Council weighs in on CTS cleanup By the time the Downtown Master Plan came before the Asheville City Council May 12, they were just about the only group in town that hadn’t already commented on it. The two-year process of crafting the plan entailed some 5,000 hours of volunteer time, mostly by members of the […]
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Thinking broadly
The push to expand broadband Internet access in and around Asheville may be building steam, thanks to federal stimulus money. Mayor Terry Bellamy is meeting with state representatives and looking for ways to use money made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help make it happen. In April, Bellamy was invited to […]
Moog-mentum is building for Asheville’s music pioneer
A table in a top-secret location in Asheville is covered with catalogs, flyers, letters and notebooks stretching back to before the space-age 1950s. There are photos, magazine articles and pages filled to the margins with symbols translatable only by those versed in electronics. But in these symbols, doodles and names scratched out in pen are […]
Asheville City Council preview: May 12 meeting
Master Plan, CTS and parking rates crowd Tuesday’s agenda.
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
Now that the beer war is over, will the sniping stop?
Downtown Master Plan headed to City Council
Consultants will present the long-awaited Downtown Master Plan at Asheville City Council’s May 12 meeting.
Chicken coop for the soul
Airport Road zoning hits snag City Council amended Asheville’s animal ordinance to facilitate keeping chickens in the city but held off on a proposed ban on tethering dogs. Both issues have attracted public attention in the past year or so, as evidenced by the formation of two activist groups: Asheville City Chickens and ChainFree Asheville, […]
Get ready for City Council campaign season
The two-week window for filing as a candidate in the next Asheville City Council election is still two months away (July 3 through 17), but that hasn’t stopped some early birds from making their announcements or checked the buzz around the community. Two of three Council incumbents and Mayor Terry Bellamy have so far announced […]
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
It’s a big bad world out there. Even for bloggers, danger abounds.
Haywood Road Market closes; going out of business sale this weekend
After a vote by members of the Haywood Road Market and an April 25 meeting of its board, the West Asheville co-op has closed and will be closing out its inventory.
Green light for city chickens
Asheville City Council at its April 28 meeting approved new rules for keeping chickens but held off on a dog-tether ban.
Nips and tucks
Asheville’s budget for the next fiscal year will come in at around $135 million, Chief Financial Officer Ben Durant predicts. And if City Council approves the budget he’ll propose on May 12, it will be balanced, with revenues equaling expenditures. That’s an accomplishment even in a good year, but all the more so given that […]
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
The blogohood has awakened from the bleak winter but has not yet shut down the computer and gone outside, which means a good harvest of blogs for us.
Robots descend on UNCA!
Robotics engineers and their creations gather at The Robot Rally this weekend.
Co-op members vote to close Haywood Market
A group of West Asheville co-op members overwhelmingly favored declaring bankruptcy and closing the market during a meeting Tuesday night, but there weren’t enough people in the room to make the move official.
Asheville City Council
Council OKs Pack Square Park changes, budget Zoning approved for affordable apartments in West Asheville A-B Tech students to build Oakley Resource Center Council member Carl Mumpower has never been one to hold back. As one of two Republicans on Council—and the self-proclaimed lone conservative at the table—Mumpower is often the most vocal City Council […]
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
Ah, spring. Or is it? Touchy weather lately, so let’s look at the signs.
Mumpower storms out of Council meeting in protest of water vote
Goes on record with a “yes” vote due to unexcused absence from the Asheville City Council meeting
Eviction looms for West Asheville co-op
The cooperatively owned Haywood Road Market is part of a small group of businesses that was part of West Asheville’s resurgence several years ago. But the organic corner grocery has a history of financial struggles and now may have to leave its location in West Asheville’s Bledsoe Building. At the end of March, the market […]
Shuler nails down federal funds for hybrid buses
Amid the din of arriving and departing buses at downtown Asheville’s Coxe Avenue Transit Center, Rep. Heath Shuler announced April 9 that he’s secured $238,000 in federal funding to help pay for the city’s planned transition to hybrid buses. Shuler on board: Mayor Terry Bellamy (at podium) introduces Rep. Heath Shuler (at right), announcing that […]
Water compromise may emerge at Council meeting
A bill that would allow Asheville to spend 5 percent of water revenue on non-water infrastructure is currently in the N.C. General Assembly, according to a legislative update to be presented at tonight’s meeting.