Do commissioners listen to the people?
Some people interested in business and profits might favor a gated golf-course community on the Haw River. Actually the cost of infrastructure is more than the tax revenue from 775 units.
How will our citizens exercise their stewardship of land that has on it wetlands, hardwoods, grasses and openness? Will the Guilford County commissioners have the concern to make a decision that is more about good land and people than about a development that is better than usually proposed?
The present state park conference center was sold to the state by the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. I serve on the Diocesan Committee for Environmental Ministry. A housing development was not part of the vision when the sale took place.
Such a development will seriously limit the park's area and its need to expand its lands, offerings and investment in our counties and state for all people to connect to creation.
More information can be obtained from www.CitizensForHawRiverSP.org so that people can witness to the importance of land preserved and made available. The commissioners have the chance to favor the people of our counties and the land of the Haw River.
Thomas Droppers
Greensboro
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No, they don't- nor will they as long as we continue to elect commisioners who are controlled by develope-at-any-cost ideologies.
By the way, the free market includes elections, too.
We should demand that public safety and residential services be in place before annexations and developement- that ought to slow them down.
Posted on October 5, 2007 6:00 AM
Do commissioners listen to the people? When considering zoning issues it must be remembered that the bulk of our commissioners are developers, contractors, real estate agents and persons in the banking and home loan industries and so it is in their best economic interest to build, build, build.
Sure, as a whole the county would fare better if the State Park were expanded but that leaves less room to build, build, build and line the pockets of the majority of our board members.
Posted on October 5, 2007 7:58 AM
Can anyone say Steve Arnold?
Posted on October 5, 2007 12:08 PM
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And the N&R endorsed Zack Matheney for City Council---the guy raised more money from real estate developers than anyone else!! He's just a "wannabe" Jim Melvin who is controlled by Melvin.
***Tell your friends who live in District 3*******
********* NOT to vote for Matheney ***********
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Posted on October 5, 2007 3:32 PM
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As to Steve Arnold, he does not respond to calls or emails, and prides himself in modeling his political life on Jesse Helms! He almost ran Guilford County in the ground when he was Chair of the Commissioners years ago. He bragged about "cutting the budget" but never bothered to tell people that ambulance service response time, to the hinterlands, had to be cut as a result. Glad I didn't live in Brown Summit and need EMS attention while Arnold was chair. Response time went from 6 minutes to 20 minutes and that's why the his little tea party was overturned. Arnold is a right wing blowhard who thinks he is smarter than ANYONE.
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Posted on October 5, 2007 3:37 PM