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This hit my inbox today. The Downtown Master Plan will start hitting City Council as early as January 12th. Listen in to get the skinny on the machinations of the most important changes to come to downtown Asheville since the 80′s.

Tune to ashevillefm.org tonight at 6:30pm, when Veronika Gunter will interview Parkside activist Steve Rasmussen for the inside story on what’s going on with Asheville’s Downtown Master Plan. A member of the Master Plan’s Urban Design/Development Action Subcommittee, Rasmussen has been meeting weekly with city staff and downtown developers as the group hashes out how to turn the development-control recommendations of the Master Plan into law. He’ll discuss what he sees as the key points citizens concerned about development in Asheville will need to zero in on as the finalized Plan makes its way to City Council — what he calls “Master Plan hotspots” of likely controversy.