A recent report placed North Carolina second in the nation for threatened farmland from residential development. Meanwhile, the amount of new solar facilities sought by Duke Energy could endanger as…
Nearby residents don’t be alarmed as site work begins.
Members of Asheville City Council supposedly met with members of the legislative delegation, but no reports have appeared yet online. Reporters at the Buncombe County Commissioners’ meeting indicated they did…
On election night, fiscally conservative, business-friendly grassroots activists up-ended the entrenched progressives who held a lock on the Chatham County commission. And now the new board is already taking steps…
The Henderson County Commissioners approved a stormwater master plan. They opted to take advantage of the state’s offer to allow local governments to manage stormwater. This was out of deference…
Two developers were recently appointed to Buncombe County’s Environmental Advisory Board. The press sees this as “controversial.†One, Robert Jolly was involved in the building of Asheville’s Super Wal-Mart. The…
If conservation easements are so good, why are they referenced only with the euphemism, “ways to protect property and family farms from subdivisions and development, and conservation of water quality,…
Taft Wireback’s front-page story in yesterday’s N&R on the controversy surrounding taxpayer subsidies for the Gerringer dairy farm is ground I had already covered. But on the whole it’s well-written…
Chapel Hill officials don’t like the way the northern edge of town is developing. Thus, a development moratorium was implemented last May. At tonight’s council meeting, the town manager will…
The N&R publishes a letter to the editor with a blatant falsehood about the Haw River-Bluegreen deal, from Maureen Parker of Greensboro: The Florida company in favor of developing land…
No surprise, opponents of Bluegreen Corp.’s Patriots Landing project will appeal the Guilford County Planning Board’s decision giving the uh, green light: The project is on land that state officials…
There shouldn’t have been any doubt about how the Guilford County Planning Board would rule on the Patriot’s Landing project, considering who was representing the developer: Part of the proposed…