Greetings

This website is the on-line location of Citizens for Healthy Neighborhoods (CHN). CHN consists of a coalition of several intown neighborhoods in Athens Georgia. There's quite a history around how CHN came into being. If you are interested in visiting our previous website for background information click here.

UPDATE

April 23, 2006

A “Normal” Neighborhood Meeting

Citizens for Healthy Neighborhoods is holding a meeting Thursday, April 27^th at 7:00pm to update our neighbors on Athens Regional Medical Center plans that will impact residents, including:

• Construction of a parking lot on Georgia Avenue

• Proposal to acquire residential property on Pine Needle Rd

• Proposal to clear a wooded lot and cut a road through from Pine Needle Rd to Georgia Ave

Georgia Ave Parking Lot:

The parking lot on Georgia Avenue will be constructed on the site of the former Georgia Avenue Apartments at 153 Georgia Ave, which were demolished in mid-2005. CHN and Georgia Ave neighbors worked with ARMC to keep as much of the green buffer as possible, include a raingarden for stormwater management, and create a sidewalk along Georgia Ave from the parking lot to Prince Ave.

Home Purchase & Road Construction:

ARMC has proposed purchasing the home at 200 Pine Needle Rd to demolish it and cut a road through it and a wooded lot behind it onto Georgia Avenue. ARMC has stated that they will not purchase the residential home – which is outside the agreed upon 1999 compromise boundary – if the neighbors are opposed to it. The hospital already owns the wooded lot on Georgia Ave, but in the compromise 20-year expansion plan ARMC agreed to keep this lot wooded as a buffer for the neighborhood.

Your comments are needed to mitigate ARMC actions that could have a negative impact on our quality of life -- and it’s a great opportunity to meet your neighbors! If you can’t make the meeting, we’d still love to have your comments. Please email Jennifer or Clint at the addresses below.

WHEN: Thursday, April 27^th at 7:00pm

WHERE: Athens Revival Fellowship (next door to Righteous Juice)

1377 Prince Avenue

INFO: Jennifer Lewis 706-543-3255 or jbmlewis@bellsouth.net

Clint McCrory 706-353-6517 or clint@math.uga.edu

2005-2006 ARMC Activities

Information about the Emergency Room expansion and purchase of the 1140 Prince and Hiawassee lots across Prince Avenue has been dutifully posted by the Historic Boulevard Neighborhood Association on their website. Please follow the links below for an update on these issues.

ARMC Emergency Room Expansion & Parking Deck Construction

ARMC and Brickyard Creek(Hiawassee property)

ARMC purchased the Brickyard Creek lot behind Eckerd and adjacent to Hiawassee Avenue. Citizens for Healthy Neighborhoods representatives were asked by ARMC to prepare a plan for our suggested use of this lot as that area of Prince Avenue develops. Our team of neighbors, ecologists and landscape architects deserve a huge thanks for doing such a thorough and professional job.

We urge you to read the Hiawassee report with the understanding that this is our preferred treatment of this parcel of land and our desire is subject to negotiations with ARMC.

Updated: 04/23/2006

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