The Mountain Xpress printed a nice, long article by Hayley Benton on the Buncombe County Commissioners’ annual retreat. From it, I gather the main theme was concern that sub-living wage…
At tonight’s meeting of the Buncombe County Commissioners, some land was up for initial zoning. Commissioner Miranda DeBruhl established that the county was only zoning the property because new legislation…
The Asheville Tribune has a story about a meeting of the Asheville Area Riverfront Redevelopment Commission. Beer flowed compliments of New Belgium, and SoCon tickets were offered. Chris Peterson came…
Tonight, the Buncombe County Commissioners entered into an agreement that was described as “unprecedented, unprecedented!” With all due respect to transparency, the public was given one page of bullet stuff,…
Last night, the Buncombe County Commissioners approved upzoning one parcel from R-3 (Residential) to Commercial, but denied a request to upzone another from R-1 to R-3. Parcel 1 was owned…
FLS Energy, a green business VP’d by Buncombe County Commissioner Brownie Newman, accepted $30 million from . . . drum roll please . . . private investors! Now, I’m not…
The Buncombe County Commissioners experienced drama as various members defended their own seats on the newly-created Culture & Recreation Authority. The powerful board, if ruling libraries and parks is indeed…
Another issue that reared its head a couple times at the Buncombe County Commissioners’ meeting was the inability of a proliferation of legislation to result in clarity. Going into the…
Buncombe County Board of Commissioners fixture Bill Stanley will apparently not run for yet another term. Meanwhile, Asheville City Councilman Brownie Newman, who is moving to the county because he…
Asheville City Council voted to approve a deal whereby US Cellular would pay the city $1.3 million to have the Civic Center renamed after the corporation. To assuage dissenting voices,…
Maybe I’m just in a mood to boil my blood today. An article in the Asheville Citizen-Times announces Brownie Newman will not be seeking reelection for Asheville City Council. Newman…
The hot topic at last night’s city council meeting was the General Assembly’s runaway, anti-Asheville bill-making. The mayor was perhaps even outraged that the legislators would craft bills affecting Asheville…