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	<title>Charlotte Real Estate, Development, and Construction News: Mecklenburg Times &#187; North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources</title>
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		<title>Dried up: Union County bans on water,  sewage connections   keep homebuilding  at standstill&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/09/20/dried-up-union-county-bans-on-water-%e2%80%a8sewage-connections%e2%80%a8-%e2%80%a8keep-homebuilding-%e2%80%a8at-standstill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edward Goscicki]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waxhaw builder Russell Zavatsky hasn’t built a home in Union County in at least two years. It’s not because the economy has killed off demand. After all, he’s building a new home in Tega Cay, and he’s building and remodeling in Iredell County and the Lake Norman area. But in Union County, where Zavatsky lives, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corps of Engineers grants permit for Monroe Connector-Bypass</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/04/19/corps-of-engineers-grants-permit-for-monroe-connector-bypass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Corps of Engineers has given environmental approval to the controversial Monroe Connector-Bypass project, the North Carolina Turnpike Authority said today. But a lawsuit continues to hold up construction on the 19.7-mile, roughly $800 million toll road, which would be the second in the state. Now that the so-called 404 permit, which the corps has to grant if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industry officials bash regulations during hearing&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/04/01/industry-officials-bash-regulations-during-hearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, the state Division of Water Quality slapped Karla Knotts and her husband&#8217;s Pineville-based real estate brokerage company, Knotts-Greylock, with a $57,816 fine. The basis for the fine: A tire rut in their Greylock subdivision development in Matthews. In the eyes of the DWQ, the rut was a temporary stream that helped the development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union County keeps on growing, but not everyone likes the boom&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/03/21/union-county-keeps-on-growing-but-not-everyone-likes-the-boom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Union County knows what growing pains are. In the past 10 years, the population of Mecklenburg County&#8217;s neighbor to the southeast has exploded 62 percent, rising from 123,677 residents in 2000 to 201,292 in 2010. It&#8217;s the largest percentage increase of any county in the Charlotte area. There&#8217;s been so much housing growth in Union [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmentalists challenge permit for Monroe Bypass</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/02/22/environmentalists-challenge-permit-for-monroe-bypass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two environmental groups are challenging a permit issued by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the proposed $800 million Monroe Connector-Bypass east of Charlotte. The North Carolina Wildlife Federation and the Yadkin Riverkeeper said the state failed to properly assess the water-quality impacts from building a 20-mile highway through the Yadkin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Wal-Mart Independence Boulevard’s salvation?&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/12/10/is-wal-mart-independence-boulevard%e2%80%99s-salvation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Boykin, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alysia Osborne]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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