
{"id":2017,"date":"2008-03-06T08:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/03\/06\/letter-to-the-editor-welcome-to-carrboro\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T16:15:13","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-welcome-to-carrboro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/03\/06\/letter-to-the-editor-welcome-to-carrboro\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Welcome to Carrboro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the owners of the Andrews-Riggsbee site, soon to be Roberson Square, on approval of their project. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to see their cool-looking mixed-use building in place of the vacant lot that is there now!<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m disappointed they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t include a restaurant, any child-related structures, and that their garbage entrance will face their residential neighbors on the East Carr Street instead of the commercial Roberson Street side.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->What has me and my neighbors worried is the thought of having to live through the construction of this project. In my opinion, the owners of this property didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t endear themselves to us neighbors during the demolition of the former hardware store building. Somehow, the demolition took place only on the weekends for around three months last summer. Talk about rude awakenings, from back up alarms, to I beams hitting concrete, it was a sleep-deprived summer! I know construction is loud and dirty, hopefully this time the owners will show us neighbors some love by working to respect our right to live in peace and quiet, especially on the weekends. When I made a point of this at the aldermen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meeting, the mayor said the town couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t limit work hours, only prohibiting starting work before noon on Sunday. Wow, one would think that since the town basically gave a gift of seven parking places on East Carr Street at $10,000 a pop, the mayor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s figures not mine, that the town could leverage some concessions on work hours! Oh well, I understand and respect the idea of building mixed-use in town, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d rather see Carrboro grow upwards instead of outwards. That said, Good Luck and Godspeed on your project, and oh yeah, Welcome to Carrboro!<\/p>\n<p>Your loving neighbor,<br \/>\nBuddy Kelly<br \/>\nCarrboro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the owners of the Andrews-Riggsbee site, soon to be Roberson Square, on approval of their project. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to see their cool-looking mixed-use building in place of the vacant lot that is there now! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m disappointed they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t include a restaurant, any child-related structures, and that their garbage entrance will face their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}