Much More to Life Than Development

As of Tuesday, March 8, 2011

We should all be grateful for the recent sensible actions taken to slow development and building in Moore County.

It seems that some developers who want to build three more golf courses or ravage 600 acres of woodlands near the airport and community college just don’t “get it.”

There are enough bad examples — like the guys who just had to build another steakhouse in Southern Pines at a time when red-meat consumption is dropping like a cleaver, or the dozens of near-bankrupt underused golf courses around us, or old half-finished subdivisions — to encourage us all to go out and plant more trees, or to start farming fallow land again. We do not need any more “development”!

What we do need is responsible land resource management, with full appreciation for the benefits of forests and wetlands, the sources of “life’s little necessities” like oxygen to breathe, the fun of watching birds in your backyard or the amazing moments when a stately doe and her fawns meander into your yard to graze.

Real life consists of a lot more than money or a big pickup truck to waste gasoline and pollute the air.

My thanks to the public employees who just say “No!” to those who would despoil Moore County.

Art Dersch

Whispering Pines

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Arestorer 2 years, 2 months ago

Kudo's

RadioNC 2 years, 2 months ago

Would you rather have 1100 double wides? Because that is what the land is zoned for now as we speak. Just admit you've got yours, and want to shut the door to everyone else. Go hug your trees because someday soon you'll get your double wides complete withe tobacco spitting contests in the streets. Stopping a rezoning request does NOT stop development, it just produces poor quality developments...but since your money is not at risk what do you care.

DaveyNC 2 years, 2 months ago

What RadioNC said. Write it down, bookmark this page, because that is what is going to happen.

You know, it is possible to be over-protective of something. If something isn't growing, it's dying.

bettertimes 2 years, 2 months ago

For RadioNC -Your comment shows your ignorance and lack of feelings for other humans. True it may be zoned for 'double wides' BUT your comment that puts all 'double wide' owners in a catagory of tobacco spitting hillbilles is totally uncalled for! There are many fine, upstanding, classy, educated citizens that have chosen to live in a mobile home because of cost efficiency. Everyone doesn't have the money to buy or build a stick built home. Part of what's wrong with the world are people like you that think they are BETTER than others because you have more income than another. Shame on you!

Zoey 2 years, 2 months ago

Build, Build, Build, til not an acre is left. Then what?

Looking out for Today's Greed, not Tomorrow's Need.....

Ross 2 years, 2 months ago

Amen!

marathonman 2 years, 2 months ago

Thanks Art! We have golf courses that are floundering. Yet there are those who believe developing 3 or 4 more resorts in Moore County can be productive. Our economy is, too, floundering. We have an administration in Washington that seems bent on bringing our great country to ruin. Most folks are watching their resources. The first thing to go will be entertainment that costs a lot of money. I just do not think given all the circumstances here and around the world that we can delude ourselves into thinking all this development will result in jobs and revitilization of our economy. Mostly, it will destroy infrastructure not now able to accomodate this development; roads, water, power, etc....