The West Cary Neighborhood Coalition has already established several connections with the local media in Cary & Raleigh. We are always happy to speak with members of the press for comment & interviews.
All media requests can be directed to Ryan McCormick / Ryan@goldmanmccormick.com
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Interviews Available With
Mischa Locklear
Family size: 2 adults, 2 children
Years in the community: 15 years in West Cary & native North Carolinian
Mischa says:
This is not a matter of opposing or supporting a school. It’s about opposing rushed plans to build a huge school on a small site, off a dead end road, with 2,000+ students, no buses, hundreds of cars spilling onto neighborhood streets and creating a safety and traffic nightmare. Current roads and infrastructure do not support a school of this size under the timeframe they wish to build.
Considering this is Chatham County land, the default option should be for Chatham County to utilize this land for a K-5 or K-8 school. This would directly serve residents east of Jordan Lake who desperately need another option and support the housing developments under construction. With this land situated near the American Tobacco Trail and within the Jordan Lake watershed area, size restrictions should be considered for any school to minimize adverse impacts. The alternate option would be to relocate a school of this size closer to Hwy 751 or alternate tract within the 18,000 acres under the joint use plan.
Media Availability
Work from home and open to phone interview
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Jie Yang
Family size: 4 (2 adults, 2 kids — age 8 and age 4)
Years in the community: 10+ years.
Jie Says:
I am not opposing this school, I am opposing the rezoning plan with added residential units (115 units) and a huge school of 2000 students with no community buses. It will bring the traffic that the current infrastructure cannot support and the impacted area is so large that if the rezoning is approved and the school is built, it will take decades and millions of dollars of tax payer’s money to revamp the roads in the area to deal with the consequence. Moreover, the proposed area for school is actually too small to host a school of 2000 students.
Proposed solution:
1. Do not relocate the school to the current location; use the lot originally specified for school in the PDD which is larger and more suitable to build a school;
2. Keep the number of residential units to be built as specified in the PDD, which is 30.
3. Reduce the school size to 500-800 students;
4. Build more traffic lights in the impacted intersections nearby.
Media Availability
Work from home and open to phone interview
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Lesley Stobert
Family size – 5 (2 adults, 3 kids)
Years in the community – 2
Lesley Says:
I oppose the rezoning, not a school per se
A proposed solution would be to keep the existing zoning or re-propose alternative re-zoning with appropriate land sizes for the intended uses; location for a school this large would be more appropriate at a large intersection, such as at future intersection of Yates Store Road and Morrisville Parkway
Media Availability
Works at office, but could do phone interview
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