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Planners just want a 
little unity (access required)

By Scott Baughman
Published: August 22,2011

Developers looking to start a project in a county can often find themselves mired in rules and regulations, with different requirements from various towns and counties. But officials with Gaston County’s planning department are hoping such confusion will be a thing of the past thanks to the county’s unified development ordinance — once all the [...]


Why is Lowell giving land back to Gaston County? (access required)

By Scott Baughman
Published: August 9,2011

Decades ago — so far back now that City Manager Ben Blackburn can’t even remember exactly when — Lowell added neighborhoods just outside the official city limits under an extra-territorial jurisdiction agreement. But it was a move the Gaston County city would come to regret. Lowell officials would learn they were unable to enforce codes [...]