Let Them Eat Cake

Where’s the park?   Those folks downtown who feel it is “their turn” to feed from Cary’s gourmet public trough, have deemed our 13 acre downtown park a “luxury“,  so our Town Council responded.  Private business owners get our prime land, public cash, and financing for their private development, leaving citizens with a stormwater drain field for a park. 6.8 million of Cary citizens’ tax dollars are subsidizing iPads and evening bed turndowns for the well-to-do, complete with chocolates and port wine. We get the leftovers.  They call it “public private partnership”.  We call it...

Mayton Inn – Your Tax Dollars at Work

 How does a couple in Durham get $6.8 million of Cary taxpayer money for their boutique hotel? The downtown Mayton Inn will cost $9.8 million to build. Most of us cannot even afford the $300/night to enjoy a room there, yet the Town Council forces us to spend nearly $7 million of our hard earned money to build it. Established Downtown businesses, some there for decades, will never see a dime from the Town, let alone millions. Other businesses have already been forced out of Downtown under the threat of eminent domain.   Eat Your Heart Out MetLife This Durham couple walked away from Cary Town Council negotiations with a package worth...

Before It’s To...

A letter sent from a resident in Downtown Cary.  It expresses well the sentiment heard from hardworking homeowners – all but ignored in the rush to urbanize Cary. “Please take time to sign and pass on to many others an on-line petition at  http://downtowncary.org/petition...

HUD: Expensive Money

HUD has decided that it is a right under law for anyone, to live anywhere they want, regardless of ability to afford it. HUD has empowered itself to defend this right by targeting local zoning laws as tools of racial discrimination. Has Cary added itself to their target list? When HUD offers...

Fundamental Transformation of Cary: Urbanization Jul10

Fundamental Transformation of Cary: Urbanization

TO HAVE A VOICE – SIGN THE PETITION As taxes rise and basic services are cut, millions of your money flows to build a boutique hotel, movie theater and a coffee shop.  We all are excited to see improvements Downtown but so far all we see is a very expensive start to high density urbanization, with huge cost overruns, – no end or plan in sight. Can we afford it? Is it the nature and character that drew us all to Cary in the first place? The Town Council approved a $307 million budget Thursday including the first tax increase in Cary since 1989. The budget also raises residential garbage, recycling and yard waste fees. WRAL June...