The Davidson County Economic Development Commission decided to do some drilling. On private property, that is:
The group of Linwood farmers who approached the Davidson County Board of Commissioners at its Sept. 26 meeting did so again Tuesday night, requesting answers about drilling that occurred on their property at the beginning of last month.
On Sept. 8 and 9, workers sent by Greensboro-based Engineering Consulting Services, a company employed by the Davidson County Economic Development Commission, drilled a series of 25-foot holes, each about five inches in diameter, on private farmland adjacent to Clyde Fitzgerald Road. The property is just north of a proposed 1,000-acre industrial park below Belmont Road.
The farmers, represented by Jane Stokes Everhart, said a number of questions remain unanswered about the drilling. The workers who conducted that drilling said, alternately, that they were testing for sewer and that they were taking soil samples. The board on Sept. 26 pledged to look into the matter.
But never fear landowners, especially when you have the reassurance of Davidson County commissioners:
Everhart quoted Board Chair Fred McClure as having said the commissioners were on record as opposing “the taking of land.”
McClure told Everhart he wanted to make a clarification. “We are opposed to the taking of land for economic development,” he said, continuing that “was not meant to be a definitive statement” but instead “a reassuring statement.”
I’m sure they feel much better.
