Parrish has lived in Asheville since the late 1980s and operates fantastical Airbnbs under his Earth & Sky Dwellings company, including treehouses, tents, a “Wizards Hollow” and a starship that’s in development. I get it - I like the dragon but not everybody does.”ĭerek McCarthy, a sculptor commissioned to build the dragon, said he felt the crowd was rude and went too far in disapproving of Parrish’s plans.
It would have been something that was probably over the top. “I changed my mind at the meeting after hearing how passionate people were,” Parrish said. He said he would not build the dragon to its original scale, if he builds it at all. Parrish told the AJC on Wednesday that he reconsidered his plans following the backlash. “If it were a squirrel up there rather than a dragon, we would have had the same discussion last night.” Explore Discover the hidden mountain gem of Hiawassee, Georgia “Personal property rights are a very passionate subject up here,” Ordiales said Tuesday morning.
Mayor Liz Ordiales told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that City Hall was at its capacity of 65 attendees for the first time since she was elected in 2018. “It’s an abomination before the Lord,” said Margaret Fineo, who lives in the nearby town of Young Harris. “Why do we have to get involved in your fantasy?” resident Mary Holder asked. Like a cauldron of scalding oil, tensions boiled over, and the meeting devolved into more than an hour of insults, pleas and debate over the limits of personal property rights. More than 100 residents traveled to City Hall on Monday night to campaign against the sculpture. A petition against the planned sculpture has garnered more than 1,400 signatures. Hiawassee - pronounced “Hai-uh-waa-see” - is a city of fewer than 1,300 residents within five miles of the North Carolina border that doesn’t have any zoning codes, which limits the legal tools for those who wanted to defeat the dragon.
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