Proposed apartments will exacerbate dangers

I’m writing this letter out of concern over a large multi-family apartment complex project (RZN 19-6716) planned behind the Panera Bread Co. restaurant and along Mud Creek in Fayetteville.

The Lindsey Co. hopes to have rezoning of the parcel approved by the Fayetteville City Council on Tuesday, Sept. 17.

My wife and I have lived in the Brookhaven subdivision above Mud Creek since 2010. We walk almost daily along Mud Creek as do thousands of others.

I’m not against construction in general. Property owners have a right to develop their property and people need jobs. But high-density construction in this narrow little area between hillside and creek will ruin a delicate and, I think, irreplaceable part of Fayetteville’s future.

What has to occur first is the extension of Vantage Avenue, spanning Mud Creek, to join East Sain Street. It has federal funding.

I wish there had also been federal funding to create a better traffic outlet to College Avenue. We can expect to see much more traffic coming out of these new Lindsey apartments trying to enter and exit one of the worst intersections in Fayetteville. I’m talking about the Millsap Road/ Whole Foods demolition derby.

I know the City Council struggles to get the recipe right between development and preserving some of the natural beauty that makes Fayetteville the place it is. It can’t be easy and there has to be enormous pressure from the different constituencies to vote one way or another.

So I’ll just suggest that voting “no” won’t bankrupt this builder or even put a dent in their profits.

I see a lot of undeveloped Lindsey property on the other side of Joyce Boulevard that they are trying to sell! That’s where they could build their apartments.

I urge readers to contact the City Council immediately and tell them to vote “no” on this example of “progmess.”

JEFF REDDEKOPP Fayetteville