Recent letter to editor

Posted by Jim in NC on January 07, 2007 at 08:00:47 from (172.166.85.24):

In Reply to: Re: O/T Greenhouse, friends and stuff posted by Jim in NC on January 07, 2007 at 07:49:38:

This is my latest letter addressing our problem.

NO PLACE IN THE HEART FOR US MISFITS

Let’s see if I have this right. The original Heart of the Triad (HOT) plan is now the New HOT plan. Beginning from an area of 6-8,000 acres, it grew to 18,000 acres, and now is 6-8,000 acres again even though it will still cover 18,000 acres. The “best fit” plan has three distinctive areas of development containing businesses, retirement and recreational areas, and intellectual and medical centers.

Where do we Misfits “fit” into this plan? We Misfits are comprised of citizens that have lived in the area for many generations. The Misfits have historical and emotional ties to their land and are mostly plain and simple country folks that have produced this “special place” that the HOT planners want to control. We are an impediment to the growth and development of the HOT Plan.

Clearly, the Heart of the Triad continues to have NO heart. From the beginning, it was evident that we Misfits would not have a piece in this puzzle when no local residents were selected for the HOT steering committee. Many Misfits have attended HOT meetings and HDR’s week-long “charadettes” in April, 2006. We voiced our concerns, but there were no puzzle pieces symbolic of farms and privately-owned open spaces given to us to place on their maps. Only business, park, and recreational area spaces were offered.

We Misfits are concerned how this area will be governed. Will there be elected officials that can be held accountable by the voters? I fear that an invisible layer of bureaucracy of appointed leaders will be created to manage this area. This will allow our elected officials to abdicate their accountability to the citizens. We Misfits believe we will have even less representation than we do now.

Since the Misfits and I, a fifth generation owner of a N.C. Century Farm, apparently are not a fit for the HOT Plan, what becomes of us? Would the HOT planners like for us just to fade away so they can asphalt our legacy? We could relocate to another area, build and nurture it, and someday our grandkids and great-grandkids would face this same problem as we do now. I understand that there is a large amount of uninhabited swamp land in Eastern North Carolina. In the back drawer of the HOT Steering Committee’s filing cabinet, I would not be surprised to find a puzzle piece for this.

Jimmy Morgan
Colfax

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