SAVE HIGH POINT WATER
YOUR LAKE. YOUR CITY. YOUR WATER!
Did you know that your water supply is being threatened by a new development?
Are you aware that a retail business that includes a gas station, car wash and fast food restaurant may be built on the shore of Oak Hollow Lake, the water supply for more than 100,000 residents of High Point?
This proposed development will include storage tanks with thousands of gasoline buried just a few yards from the lake, your water supply!
Here is what you need to know...and do!
OUR WATER IN HIGH POINT, NC COULD BE IN JEOPARDY
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO STOP THIS?
As citizens of this community, we must take this threat seriously.
If you are opposed to building such a facility on the banks of our water supply, please take action immediately.
Sign our petition, call your council member, tell you friends and neighbors.
Remember, this is time sensitive. We must act NOW!
OAK HOLLOW LAKE IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF OUR WATER IN HIGH POINT, NC
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
A commercial real estate developer wants to build a combination of a gas station, restaurant, and car wash on property that is located on the banks of Oak Hollow Lake, the largest watershed in Guilford County and the sole source of drinking water for the City of High Point.
This will involve burying gas tanks just yards from Oak Hollow Lake and that will drain toward a stream that drains into another. HIGH POINT CITY LAKE!
Approximately 542,000 underground storage tanks (USTs) nationwide store petroleum or hazardous substances. Each of these tanks represent a potential threat of contamination to YOUR groundwater.
Does that sound safe to you? Are you concerned about the safety of your water supply? We are!
Even though the developer maintains that these tanks are "safe”, the runoff from a convenience store, gas station, greasy fast food restaurant and a detergent-filled car wash has the potential to drain right into our water supply, harming our wildlife and contaminating our recreational waters.
Are you concerned about the safety of your water supply?
A DEVELOPMENT IS PROPOSED NEAR OAK HOLLOW LAKE IN HIGH POINT, NC
WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS?
This is the developer who is behind this proposal, accompanied by a paid consultant to help promote this project.
She has been hired by this developer to push this proposal through the political gauntlet, and they are doing this under the radar and out of the public view.
This is our effort to change that!
Jim Grdich - Developer
VP-Development and Construction
Blue Ridge Companies
https://www.blueridgecompanies.com/
826 Samet Drive, Suite 105
High Point, NC 27265
800-410-7228
Judy Stalder
Chief Executive Officer
Stalder Group, LLC
PO Box 5581
High Point NC 27262
336-688-2204
SAVE OUR WATER IN HIGH POINT, NC | NO GAS STATIONS NEAR OAK HOLLOW LAKE
WHO ARE THE DECISION MAKERS?
This proposal will be presented to the Zoning Commission on December 8th.
If they deny the proposal, it will have to be re-presented at a later date and will require a larger quorum for passage.
City of High Point Planning & Zoning Commission
City of High Point Council Members
If the proposal is approved by PNZ, it will go to the City commissioners for review.
We need to let these officials know that we are OPPOSED to this proposed threat to our watershed!
HOW WILL THIS DEVELOPMENT AFFECT YOU?
If this proposal is approved and construction is completed, this development will have a serious impact on the whole city and especially to this section of Eastchester boulevard, which is already overdeveloped, congested, and dangerous.
It will initiate several changes to the area...and they are all BAD.
You must ask yourself? Does High Point need another gas station? Another car wash? Another convenience store? And are we willing to risk endangering our water source to add one more of each?
If you think this is a bad idea click below and sign our petition...
HOW YOU CAN STOP THIS THREAT TO OUR WATER IN HIGH POINT
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO STOP THIS?
You must act now to stop this development. Political decisions will be made in the coming weeks that will affect your community and your life permanently. Let these politicians know what you think TODAY!!!
CITY OF HIGH POINT PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETING
As part of the City of High Point’s COVID-19 mitigation efforts, the Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a remote public hearing on December 8th and in-person public attendance will not be allowed at this meeting. Once the Planning and Zoning Commission is in session, please use the following link to listen to the meeting live https://www.HighPointNC.gov/VirtualPublicMeeting
The public can submit comments to the Commission by emailing comments to build@highpointnc.gov or by calling 336-883-3522 and leaving a message.
Written comments can also be placed in the City of High Point’s utility payment drop-boxes located on both sides of the Municipal Building located at 211 S. Hamilton Street in the Green Drive and the Commerce Avenue parking lots. We request that you include the case number at the top of the notice with your comment so it can be applied to the correct case.
Public comments are being accepted now and will be until 24 hours after the close of the public hearing.
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