MILLS RIVER – Residents filled the gym at Mills River Elementary School on a recent December evening to ask questions and give feedback on a major overhaul of the town’s proposed comprehensive plan, the Imagine Mills River Unified Development Ordinance.
“This is a document that’s supposed to set the future for the community through the year 2040,” consultant Chad Meadows from the Durham firm CodeWright Planners, told residents Dec. 11.
He worked the crowd with a practiced showman’s patter as he fielded questions and walked step by step through the details of the plan, illustrated with color-coded maps posted all around the room…