“I don’t like seeing all of the deforestation going on.”
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Letter: Asheville needs a population cap
“Asheville’s not weird anymore, and I’m sad about that.”
Letter: Asheville City Schools’ plans bode ill for students and city
“Now ACS is proposing a turn away from integration without offering any tangible reason for the change.”
Letter: Asheville area’s boom is ruining quality of life
“Ultimately, favoritism is handed toward developers and bottom lines, while major impacting projects are slipped past under the radar. People don’t get a fair chance to oppose such, let alone win.”
Letter: Gym has offered safe, supportive environment during pandemic
“ACM has always been about more than gymnastics, and this past year, that has mattered more than ever.”
Letter: Asheville High School’s COVID-19 schedule
“Under the new in-class program, Angela goes to school and goes to her hub, where she stays all day. In her hub, she takes first-period art online (she has her computer).”
Letter: Charlotte Street development won’t destroy neighborhood
“The development is to be built on a main road, in the middle of a long-established commercial strip; it will not destroy some quiet neighborhood.”
Letter: Charlotte Street development: Your quiet street is next
“Every visionary city plan with citizen input here was created exactly to prevent this type of intrusion and destruction.”
Letter: Hoping that Asheville isn’t ‘sold out’
“I love the area, and there is a great deal of room, just not necessarily ‘in Asheville,’ but all surrounding areas.”
Letter: Is Asheville ‘sold out’?
“Once a lovely, quaint town, it is overdeveloped.”
Letter: Asheville, we need to invest in ourselves
“We need to invest in ourselves — pay living wages, build or convert affordable housing, expand public transportation, house the homeless, focus spending on the people who live here.”
Letter: Goodbye, once-beautiful Asheville
“We moved here 10 years ago, but between the nasty-ass tourists and the ridiculously bad crime rate per capita, we also have decided to move away.”
Letter: Will marketing make us ‘Myrtle Beach of the Mountains’?
“Isn’t this like telling a family of eight living in a two-room house that you’re persuading a couple of baseball teams to move in with them?”
Letter: Asheville is missing the Good Neighbor clause
“The debate over impact is ongoing, so maybe the question is how many are too much; the only thing going forth and multiplying harmoniously is the virus.”
Letter: See (the new) Rock City
“What a great opportunity for Asheville and the Chamber of Commerce to pronounce Asheville as Rock City, N.C., in competition with Rock City, Tenn.”
Letter: Charlotte Street, affordable housing and Asheville’s lure
“We’re losing why people want to move here: nature and beauty.”
Letter: Unhappy medical encounter raises questions
“I was left quite angry and hurt, asking: Is Mission incompetent? Unkind? Greedy? All of the above?”
Letter: The onslaught against climate change resiliency
“Regarding Charlotte Street development, etc.: Outrageous that Avl taxpayers’ property tax is raised 22% without a plan to preserve trees that lure residents and tourists.”
Letter: Dense development will ruin Asheville forever
“The more people we pack into the urban center will eventually ruin our town and lead to the worst traffic imaginable — forever — and for everyone.”
Letter: Want to get back to ‘normal’? Get your shots
“If you want to protect your parents and grandparents, your friends and neighbors with other health problems, the nurses and doctors in the emergency rooms, and first responders, and get back to ‘normal,’ then get your shots.”
Letter: Save the branch libraries for community’s well-being
“Every family and household, all children, each person — especially without convenient auto or bus access — needs a library that is easy to reach and use in physical, interpersonal and electronic ways to foster this kind of democratic interaction.”