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Asheville Design Center presentation to focus on work of Burton Street Task Force

Jason Sandford February 14, 2010

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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The Asheville Design Center, the city’s non-profit community-based urban design agency, has launched a monthly series of presentations/discussions dealing with community and the built environment.

This month’s event (Neighborhood Planning: Burton Street + Holding Ground) will highlight the recent community planning work of the ADC’s Burton Street Task Force and feature the documentary film Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street.

The ADC is proud to be working with the Burton Street Neighborhood on a Small Area Plan that will foster community resiliency, empowerment, and sustainable development. Representatives from the Task Force will report on its ongoing planning process, including the outcomes of its recent community workshop.

The film Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street tells the story of a racially mixed neighborhood in South Boston, tired of failed government programs, which worked together to rebuild their neighborhood.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Asheville Dweller February 16, 2010

No not really, where were you trying to help the negihborhood when Burton a High Crime and drug traffic area, no where to be seen.

Still no one cared until the I 26 situation came out and then all the compasionate souls showed up for their photo op. Try spinning your story to someone that has been living here their entire life, and looks into things a little more then the usual lemming that just reads the MX.

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Gordon Smith February 15, 2010

Asheville Dweller,

The Weed and Seed program and the renovation of the Burton St. Community Center stand as evidence to the contrary.

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Asheville Dweller February 14, 2010

Its amazing no one cared about Burton Street before the I 26 project was going to run through that neighborhood.

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