AC-T: Finding the roots of Asheville’s water debate

Asheville Citizen-Times

By Mark Barrett:

ASHEVILLE – Surely, Billy Sullivan couldn’t have known his work would still be stirring up trouble more than 80 years later.

Sullivan was the legislator who persuaded the state General Assembly to pass a bill in 1933 preventing Asheville from charging some water customers outside the city limits more than those inside.

City and Buncombe County residents and the officials who represent them have argued over the fairness of the restriction ever since.

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