A makeshift billboard reading "More Asphalt" has covered a portion of a sign promoting the arrival of Weaver Village in Weaverville for the past several days. The obstructed sign read "Coming soon: More Asphalt." The homemade contraption was removed midday Thursday (Aug. 14).
The 13-acre mixed-use Weaver Village project was met with careful consideration by both the developers, Weaverville Partners, and the Weaverville Town Council. At public meetings on the village in February and April, reaction from individuals in the community ran the gamut. The town council approved Weaver Village in May.
The makeshift sign, though, indicates there is still opposition to the long-gestating development of the McPhail property.
Developers have presented several different projects at the corner of Weaver Boulevard and North Main Street since 2005. The Weaverville Zoning Board of Adjustment denied a special exemption permit for one such project, a 96-unit housing development, which led to a nearly three-year legal battle between the town and developers.
Shortly before the North Carolina Court of Appeals' decision to uphold the developers' right to a permit in January, Weaverville Partners brought the re-visioned mixed-use development before the town council for consideration.
To read more on Weaver Village's approval, read our article here.
2 comments:
I'm not opposed to developing the McPhail property. It's too bad they couldn't put a few single family houses back there. It could have been an extension of an already nice neighborhood. And everyone involved would have made plenty of money
Instead, the bulldozers will roll in, totally flatten this beautiful piece of land, and turn it into parking lots for a pharmacy/restaurant/bank that weaverville doesn't need. All in the name of profit and so the town council/zoning board guys can feel like bigwigs.
It's a sickening display of croneyism and old-fashioned greed. And it will dramatically alter the surrounding neighborhoods. When is enough enough?? Soon Weaverville will look like Enka/Candler and people will wonder what happened, as if it was inevitable. Slow growth can be positive. Fast, out-of-control growth is CANCER.
More asphalt is the least of what is "coming soon."
We do know that this is coming. But we do need a restaurant more then a bank, since weaverville has about 11 banks in the direct vicinity of the town limits. Who cares if weaverville becomes another enka-candler, we are ALREADY that.
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