City council creates its own lobbying group / Neighborhoods get voice in Asheville government

Written by Joel Burgess

(Asheville Citizen Times) Haw Creek, Malvern Hills, Shiloh, Montford — neighborhoods such as these have long been the soil where the city’s activist grassroots grow.

Now, residential areas that have been battlegrounds over development issues and starting points of political careers will get an official seat at Asheville’s government table.

Asheville officials will begin taking applications May 15 for the Neighborhood Advisory Committee, which the City Council voted unanimously to create last week.

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