
{"id":22086,"date":"2011-11-23T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=22086"},"modified":"2011-11-23T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:59:41","slug":"residents-oppose-proposed-family-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/11\/23\/residents-oppose-proposed-family-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents oppose proposed Family Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rose Laudicina<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\nTypically when somebody new moves into a neighborhood, current residents are welcoming. But this is hardly the situation on Alabama Avenue in Carrboro, where neighbors are joining together in an attempt to prevent a Family Dollar store from taking residence. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It will completely destroy this neighborhood,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Alabama Avenue resident Larry Worth said. <\/p>\n<p>The store would be located off Jones Ferry Road, between The Pantry and Morningstar Mini-Storage, on a small wooded piece of land at the entrance to Alabama Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>At around 8,000 square feet, accompanied by 26 parking spaces, and with the entrance off Alabama Avenue, residents worry that the store would bring increased traffic, noise pollution and unsafe conditions to their neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p>Will Stronach of Stronach Properties, the developers of the project, said they believe the store will be a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153positive addition to the community and will provide a much-needed service to the citizens while creating tax revenue for the town.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>However, neighbors say the store won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bring anything positive or needed to the area because there is already a dollar store located in Carrboro Plaza less than 2 miles away. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see why we need another dollar store,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Rebecca Bennett, a resident of Alabama Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lower-income type of business, and just because this is a low-income area doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean we deserve this. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deserve this any more than a rich neighborhood does,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.  <\/p>\n<p>Residents are also upset with what they are calling a lack of respect from Stronach Properties for having presented plans to town advisory boards without any contact with or input from the neighborhood.  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They never sat down with us,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Anissa McLendon said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They just said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to clean up your neighborhood,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 but we never asked them to do that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>McLendon has been spearheading the neighborhood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s efforts against the store. Her property is adjacent to the site of the proposed store; the dumpsters for the building, she said, will be located about 36 feet from her bedroom window.<\/p>\n<p>Stronach said plans include thoughtful landscaping to minimize the impact on the residential area. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have designed screens and buffers to minimize disturbance,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have worked really hard to ensure the development is attractive.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>Aware that some might accuse them of being against the store because of NIMBYism (Not In My Backyard), residents say they aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t opposed to something being built in the vacant space as long as it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t harm the community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feel. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want something here that will help the neighborhood and will enhance Alabama Avenue,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d resident Phyllis Bland said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have no problem with something built here as long as it is a win-win for everybody.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>McLendon has been collecting input from all neighbors about what they would rather see built on the land; suggestions so far have ranged from a police substation to a day-care center or park. <\/p>\n<p>Stronach Properties said they are finishing up the planning phase, and have yet to submit an application to the town. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typically when somebody new moves into a neighborhood, current residents are welcoming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22086","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=22086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22087,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22086\/revisions\/22087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}