Commissioners vote to sell 169 acres of Harrison-Leishear property near Mount Airy; nearby residents happy land won’t be commercial

“The amount of water that should potentially be withdrawn, which was up to 200,000 gallons of water per day, could potentially negatively affect our wells as many of our wells are really shallow and very shallow,” Trice said. “So, you know, we informed the city about this and we wanted them to consider a land swap in negotiations with IDA where the north end of the lot is the piece that is being developed and the south part of the lot that borders all of our houses would be the parkland. And the city had that idea and they brought it to the IDA and the IDA didn’t seem interested in it. For whatever reason.”