My house shares a property line with the woods, on North Street. My tenant walks through the woods each day with his daughters to drop them at Hanger Hall.
As a previous Five Points resident and now a Montford resident, I have walked my dog through the woods countless times. Please protect the woods for the animals that live there and for the humans that enjoy them. Please preserve our ecosystem. Please sign the petition!
— Briana Winter Asheville
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Frank
If it were developed into affordable housing or some other valuable University asset and there was a tree lined path from fivepoints to the greenway across the street for your tenant an others to get to school and walk dogs etc would you be ok? Weaver Park and Montford Park are both walking distance via the greenway. Richmond Hill, Ew Grove, Beaver Lake all very close. I really like that little forest too but if UNCA needs to develop it in order to flourish I understand that too.
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If it were developed into affordable housing or some other valuable University asset and there was a tree lined path from fivepoints to the greenway across the street for your tenant an others to get to school and walk dogs etc would you be ok? Weaver Park and Montford Park are both walking distance via the greenway. Richmond Hill, Ew Grove, Beaver Lake all very close. I really like that little forest too but if UNCA needs to develop it in order to flourish I understand that too.