Asheville leaves a lot to be desired (live, vs)

[Asheville Native]

Originally Posted by LauraC

But c'mon, parking garages in a mountain town?

The homeless and others love them, the stairwells make great rest rooms, the crooks have a whole bunch of cars to break into, out of sight of people on the street, and the wanna be eco-terrorists can spray paint the SUV's they hate without being seen.

At least that's how it plays out in the downtown parking garages.

And if you do go to a week-end event at the civic center, and everyone leaves at once, it can take 1 to 1.5 hours getting out of the garage since there are no personnel to take you money and everyone has to go through the only exit with an automated payment machine, that most people don't know how to work.

[castufari]

Originally Posted by Asheville Native

And if you do go to a week-end event at the civic center, and everyone leaves at once, it can take 1 to 1.5 hours getting out of the garage since there are no personnel to take you money and everyone has to go through the only exit with an automated payment machine, that most people don't know how to work.

Try to leave the one on Rankin Street that takes only quarters...when you have no quarters. They do need to do something to work on leaving them, like opening both sides and have people manually collecting your money or just bill you on the way in as to make exiting much easier.

[Asheville Native]

Originally Posted by castufari

Try to leave the one on Rankin Street that takes only quarters...when you have no quarters. They do need to do something to work on leaving them, like opening both sides and have people manually collecting your money or just bill you on the way in as to make exiting much easier.

Ugh at least the Wall St. one will take bills.

[castufari]

Originally Posted by Asheville Native

Ugh at least the Wall St. one will take bills.

Yes. They should take both OR have a human there. Or there should be a sign when you check in letting you know the details.

Speaking of parking garages, the new hotel in Biltmore...Bohemian I think it is...they closed their underground lot. When they put it in the plumbing pipes hung down too low and some vehicles wouldn't be able to park there. Looks like parking will be across the street now. That's an expensive mistake.

[Asheville Native]

Originally Posted by castufari

Yes. They should take both OR have a human there. Or there should be a sign when you check in letting you know the details.

Speaking of parking garages, the new hotel in Biltmore...Bohemian I think it is...they closed their underground lot. When they put it in the plumbing pipes hung down too low and some vehicles wouldn't be able to park there. Looks like parking will be across the street now. That's an expensive mistake.

The monolith in Biltmore Village, with underground parking, now unusable, built in a flood plain, which flies in the face of any common sense. The developer is a fool, and the city clearly ignored this by allowing a hotel to be built in a flood plain, that has flooded dozens of times in the last 100 years.

But the mayor says that Biltmore Village will not flood again because the city is going to manage discharge from North Fork. Believe that, I got a bridge I'd like to sell you

[castufari]

Originally Posted by Asheville Native

The monolith in Biltmore Village, with underground parking, now unusable, built in a flood plain, which flies in the face of any common sense. The developer is a fool, and the city clearly ignored this by allowing a hotel to be built in a flood plain, that has flooded dozens of times in the last 100 years.

Drive by it and look - the entrances are gone. Funny how that didn't make the paper!

Originally Posted by Asheville Native

But the mayor says that Biltmore Village will not flood again because the city is going to manage discharge from North Fork. Believe that, I got a bridge I'd like to sell you

I thought that we'd stop the flooding with either "rainbows and unicorn farts" or letting Obama fix it.

[Asheville Native]

Originally Posted by castufari

I thought that we'd stop the flooding with either "rainbows and unicorn farts" or letting Obama fix it.

The mayor has it under control, she 'decreed' that there will be no more flooding several years ago, then the building permit was issued.

[seaker]

I want to know how the African American community is treated in Asheville. Is there a certain part of town they live in? Do many people take public transportation there?

[castufari]

Originally Posted by seaker

I want to know how the African American community is treated in Asheville. Is there a certain part of town they live in? Do many people take public transportation there?

"They" live everywhere. There is a larger black population in and around the projects (PVA, Hillcrest, Deaverview). There are "black" areas in West Asheville (Burton Street), North Asheville (I think Ann Street, between 240 and Claxton School), east Asheville (Oakley) and south Asheville (Shiloh).

I ride the bus sometimes and the demographic makeup seems to be mixed.

On the otherside of the coin there are poor areas for white people, too.

I really haven't seen a lot of racism around here.

[eightiesfan]

Originally Posted by castufari

I thought that we'd stop the flooding with either "rainbows and unicorn farts" or letting Obama fix it.

That's classic right there! Signature material.