Evening everyone,
I'm passing along some words of thanks from Russ Page. See his message
below.
As you likely already know, the BOC voted to approve the two rezone requests
by Plum Creek. This now makes ~1300 acres and ~250 homes that the
commission has approved for AR-5 along US441 south of Heritage Park.
As Russ points out, there is a silver lining to this dark cloud. For the
first time we have some definite movement toward a river walk.
For the record, Commissioners Horton and Hale voted to deny both rezones,
while Commissioners Luke and Norris voted to approve. Chairman Davis broke
the tie vote in favor of the rezones.
The dynamics of the commission voting last Tuesday (November 7th) indicates
how the majority of the BOC coninues to emphasize illogical and
inappropriate development to the detriment of the county. They have now
endorsed a focal point of residential development in the south end. By
doing so they know that demand for commercial development will follow, thus
opening up the 441 cooridor to convenience stores and shopping centers.
Folks, maybe it is indeed time that those of us in the immediate vicinity of
Farmington truly begin to think about reincorporation of the town. You have
any thoughts? If so, let's hear them.
On a related note, the Murrow family was granted its Conditional Use Permit
for construction of storage units next to Fast Phil's. This land is already
zoned commercial back from the days when Farmington was a functional,
chartered town. This is one of those bitter sweet kind of proposals. While
storage units aren't exactly the most pleasant of developments to look at,
it will be less of an eye-sore compared to the current use of the land.
Plus, as many of you know, there is potential hazardous chemical
contamination on this site. As a stipulation of the conditional use permit,
any hazardous contamination of the soil must be removed. Thus, the site
will be remediated (in theory) as part of this development.
Tony Glenn
-----Original Message-----
Friends:
Thank you all for doing your part in the
struggle for the Apalachee River Walk. I am
encouraged by many factors, not the least of which
is that Plum Creek thought enough of the idea to
make it possible. Their consession, to actually
build a river walk along their land, and let their
homeowners association determine if they want to
link with the rest of the river walk, is a pretty
good compromise. I feel confident that once the
homeowners see that they could have access to the
entire 5 1/2 miles of river walk, with destinations
at each end...they will see it is to their advantage
to be connected. Now we need to get started. There
is one landowner we need to work on. This would
give us about 2 1/2 miles to start with. I will
keep trying to make inroads with Dan Arnold et al,
which could bring us up to Plum Creeks land. I am
also working on the last piece, between Plum Creek
and 441. Soon it will be time to set up a trail
committee...to start the actual lay out etc. We
will need any and all who have an interest...and
some time, to help....those with specific background
in trail design/layout/building etc are especially
needed in the beginning, we have some, but always
need more. Let me know of your interest, skill
level, or any other pertanent information and we
will get started.
Thanks again for the great turn out, and great
questions/comments to the BOC last night.
Please send to your respective email lists,
Thanks
Russ
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