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Dried up: Union County bans on water, 
sewage connections
 
keep homebuilding 
at standstill (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: September 20,2011

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, [...]


Union County keeps on growing, but not everyone likes the boom (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: March 21,2011

Union County knows what growing pains are. In the past 10 years, the population of Mecklenburg County’s neighbor to the southeast has exploded 62 percent, rising from 123,677 residents in 2000 to 201,292 in 2010. It’s the largest percentage increase of any county in the Charlotte area. There’s been so much housing growth in Union [...]