


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I was thinking about doing a post on favorite musicals, and realized I have too many. And also that there seems to be two types of musicals. The division is clear to me but hard to define. The best I can say is that there are the dramatic ones, and the light-hearted ones.
Or maybe I'd do well here to quote Andrew Lloyd Webber, who I heard say something in an interview (I think talking about Phantom) to the effect that musicals must be about the big emotions, the passions and the desires and the tragedies. The emotions are so intense that the characters have to sing, because words simply aren't enough.
That may be the case in Webber's musicals, but there are others that just don't seem quite that, well, intense. So today, I'm talking about the intense ones, the big emotion ones–the dramatic ones, which may nevertheless be very funny at times. Some other week I'll talk about the light-hearted ones, which may still touch on deep emotions and have dramatic moments. It's a complicated division… But anyway–on to the musicals.
Phantom of the Opera has to be mentioned first here, which will surprise absolutely no one. I've waxed on here and here, so I won't do it again today…
Les Miserables is my favorite musical that I've never seen; I've just listened to the soundtrack. I love loud emotional songs, and Valjean gets some really good ones. There's all the despair and the tragedy and the yearning…and then there's the revolutionaries and all their songs, and Eponine's tragic unrequited love, and Gavroche comes in with his funny songs and…big emotions. Beautiful music.
Sweeney Todd…well, it's almost strange how much I like this one. I mean, it's about a barber who kills people, and his partner who bakes them into pies. Really not my kind of story. And yes, I saw the movie to begin with because it was starring Johnny Depp, but I ended up genuinely loving the music…and sort of the story, horrible though parts of it are. But there's the tragedy and the romance and the really funny song about cannibalism and lots of loud emotional songs and…it's a cathartic experience. Honestly. It makes me feel the entire range of emotions.
Wicked is giving me the most trouble with my divisions, because in some ways it feels more like a light-hearted one. Certainly large portions of it are light and funny. But…I love it mostly for "The Wizard and I" and "Defying Gravity" and the complicated relationship between Elphaba and Glinda, and all of those parts seem like they belong in the dramatic musical list. I actively dislike the book, but I love the musical. I love Elphaba's yearning to prove herself, and Glinda's somewhat haphazard growth as a person, and I just love that it's a musical with two strong female characters. And now I have real trouble listening to "Ding-Dong, the Witch Is Dead" because it seems so heartless.
Jesus Christ Superstar is my go-to musical every Lent. It's definitely a big emotion one, and I love the portrayal of the characters. It's not always quite Biblical, but you can tell Webber knew what he was doing and that he'd read the Gospels (he practically quotes John in places). The semi-modern context makes it all so much more accessible, and is a good reminder–these people weren't ancient figures at the time. I love how human everyone is. And the music sticks in my head like you wouldn't believe.
What are your favorite musicals? 🙂


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This was one thing Ben didn't seem to grasp.
Arguing the flaws of an organized religion is NOT RACISM.
Sam Harris is right; Islam is not a race, it's a creed. And like all other creeds, Islam is fair game and is not immune to criticism.
Bill Maher was lucky to have Sam Harris there with him to fend off Affleck's off key rants. To spread a little reason into the dialogue instead of replying to rant with a rant.


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Me neither.
What I do know is that one of the best things about being a Mom is seeing that spirit in my children. I almost didn't sign up for music school with the kids this semester because I thought it was going to be too hard to wrangle both of them, too expensive, too cheesy for the likes of this woman in her thirties.
I brought out my camera this Tuesday to try to capture the light in Anna's face as she totally let loose and had the time of her life. It's how it is every time we step into that room-- forty-five minutes of pure and simple happiness.
Here she is, impatiently waiting for class to start:
Standing in the middle of the circle, ready to dance:
Is there anything better than a shaker? I mean, really?
Aaron, watching to the beat:
(Best picture ever?)
A brief break to check on brother:
Drum time:


