Todd Paris, Staff Writer and Salisbury Attorney
♦ RFP ran a gag last week about “Exodus Real Estate: The Gateway to Davidson County.” The gag had a point. Now it’s real. Someone close to me is looking to buy a nice house and pay cash for it. Rowan is no longer favored thanks to the BoE’s “Nightmare Scenario.” No they don’t have kids, they are just newly “offer shy” in Rowan because of the now newly unpredictable property values. Their Rowan County based, Seller’s Realtor has just now rushed out and completed additional training to become more proficient on selling Davidson County properties. Their realtor says numerous folks looking to move from one place in Rowan to another have decided to put a “hold” on those efforts until they see how the Nightmare Scenario shakes out. Many now are thinking about selling and moving out of county. Can’t blame them–they’re looking out for their own best interests.
The real estate market had just started to recover and now Superintendent Moody and whoever put her up to “The Nightmare Scenario” that will bus over 4,000 elementary students and close six schools has apparently stalled the real estate market outside of Salisbury and announced to the world we are a dying county.
Way to go guys! The entire BoE and Superintendent Moody should resign before they do more damage, and for that matter Rowan County Commission Chair Greg Edds as well. We all know that Edds, with his two “rubber-stamp, yes votes” (Klusman and Greene) on the commission that he is the de facto ruler of Rowan County. They are all unable or unwilling to change course and just need to go.
Smart parents in Rockwell and Granite Quarry are coming realize that while their schools are not being closed, that accepting Faith and Morgan’s kids will put them way over capacity and that it’s their kids that will be bussed as the BoE says, “to the I-85 corridor.” We all know what that means and it isn’t China Grove and Landis.
That’s why we don’t have good jobs. Salisbury first, municipal-centric politicians who get talked into stupid things “over lunch” with people who are just looking out for themselves at the expense of the entire community.
I call for a voting firestorm in this county. The rural residents did not mind cooperating with Salisbury for the common good, but we did not expect them to take advantage of us like this.
The Rowan County Commission meets tomorrow night at the Cohen Building at 3:00 p.m. Show up 15 min. early, to sign to speak. Edds will tell you that the Commission has no statutory authority to stop “The Nightmare Scenario.” That is correct, however he has the political power to stop it. He won’t, because his political supporters are “all about Salisbury.”
Wear red!
