You neighborhood activists - and I certainly don't mean David Wharton - might be interested in visiting this part of the City of Greensboro's Web site.
There's information there about Neighborhood Conservation Overlay districts. NCOs would give neighborhoods more control about future development without going to the extreme of becoming an historic district. My assistant, Jim Schlosser, wrote about this subject on July 13.
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