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	<title>Charlotte Real Estate, Development, and Construction News: Mecklenburg Times &#187; Michael Barnes</title>
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		<title>Mandatory rental registration plan headed for City Council vote&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/05/11/mandatory-rental-registration-plan-headed-for-city-council-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 20:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Dulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beth Pickering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<title>How City Council members seeking re-election voted on real estate regs&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/11/01/how-city-council-members-seeking-re-election-voted-on-real-estate-regs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Dulin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Foxx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Clodfelter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edwin Peacock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Barnes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Cannon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patsy Kinsey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority given only $2.5M in face of concerns about agency</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/06/28/charlotte-regional-visitors-authority-given-only-25m-in-face-of-concerns-about-agency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Foxx]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edwin Peacock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Barnes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Carter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Cannon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patsy Kinsey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Warren Cooksey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Higher tree canopy goal wins OK, despite protests from developers</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/06/28/higher-tree-canopy-goal-wins-ok-despite-protests-from-developers/</link>
		<comments>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/06/28/higher-tree-canopy-goal-wins-ok-despite-protests-from-developers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CATS loses &#8216;possibly hundreds of dollars&#8217; in revenue on Speed Street night</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/06/07/cats-loses-possibly-hundreds-of-dollars-in-revenue-on-speed-street-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Caroline Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Area Transit System]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Trunk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monroe Road project developers fail to get rezoning support from planning department</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/05/17/monroe-road-project-developers-fail-to-get-rezoning-okd/</link>
		<comments>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/05/17/monroe-road-project-developers-fail-to-get-rezoning-okd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 21:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goode Development Corp.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Barnes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite support from neighbors for a 20-acre redevelopment plan for Monroe Road between Idlewild and Conference roads, the city&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blythe awarded $5.06M contract despite pricier bid</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/04/12/blythe-awarded-506m-contract-despite-pricier-bid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council still uncertain about incinerator</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/11/02/council-still-uncertain-about-incinerator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Coakley, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Charlotte City Council&#8217;s discussion Monday on an amendment to the city&#8217;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&#8217;s still a lot of lingering uncertainty about what the final project will look &#8212; and smell &#8212; like. The amendment, presented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decision 2010: Mecklenburg County district attorney’s race&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/10/26/decision-2010-mecklenburg-county-district-attorney%e2%80%99s-race/</link>
		<comments>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/10/26/decision-2010-mecklenburg-county-district-attorney%e2%80%99s-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Boykin, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Murray]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Editor's note: The following is part of The Mecklenburg Times' coverage of the Nov. 2 elections.)]]></description>
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