WECAN Master Plan Up For Adoption

The WECAN Master Plan produced around 2000 is up for adoption by the City of Asheville.  Terry Bellamy was very involved in the creation of this master plan when she worked for MHO.  Now that she is only the Mayor, she is free to ask that our plan be adopted without a conflict of interest.  She expressed to me her desire that WECAN be a community leader on this issue.  Our Mayor would like to see master plans for all of our neighborhoods, guiding documents that would help to shape our city to the wishes of its residents.
Alan Glines, a planner for the City of Asheville will be attending our next board meeting to give us his overview November 1, 2007 at 6:30pm.  As Bret Frk suggested at our last board meeting, WECAN will then create a cover letter speaking to our 2007 concerns about this plan to be included in the adoption process for our Master Plan.
We will review that letter at our December Meeting (10 year anniversary party!) and then would probably be scheduled to go in front of the Planning & Zoning Commission in January 2008.
There is a copy of the plan at the Front Desk of MHO for those of you who would like to re-read it.  We are also working on getting the entire plan set up to be able to be downloaded off the City of Asheville website... i will keep you posted.