In response to criticisms that studies showing the need for more downtown parking are not up to date, the City of Greensboro commissioned a new study— by the engineering firm…
…Which means he’s getting out of the city managing business…..Greensboro City Manager Jim Westmoreland announced his retirement on Friday, the day before the News & Record called into question Westmoreland’s…
OK, of last week. So it seems that Pappas Properties wants to build a large development on Kenilworth, featuring an office building or two, a hotel, some retail, 900 parking…
People have been parking cars for years, but now Hendersonville feels inclined to hire a parking ambassador.
The once beautiful downtown Hendersonville, after a couple decades of being torn up, now finds its parking system is not working. Improvements recommended by a consultant are minor, fortunately, and…
Last Tuesday, the local daily published an overly long, probably space-filler, article on how absolutely dreadful on-street parking is in downtown Asheville. The reporter argued there are insufficient spaces, and…
We know from a review of 681 academic studies that low taxes, less burdensome regulations and more productive spending on education and infrastructure programs promotes economic growth in both the…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court and ruled against the city of Charlotte in a legal dispute over a Queens College…
Electronic gaming establishments are now legal. The Town of Columbus has tried fining them out and zoning them out, and still . . . . So, in the latest volley,…
A resident of Chapel Hill got tired of trying to find a parking space at the library while eight prime spots right up front sat empty, reserved for “green” vehicles…
This is not to embark on speculation about the consciousness of a greenway, but the Hendersonville Times-News reports: Both Buncombe County government and the Blue Ridge Parkway want to know…
Anyone who’s lived in Guilford County for the last 20 years knows that our Board of Commissioners is —putting it mildly —- a rather unusual lot. So it’s really sayng…