The City of Greensboro will remove the five benches along the greenway that have evidently “have become an easy perch for drug dealers, prostitutes and loiterers.”
Interesting that while crime is the major problem, some people in the Warnersville neighborhood just don’t like the invasion of privacy:
Otis Hairston Jr., president of the Warnersville Community Coalition, said crime wasn’t the only issue; a resident on Bilbro Street told him that the benches invaded her privacy.
“If you’ve got a bench directly behind your home, where someone can watch you as you come and go … I would have an issue with that, too,” he said.
He suggested placing the benches farther away from homes, midway down the greenway to Freeman Mill Road, and rearranging them so people cannot sleep there.
I wrote about privacy issues along Cary’s Batchelor Creek greenway a couple of years ago.
