Weaverville
Bad roads, dogs dominate town council meeting
By Clint Parker Te continuing saga of the roads
in Reems Creek Village as well as the wording of a new town ordinance for dangerous and potentially dangerous dogs took up most of the time at a marathon meeting of the Weaver- ville Town Council on Monday night (April 19). Te town has resisted accepting
the roads in phase 2 of Reems Creek Village after an engineer found de- ficiencies with drainage ditches and the roads’ shoulders. One contractor placed the repair bill at $63,000. After some discussion, council went
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into closed session to discuss a legal matter in relation to the matter. Af- ter 15 to 20 minutes, the board came back with a motion that developer Bill Dorf make the cited repairs except for the light poles or the roads could re- main private. Since the last meeting in March,
Dorf met with the engineer and oth- er contractors and said that he had manage to reduce the cost of repairs to $30,000, telling the council that most of the damages were due to normal wear and tear. Dorf believes the primary source of the damages is through traffic from people not living in the development. Councilmen Doug Dearth said ero-
sion is not part of normal wear and tear to which Dorf countered that he had always worked closely with Buncombe County Erosion Control and had nev- er been cited. Public Works Director Larry Sprinkle said erosion was not
Bill Dorf speaks to the Weaverville Town Council.
something the engineer checked for in the report, but did identify the drain- age around the roads. Te issue has been going on since
last year. Dorf offered what he saw as a solution to the impasse at the meet- ing, saying that he would do 33 of the 42 items on the list which came up to about 50 percent of the cost and the town could pay the balance. Te town rejected Dorf’s offer. Another item that took up quite
a bit of the board’s time was a dan- gerous dog or potentially dangerous dog ordinance. Town Attorney Patsy Brison went over the multi-page draft with the council outlining how the law would work. Council members made some
changes to the ordinance, including shortening the appeals process from 10 days to two business days and de- creasing the size of the appeals board from five to three. In another matter before the board,
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a representative of BB&T Bank along with the project manager and the for- mer developer of the Starview Heights development at the Flat Creek exit came to ask for the town to supply wa- ter to the project. Former developer Lloyd King told
the council that BB&T was com- mitted to seeing the project through to the end. Te project manager told the council that they would asked that the water be run to North Buncombe School Road and then Starview Heights would pump it uphill from there. He also said that the bank was willing to pay a monthly charge to the town for unused taps until the devel- opment was completely filled. Councilman Doug Jackson ex-
plained the town was nearing capacity and if they asked to expand their facil- ities now, it would be at least 10 years before they could see the additional water production if it was approved. Asked about a failed development
on Parker Cove Road that had a water allotment, Councilman Gene Knoefel pointed out the town was down to just a little more than 7 percent reserve and the Starview Heights request would lower that to about 6 percent. Te board voted to turn down the re- quest. Weaverville Fire Chief Jeff Hooper
said that the town had received a $60,000 grant to replace old firefight- ing equipment. Te town was also recognized for the 20th year as a Tree City by the Arbor Day Foundation and had been awarded the Distin- guished Budget Award for the 16th time.
ABC reports
first quarter By Clint Parker Weaverville ABC Board member
Jacob Lions painted a rosy picture of the ABC store’s first quarter income to town council at Monday’s meet- ing. Lions said the store had made $430,933 in revenue from January through March and was on track for between $1.8 to $2 million for the year. He also said they plan to exceed
the budget by about $200,000. He explained that currently the board was spending about 45-50 percent of the revenue on inventory, 30 per- cent on excise taxes and the remain- ing 20-25 percent on operations. According to the first quarter
profit and loss report, the store yield- ed $35,000 in profits from January through March of this year. Editor’s note: See related com- mentary on page 4
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