Chris Grigg said he was never supposed to end up in Clyde, a small town west of Asheville. He moved from Kentucky after the storm last year to be close to his parents and started Camp Restore Hope to support people throughout the region.
The hub operates on residential land, which conflicts with local zoning rules, and its temporary permit will expire Aug. 26. Grigg said he isn’t going anywhere.
“A lot of people come through here and they’ll tell you, if it wasn’t for us being here, they have no idea what they would have done,” Grigg said. “No idea. So how do you leave that? I’m not willing to do that.”…