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Commissioner Kelly Girtz passed along some background information Sunday night on the Selig development. He intends to make a motion at Tuesday night's meeting to require Selig to include a bike path and a sidewalk connecting Firefly Trail to the UGA campus across Oconee Street.
While it doesn't include the flat rail spur that some believe has been reserved for a rail-trail link to campus, the path along Hickory Street extension would have a grade of no more than 5 percent. In a month or two, Selig would also have to come back to the commission for design approval for the plaza along the rail-trail.
Here's Girtz's commentary:
The Selig Project and Athens-Clarke County's Role
The Selig Project scheduled for a vote regarding a Special Use permit on Tuesdayevening has generated an enormous amount of discussion in Athens, and in this piece, I will provide discussion of the Athens-Clarke County Commission's role in this process, and respond to some related issues and concerns. The nature of this request, and guiding legal issues will be addressed, as well as big-picture questions about how we learn from the experience of this project. This will serve as the basis for some of my comments at Tuesday evening's meeting of the Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission
The Framework
As in the case of the Selig submission, when citizens are interested in a proposed development project, dialogue often revolves around how significant a project will be to Athens and its future, and we are asked to make a careful decision. While it is absolutely true that we need to review each submission carefully, some of the most significant decisions have already been made. Policy that guides development is one of the major tasks of local government, and there are some significant code sections that come into play in this case.
In 1999 and 2000 the zoning and development codes for the county were significantly modified. It was decisions during this period that created the current zoning categories that exist today and related requirements. Among the key outcomes were the 10 acre minimum lot size in the "greenbelt"/Agricultural Zone, the 75 foot stream buffer ordinance, and the Commercial Downtown zoning category which allows for 200 bedrooms per acre. This is the offset of the demand for low density on the outskirts of the community; have people live in high density where resources, jobs, educational institutions, etc. are close at hand, thus requiring fewer and shorter car trips and ensuring the possibility of walking to destinations. Then, in 2007, enhanced design guidelines for downtown development (including the site in question) were approved, along with local historic protection for the core of downtown.
The very public processes that led to those and other codes in the past years and decades are the heart of the policymaking that underpins Selig's submission, just as with every plan that is submitted to the county for consideration. All plans must be evaluated under the same set of criteria, as in accordance with the "rule of law" that serves as a foundation for our democracy.
A "Special Use" Request
Another key process in the case of the Selig submission is the nature of "Special Use" requests, which are distinct from rezoning requests. In both cases, a submission is first reviewed by Planning Staff, and submitted to the Planning Commission for a recommendation to the Mayor and Commission. In the case of a rezoning request in Georgia, a local elected body has wide latitude to require any number of plan modifications, or to reject a request outright because in a general way it is deemed inappropriate for the community. In contrast, a Special Use request is for specific deviations from code that are permissible if certain conditions apply. If these conditions cannot be met for applicable articulated cause, the request can be denied. If the conditions are met, an elected body cannot legally deny the request. In the case of the Selig Project, the "Special Use" request is for ground floor residential units along Wilkerson Street and a portion of the Rail-To-Trail ("Firefly") corridor that would normally require commercial use (i.e. retail, restaurants, offices, etc.).
The critical language of the code asks to ensure that "the special use will have no greater adverse material effect on the livability of the impact area when compared to the development of the subject lot with the target use of the zone." In this case, the question asked of the commission is to compare the "livability" of the area if there are ground-floor residential units on the Wilkerson and Rail-to-Trail frontage compared with commercial units in the same locations. The Wilkerson right-of-way is especially narrow, and the Trail frontage in question is the segment adjacent to the bridge that will fly over Wilkerson Street and the North Oconee River, so the replacement of commercial with residential units in those locations is justified, though introducing additional residential units does raise the question of how their tenants move through and around the site.
In the Commission-Defined Option that will be presented to the Mayor and Commission on Tuesday night, there will be a requirement that the Hickory Extension will accommodate bike travel via a two-way path of at least 10 feet in width between the pedestrian sidewalk and on street parking on the north and east sides of the two segments of the road with a path border that must be designed to protect the bike path from vehicular intrusion.
In addition, the bike trail approach adjacent to the plaza must meet the Firefly trail via a direct, continuous connection at least 10 feet wide that directly meets the finished elevation of the Firefly trail via no more than a 5% grade.
Finally, the boundary between the applicant's property and the Athens-Clarke County Rail-Trail must be designed and returned to the Mayor and Commission for approval.
These three requirements will ensure greater comfort and aesthetic appeal for the residents of the units in question.
In addition, as an existing requirement from Planning Department staff, the Oconee Street frontage includes building footprints far enough from the existing street to allow for future right-of-way expansion in conjunction with the pending Corridor Plan for that road that has been underway for two years.
The Transportation Corridor Concept Map
There has been a considerable amount of attention given the Transportation Corridor Concept Map as it applies to the Selig project. This Map represents "concepts" for future transportation corridors in a general manner that must be built as parcels are developed, but not pre-engineered routes with specific coordinates and topographic certainties. Currently, there are two corridors identified that move through the Selig project – a Rail-to-Trail link, and an extension of Hickory Street, which currently terminates at East Broad Street. Both corridors are satisfied by the Hickory Street Extension with a separated bike path. The typical design for a Greenway Trail is a 14 foot wide shared by pedestrians, strollers, joggers, bikes, etc. In the design that will be forthcomingon Tuesday, with a 10 foot wide bike-only path in addition to a 10 foot sidewalk, the site will be more accommodating than the 14 foot path alone would be. Thus, no amendment to the Corridor Map is necessary for the A+D/Selig site.
