Our Community

Sandy Ridge is a community near the Piedmont Triad Famers Market. We have always been a caring community that puts its neighbors first. Our small community has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last 10 years. We are thrilled about all of our new neighbors and want to encourage more growth.

However, as in all communities, a little rain must fall. We have recently been chosen as the first proposed location of a Community Youth Development Center, run by the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquincy Prevention (NCDJJDP). In other words a PRISON for Juvenile delinquients.

Please join in our fight to prevent this lovely community from being used as a holding tank for the delinquents of Guilford County.

The Proposed Youth Development Center

According to the NCDJJDP,  "Since the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 1998, commitment to a YDC is reserved for serious and/or violent offenders in addition to chronic offenders.....The youth in our system are adjudicated in the juvenile justice system, and are given the opportunity to live their adult life without a criminal record."

This indicates a facility that holds dangerous youth who have no fear/respect for authority because they know it will not be placed on their adult criminal record. Youth with no regard for the law.

The proposed facility will be a 32 bed unit.   Please click here to view the proposed YDC Facility.

What's Happening Now

Unfortunately we have recently seen some activity by the state on the physical site.   We have seen surveyors re-surveying the proposed site and also an individual who was going around the neighborhood taking photos of everything in relation to the proposed site.   This indicates that the state might be preparing some kind of presentation to show how good a prison would be for our neighborhood so we still need to be vigilant and also very supportive and active at every planning meeting where this is addressed.

We have filed text amendments with both Guilford County and High Point City.   These text amendments will change the building requirements for prisons in Guilford County.   The amendments are designed to protect residential communities like ours from having to house a prison facility in the midst of our homes.  

We have done an excellent job of stopping this development so far so we need to continue to push onward until the issue is settled for good.

What You Can Do To Help

PLEASE ATTEND ALL MEETINGS WITH US TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!   We have already had one community meeting to discuss our approach and had about 80 community members in attendance.

PLEASE CALL OUR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION to such a facility being built in our area!   Click here for county commissioner contact information.

READ WHAT YOUR NEIGHBORS THINK!   Click here for their testimonials.

CONTACT US TO SEE HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE!