On Monday, I was driving to Burlington to attend the P&Z Commission meeting (we received a favorable recommendation, by the way), and once again, I noticed matching decorative seahorses hanging on a handful of houses.
Over the past two years, in my many trips to Glencoe and drives around Alamance County, I’ve noticed these seahorses. It amazes me how many houses have seahorses hanging on them! I’ve never seen these in or around the Raleigh area or anywhere on my drives to western NC, so I’ve often wondered if it’s an Alamance County thing. Although, I must admit that I saw a pair hanging on a house just over the Alamance County line one day. A few people have told me that these little seahorses are abundant in Eastern NC, and I’ll have to take their word for it because I’m not often over that way.
Sometimes the seahorses are white, sometimes they are painted other colors — I’ve seen red, black, yellow, and green.
In one particular Burlington neighborhood, almost every other house has a pair of these seahorses on display. My absolute favorite, however, was the day I looked over and saw this house with five seahorses! I decided that the grand master of the Royal Order of the Seahorses (ROS to those of us in the “know”) must live here.
Spotting these seahorses has become one of my favorite games on my many drives, and I’d appreciate it if anyone could tell me something about them! I know this doesn’t really have anything to do with Glencoe, but I get such a kick out of these little seahorses. Anyone know anything?
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A little over a week ago, we submitted a rezoning application to the City of Burlington for our 6+ acres out at Glencoe. Currently, some of the mill buildings are zoned Office-Institutional (O-I), the Machine Shop is zoned General Business (B-2), and some of the property is zoned residential (R-9). We’ve been working with the Planning Department staff closely (they’ve been wonderfully helpful!), talking about whether the current zoning meets our needs, and we all came to the conclusion that it does not. We’re very interested in fostering a creative community out at Glencoe, and we hope to offer space to more artists like Steve Cote, our metal sculptor tenant, and more companies like Prop Tarts, a set/prop house located in the Main Mill basement.
In order to accommodate these uses and others, the City has suggested that we rezone our property to Light Industrial (I-2) with a residential component. This will allow for uses such as office, artist studios, retail, residential, childcare facilities, the hydroelectric plant, and community and public facilities.
The Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, open to the public, is on Monday, October 27, 2008, at 7:00 p.m., in the City Council Chambers in City Municipal Building. At this meeting the P&Z Commission will vote on their recommendation to the City Council. Part of our application is a preliminary site plan, which we are making available here.
Glencoe Mill preliminary site plan for rezoning application
We would welcome all comments and questions. You can respond, comment, and discuss here on the blog, or you can send questions to me, Carrie, at cehrfurth@hedgehogholdings.com. I look forward to hearing from you!
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