[CPEO-BIF] Jail at Duracell site? Lexington, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Deed restriction may create bar to plans for new jail

By Michael Hewlett
Winston-Salem Journal (NC)
June 1, 2009

LEXINGTON

A deed restriction has put a crimp in Davidson County's plans to use the 
former Duracell plant as a site for a new jail.

"It doesn't totally eliminate it, but it does put a cloud on the 
property that we don't want to deal with," Larry Potts, a Davidson 
County commissioner, said yesterday.

The county's jail committee had recommended the site, and two weeks ago 
county commissioners voted to make the Duracell plant the preferred site 
for the jail.

But Tuesday night, the commissioners changed their minds during a closed 
session after learning about the deed restriction, and they referred the 
matter back to the jail committee. The deed restriction prohibits the 
site from being used for "residential purposes," and there was some 
question whether the jail would be considered a residential use.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/may/30/deed-restriction-may-create-bar-to-plans-for-new-j/news/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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