A controversial proposed change to the city of Charlotte’s Post Construction Controls Ordinance is one step closer to becoming reality. On Monday, the City Council’s Environment Committee voted 3-2 to recommend removing a natural-area requirement from the PCCO, a change that many in the construction industry would like to see but one that environmentalists dislike. The idea to remove [...]
A controversial proposed change to the city of Charlotte’s Post Construction Controls Ordinance is one step closer to becoming reality. On Monday, the City Council’s Environment Committee voted 3-2 to recommend removing a natural-area requirement from the PCCO, a change that many in the construction industry would like to see but one that environmentalists say [...]
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx vetoed a City Council decision Monday — at least briefly. The veto, the first ever for Foxx, who’s running for re-election to a second term next month, came after the council approved, in a 7-5 vote, a revision to the city’s Post Construction Controls Ordinance to remove a tree-save requirement that [...]
Jerry Reese has a lot of ties to the Denver area in Lincoln County. In fact, the Charlotte-based attorney, whom many know by his failed attempts to stop the Charlotte Knights’ stadium from being built in uptown, is in the Denver area frequently, either attending to his 79-year-old mother or checking up on business interests [...]
Two years ago, Dan McQueen had the idea of turning horse manure into a pile of cool cash. But York County’s zoning nearly turned his plan into a pile of something else. It took raising a stink, and nearly four months of working with the county’s planning department, but McQueen and his three partners were [...]
On Thursday, a disaster loan center closed at the Hal Marshall Services Center. But Mecklenburg County residents who had property damaged by flooding Aug. 5 can still apply for low-interest federal disaster assistance loans. To apply, contact the U.S. Small Business administration at disastercustomerservice@sba.gov, (800) 659-2955 or https://disasterloan.sba. gov/ela/.
Those in Cabarrus County who need to dump construction waste will have to either wait about two weeks or take a road trip as the Cabarrus County Construction and Demolition Landfill will be closed while construction takes place to expand the facility. Kevin Grant, the county’s sustainability manager, said the 7.6-acre landfill, at 4441 Irish [...]
The landscape in Union County is about to change. The Monroe Connector/Bypass project will bring a toll road through the rural area, likely resulting in commercial development along the corridor. The question is when. The 19.7-mile road will span from U.S. Highway 74 at Interstate 485 to U.S. Highway 74 near the town of Marshville [...]
Although the Charlotte area was rocked by tremors from Tuesday afternoon’s earthquake, appraisers and real estate agents didn’t expect the event to have much effect on the local housing market. Still, some appraisers said it could impact deals that were in progress. “I would have to assume that anyone who wants a new appraisal done [...]
When Russell Fox signed a contract with Dallas-based U.S. Innovations to allow the roofing recycling company to store old shingles on his land in Gaston County, he didn’t know it would lead to him having to clean up thousands of pounds of the discarded building materials. This month, Fox and USI ran into trouble with [...]
