What Can I Do?

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Attend Council Meetings:  All interested Buncombe County residents should attend as many City Council Meetings as possible wearing a red shirt which will indicate you wish to Stop Forced Annexation.

Contact each City Council member by writing your own letter to let them know that you are opposed to forced annexation, and that if they “vote us in, we will vote them out.” Encourage the Council Members to “do the right thing” and honor people’s wishes to remain separate from the City of Asheville.  For contact information, see Asheville City Council. 

A note on writing your own letters, which we encourage you to do:  Keep the tone of your letters strong, yet constructive, to be taken seriously.  All correspondence must be signed including contact information (address/phone number).  We have been advised that without contact information, all correspondence is disregarded or discarded.  They need to know who we are, and that we are serious.

Help identify and support elect-able candidates for City Council who are opposed to forced annexation. In addition, if you are not already registered to vote, please do so. 

Support our County Commissioners who have proposed the moratorium on annexation within Buncombe County. Contact all county commissioners and let them know that you are opposed to forced annexation, and encourage them to be active in supporting this position.  To contact all commissioners, call (828) 250-4001 or email to commissioners@buncombecounty.org. We suggest, in addition to contacting commissioners via the “catch-all” email address, contacting each commissioner individually.  See Buncombe County Commissioners for contact information.

Contact local State Representatives Susan Fisher and Tim Moffitt to let them know that they need to support Representative Bruce Goforth's efforts to get annexation reform legislation passed into law.  They need to be reminded that “if we are voted in, we will vote them out.”

Contact local State Senators Apodaca and Nesbitt to let them know that you are opposed to forced annexation and that they should follow the lead of Representative Goforth, and introduce similar legislation to the Senate, on our behalf.  In addition, let them know that they should support all Senate bills in opposition to forced annexation.

Finally, you can contribute locally to support our legal efforts to Stop Asheville in their efforts to forcibly annex Biltmore Lake by sending your check to the address shown.

Thank you for your support!