Proposed Charlotte golf facility wins rezoning aproval

A rezoning request for a golf-training and teaching academy planned for a 42-acre site in northeast
Charlotte has won the approval of the Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Planning Commission’s zoning committee.

The committee OK’d the request, as well as other
rezoning proposals, Wednesday.

Carolina Golf Lodge is seeking a rezoning for the property on the north side of Cindy Lane between
Interstate 77 and Murray Street. The City Council is
expected to vote on CGL’s request Jan. 17.

The property, which is zoned residential (R-4), will
become business (B-2 conditional) if the council OKs it.

Other approvals the committee recommended:

• developer Fairway Row’s site plan amendment for
12 acres on the southwest corner of Ardrey Kell and Providence roads would alter the original plan,
approved in 2006, to include 22 buildings on the site
instead of 16, while keeping the same number of
townhome units at 54. Planning consultant Walter Fields is representing Fairway;

• construction of a 144-foot cellular tower on 4 acres south of Cross Beam Road between Beam Road and Rose Lake Drive. Despite close proximity to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport runways, the airport said it had no objection to the request. Gerald Muldowney, with Wireless Vision, is representing 52 Eighty, which is seeking the site plan amendment; and

• the rezoning of more than 5 acres at 4749 West Blvd., 5000 Sirus Lane and 4916 Sirus Lane from light
industrial (I-1) to heavy industrial (I-2) for Elam Group of Charlotte. Elam does not have to disclose its plans for the site, because it is a standard rezoning request.
Planning consultant Robert Young is representing the company.