From The Asheville Citizen-Times:
An examination by the Citizen-Times of about 1,500 pages of documents and emails in three individual, complicated building cases found times when city of Asheville bureaucracy slowed projects and times when developers, builders or business owners created their own problems.
Read the full story here.
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“…the city has yet to shake its reputation of being a hard place to get something done.”
How much of that “reputation” stems from bitter developers unable to jam condominiums onto City-owned park land, or 100-unit apartment complexes into steep residential neighborhoods, or that sort of thing? Just askin’.
The sidebar on this story shows that Asheville is in the middle of the pack in every measurable standard of development process in NC. We hear this “Asheville is hard to do business in” story all the time – I would submit that it’s because Asheville is a hot place, a lot of people want to invest here, and they are disappointed when they find it’s not like Deadwood: plunk down $1000 in the right hands & start building whatever the f@#& you want the next day.