Mr. Dick Hails the planning director for the city of Greensboro said the following
Thanks for relaying the question from Mr. Brown. I saw a recent email from him and know about some of his concerns. I can provide a very general response to them.
As I understand it, the City of Greensboro received special legislation from the General Assembly in 1971 to not utilize the provisions of protest petitions in considerations of rezoning requests going before the City Council. I believe that the General Assembly would need to modify or repeal that legislation before the City could consider establishing protest petition procedures.
The issue of establishing protest petitions has been raised several times by some Council members in the past few years. In each case, there was not a sense that the majority of Council wanted to pursue the matter, and there was not any follow up on the issue.
Thank you,
Dick Hails
Planning Director
City of Greensboro
WELL I THINK THE CITIZENS NEED TO FOLLOW HIM UP ON HIS OFFER AND CONTACT YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVES TO GET PROTEST PETITIONS AS A PROCESS IN ALL ZONING CASES. E-MAIL YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVES BELOW:
Alma Adams Almaa@ncleg.net
John Blust Johnbl@ncleg.net
Pricey Harrison Priceyh@ncleg.net
Maggie Jeffus Maggiej@ncleg.net
Earl Jones Earlj@ncleg.net
Laura Wiley Lauraw@ncleg.net
State Senate
Katie Dorsett Katied@ncleg.net
Kay Hagan Kayh@ncleg.net
Phil Berger philbe@ncleg.net
Please e mail them to let them know you want Protest Petitions back in Greensboro
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