Rockingham should send Bluegreen packing
John Young's Aug. 29 op-ed, "Parcel essential for Haw River State Park," should serve as a heads up for Rockingham County.
On Sept. 17, Bluegreen Corp. will present a rezoning request to Rockingham's planning commission for 17 housing units, a sewage treatment facility and retention pond. But this isn't the whole story.
The tract under proposal for development crosses into Rockingham County, but lies primarily in Guilford County. Bluegreen plans to build 775 housing units in a gated, golf-course community. Rockingham will provide water via a pipeline running from Reidsville for the 17 housing units located in Rockingham as well as more than 750 housing units located in Guilford. In return, Rockingham will get a whopping 17 housing units, a sewage treatment facility and a retention pond for run-off water from the development and the golf course (which will be sprayed with effluvium from the sewage treatment facility).
Bluegreen Corp.'s proposed development clearly exploits Rockingham County. Let's tell Bluegreen to go back to Boca Raton, Fla. Rockingham County would benefit far more from the expansion of the Haw River State Park.
Joan Kimmel
Reidsville
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Joan, thanks for your voice. Let's hope that the Rockingham Commissioners are wiser than those in leadership in Guilford. The Guilford people only look at ways to broaden a tax base without regard to collateral damage. Oh when will we learn?
Shalom
Posted on September 5, 2007 10:10 AM