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IMPORTANT NOTICE

VOLUNTARY WATER CONSERVATION

As everyone is aware many areas in North Carolina are suffering from the worst drought in our recorded history. Buncombe County has been classified as

D3-Extreme Drought

The State of North Carolina Governor’s office is asking all residents of North Carolina to use water only for necessary purposes. The City Of Asheville is requesting all water system customers to voluntarily reduce water use. Since the Town purchases its water from the City Of Asheville the Town is also requesting everyone’s help and support in this voluntary action. Your participation in this matter is greatly appreeciated.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact the Public Works Department at 274-3919.

The Town is requesting that all residential customers consider options that will help reduce the amount of water they use around their homes. These measures include:

•Don’t wash cars with a hose; instead consider a commercial car wash that recycles water.

•Limit or stop watering landscapes; always use shutoff nozzles on hoses.

•Use a broom instead of a hose to clean driveways, sidewalks, and decks.

•Turn the water off while brushing teeth or shaving.

•When washing dishes, don’t leave the water on while rinsing.

•Fix leaky faucets, plumbing joints, and toilets.

•Install water saving shower heads or flow restrictors.

•Run only full loads in the washing machine and dishwashers.

•Shorten showers

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Profile of the Town of Biltmore Forest

Biltmore Forest is a planned residential community with a rich cultural history. The Town was planned by the best professional planners of their day. Mr. C.D. Beadle who had been associated with the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted of Boston, planned the protection, preservation, and perfection of the natural beauty of the area that is now known as Biltmore Forest. Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, the Father of Landscape Architecture, planned his landscape to preserve the beauty of the natural environment and attempted to create a rural atmosphere although his designs were often located in cities. He was involved in the design of New York's Central Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, and the grounds of the Biltmore Estate.

Since Mr. Beadle had been associated with Mr. Olmsted, it is fair to say that the layout of Biltmore Forest and subsequent development is also a living example of more famous pioneering efforts in landscape architecture. Those ideas of 1920 are committed to paper in plans of the Town that existed in 1924 that have been followed and are still being followed today.

The Town of Biltmore Forest was incorporated in 1923, and was determined eligible for Determination as a Historic District by the U.S. Department of Interior in March 1990. The idea of preserving and enhancing nature is at the core of the beauty of Biltmore Forest and helps guide the ordinance makers, administrators, developers, and residents of the Town. It is this reason that ordinances guide the removal of trees, that structures and buildings are forbidden in front yards, and why fences have always been discouraged, to name a few of the rules that have made our Town unlike any elsewhere.