The public can comment this afternoon on a sweeping Macon city redevelopment plan.
The plan was drawn up by the Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission. The goal is to foster development in some of the city's blighted neighborhoods and business areas.
It covers more than 7,000 acres of the city, including the downtown, the Eisenhower corridor, and the Bellevue, East Macon, Houston Road and Village Green neighborhoods.
Today's hearing starts at 5:30 pm in the City Council Chamber of Macon City Hall, at 700 Poplar St.

Mercer students responsible for the event announced Wednesday that this year's Bearstock headlining acts will be the band 30H!3 and Roscoe Dash.

This year's event will be held off-campus for the first time in its four-year history.

The all-day outdoor concert will be held on April 16 at Tattnall Square Park.

It begins at noon and goes until 11 p.m.

Jessica Walden with the College Hill Alliance says the change is a great opportunity.

"That's more of the campus coming out in the community, and you're going to get more of the community meeting more of you on campus," says Walden.

Student Mary Cate Prendergast says she's thrilled with the choice for this year's musical guest.

She says she's attended the event for several years and hopes 2011 will be another great concert.

An 11-year-old girl was taken to the hospital with second-degree burns on her foot, after a Macon house fire Tuesday morning.

Chief Preston Thomas with the Macon-Bibb Fire Department says the blaze broke out just before 7 a.m. at 1310 Brentwood Avenue.

He says the fire started in a bedroom that the young girl was in.

The fire was contained to that room.

Two other kids and two adults were also home when the fire started.

 They were all taken to the Medical Center of Central Georgia for smoke inhalation.

Thomas says the bedroom had extensive damage.

Fire investigators are still looking into the cause of the fire.