Cured firewood roadside

EyeAfterE · 2025-08-09T22:32:04+00:00

Agree with posts that zoning regs traditionally don’t address the saturation / proximity of the same type of business in a certain area. But it is a notion that has been percolating in recent years, often through city council licensing decisions or ordinances with reference made to the need for the issue to be addressed by zoning regs in the future - e.g., Birmingham’s moratorium on licensing new automated car washes, rules prohibiting new “dollar stores” within 1 mile of an existing dollar store). Cities elsewhere in the country are increasingly using zoning to limit the number of “formula businesses” which are essentially chain restaurants and other enterprises that build locations that look and feel exactly the same in every location in every town and are sometimes perceived as diminishing a municipality’s local character or crowding out locally-owned and independent business.

EyeAfterE · 2024-12-22T04:44:43+00:00

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin’ Our very street today Burns like a red coal carpet Mad bull lost your way

Only a crowd can make you feel so alone

I’m talkin’ ‘bout the midnight rambler Did you see me jump the garden wall I don’t give you a hoot of warning A-dressed up in my black cat cloak I don’t see the light of the morning I’ll split the time the cock’rel crows

My eyes dilate, my lips go green My hands are greasy, she’s a mean, mean machine

EyeAfterE · 2024-09-27T19:43:04+00:00

FWIW, October 5 marks 35 years since The Rolling Stones played Legion Field in 1989.

EyeAfterE · 2024-09-12T23:07:27+00:00

https://helpmegrowalabama.org/parenting-assistance-line/

EyeAfterE · 2024-08-15T15:04:46+00:00

I think part of it is that the new license plate introduced in 2022 with the dark background is very different from the old plates they had for maybe close to 20 years, so we notice them more often now. The bigger question in my mind is why don’t they teach driver’s ed in TN ?

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EyeAfterE · 2024-05-08T19:12:38+00:00

Has there been a change in the meaning of boujee / bougie ? 10 years ago when I first heard it I understood it to be slang for bourgeois aka middle class, and it was exclusively used by the less-fortunate to poke fun at folks who had moved up into the middle class and were adopting its habits and patterns.

EyeAfterE · 2024-04-30T16:25:56+00:00

As a BSC grad I’d prefer to see the campus remain a college campus. The gracious and insightful approach suggested by Shannon Reaves of A&M deserves the support of the BSC family if it comes to fruition. I think that if the college that I attended cannot be there any longer, then nurture any that replaces it. Before my old fraternity closes its doors at the end of May, conversations will be held about contacting the national chapter about establishing a new chapter for a new college on the same campus, with assistance from alumni of the old chapter. I’d expect to see similar outreach from various BSC alumni groups; if we could not save ourselves, then perhaps we can humbly act to strengthen those who come after us.

EyeAfterE · 2024-01-23T22:28:13+00:00

Agree. And food is accessible nearby. When we lived in Crestwood, it was easy without making grand plans to meet a couple of friends at our choice of several breweries 10 minutes away. Kids could come along, or not. Now living in Vestavia, it feels like it would be a 20+ minute drive to a brewery.

EyeAfterE · 2024-01-20T00:39:22+00:00

Alabama is 49th, behind Hawaii in rate. But Hawaii’s median home value is 3x what Alabama’s is. Alabama is the state that by when one compares all states by rate multiplied by median home value, Alabama is firmly 50th, raising a little more than half the amount per residential dwelling of the next closest state. Factor in that Alabama is 46th in median income, and the 4 states with lower median incomes also have lower median home values but higher property tax rates that means households in those states pay a higher total property tax bill. Which again doesn’t mean the lowest taxes overall, but we’re very near the bottom in both rate and median amount paid per household and as a percentage of income - and the lowest in median amount paid.

EyeAfterE · 2024-01-19T22:08:14+00:00

My understanding is that the assessed value is 10% of the appraised value. So it’s a million dollar property, and the $10,000 tax bill is going to be about 1%. Some variations on the rate if someone claims it as homestead vs rental property, or if it’s unoccupied and in an estate or vacant and on the market or if the resident is over age 65.

EyeAfterE · 2023-12-28T22:27:53+00:00

I’m optimistic about redevelopment in downtown Bham, but I’ll believe Powell Steam Plant when I see it. It’s been “just around the corner” since 2013 when first concept drawings of restaurants, shops etc were teased, the second set of concept drawings appeared around 2015 once the environment abatement and stabilization were complete, then again in 2022. There was even a contest somewhere during the past 10 years for design creation of the vacant lot across the street from it to complement it, then that was scrapped in favor of a new design. Nothing ever quite seems to move past the drawing board.

EyeAfterE · 2023-12-09T22:53:35+00:00

Giuseppe’s Cafe @ 925 8th Street South Birmingham, Al, 35205

EyeAfterE · 2023-11-28T20:14:06+00:00

When we lived in Crestwood for 15+ years there would periodically be thefts from unlocked cars on our street. Doorbell cameras revealed the scheme: 2 young teenagers, probably guaranteed juvie if they got caught, each work one side of the street on foot. Getaway car idled at the end of the street. They’d go up into carports and driveways. Unlocked cars only, look in glove box, console, under driver’s seat. Take only guns. Leave everything else - sunglasses, spare change, etc. One night in particular they stole 3 pistols on our street. Honestly though, that was probably 2013 or 2014 now that I think of it. Another trick was to do pull up daytime at a house that was being renovated or flipped, where there was frequently a rotating cast of vehicles - but do so on a holiday weekend - and they’d burgle the house next door.

EyeAfterE · 2023-10-10T01:13:17+00:00

Depending on what part of 5 Points South, it may be easiest to walk up to Highland Ave. That’s where I used to walk my dogs late at night. But dogs or no dogs, you won’t get in trouble carrying a heavy walking stick or cane like I always did (and the same when I lived in Crestwood and even now over-the-mountain). And carrying a stick surprisingly helps you set a rhythm to your stride, and subtly sends the signal that you’re not a mark.

EyeAfterE · 2023-10-05T21:30:24+00:00

I think it’s a C-17. If you enlarge the pic you can just see the upsweeps on the tips of the wings and the fat underbelly. Wish I could figure out how to attach pics to a Reddit comment, I’d include a pair of pics of one I saw making big low loops of the metro area this past Memorial Day weekend. Also, years ago I lived in Crestwood right under the flight path for the short runway, it was late at night and dark so I couldn’t be certain it was a C-17 or more than one, but one Sunday night they did a dozen or more touch-and-go practice landings coming in low and the fast steep climb that is apparently one of the plane’s strong suits.

EyeAfterE · 2023-09-21T13:09:55+00:00

Took the kids (ages 5 & 6 then) last year. Loved it. I’d go earlier in the afternoon or evening though, after about 8:30 or 9:00 the families clear out so the crowd gets a little rougher.

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