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That says it all! When I was a kid growing up here, the motto of our town was ‘Cool, Green Asheville…’
Lately it’s become ‘Cold Greedy Asheville’ and it seems our elected leaders will do anything to encourage maga-developers and fat white folks to come rape our land and pillage our communities just so we’ll have more fools to pay $8 for a plastic cup of beer. Don’t get me wrong. I like a brew now and then. But things are getting out of hand when we value hotel revenue over humanity AT ANY COST.
The homeless are bulldozed out of sight on the coldest night of the year ‘CAUSE IT DON’T LOOK RIGHT, and long-time residents of affordable Richmond Hill are now faced with an UNREASONABLE and UN-LIVEABLE volume of traffic and 5 YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION because WE AIN’T GROVE PARK.
We’re being sold out by local government to make way for a Florida developer WITH NO TIES TO OUR COMMUNITY.
Maybe he’s promised that he’ll drink a lot of beer!
LOVE ASHEVILLE, SAVE ASHEVILLE!!
NO BRIDGE, NO BLUFFS!!!