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I was there a couple of months ago and talked with a local who told me that she'd been there 11 years. For 8 years I think she said the population had grown fairly normally, but over the past 5 it's gotten insane. I can't remember the figure she gave me, but the population increase was dramatic. You can probably check with the city there and glean exact figures.
This woman told me that developers are building new homes on mountainsides. They're wiping out all the trees and of course that creates runoff during rains. She said some people have purchased homes that later had foundation failures as a result. And they can't sell the homes, so they're left with a mortgage on a place they can't live in.
There is a lot of national forest surrounding the area so that's nice.
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Asheville Environmental issues??
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