For those worried about too much attention to tourism, never fear:
First, a lovely serene green space, Pack Park, was turned into a cement mine field. With less room for crowds, we fall over concrete obstacles everywhere (the splat you hear is not the fountain), and we look at steel bars undulating across the prettiest buildings in town. (We must have St. Lawrence Green… just grass and trees won’t cost millions.)
With no annexation (the refusal to support the city that offers them entertainment, infrastructure, livelihood, etc.), no water system, no airport, where’s the money to run the city?
Answer: Building aesthetically abysmal hotels to cover the mountains we all came to enjoy; now we are Any City, USA. But there’s hope, they can be low income housing when the visits stop.
We had drought conditions a few years ago.
Beer companies, to escape droughts in the west, are here using and shipping millions of gallons of our most essential life support.
Are tourists, or any of us, going to stay when water is scarce and/or sky high?
Lastly, get rid of the buskers and our goose is surely cooked.
Lois Hodgson, Asheville
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