Sylva set to expand planning district

Sylva Town Board members are expected to move forward with plans to make the Allen’s Branch community part of the town’s extra territorial jurisdiction Thursday, Aug. 17. However, several local residents are pushing for the boundary’s lines to be redrawn.
Aldermen are considering creating an extra territorial jurisdiction, or ETJ for short, as a result of a petition dated April 25, 2005. Don and Cathy Arrington, Millard and Charlene Monteith, Scott and Angie Connor and Forrest Bryson called for town leaders to consider placing the community under ETJ “in the absence of any meaningful county zoning.” About 20 local residents are said to support the measure.

Community appeals to Jackson commissioners

Members of a grassroots citizens group rallying against a proposal to build a rock quarry in the Tuckasegee community of Jackson County will appear before county commissioners Thursday, Aug. 17, to plead their case further.
The United Neighbors of Tuckasegee plan to present a resolution to commissioners calling for the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources not to issue a permit to Carolina Crushed Boulder and Stone. The company has applied for a permit to operate a rock quarry on a 57-acre tract near the intersection of N.C. 107 and N.C. 281, and less than 100 feet away from neighboring residential property.

Woodfin annexation opposition

Some 200 Buncombe County residents opposing annexation into Woodfin’s town limits showed a united front at a public hearing on the issue Tuesday. The proposal would add about 3,500 people to the town’s population. A spokesman for the residents, Jim Eaker said 500 homeowners have agreed to put up $100 a piece to fight the annexation. The areas under consideration are north and west of town limits and include Woodland Hills, portions of Baird Cove Road and Leisure Mountain Road and the Crest Mountain development.

Wolfe Cove / Bartram's Walk

People in Beaverdam on Wolf Cove Road are pissed off about a new development that will bring more than 100 news homes to the area... residents of the Beaverdam community said they plan to attend today’s meeting to express their opposition to plans for a gated community on 175 acres off Wolfe Cove Road just outside the Asheville city limits.
Developer Beaverdam Land Conservancy would build 114 homes in the wooded area under the proposal for Bartram’s Walk.
The plan application is one of 23 submitted to the county Planning Board in time to beat a July 1 deadline when more restrictive requirements for mountain and ridge-top development went into effect. Commissioners approved the regulations in March, limiting the density of development on slopes greater than 25 percent.

Black Mountain

Some residents in Black Mountain don't like a developer's plans to build a subdivision near the golf course there. The Goodson Cove development will have some 65 homes and townhomes. The developer wants the town to annex the development

Weaverville developmentPeople in north Weaverville are pissed off about a proposed development in Brittain Cove. The development plans were submitted right before new rules kicked in that will make it much harder to develop on steep slopes in Buncombe County. But folks, that's what you get when you don't have zoning out in the county. So quit whining and deal with it. It will be sad - the area is absolutely beautiful