In regard to the article printed in the Oct. 4 edition of R&L about the biodiesel facility, it is quite obvious people still don’t get the issues that surround this proposed location.
If it were 100 percent safe, which it isn’t, there would still be the concerns of our decreasing property values due to the zoning change. As all homeowners should know, owning property is supposed to be an appreciating investment, not depreciating.
Why would anyone want to put something in their community that would devalue their neighbors’ properties by thousands of dollars? Where is the love?
As for John Bonitz’s invitation for an "educational" tour of the Pittsboro biodiesel plant — is he suggesting we are uneducated?
As for our "concerns over production safety being almost laughable" please don’t patronize us. I personally don’t find anything about this topic to be a laughing matter.
I noticed one of the facilities in Pittsboro is located on Industrial Drive (does this tell you anything?) and the road the coop is on is a divided zone, half being in the Pittsboro city district and the other half unzoned.
Are either of these facilities located in R-20 (single family residential) districts? The facility Bonitz speaks of being 100 feet from a playground with offices next door doesn’t sound like a residential district.
As previously stated numerous times, we are not against biodiesel manufacturing; this is a zoning issue.
Lorrie Barker
Statesville
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