There have been questions about what happens to both routes as one crosses Highway 78 into the UGA property, and whether the Corridor Map can continue to be satisfied. Given that the Georgia Department of Transportation requires that intersections form at a "T", any road entering the UGA property would certainly enter across from Selig's Oconee Street entry, which then might move in a variety of alignments.
Were there to be a bike route alone extending across Oconee Street/Hwy 78 in the location of the current Hodgson Oil Parking Lot (an approximately level former rail bed), as some have suggested, there would not be a traffic signal at what is a blind curve in the highway. If there was a road in that location with an adjacent trail, it would be a road to nowhere, given that it would route approximately to the sharp intersection of Mitchell and Thomas Streets very near a rail line (discussed below).
Since this southern segment traverses through as-yet undeveloped UGA property (currently, parking lots – which may not be built upon for years or decades), there is no means by which to dictate to the University exactly where future routes will go from its intersection with Oconee Street - just that they will exist, providing shorter block-lengths and an additional route into the eastern edge of campus.
My preferred option is that eventually there is a series of cuts between Oconee and Thomas Streets - one in alignment with the Hickory Extension (to Mitchell Street) that can bring vehicles to the back entrance of the Jackson Street deck, a bike/ped path along the Hodgson Oil Building, and even a third route aligned with Fulton Street. Insofar as any route will end up at the lower rear of the Jackson Street deck, far below the elevation of North Campus, the most significant thing about a routes south of 78 is providing multiple blocks for visual appeal and at least one additional access point; it would never serve as a wider "side door" taking you all the way to North Campus.
Whichever the ultimate alignments, both a ped/bike and vehicular route south of Highway 78 through the segment of campus opposite the Selig project are beneficial, so the Transportation Corridor Concept Map will continue to include both.
As significant to future movement through campus is future use of the rail line currently used solely by trains that occasionally transport coal to UGA's boilers. This line has been long discussed as a prospective rail-with-trail route linking downtown via the Multimodal Center, East Campus (including the Georgia Museum of Art and Sanford Stadium), South Milledge Avenue (with nearby recreational fields and the State Botanical Gardens).
The Firefly Trail
There has been $12 million of public investment in the trail which currently marked by a trailhead on East Broad Street just below Hickory Street. This is the route that will travel over the North Oconee River, along the rail bed on the north side of Highway 78 and eventually to Winterville and points south. As noted above, there will be a requirement that Selig return to the Mayor and Commission with a design to be approved for the connection between their property and the Trail. Among the requests they have indicated that they will make is for a slope easement, so that a hill comes down from the edge of the structure in the place of what would otherwise be a retaining wall. The wall would certainly be unsightly, and a slope easement is preferred, but because the details of its design are important, we will ask that the property boundary be an appropriately designed space that serves as an attractive accompaniment to the trail. Given the width of land between the side of the planned structures and the trail itself, there will be no modification in the ability of the trail to follow the grade of the historic railbed. Similarly, no change in the Wilkerson Street/North Oconee River flyover will be permitted. Finally, as noted above, the connection between the Selig project and the Trail via the "plaza" area must be direct and comfortable.
Where do we go from here?
It could not be any clearer that July 2 is not just another night at City Hall, with another planning decision to be made. Obviously, we are talking about a project the size of two or three full blocks of our downtown cityscape. There are reasons to be very glad for the code changes of the last twenty years referenced early in this piece. An earlier iteration of the code would have allowed a development much like the one anchored by Academy Sports on Atlanta Highway, with front yard parking, disconnected outbuildings and myriad possible collisions between cyclists, pedestrians and motorists. We are fortunate that such a project is no longer possible on this site. Still, if I had to play amateur architect, I would certainly have designed elements of this differently. I would have left the structure that now houses the Jittery Joe's Roaster and the adjacent painted brick cannery building. These could have served as anchors that reflect the former uses of the site and serve as a place from which the new components would pivot. Those are not questions that are able to be decided by the Mayor and Commission under existing code, though (recall that "rule of law" business).
One of the interesting things about our current downtown is the diversity of treatment for the exterior of structures – the cornices, the distinct materials, the decorative roof arches. It just takes a two minute stroll down Clayton or Broad or Washington Streets to admire the funky freshness of having a different aesthetic approach every thirty or forty feet. That's what happens after 150 years of with structures constructed by a variety of builders when they change hands, go vacant, get renovated, and have a new business arriving every few years or decades.
As much as we like it funky in Athens, funky can seem hard to legislate. However, as policy makers we are compelled to think about the concrete, identifiable component details that lend this sense of place to our town. Current downtown design requirements that guide Selig building plans do call for a variety of materials to be used and modifications in the façade as you travel down a block. Looking at the plans, though, it cannot help but be obvious that this is one large project being constructed all at once, rather than via the slow series of parcel-by-parcel transitions that led to our current downtown fabric. Given this contrast, the Mayor and Commission owe it to everyone in town to look at the component details of our code to ask about these details: whether a greater variety of texture are necessary, whether block lengths should be more tightly managed, whether there should be an overall size limitation on individual uses, and whether there should be less uniformity in height for individual parcels of a certain size. These and other questions must be explored if we are to have the best possible code for future developments in Athens.


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