Atlanta’s Top Preservation Official Laid Off
This stinks.
Today’s AJC reports the dismissal of Karen Huebner, now former executive director of Atlanta’s Urban Design Commission.
The Urban Design Commission’s “mission to preserve and protect the city’s architectural heritage often pits the UDC against developers and sometimes even city government.” Needless to say, we’re fans.
You may also remember the UDC from when they presented Lain an Award of Excellence last summer.
(I’m pretty sure the photographer told Shirley to take a big bite of something at that moment. I was, as usual, instructed to close my eyes.)
More recently, they greenlighted our construction permit. Thank them when you don’t fall through the floor, please.
The Urban Design Commission is a leader in Atlanta’s struggling preservation efforts. Not only do they highlight wee preservation underdogs like us, but they also applaud creative preservation (the recently-closed Spotted Dog springs to mind, among others). The dismissal of their executive director is a major blow, to say the least.
So — where’s the petition?
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Lain Shakespeare
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3 Comments to Atlanta’s Top Preservation Official Laid Off
I heard her in the background of the Blagojevich tapes, so it’s really no surprise.
Nice suit, Lain. You look like a lawyer.
I’d say I look more like an 11th Circuit Appeals Clerk with a law degree wearing a suit that’s slightly too small. But whatever.