Tomorrow, Asheville City Council is scheduled to discuss a moratorium on building downtown. Four members of council have already told the press they will not support it. Further, state statutes will require anti-development activists to enumerate the issues they are having with the buildings and why other courses of action did not resolve them, how the moratorium is expected to succeed where the other measures failed, and a schedule and deadline for resolving the issues. City Attorney Bob Oast also noted that moratoria often are accompanied by a fair number of lawsuits.
Perhaps the JLF Agenda 2008 should get a little wackier. There is scarely anything in Agenda 2006 far enough out there to provide insights applicable to Asheville’s out-of-the-box local government.
