Amanda Thompson
Amanda Thompson, Decatur’s Planning Director since 2007, is resigning to take a job in Miami with the Knight Foundation, city spokesperson Casie Yoder said. Thompson was hired by the city in 2004. Under her tenure, ...
The Decatur interwebs have been on fire this week as residents debated the city’s proposed zoning code overhaul, called a Unified Development Ordinance. There were several lengthy discussions about the first draft on community email lists ...
City Planning Director Amanda Thompson waited in a room at the Decatur Recreation Center on Tuesday for people interested in the city’s zoning code rewrite, called a Unified Development Ordinance. The UDO covers a lot ...
When it was finally over, Decatur’s new tree ordinance passed with relatively little fanfare. Commissioners on May 19 voted unanimously to approve it, even though polling among residents showed strong opposition to it. The new ...
Decatur City Commissioners on Monday took a few more whacks at a proposed ordinance that would place new restrictions on tree removal in the city. The ordinance will appear on the commission’s May 19 agenda. Decatur ...
A developer building 20 townhomes on Hibernia Avenue will pay the city of Decatur almost $7,000 to remove a 100-year-old tree. The $6,930 will be paid to the city’s tree bank as compensation for the ...