There wasn’t much news today, so I was hoping something would come out of the Asheville City Council meeting. About the only thing that came out of that was increased…
Superior Court Judge Howard Manning, Jr. ruled yesterday that the State of North Carolina’s attempt to legislate the City of Asheville’s water system into the hands of the Metropolitan Sewerage…
Stuff continues to brew at Pack Place. Pack Place, Inc. owns a building tenanted by three interests providing the community with education and arts. The City of Asheville owns the…
A letter over Asheville City Manager Gary Jackson’s signature threatened to terminate the city’s lease with Pack Place. Pack Place is an art and science center downtown. The letter enclosed…
The hierarchy of the City of Asheville is undergoing restructuring. City Manager Gary Jackson described the new organizational chart as a “pyramid instead of a rake.” Saith Jackson: The New…
Police and firemen showed up en masse at Asheville City Council’s last formal meeting to object to three years without raises. A majority on council asked staff to rework the…
Chuck Wooten, interim manager for Jackson County, told department heads they would have to cut spending 3% for the remainder of the fiscal year. The skids had to be applied…
Asheville City Council continued discussions tonight about how it will incentivize “the kind of development we [i.e., members of council] want.” This alone has been a source of frustration for…
In spite of its reputation for being a crazy city, something good about Asheville came out at council’s retreat Saturday. A former city council had made it policy that the…
Since the appointment of a new city manager a couple years ago, leadership in Asheville city departments has undergone a gradual turnover. Some of these positions (e.g., civic center director,…
Greetings from Office Depot in north Atlanta. I spent the day in Suwanee, a vision of planning run-amok. The first sign was all the buildings that looked like they came…
Members of Asheville City Council met with members of the legislative delegation to discuss allowing Asheville the privilege of voluntary annexation. Unlike all other North Carolina municipalities, Asheville is saddled…