Dear Asheville- Despite City Council's best efforts to ignore, Asheville does have a part of town called "East Asheville" that exists to the eastern side of the beloved West Asheville, the happening East-West Asheville and the canonical Downtown/Lexington Ave area. I love those areas of town. However, we need to talk. Seriously, there's more than just a mall over here. There's the beautiful municipal golf course, the WNC Nature Center (now with two otters!), the VA, great local restaurants and bars, a fantastic dog park, the East Rec Center (better soccer than the world cup) and a ton of good folks. A good number of those folks vote too. I know, I was a precinct chair (now Vice Chair). So can we start talking about sidewalks now? We'd love to walk more on this side of the Tunnel, but walking is just shy of Russian Roulette (especially for our younger families with strollers looking to put down roots and create a nice tax base for our community's future). Thanks- Sam