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Funerals and Weddings

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I've written here before that I serve on the Lewisville Planning Board.  Generally we spend our time on thrilling conversations concerning things like where to put driveway cuts downtown, but this week we're ramping it up a notch at our public meeting (Wednesday, 7:30 at Town Hall). We have a case that involves three lots downtown that Hayworth Miller is requesting to be rezoned so that they can build a funeral home. I've heard that several of our citizens aren't real pleased with the location for the funeral home, so I expect we'll have a lively crowd tomorrow night.  If you plan on coming to see the festivities bring your own refreshments since there isn't a concession stand at Town Hall.

At our last work session the folks at Hayworth Miller presented some initial drawings and took questions from the Board and one of the questions asked by a fellow member of the Board just about knocked me out of my chair.  He asked, and I'm paraphrasing here, "What other uses are you considering for the facility?" I have to admit that I kind of thought he'd lost it when he asked the question because, I mean, what else would you use a funeral home for?  Ends up he hadn't lost it.  Apparently a new trend in the funeral home business is the use of their chapels for weddings.  I'll let you think about that a minute and see if you enjoy, as much as I did, the thought of so many jokes that just write themselves about a marriage that begins at a funeral home. (Feel free to share them in the comments).

Anyhoo, I expect tomorrow night's meeting to be a long and rather interesting one.  If you're a Lewisville citizen and want to say your piece then come on out and join us.

IRS Looking for a Few Lewisvillians – And They’ll Want to Be Found

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The IRS has released a list of people they're looking for to send unclaimed refund checks to, and the Triad Business Journal has a handy-dandy database you can use to search to if you're one of them.  In Lewisville, NC the people the IRS is looking for are:

R. Fulton
Z. Hartman
D. Kipp
B. Lindsay
B. Ward
D. & P. Weatherman 

Lewisville the Scene for a Hallmark Movie

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Apparently the Hallmark Channel is filming a movie on location in the Piedmont Triad and one of the locations they're using is Lewisville.  Here's the story in the Greensboro News & Record and the Hallmark Channel's press release.  The movie will be based on the book The Shunning by Beverly Lewis.

Not sure where they're going to shoot, but there are at least four locations listed on the NC Piedmont Triad Film Commission's website.  You can probably guess a few of the locations listed on the website:

If you're in Lewisville and you see a bunch of people running around with a camera you can guess what they're up to.

Lake at Lissara

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A front page article (subscription required) in this week's Triad Business Journal profiles the Lake at Lissara project in western Forsyth County, just outside the Lewisville Town Limits.  I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know much of anything about this project even though it's virtually a stone's throw from my house.  From the article:

Four Triad developers are teaming up to create a 112-home subdivision on 255 acres in western Forsyth County that will feature a large man-made lake and could reach $50 million in total investment, making it one the largest residential projects in the county since 2008…

By summer, builders and individuals can purchase lots ranging in size from one-fifth of an acre to 30 acres. Wilcox expects the homes to eventually sell for $300,000 to more than $1 million over the next seven years…

To create Lake at Lissara, the developers purchased six parcels of land for around $4 million from six different families, Wilcox said. Godfrey’s firm, Westview Development, previously owned 100 acres of the land slated for the subdivision.

Wilcox estimates total build-out costs, infrastructure and home construction to be $50 million. Once the land is plotted and recorded next month, Coldwell Banker Residential Mortgage will begin selling home lots ranging from $70,000 to about $300,000, Wilcox said.

The goal of the project is create a unique subdivision dotted with waterfront homes, sprawling estates, views of Pilot Mountain and a 64-foot-deep lake where homeowners can swim, sail and fish. The lake itself stretches some 3,000 feet end to end and has an estimated three miles of lake frontage.

From the standpoint of Lewisville I'm not sure this is a great development. There's a pretty decent impact on infrastructure since the quickest access to US-421 is through town, and that section of town already experiences a great deal of traffic volume. On the other hand, since this development is in Forsyth the town won't recognize any tax revenue from it, and considering these are going to be high end properties that would be a decent chunk of change.  Maybe the town will get a little indirect bump if the development helps raise the value of surrounding properties, but I don't think it will be enough to make up for the infrastructure hit.

Update: More from the Winston-Salem Journal

I Guess Drinks Are On Dr. Hutton

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MyBridges.net is a local social networking thingamajig that gave away $1,000 to a lucky member to be shared with a charity of his or her choosing.  When I saw who the lucky winner was I was kind of gob-smacked: it was Dr. Ron Hutton with whom I served on the Lewisville Zoning Board of Adjustment for several years.  I don't think I've seen him since I left the ZBOA, but I might have to look him up to see how he's spending his lucre! 

Mostly Local Market, Lewisville

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According to this article from the Winston-Salem Journal a fellow named Tom Raif has opened a market focused on selling locally grown food has opened behind the Brush Strokes art studio on Shallowford Road.  From the article:

He's still in the process of filling the shelves. But he had local tomatoes and squash last week. Pears and apples came from Virginia. Eggs came right from Lewisville. He bought beef off the hoof from Pfafftown and had it processed locally to sell ground beef, steaks, roasts and soup bones. He also has chickens, whole and in various cuts, and plans to add sausage this week.

Right now, he's dealing with wholesalers who can get local produce, but he hopes to work more directly with farmers. He said he has contacted two organic farms about supplying him with pumpkins and other fall produce.

He also plans to add fresh breads, handmade soaps and other items soon.