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Apartment complex just doesn’t fit
To the Editor:
Sylva is a beautiful small town. It is its small-town charm and beautiful surroundings that brings people to Sylva and it is what keeps them here. As a 22-plus year resident of Sylva, it is my passionate belief that the four-story, 84-apartment building project that is being proposed at 710 Skyland Drive does not fit with the statement in the 2040 Land Use Plan (2020) Overview that “Sylva is poised to take advantage of and build upon these assets by planning for and promoting growth while maintaining its small-town form and character.”
While I understand that there may be a need for senior housing, plopping down a 4-story building in the middle of a pasture and paving the entire area does not exactly fit within the style of this mostly single-family community. Perhaps a collection of duplexes or townhomes with some green space, even garden areas so that these seniors (of whom I am one) can remain active, would bette
Sylva denies one apartment application, approves another Jackson County Senior Planner John Jeleniewski presents his staff report on The Bluffs development proposed by Southern Properties and Development LLC. Holly Kays photo
Despite gusting winds and a temperature of 42 degrees at the time the three-hour meeting began it was 37 degrees and felt like 30 by its 8 p.m. conclusion more than 50 people bundled up to attend an outdoor hearing on the fate of two Sylva apartment projects Thursday, April 1.
After moving through a pair of formal quasi-judicial hearing processes from the stage of Bridge Park, the Board of Adjustments which is composed of town board members ultimately gave unanimous approval to a 150-bedroom, three-building complex to be located on 6.83 acres along Savannah Road but denied, by the narrowest margin possible, an application for a 76-unit, three-story senior living building on Skyland Drive.