By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: November 18,2011
The Charlotte City Council is expected to revisit a divisive proposal that would eliminate the natural area from the city’s Post Construction Controls Ordinance during its meeting Nov. 28. The proposal would do away what city staffers say is a requirement duplicative of the city’s tree ordinance. But opponents to the change have argued that [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: November 8,2011
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx has returned a donation made to his campaign by the Shelter Providers Political Action Committee Enterprise, the political action committee for the Charlotte-based Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition. SPPACE made political donations to the mayoral campaigns of Foxx, a Democratic, and his challenger, Scott Stone, a Republican who has received [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: November 1,2011
The Charlotte-based Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition and the Mecklenburg County Land Use and Environmental Services Agency are partnering to offer a Mecklenburg County development forum, according to REBIC. The forum will be from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Nov. 15 at The Realtors Building, 1201 Greenwood Cliff, Room 315, in Charlotte. According to REBIC, [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: October 25,2011
Until he announced his candidacy for mayor in March, Scott Stone wasn’t a nobody, but he wasn’t exactly a household name in Charlotte, either. A former vice president of Merrick & Co., a Colorado-based engineering and architectural firm, he ran in the same circles as some of the city’s business elite, having chaired the city’s [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: October 14,2011
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx vetoed a City Council decision Monday — at least briefly. The veto, the first ever for Foxx, who’s running for re-election to a second term next month, came after the council approved, in a 7-5 vote, a revision to the city’s Post Construction Controls Ordinance to remove a tree-save requirement that [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: September 26,2011
Rising National Association of Realtors dues are among issues that will be discussed during a Charlotte Region Commercial Board of Realtors town hall meeting. The event will run from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Oct. 4 at K&L Gates’ offices on the 47th floor of 214 N. Tryon St. Speakers will include Kelly Smith, Southeast [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: August 31,2011
Age: 38 Lives in: Matthew Family: wife, Emily, 35; children, Rachel, 4, Evan, 1 Education: bachelor’s of science in journalism, University of Florida; master’s of business administration, Georgia State University On May 15, Joe Padilla became executive public policy director for the Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition, a Charlotte-based advocacy group for the real [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: June 10,2011
When it comes to promoting Charlotte, economic developers like to point to the treetops. The Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, for one, boasts on its website that Charlotte is known as a tree city. The city has been fighting to protect its tree canopy since it adopted a tree ordinance in 1978. Today, it even dictates [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: May 16,2011
The Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition has named Joe Padilla its executive public policy director. REBIC, based in Charlotte, is an organization of trade associations focused on industry issues, such as finance, management and leasing. Padilla, a native of Long Island, N.Y., has served as senior government affairs representative for the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association.
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: October 22,2010
In the next few years, Charlotte’s suburban streets could look different. Blocks could be smaller. Sidewalks could be wider and further away from the road. There could be more trees along the roads. The changes would be included in the city’s subdivision ordinance, part of the Urban Street Design Guidelines developed by the Charlotte Department [...]
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