There’s a long-standing relationship between Christian evangelism and providing material aid. Vision Nicaragua does both, attending to the spiritual needs of several Nicaraguan communities while also supplying shelter, medical aid and financial support. Setting up shop: Asheville electrician Scott Bruns (center) teaches Nicaraguans Marlon and Melvin (seated) some basic electrical principles, with Carlos, a local […]
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Shoulder to shoulder: Mundo Real
The slums of Rio de Janeiro have a global reputation for extreme poverty and unchecked violence, thanks to high-profile news reports as well as their starring role in the acclaimed 2002 movie City of God. The crammed-together shanties, stacked one atop another along the hillsides of Brazil’s second-largest city, house a large and rapidly growing […]
Try this on for size
Several high-profile downtown buildings and proposed projects wouldn’t meet the standards spelled out in the draft Downtown Master Plan, a city planner told members of the Downtown Commission and the Downtown Master Plan Advisory Committee. In a Feb. 5 presentation, Urban Planner Alan Glines reviewed a short list of downtown structures’ level of conformity to […]
Asheville City Council preview: Feb. 10 meeting
A potential street closure between Coxe and Ashland avenues has drawn the ire of bicyclers, pedestrians and other greenway proponents. And Mumpower doesn’t like Spanish on city signs.
Friday deadline looms for comments on Asheville’s Downtown Master Plan draft
Friday marks the end of the three-week public-comment period for the Downtown Master Plan.
Asheville City Council
Council jumps aboard economic-stimulus train Foreclosures spur grant application Development planned for Sulphur Springs property Pet crematory tabled Council member Kelly Miller caused a stir during the Asheville City Council’s Jan. 27 meeting when, backed up by the city attorney, Miller declined to recuse himself from a vote on asking state legislators for permission to […]
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
This week, bloggers hit the streets.
Miller refuses to recuse on room tax vote
Backed up by the city’s attorney at Asheville City Council’s Jan. 27 meeting, Council member and Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce VP Kelly Miller declined to recuse himself from a motion to include a hotel/motel tax request on Council’s legislative agenda.
Protest planned at I-26 debate
Cecil Bothwell, who recently announced his candidacy for Asheville City Council, is calling for a demonstration outside Wednesday’s I-26 debate at the Buncombe County Board of Education.
Asheville City Council preview: Jan. 27 meeting
Agenda hits on funding from HUD and DOT, and the Presidential economic stimulus package. And Council meets early to talk water and annexation.
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
It’s time to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again.
Anti-euthanasia campaign launches Saturday
The Save A Life campaign begins educational campaign at the Asheville Mall.
Get on the bus, Gus: Transit input wanted
The City of Asheville is looking for your ideas for the city’s transit system.
Asheville City Council
City Hall has mold problem Reid Center construction approved Council jettisons regular work sessions The W.C. Reid Center for Creative Arts will get some long-awaited upgrades, though the slumping economy means the project will have to be significantly scaled back, at least for now. Game on: The gymnasium at the W.C. Reid Center will remain […]
Asheville City Council
Coverage of the Jan. 13 Asheville City Council meeting.
Meet the Downtown Master Plan Advisory Committee
Here’s the group known as the Master Plan Advisory Committee that, beginning last fall, worked closely with consultants Goody Clancy to shape Asheville’s draft Downtown Master Plan.
Selling the Downtown Master Plan
A Jan. 15 forum attended by 200 people was intended to be the unveiling of the long-awaited Asheville Downtown Master Plan draft. But with that document made public 10 days earlier and objections already being raised in the community, the plan’s designers found themselves defending rather than introducing their recommendations.
Chamber seeks to defuse towing issue
As the city of Asheville continues to explore legal ways to rein in predatory towing (see “No Parking”, Dec. 10, 2008 Xpress), the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce may take the issue to downtown property owners. At a Jan. 6 meeting with Asheville City Council members, Chamber President and CEO Rick Lutovski proposed that his […]
Let’s talk about the Downtown Master Plan
The draft document of the Downtown Master Plan has been public since last week, but Thursday, Jan. 15, is the official rollout date, when Asheville residents can hear—and comment on—details addressed in the draft, such as building-height and new compliance guidelines and the already-controversial Asheville Design District, a proposed new downtown-management entity. (View the document […]
Asheville City Council preview: Jan. 13 meeting
In 2009, Asheville City Council is hoping to spend a little less time in Council chambers.
Asheville City Council
The next year may see reduced hours for city staffers, cuts in departmental spending and even a reduction in Council meetings from three per month to two. But if the Asheville City Council’s annual retreat was any indication, the city’s budget woes won’t mean increased taxes or stiffing the Housing Trust Fund.t