Another response to Chip Worrell

This time from Ed Joran of Statonwoods:

Mr. Worrell uses Machiavellian logic, i.e., the ends justifies the means, in supporting the development of a soccer complex on the Highland Lake Golf Club (HLGC) site in Flat Rock. He spends two paragraphs citing the number of golf courses in Henderson County. That’s irrelevant to the siting controversy.

He then casually dismisses the Henderson County Soccer Association's (HCSA) signed 25-year lease for a soccer complex with the Town of Fletcher.

Then, he tells the neighbors around the proposed soccer complex they should just accept the environmental encroachment of a raucous soccer complex 150 feet from their homes because “This is life.” He then goes on to chide opponents to say their thinking is “pretty small” in opposing the soccer complex. "Pretty small?" Really?

What Mr. Worrell, the HCSA and four of the five County Commissioners choose to ignore is the opposition from homeowners surrounding the proposed soccer complex is not that we are taking a “NIMBY” (not in my back yard) position. We are taking a “NIABY” (not in anybody’s back yard) position.

A soccer complex with attendant noise and lighting pollution, and negative property value and traffic impacts, are inappropriate in residential settings – particularly at the HLGC site.