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Clean up our community
I too am offended by the trashy digital billboard on Merrimon [“Fight the Digital Billboard,” June 29 Xpress]. I am asking other members of our community to also write a letter to the editor calling for the removal of the billboard. Clean up our community! — Sarah Jane Thomas Asheville
Fight the digital billboard on Merrimon Avenue
I don't like the garish and distracting digital billboard recently installed on Merrimon Avenue. I have decided not to patronize any business that advertises on this billboard and I invite Mountain Xpress readers to join me. Together, we can prevent the proliferation of digital billboards in our city. — Larry Golden Asheville
The police are here to help — thank them for it
The cops were called on me this weekend by one of my neighbors. I won't say why my neighbors felt the need to call the cops, but I will say that three officers showed up at my door. After I explained the source of the problem to the officers they offered me some advice, some […]
Asheville City Council
At their two-hour Sept. 18 meeting, Asheville City Council members once again held off on rezoning portions of Merrimon Avenue and approving new rules governing development there after business and property owners reiterated concerns that the proposed changes were too stringent and would cause severe financial hardship. Merrimon’s future: Merrimon Avenue-area residents and businesses were […]
Asheville City Council
The Asheville City Council put an end to the battle over balconies on a downtown renovation project, ordering staff to draw up a stricter process for approving future sales of the city’s air rights. But local activist Elaine Lite, a City Council candidate who brought the issue into the spotlight by bidding for air rights […]
Deal Buick property plans reviewed, debated
The third in a series of community meetings called by developers concerning the eight-acre parcel on Merrimon Avenue formerly occupied by Deal Buick property was held July 12. Despite a prior pledge to go back to the drawing board, new drawings presented at the gathering appeared to include no changes to previous plans.
Cleanin’ up the ‘hood
Five Points Neighborhood Group will be litter pickin’ on April 7.
A road less trammeled
With a laugh, Shuford feigned surprise that the Staples office-supply building swept the voting among bad examples. The good, the good-or-bad and the ugly: The Atlanta Bread Company and the Medicine Shoppe topped a recent poll of Merrimon-area residents for best design, while CVS Pharmacy and the Medicine Shoppe finished first and second in the […]