On Tuesday, the public got its first official opportunity to weigh in on the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority’s plans for 136 acres of parkland along the shore of Lake Crabtree since it announced last month it was going to create a “recreation and wellness destination” on the property.
The consensus?
As they did at the beginning of this year, when airport authority officials announced an upcoming “entertainment destination,” members of the public seem to want to keep the property—home to a hilly, densely wooded, 9-mile network of mountain biking trails which were closed earlier this summer—as natural as possible.
At this week’s public workshop hosted in the ballroom of Cary’s Senior Center from 4 to 7 p.m., dozens of people dropped in for a Q&A session with airport authority staff, developers, and their attorneys about their vision for the land that Wake County has leased from the airport authority since the 1980s at the vastly discounted rate of $1 per year…