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City should act on loading dock issue at GreenLife |
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Written by Robert L. Malkin
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
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AC-T Guest commentary (+CAN Editorial Comment TBD)
Three celery stalks to the Asheville Citizen-Times for shining its editorial light on GreenLife.
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Green-Life operation is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde garden of good and
evil. It provides organic, healthy lifestyle choices inside, while its
Maxwell Street neighbors are being unconscionably victimized by their
own city government and GreenLife’s operating policies, caused by a
loading dock location that violated city ordinances from the first day
GreenLife opened, and continues to be in violation over three years
later.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 15 January 2008 )
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Written by MtnX - Barnard
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Sunday, 13 January 2008 |
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Greenlife/Maxwell Street standoff shows signs of winding down
by Jonathan Barnard in Vol. 14 / Iss. 24 on 01/09/2008
Efforts to end the long-running controversy surrounding
Greenlife Grocery and its Maxwell Street neighbors have been plagued by
repeated fits and starts and false hopes of a final resolution. But now
that Superior Court has dismissed Maxwell Street resident Reid Thompson‘s
lawsuit against the city and Greenlife has come up with a plan to take
the tractor-trailers off Maxwell Street, it appears that an end really
may be in sight.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 13 January 2008 )
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Review of City Attorney's Defense of Greenlife |
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Written by James Judd
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Thursday, 22 June 2006 |
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Following the opening of the Greenlife Grocery store, significant community effort was expended trying to understand how this development was approved and why it did not meet the requirements of the UDO. Questions were asked of the planning department, presentations were made to the Planning Director and City Manager, City Council members were implored to intervene, appeals were filed, ad infinitum…with the typical response being “everything is OK” or “We are not able to discuss that because…”.
After almost two years of community pressure, City Council allowed Joe Minicozzi to make a 15 minute presentation as the last item at an un-televised work session. No discussion was allowed after the presentation and Council requested that Mr. Minicozzi summarize his presentation in a bullet point list to which City Staff was to respond.
Mr. Minicozzi provided the requested bullet point list within 4 days. Two months later the City Attorney provided the City’s response. Click here to read the review. (Hint: it is pretty ridiculous as confirmed by 3rd party review)  CAN Review of Oast Reply 1.14 Mb
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 04 March 2007 )
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AC-T letter: Greenlife fiasco the fault of city staff, not the UDO |
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Written by James Judd
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Tuesday, 10 January 2006 |
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The article, “Greenlife, neighbor spar over dock,” (AC-T, Dec. 29), barely hit the tip of the iceberg of the city staff’s mishandling of the Greenlife fiasco. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 January 2006 )
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