Wow—anyone who has a set of working eyes has to cringe when they see what is taking place on Reynolds Mountain. Please don’t tell me that horror will be better in 15 years, because I’m alive here and now. OK, so Woodfin residents need a city center so that they don’t need to travel the seven minutes that it takes to get to downtown Asheville. I can almost understand that. (Not really.)
If Reynolds Mountain is a harbinger of things to come for the new-and-improved Woodfin, it just might be time to head for the Ojai Valley. Whatever positive arguments for development have been put forth for Woodfin have ultimately been destroyed by the desecration of that mountain.
Why is it that residents can’t take pride in the natural beauty that living in Woodfin provides? Why is it that our developers, city managers, aldermen etc. are never given the gift of aesthetics? Why are they always mutually exclusive? I have been in enough towns and cities in America to know that isn’t true. Sadly the ball of fire that wrenches my gut every time my eyes alight on that mountain tells me that once again, the green that’s fading from our eyes is alighting in someone’s pocketbook.
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