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 [...]
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 [...]
A Charlotte man told the City Council Monday that a plan to construct a sidewalk on his property will harm his property’s value. Larry Brackett, of 5633 Murrayhill Road, told the council that the city’s plan includes digging a 2-foot-deep ditch through his yard and beyond the city’s 10-foot right of way. He said a [...]
Some neighbors are fighting the construction of another multiuse building being proposed for the site of Piedmont Town Center in SouthPark, saying it will take away from a wooded area and increase traffic and crime. But the site’s developer, Charlotte-based Crescent Resources, says it is limited in its options on the site on Carnegie Boulevard [...]
