Charlotte planners look at zoning change 
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: January 17,2012
The zoning world in Charlotte may be transforming into one with more uniform design.
Charlotte planners look at zoning change
On the Level: Debra Campbell
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: January 3,2012
Debra Campbell is an accomplished runner, has an eye on the future – and is the Queen City’s first female planning director.
Planners to hold
retreat in Charlotte
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: September 2,2011
When the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission holds its retreat next week, operational policies are expected to be on the agenda. Up for discussion, among other things, is a proposed operating agreement to streamline the commission’s policies into one document. Also at the retreat, Planning Director Debra Campbell will discuss her department’s work program and priorities for [...]
Autobell says carwash would make SouthPark shine, but not everyone thinks so
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: August 5,2011
In 1969, with the first location on South Boulevard, Charles Howard founded Charlotte-based carwash company Autobell. The company, which has 62 locations, boasts on its website that it has never closed an Autobell. The Howard family has been itching to have its iconic yellow bell towering over SouthPark for as long as the neighborhood has [...]
Planning commission’s influence not so influential after all
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: April 26,2011
Earlier this month, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department Director Debra Campbell asked the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission to sponsor the filing of an amendment to the city’s height rules for residential districts. It was not an unusual request. Whenever the planning department is ready for amendments to go before the City Council, they are routinely presented to the [...]
Big-box vision for Independence draws supporters, critics
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: January 28,2011
Susan Lindsay remembers when she was a teenager, in the 1950s, how she and her cousins used to “cruise” Independence Boulevard, popping into the mom-and-pop shops along the road. “It was the typical early ‘50s strip development,” said Lindsay, vice president of Charlotte East Community Partners, an advocacy group for east Charlotte. Since then, the [...]
Is Wal-Mart Independence Boulevard’s salvation?
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: December 10,2010
Surrounded by vacant and decrepit-looking shopping centers, hotels, restaurants and car lots, Independence Park is one of the last places still showing signs of life along a blighted stretch of highway just minutes from uptown. But Alec Polites said the shopping center is barely limping along. Polites, president of Polites Realty Co., and his father, [...]
Foxx among 4 mayors picked for fellowship
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: October 28,2010
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx and three other local figures have been chosen for a fellowship through 2011 at the The Urban Land Institute’s Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use. The group will be working with other teams — led by the mayors of Minneapolis; Nashville, Tenn.; Philadelphia; and Phoenix — to advise the ULI [...]
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