Keep the Black Mountain flavor

Posted on by Rev. Heidi Peck

Please note that I am interested in protecting the lovely community of Black Mountain from the expansion of the Ingles located in Black Mountain.

Ingles has not kept their promise to provide green space in the already existing [location]. What is to keep them from continuing to break their word?

Black Mountain has a charming small-town energy that should be protected from this type of growth, otherwise I believe we will lose the potential tourist traffic necessary to support our community, as well as our local residents who moved here to enjoy the existing infrastructure.

— Rev. Heidi Peck
Black Mountain

Editor’s note: According to Black Mountain Planning Director Elizabeth Teague, Ingles officially submitted an “amended plan” involving changes that decreased the amount of green space in their project. The amendment was approved by the Town Zoning Board of Adjustment on March 20, 2008.

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2 thoughts on “Keep the Black Mountain flavor”

  1. W. Sterling Schermerhorn

    They should have had more of a riparian buffer to protect the Swannanoa, even the developers up the road are doing better than this, and they aren
    ‘t all home town. I’ll stop shopping Ingles if they don’t protect the river.

  2. Eli Cohen

    It’s not all that great a store anyway. Maybe a little boycott action will jog their memory about that green space.

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