NBMS races to unbeaten start See story on page 8 WEEKLY
COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
April 22 - April 28, 2010 Vol. 8 • No. 16 Woodfin • Weaverville • Barnardsville Fifty Cents
took steps at its Tuesday night (April 20) meeting to tackle the problem of slum lords. Te board got an over- view from Town Administrator Jason Young of a new ordinance that would require landlords to get a Certificate of Occupancy (CO) for their rental property to ensure the property is us- ing minimum standards of living. According to Young, Woodfin has a large renter community with 46
Crackdown coming on rental properties Welding
By Clint Parker Te Woodfin Board of Alderman
percent of the housing in the town being rental property. Te national average is 32 percent. “We have a lot of landlords that do
the right thing, but there are a lot that don’t,” Young told the board. Young said that the purpose of the
ordinance was to take care of prob- lems on the front end instead of af- terward when the process is much slower. Te ordinance would make it un-
lawful to rent a property without a CO and a $500 fine plus a $25 per day fine would be applied to any
property owner renting a property with a CO. Other highlights in- clude: lease agreements must be in writing, owners would have 45 days to amend an inspected problem and large apartment buildings would be inspected by samples and not the en- tire complex. “We want to make it more costly
to break the law than to comply with it,” Young said. “It’s absolutely neces- sary (to enact the ordinance) if we’re going to move forward with some of these problems.” He added, “We’re
Continued on page 4 Claxton barn nears completion
By Matt Tate The new “Event Barn” at Clax-
ton Farm in Flat Creek is sched- uled to be completed by April 30.
The structure will replace the
historic renovated tobacco barn used for weddings and other events that was completed de- stroyed in a November 2009 fire. Arson was suspected in the blaze. Flat Creek Land and Build-
ing Company is currently hard at work putting on the finishing Continued on page 7
The new “Event Barn” will again host weddings and events at Claxton Farm in Flat Creek.
A man welding in the crawl space of his home around noon Monday (April 19) at 1 Revonda Drive in Woodfin is believed to have accidentally started a small fire. Personnel from the Woodfin and West Buncombe fire departments quickly extinguished the fire. Woodfin Fire Department officials said no damage was done to the interior of the home. The man suffered from slight smoke inhalation during the mishap.
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