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Asheville City Plan 2010

ASHEVILLE
CITY PLAN
2010

Final Draft

2010 Asheville City Plan
Asheville, North Carolina

Proposed by the Citizens of Asheville
Prepared by the Asheville City Planning Department

W. Louis Bissette, Jr.
Mayor

Asheville City Council
Mary Lloyd, Vice Mayor
Wilhelmina B. Bratton
Walter R. Boland, Ph.D.
Kenneth M. Michalove
Norma T. Price
George M. Tisdale

Douglas O. Bean
City Manager

Verl R. Emrick, Jr.
Planning Director

Alternatives for Asheville Steering Committee
Norma Price, Chairman
William Frue, Vice Chairman
Walter Boland
Wilhelmina Bratton
John Broadbooks
Alfred Canon
John Cort
Sonya Friedrich
Doris Friend
Ben McKenzie
Kenneth Michalove
Mike Moser
Jesse Ray, Sr.
Susan Roderick
Tom Steitler
Peggy Tessier
Jan Wiegman
Augusta Young
Peter Alberice

Comprehensive Planning Staff
Research, Writing, Preparation
Carol Alberice, Planner
Julia Cogburn, Planner
Al Kopf, Planner
Sonya Luckadoo, Transportation Planner
Patricia Tallerday, Senior Planner

Document Graphics
Al Kopf
Jerry Snow

Photography
Carol Alberice

Word Processing
Diane Fry

City of Asheville
Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville City Council

Dear Asheville Residents:

The adoption of the 2010 Asheville City Plan is an exciting event. Presented in this document is a plan for guiding the future growth and development of our city.

On behalf of the Asheville City Council I would like to thank the members of the "Alternatives for Asheville" Committee for the hard work and many hours which they put into the completion of this Plan. I would also like to thank the citizens of Asheville for the interest in and contributions to this community-wide effort.

With the adoption of this plan we as a community are declaring a renewed commitment to the future. As we move toward the year 2010 let us work together to keep Asheville a vibrant and progressive city.

Very truly yours,

W. Louis Bissette Jr.,
Mayor                       

City of Asheville
Asheville, North Carolina

To The Citizens of Asheville:

I am pleased to present to you the 2010 Asheville City Plan. This Plan is intended to serve as a comprehensive policy guide for the development of the City over the next twenty-five years.

The 2010 Asheville City Plan presents a common agenda for our community, an agenda developed over the past two years with input form thousands of area residents. The plan presents an exciting vision of what our City is, and can be, with the development of a vital Downtown, the provision of efficient and high quality public services, the protection of our unique environmental setting, the stimulation of a healthy and vibrant economy, and the preservation of Asheville's exceptional quality of residential life.

To realize these goals, the community must now commit to the implementation of the strategies presented in the Plan. Several of these strategies are already being addressed by City Council and staff. With this plan as a guide, we can continue to move forward to address the issues confronting our community and to make Asheville a better place to live.

Sincerely,

Douglas O. Bean
City Manager      

Table of contents

Comprehensive Planning Process -3

Historical Growth and Environmental Factors- 7

Population, Employment and Economic Development- 15

Housing- 25

Transportation- 33

Public Utilities- 45

Recreation and Open Space Planning- 55

Community Services and Human Resources- 65

Downtown Asheville and Historic Preservation- 77

Annexation and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction- 85

Land Use- 91

Plan Management and Implementation- 121