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City floats changing runoff requirements (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: August 12,2011

It could get cheaper to redevelop sites in Charlotte. Under current rules, redevelopment means coughing up whatever it costs — and it can be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, some say — to install devices that control where stormwater goes after a project, like a new shopping center, is complete. Developers and some [...]


NC appeals court considers Johnson & Wales lawsuit

By The Associated Press
Published: January 11,2011

RALEIGH — The North Carolina Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday in a lawsuit claiming legislators violated the state constitution by giving a private school millions of dollars to move to Charlotte. A three-judge appeals court panel will consider whether $7.5 million that state legislators gave Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte served a public [...]