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www.ashevilleparc.org
has excellent information on this issue.
Be sure to check out their site for the details. A
quick outline of the issue is below.
View from Montford 240 exit after deck completion.
Points of note:
- The exorbitant $32,000.00/space is a result of additional improvements for commercial development of the surrounding area.
- Commercial development should bear the costs for it's infrastructure requirements
- Parking Deck threatens both the structure and visibility of the Battery Park Hotel ,the St. Lawrence Basilica and the Grove Arcade.
Robin Cape (05 city council candidate) has also written an article on this issue.
What you can do:
- Vote in the primary and general election to oust Mumpower, Dunn, and Worley. Their pro development stance on Asheville's downtown and surrounding neighbors has already taken a permanent toll.
- Contact the city council and tell them to reconsider the parking deck.
----- Original Message -----
From: "PARC" <info@ashevilleparc.org>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:51 PM
Subject: Help Stop the Deck!
Dear Friends of PARC,
The City wants to put up a five level parking deck wrapped
around the
Battery Park Apartments downtown.
What a terrible intrusion, blocking the light, air, and
view of the elderly
residents! A parking deck 15 feet from their windows!
The cost is exorbitant--$30,000 per space, twice the normal
cost. And, with
the three other buildings in the plan, it would block the view of our
historic and beautiful Basilica of St. Lawrence.
Opposition is growing, but more help is needed.
Please go to our web site for details, at http://www.ashevilleparc.org/
Please write a letter to the editor, now. THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO GET
THE
WORD OUT, AND TO GET THE ATTENTION OF THOSE RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
Citizen-Times: letters@citizen-times.com
Mountain Xpress: xpress@mountainx.com
(Limit your letter to 200 words, give your phone number, and do not sent
the
same letter to both papers.)
Please vote only for candidates who consider the impact
of development on
neighborhoods. City Council candidates Robin Cape, Bryan Freeborn and
Holly
Jones are firmly opposed to this deck.
-PARC (People Advocating REAL Conservancy
----- Original Message -----
From: PARC
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3:10 PM
Subject: STOP the Deck around the Battery Park
Dear Friends of PARC,
In 2003, the citizens of Asheville stopped City Council¹s
plan to sell off
part of our park at Pack Square to the Grove Park Inn. The hardest part
was
letting everyone know it was happening. When folks found out, the project
was stopped. When citizens awaken, they can accomplish anything.
Council is now proposing another outrageous plan: they want
to wrap a five
story parking deck around two sides of the Battery Park Apartments,
only 15 feet from the residents windows.
This national historic register building is home to elderly
and disabled people without the ability to fight back, and the deck would
have a huge negative impact on
their physical and emotional health. If the same proposal were made for
a
downtown condo, do you believe that council would consider it for a moment?
As part of the same project, Council wants to build three
other buildings
nearby, one a 7-10 story high-rise condo right in front of the beautiful,
national historic register Basilica of St. Lawrence, blocking the view
of this
spectacular 1908 Spanish Renaissance church.
We are on the streets of this city day after day asking
for signatures
against the deck and the rest of the project, and a huge majority are
against it. But we find that most had not yet heard about it.
Please visit our website at http://www.ashevilleparc.org/
for more
details, and use what you learn to write a letter to the editor immediately.
Letters to the editor are the main way we have of letting
all of Asheville
know what is going on. Informing the citizens of Asheville wins every
time.
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