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Asheville council approves extra design funds for Malvern Hills pool after residents urge in-kind rebuild
Summary
City council approved additional design funding for the Malvern Hills pool rebuild after residents urged the city to keep the pool’s existing footprint and restore rather than redesign. Council approved the consent-item funding and the separate item M to add design funds; specifics on the amount were not stated in the public record.
Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer and the City Council voted to approve additional design funding for the Malvern Hills pool rebuild after multiple residents urged the city to repair or rebuild the pool within its existing footprint.
Residents pressed council during the public-comment portion of the meeting to “fix it” and to restore the pool “in its current footprint,” citing the neighborhood’s long expectation that the pool would be rebuilt like-for-like. Sally Grau, a resident who spoke at the meeting, told council the community “never asked Parks and Rec to redesign the pool” and asked council to “allow us as a community to use our tax dollars to rebuild the pool we campaigned for so that it can…
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