That's true
I don't much about Paul Haver, and we may not agree on anything else, but he's dead on regarding NABF ...
NBAF needs to be where the plant and animal experts are, and that's the University of Georgia and its College of Veterinary Medicine. It can and will be a safe facility, and it would be good for the local economy. I hope our elected leaders remember that 200 noisy activists don't necessarily represent the 200,000 people living around here.
NBAF needs to be where the plant and animal experts are, and that's the University of Georgia and its College of Veterinary Medicine. It can and will be a safe facility, and it would be good for the local economy. I hope our elected leaders remember that 200 noisy activists don't necessarily represent the 200,000 people living around here.
posted by Jmac at 8:28 AM
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how bout NBAF on the Orkin Tract? Too far away from UGA and way too late in the process to suggest such a shift in the bureaucratic nightmare that is a facilities' proposal process, I know
I'm the one who originally asked that question on this blog, and I think I saw something in the paper where Blake or someone answered it as impossible in terms of infrastructure. Anyone else remember?
Quite apart from infrastructure concerns, UGA owns the property off of South Milledge, while a private third party owns the Orkin tract.
Right, James.
I love the way people just toss out ideas for land they don't own. "Oh, what about this or that?"
People honestly believe Athens is some big hippy commune where everybody owns everything.
Sheesh.
Reggie
Blake here. UGA doesn't own the Orkin tract, so they can't offer to give it to the feds. DHS is looking for sites that are government-controlled, so the transfer is easier. A private landowner might haggle over price, back out at the last second, etc.
Also, to pre-empt the next question, the papers are already signed to transfer the Navy school to UGA for a medical school. If it's not a medical school, like if it's say, a terror death lab, UGA doesn't get the land.
ooh, a terror death lab, now that's sexy! maybe we could combine that with the burgeoning indy film industry/audience in athens, and get federal dollars to document all the gooey deathy parts?
Then we'd be combining the most celebrated aspects of Athens in one fell swoop, art, animal research, the drought, (couldn't we clean up the liquified death thingies and then use them on our gardens, since they're all gonna be so harmless and all?)
I bet we could get the Modern Skirts to write and play the suondtrack for the documentary, thus satisfying the more entrenched supporters of NBAF, and celebrating yet another of our sparkling assets.
I can even see a role for the Visitors and Convention Bureau in all this, think of the crowds!
Jared could make another festival of it, it would be grand! You think Athfest is big, just wait...
Maybe Flagpole could even put out a special NBAF grand opening/film shoot w/musical guests issue. Oh, the possibilities... or did they break up?
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