By Scott Baughman
Published: May 11,2012
Last week, in a 4-0 vote, the council’s public safety committee gave its support to the proposal, which calls for rental property owners to give the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department their contact information, including business and home addresses and phone numbers.
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: November 1,2011
Charlotte’s real estate community often cites three ordinances accused of making developing sites cumbersome and costly: the Urban Street Design Guidelines, the Post Construction Controls ordinance and the tree ordinance. Residential design standards for single-family homes in the city have also been controversial among industry officials. Below is a look at the ordinances and a [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: June 28,2011
The Charlotte City Council has decided to award $2.5 million, rather than $10 million, to the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, in a blow to the embattled tourism-booster group. The council is expected to vote July 25 on the remainder of the funding. The CRVA was seeking $10 million, but instead council members approved $1.7 million [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: June 28,2011
A goal to have 50-percent tree canopy coverage by 2050 in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County won approval from the City Council Monday, despite protests by developers. The move increases by 1 percent the tree coverage goal for the county and outlying extra-territorial communities in a 375-square-mile area that may someday be annexed into the city. Only two [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: June 7,2011
Light-rail ridership levels tripled May 28 during Food Lion Speed Street compared with an average Saturday, and some of those passengers did not pay after they were let on trains when rail platforms became overwhelmed. Normally, there are approximately 10,000 Lynx light-rail passengers and 30,000 bus passengers on a Saturday, Charlotte Area Transit System Director [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: May 17,2011
Despite support from neighbors for a 20-acre redevelopment plan for Monroe Road between Idlewild and Conference roads, the city’s zoning staff has recommended denial of a rezoning petition for the project. Roy Goode, of Goode Development Corp. and Goode Properties, told the Charlotte City Council during a rezoning hearing Monday that he wants to transform [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: April 12,2011
The Charlotte City Council unanimously approved a $5.06 million contract Monday to Blythe Development for construction of the Eastburn Storm Drainage Improvements project despite concerns that the bid was $600,000 more than a previous bid from the same company for the same project. The improvements are designed to help alleviate flooding in SouthPark that begin [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: November 2,2010
The Charlotte City Council’s discussion Monday on an amendment to the city’s 10-year solid-waste plan, which will allow the county to direct all waste collected by the city to ReVenture Park, showed that there’s still a lot of lingering uncertainty about what the final project will look — and smell — like. The amendment, presented [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: October 26,2010
(Editor's note: The following is part of The Mecklenburg Times' coverage of the Nov. 2 elections.)
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