A recent comment posted about the proposed Larchmont project in north Asheville. Click on the “Larchmont project” tag at the bottom of this post to read all blog posts on the topic:
i live in north asheville,within walking distance of the old naval reserve site. i am all for affordable housing, but whatever you think about the subject, i just don’t think this will impact my neighbors or me. the only detectable difference might be a longer line blocking the post office drive-through (oh, the humanity!). but against that, i think it will be downright cool to have new families in our neighborhood, and I for one will WELCOME them, not shun them! see you at the pizza company, folks!
i’ll tell you what DOES infuruiate me, though. i have a real problem that the ringleader freaking out all of my neighbors is a former housing authority official who really DID destroy neighborhoods (razed to the ground–look it up!) and then built drug-infested projects. he came up here to our community meeting and is apparently a “technical advisor” on why we should all be against this. wow. i guess he knows how to scare the bejeezus out of people by heart.
i don’t know if i am part of the silent majority or silent minority. i do know that when your neighbors are crying that their home values are going to crash because of “those people” and our way of life as we know it will end, you pretty much stay silent. not my problem. i gotta live here. but i really hope they build it, because we could use more apartments in this part of the city.
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I like the tone of this post. Welcoming! All neighbors should be.
If your talking about Larry Holt, theres noway he’s against this. Yes he talked to realestate buddys a few yrs ago to do Naval Resrv developmt himself. But he lives down town and works for developrs doing high rise. He was top at govment housing in 15 or 20 storey bldg on S French Broad forever. I think your mistaken.
If I thought this housing project was going to depress my property values, I would be all for it. My property taxes are overinflated now because of the real estate bubble, and the county refuses to do a revaluation. Let those values – and those taxes – come down!