Jan Nickerson lives at Pisgah Valley Retirement Community in Candler, one of several unincorporated parts of Buncombe County.
The complex has residences and operations on two sides of Holcombe Cove Road, a busy street with no sidewalks or crosswalk.
So, when Nickerson heard the county was holding a community meeting on its first-ever Pedestrian Plan, she grabbed her husband and a friend and headed over to the venue, the Land of Sky Regional Council…