After emerging as a City Council campaign item and arising during a February retreat, discussion of a development moratorium is back at tonight’s Asheville City Council meeting.
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Tourists to try out National Anthem singers
Oh say, can you sing? The Asheville Tourists are hosting open tryouts for National Anthem singers for the upcoming season on Saturday, March 29.
Asheville City Council preview: March 25 meeting
Council’s consent agenda for the March 25 formal session is a heavy hitter, with items that touch on the 10-year plan to end homelessness, flood and storm-water plans and new greenspace in West Asheville.
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
Hey nonblogger: You think this stuff is easy? That maybe bloggers just casually whip out a quick entry between working, raising kids or whatever? These people sweat and toil to bring you, the reader, distractions from your job on a day to day-ish basis.
Asheville’s letter to state annexation committee
Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy and members of City Council had hoped to attend a public hearing on the state’s annexation policies to bemoan the city’s inability to use water services as leverage for annexation. But since the hearing was rescheduled for yesterday and conflicted with Council’s regular meeting, a letter will just have to do.
Concrete plant hearing halted on a technicality
The status of a proposed north Buncombe concrete plant remains uncertain after a March 12 conditional-use hearing was adjourned midway through. Gotta testify: Board Chair Martin Lewis, far right, swears in a roomful of speakers before the concrete-plant heating. Photos By Jonathan Welch The hearing ended abruptly after it was revealed that a letter notifying […]
A house without a home
A wooden cross in the front yard of a house at 176 S. French Broad Ave. in Asheville holds a small plywood sign whose red letters proclaim: Safe at home: For some, Zacchaeus House is a regular residence. From left to right: Paula Argoe, Rachael and Adrian Nisbetch and Rev. Amy Cantrell. Photos By Jonathan […]
Bend an ear on annexation TODAY: Hearing rescheduled
A public hearing before members of the N.C. House Select Committee on Municipal Annexation, originally scheduled for March 19, has been bumped up a day. The hearing will be held 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 18, at A-B Tech’s Ferguson Auditorium.
Asheville City Council: March 18 meeting preview
Tuesday’s meeting marks the return of the work session — monthly meetings held as a way for Council to get reports from city staff either for informational purposes or in preparation for a vote later down the line.
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
The trick here at Blog Log has been to try to find a theme running throughout the local Web community to tie it together in some pithy way. But it looks like sometimes we just get foiled. This week’s blogs went in all sorts of places.
Postmark causes adjournment in overflowing concrete hearing
A proposed North Buncombe concrete plant hearing before the Buncombe County Board of Adjustment was adjourned after two hours of testimony due to insufficient notification of the project’s neighbors — and with scores of members of the public left standing on the sidewalk because of inadequate hearing-room space.
Stuck in the mud
Following a deluge of neighbors’ complaints, the city of Asheville once again cited the developer of the 65-acre Beaucatcher Heights subdivision project in Kenilworth after heavy rains washed silt and mud from the site into a creek that feeds Kenilworth Lake. This is the fourth time the development has been slapped with a violation regarding […]
Mumpower campaign road trip: The video
Local conservative blogger Thunderpig has posted a video of Richard Bernier‘s road trip with Asheville City Council member and 11th Congressional District candidate Carl Mumpower as he recently campaigned around Western North Carolina.
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
OK, so bloggers sometimes get pigeonholed. We all know the stereotypes of anyone who spends inordinate amounts of time in front of a computer.
Living wage gets legs
A local effort to certify businesses that pay a “living wage” gets off the ground with a launch party next Thursday, March 13.
Asheville City Council
The Asheville City Council chamber has seen its share of controversy … but helmets? Scores of people wore protective headgear to Council’s Feb. 26 meeting—not because of physical danger, however, but to show support for a new city bicycle plan. On a roll: Helmet-clad cyclists showed up in droves to support Asheville’s bike plan at […]
Concrete plans not yet firm
Plans for a concrete plant outside Weaverville have resurfaced. A hearing for a conditional-use permit for the facility is on the agenda for the Buncombe County Board of Adjustment’s March 12 meeting. The announcement has neighbors of the Murphy Hill Road site scrambling once again to oppose the project. In the crosshairs: This north-Buncombe property […]
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
In honor of a well-fed winter and the end of the longest February since 2004, Blog Log is highlighting our local foodies.
Asheville bike plan a go
Comprehensive city bicycle plan approved by City Council
Leaps and bounds
The newly renovated Flying Frog at 1 Battery Park in downtown Asheville has already had its “soft opening,” premiering a new look and accentuated menu. However, owner Vijay Shastri says the event was anything but soft. “We about got killed” by all the work that night, he recalls, smiling. Another look: With a substantial revamp, […]
The writing on the wall
The brick walls and wooden fences at the now-abandoned McCormick Heights housing project tell a sort of a story: Simple spray-painted messages in muted or faded colors reveal a running dialogue between local gangs, each entry scrawled on top of the preceding one. In this particular case, notes Detective Louis Tomasetti of the Asheville Police […]