Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:13:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: mphorn22
Subject: #4940 & earlier – over population
In Chatlist 4950 Tom Glendinning gave a precise account of the population growing in our fair county over the past decade and more….. and that we shouldn’t be so scared of Chatham Park. Well, what Tom neglected to say was that around and in Pittsboro there have been at least 4 developments: Chatham Forest, Powell Place, a few houses along Rectory Street and that other larger development on the south side of town (sorry, I don’t recall the name of it, since I don’t often travel that direction). If Bunkey Morgan’s group hadn’t taken over the county commissioners’ board, at least two of those wouldn’t have happened. We kicked his group out and the new people put in much stronger guidelines for use of land. The new guidelines clearly convey respect for the land, the forests and all of us people who want to live in a rural area. Chatham Park, if allowed to site any which way it wants to, will erase ALL of that. We’ll be a smog-infested town/city with a soul-less land.
The way Pittsboro has been growing over the past 20 years is “organically” – both literally (farms, Co-op, etc.) and figuratively….creativity abounding in music, art, culinary arts, bio-fuels, the Woodwrights’ school relocating to here, alternative healing and counseling, and much more. We are becoming a Mecca of wilderness, beauty, camping along Lake Jordan, Carolina Tiger Rescue and more….. that people from the over-populated cities of Charlotte, Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Durham, Chapel Hill, Fayetteville and more can come here and be rejuvenated in body, mind, spirit and soul. How many other places can you think of in our nation can say that?
How about Colorado with its Vale and Aspen towns and ski slopes? Wilderness all around them. No one would DARE try to build housing developments on those slopes! Well – even though we’re not in snow-ski country, we ARE in a wilderness area that could well develop into a Mecca just as popular. We already have national golf reknown in Southern Pines, and numerous horse farms that offer horse therapy for autism and others who are handicapped. And Shakori Hills is now permanent, what with the land being finally purchased. There’s also a National Heritage habitat of eagles both golden and bald.. When I first moved here 19 years ago, the only motel/hotel/B&B I could find was in another neighboring town. Now we have 3 B&Bs! And people love to stay at those as opposed to a soul-less chain of motels.
Hey! Let’s get our creative thinking heads going here as to how else we can develop a stronger economy without having to put in a soul-less development of only bricks and mortar and erasing wonderful forests of wild-life habitats?
Over-population erases forests and makes shooting ranges’ loud bangs highly detrimental to all life.
– Maryphyllis