Learn and Read

A place to catch up on important happenings in the community - updated once a month.

March 9, 2026

• Checkout who won in the March 3 Primary.
• Applications for Leadership Asheville open May 1. Join the community leadership program to learn about AVL history, health outcomes, education, politics, and more.
• Destination: Home is a new flexible assistance program for AVL and Buncombe County that will launch in September. $5M has been received for a three year initiative that includes assistance for rent, child care and other essentials to prevent 1,000 people from becoming homeless.
• Keep track of WNC recovery efforts.
• Asheville Downtown Association and ADID are partnering to develop a Downtown Asheville Business Resilience Strategy scheduled to be delivered April 2026. Read the results of conversations with Downtown business owners and more about this project.
• Sign up for the ADID Newsletter.
• Asheville applied for a $585,000 grant to study multimodal transportation on Hilliard. The corridor ranks as one of the most unsafe in WNC for pedestrians/cyclists. Read about what would be included in the study.
• 2025 Downtown Patton Ave Corridor Feasibility Study.
• Safe Streets for WNC Action Plan was adopted by French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization in August and Asheville adopted it in Dec 2025 with a goal of a zero fatalities and serious injuries by 2050.