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IMPORTANT NOTICE

VOLUNTARY WATER CONSERVATION

The Town is requesting that all residential customers consider options that will help reduce the amount of water they use around their homes. These measures include:

•Don’t wash cars with a hose; instead consider a commercial car wash that recycles water.

•Limit or stop watering landscapes; always use shutoff nozzles on hoses.

•Use a broom instead of a hose to clean driveways, sidewalks, and decks.

•Turn the water off while brushing teeth or shaving.

•When washing dishes, don’t leave the water on while rinsing.

•Fix leaky faucets, plumbing joints, and toilets.

•Install water saving shower heads or flow restrictors.

•Run only full loads in the washing machine and dishwashers.

•Shorten showers

TAKE CAUTION: SWINE FLU

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has determined that this swine influenza virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human. However, at this time, it not known how easily the virus spreads between people. Investigations are ongoing to determine the source of the infection and whether additional people have been infected with swine influenza viruses.

The symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.

Some people have reported diarrhea and vomiting associated with swine flu. In the past, severe illness (pneumonia and respiratory failure) and deaths have been reported with swine flu infection in people. At this point there have been no deaths in the United States from this swine flu. Like seasonal flu, swine flu may cause chronic medical conditions to become worse.

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Buncombe County Swine Flu Hotline: 250-6400

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Profile of the Town of Biltmore Forest

Biltmore Forest is a planned residential community with a rich cultural history. The Town was planned by the best professional planners of their day. Mr. C.D. Beadle who had been associated with the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted of Boston, planned the protection, preservation, and perfection of the natural beauty of the area that is now known as Biltmore Forest. Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, the Father of Landscape Architecture, planned his landscape to preserve the beauty of the natural environment and attempted to create a rural atmosphere although his designs were often located in cities. He was involved in the design of New York's Central Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, and the grounds of the Biltmore Estate.

Since Mr. Beadle had been associated with Mr. Olmsted, it is fair to say that the layout of Biltmore Forest and subsequent development is also a living example of more famous pioneering efforts in landscape architecture. Those ideas of 1920 are committed to paper in plans of the Town that existed in 1924 that have been followed and are still being followed today.

The Town of Biltmore Forest was incorporated in 1923, and was determined eligible for Determination as a Historic District by the U.S. Department of Interior in March 1990. The idea of preserving and enhancing nature is at the core of the beauty of Biltmore Forest and helps guide the ordinance makers, administrators, developers, and residents of the Town. It is this reason that ordinances guide the removal of trees, that structures and buildings are forbidden in front yards, and why fences have always been discouraged, to name a few of the rules that have made our Town unlike any elsewhere.