We have weathered the storm, and it now appears the tide is turning. It has been a decade or more since I have seen our local citizens in Fayetteville rise to the call and say they just are not going to take it anymore.
The citizens of Fayetteville have awakened, and they are protesting loudly in opposition to the continuous approval of large, stacked multi-family developments.
Two eliminated, for now
The citizens appointed to Fayetteville’s Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously against two more large multi-family proposals on Tuesday evening. The members of the commission are listening, they care, and they are protecting Fayetteville’s quality of life.
For a second time, the frustrated Fayetteville taxpayers had to fight off the proposed 22-acre rezoning proposal at Highway 54 and Ginger Cake Road that would have allowed an unbelievable number of condominium buildings to pack the entire site (see site photo).
The proposal from large warehouse builder HFG Development, LLC is about as bad of a development plan as we have seen in quite a while. The two large detention stormwater drainage areas were probably the best features of the development plan, it was that bad.
It is more of the urban jumbled style of land planning that Mayor Ed Johnson’s administration has been forcing on the community without regard to how building thousands of new multi-family units, overcrowding our schools, congesting all our streets, and pandering to the real estate developers affects the taxpayers.
The excuse of “there aren’t trailers behind the schools yet” is a poor excuse, indeed.
The Planning and Zoning Commission also denied 54 Development, Inc.’s bulky and ungainly complex proposal off Weatherly Drive (see site photo).
Once again, the developer…
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