Friends Now Trying to Strangle Killian House after Failing to Kill It

to: mayorbellamy, Esther, Cecil, jandavis, Marc, gordonsmith, dfoster, jmoore, stuch, cball, mcoates, divester

The Killian House at 284 Beaverdam Road likely is the oldest home in Buncombe County.
After the Flores family totally embarrassed the Friends of the North Dog Park by having in 24 hours 277 Change.org votes against tearing their home down to build a dog park, the Friends denied that they would ever consider tearing down their home, the Killian house. Apparently the Friends were suggesting the Flores just made up the story themselves because the Friends were only kidding the day before when the Friends marched onto their property unannounced to film a TV spot and told them a dog park was going to be at this location.

Now the very same Friends have a new tactic.  They will squeeze the life out of the Killian house.  They want the property to only have a third of an acre, even though Buncombe County records show an acre of the six acres should be allocated to the house.  (Refer to http://rasheville.blogspot.com/2013/10/friends-dog-park-plan-draft-to-city.html).  The map of property also shows by a broken line an acre allocation around the house.

Reducing from an acre to a third of an acre will kill the Killian house.  Imagine the Killian house being advertised as the only home in Asheville with close-up scenic views of three dog parks and with fish bowl living in a home closely surrounded by public easement sidewalks.

Why would anyone invest in improving the Killian house when its economic value has been killed by the Friends of the Dog Park?  Hmmm---I wonder if their plans are still to tear down the Killian house for a parking lot.

By the way, Responsible Asheville had 110 hits two days ago and has had 65 hits so far today.  The Friends portray us as only a few individuals opposed to locating the dog park at 284 Beaverdam.  The correct description is a multitude opposed to locating the dog park at 284 Beaverdam.