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	<title>Charlotte Real Estate, Development, and Construction News: Mecklenburg Times &#187; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department</title>
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		<title>On the Level: Bridget Dixon is drafting zoning policy for Charlotte beer-makers&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2013/02/19/on-the-level-bridget-dixon-is-drafting-zoning-policy-for-charlotte-beer-makers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Brown, Staff Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 10:30 a.m. in a cubicle on the eighth floor of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center. So there was no beer. About 50 people work in the Charlotte planning department, but we specifically wanted to talk to the beer-lady: Bridget Dixon. We wanted to know why she worked for the department from 2003 to 2006, left, and then came back. And we wanted to talk about beer. Good beer.]]></description>
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		<title>Duplex vote postponed to next year&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/10/23/duplex-vote-postponed-to-next-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Residential Real Estate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlotte’s City Council won’t vote before the end of this year on a contentious plan that would allow more duplexes in the city, a city planning coordinator said.]]></description>
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		<title>Unregulated rentals OK while rules written&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/10/23/unregulated-rentals-ok-while-rules-written/</link>
		<comments>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/10/23/unregulated-rentals-ok-while-rules-written/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payton Guion, staff writer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Residential Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apartment owners who are renting out individual bedrooms can continue to do so while the city mulls creating regulations for such properties, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department official said.]]></description>
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		<title>The sky’s not the limit&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/08/02/the-skys-not-the-limit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midtown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developer Roy Goode wants to put up an apartment building in Midtown, and he is convinced it must be taller than 40 feet to be profitable. But Kent Main, planning coordinator with the Planning Department, said a taller building won’t be possible under the city’s plan of turning the area into a pedestrian paradise.]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte planners look at zoning change&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/01/17/charlotte-planners-look-at-zoning-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Government and Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debra Campbell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The zoning world in Charlotte may be transforming into one with more uniform design.]]></description>
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		<title>Planning department sponsored by Walt Disney&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/12/30/planning-department-sponsored-by-walt-disney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Mecklenburg Library]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you frequent the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department, you probably have noticed a neon sign in a conference room just off the lobby of the Eighth Floor offices.

But do you know the history of the Innovation Station?]]></description>
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		<title>Char-Meck committee postpones vote on area plan&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/11/22/char-meck-committee-postpones-vote-on-area-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/11/22/char-meck-committee-postpones-vote-on-area-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission’s planning committee postponed a vote last week on the Midtown, Morehead and Cherry Area Plan. The committee made the decision Tuesday to allow planning staff members to meet with the residents of the 455-acre area again. The plan provides a framework for growth and development in the area bounded by South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposal would allow  languishing Charlotte sites  to generate income&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/11/22/proposal-would-allow-%e2%80%a8languishing-charlotte-sites-%e2%80%a8to-generate-income/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Claire Lyte-Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Code Studio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Rajkowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Levine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Levine Properties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlotte Knights General Manager Dan Rajkowski has homerun-sized plans for an empty, underutilized piece of property in uptown. The Knights lease a lot on South Mint Street from Mecklenburg County. For now, it’s just an open, grassy field with security lights scattered throughout. Someday, Rajkowski hopes there will be a baseball park on the site, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rezoning complicates Jack’s Across the Tracks project&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/11/08/rezoning-complicates-jack%e2%80%99s-across-the-tracks-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Wilson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Collin Brown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edwin Peacock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Harmon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Rob Nixon and business partner Andy Wilson bought a rundown former church at 1212 Pecan Ave. in Charlotte in March 2007 for $650,000 from Russ-Mar Properties, Nixon said he felt like Christopher Columbus. “I had my flag in the ground,” he said. The plan was to convert the 8,100-square-foot church into a nightclub. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Char-Meck area plans, zoning amendments up for discussion&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/11/08/char-meck-area-plans-zoning-amendments-up-for-discussion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission will hold public meetings in November for area plans and zoning text amendments that are being developed and nearing City Council vote. A citizens advisory group will meet 6 p.m. Thursday in Room 280 of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, 600 E. Fourth St., to discuss an Internet [...]]]></description>
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