City should show more concern for residents
I don't understand why when developers try to rezone to build apartments or town houses, the residents always have to act against that. It is because the zoning commission approves rezoning very easily. They don't care about us residents and the community. The same problem has come to our neighborhood.
A developer sent a rezoning request to build more than 200 apartment units beside our subdivision on Horse Pen Creek Road. This will affect not only our house value, but the entire community.
What happens then? Three stoplights have been installed within a couple of years and more may be needed soon.
Now four town houses are being sold or being built on and near Horse Pen Creek Road. Middle-school students from these townhouses go to Kernodle Middle School, which has almost 1,000 students, far more than the average enrollment in the state and district.
That means we will need to redistrict again in the near future; riding time on school buses will be longer, and traffic jams will get worse.
The developer won't care about these problems after they build and sell these town houses and apartments. Zoning commissioners and the City Council should take care of residents and the community, not the developer.
Yukari Matsuoka
Greensboro
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I imagine that 90% of these letters come from people living in developments less than 10 years old.
Posted on April 9, 2007 10:54 AM