Bob Slaughter, Founder and Managing Director

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Our family originally moved to this area in 2001 on the cusp of a deployment to Saudi Arabia.  We bought a home in Bridle Ridge and lived there until the spring of 2005, when we moved a short distance away to a home in the St. Marlo subdivision.  My initial involvement in community planning and smart growth began in the spring of 2004.   I had learned about plans for a big box development across the street from the Bridle Ridge subdivision and adjacent to the neighborhoods of Hunters Run and Laurel Springs.  This served as a wake up call to everyone in my family to the larger issue of uncontrolled, unplanned growth in our county.  The effect is an unnecessary and destructive force that continues to threaten the very things that brought us here to live in the first place.  Out of that experience grew my concept for Smart Growth Forsyth County, Inc., a non-profit, non-political organization dedicated to serving the residents of Forsyth County in the pursuit of ensuring the highest and most sustainable quality of life for our families.

My commitment to the SGFC organization and its effort stems from a deeply held belief that the growth process can and should be carefully managed.  This will allow balance between the equally important, but competing needs of development and quality of life. Smart Growth Forsyth County is dedicated to achieving this end.   I am honored to have been fortunate enough to bring SGFC to life, to lead it, and to serve in various capacities within the organization.

Claudia Castro, Deputy Director

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Living in the southernmost part of Forsyth County on Brookwood Road for the past 9 years has afforded my family tremendous opportunities - proximity to great shopping, wonderful medical facilities, culturally diverse restaurants and, of course, excellent Forsyth County Schools.
 
When signs started appearing on Brookwood Road regarding the County's plan to widen this bucolic 8/10 of a mile stretch of road into a 4 lane highway with a 20 foot median down the center, I quickly began working with neighboring subdivisions to try to find an alternate solution, if not to stop the widening altogether.  With the help of a very "young" Smart Growth, we were able to slow down the timetable for the project and offer up a compromise - a 3 lane road (center turn lane down the entire length).  To date, the road has not been widened and major intersection improvements due the widening of State Route 141 and McGinnis Ferry Road are anxiously being awaited.  Saving the look and feel of the area and the neighborhoods and amenities that abut this well-traveled road is something I'm proud to have been a part of.
 
Neighbors working together with neighbors:  North, South, East and West - that's what Smart Growth is about.  We're not perfect and we don't have all the answers, but we are driven by a desire to see Forsyth County grow in a manner befitting all its residents.  Forsyth County - a great place to live, work and play - now that's SMART!

Joshua Sacca, Treasurer

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Jack Gleason, Environmental Compliance Officer

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Susan Foster, Secretary

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