Rezoning Roundup: Lat Purser plans 150 apartments off Park Road

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CHARLOTTE – In the latest round of rezoning petitions submitted to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department, just about the entire menu of living quarters have been proposed.

Developers are looking to add apartments, single-family homes, a community for senior citizens and a hotel. But before any of those projects can break ground, they must have their moment before the Charlotte City Council. Each of the following projects is scheduled for a public hearing on April 28. Generally, the City Council will vote at its meeting the month following a hearing on whether or not to grant the rezoning request.

The two biggest projects proposed in the latest rezoning petitions are a 150-unit apartment project off Park Road, near Montford Drive, and a 175-room hotel on the last undeveloped parcel at the Metropolitan, off Kings Drive.

Charlotte-based Lat Purser & Associates has submitted a request to the city asking for a rezoning of 1.68 acres on the southeast corner at Abbey Place and Hedgemore Drive. The petition is asking to change the zoning on that property from a general office use to a mixed-use development district, which would allow the 150-unit community.

Abbey Place is a small road that runs behind Montford Drive, which has become a popular nightlife destination with several bars and restaurants and a bowling alley. The property is about a half-mile from Park Road Shopping Center and even closer to other shopping centers, making the site attractive for potential apartment renters looking for walking-distance amenities.

Charlotte-based Levine Properties, under the guise of a company called Golden Triangle #2, is asking for a site-plan amendment on about 1.3 acres on the southeast corner at Metropolitan Avenue, South Kings Drive and Baxter Street to add the 175-room hotel to a planned development. The petition is asking not to change the zoning, but to amend the site plan to allow for the development of a hotel.

A 155-unit multifamily community was already approved on the site, but has not been started. According to the rezoning petition, Levine needs the site-plan amendment in order to add the hotel to the multifamily site.

In the other petitions:

• Kyle Short is asking to rezone about 1.58 acres on the south side of Woodlawn Road between Old Woods Road and Fairbluff Place. The petition is asking to change the zoning from an R-4 residential classification to an R-14 multifamily classification to allow the development of up to 15 multifamily units.
• Wilkison Partners is asking for a site-plan amendment on about 5.9 acres at 13417 Grand Palisades Parkway to allow the development of a residential community with up to 29 single-family homes.
• The Affordable Housing Group of North Carolina and The Drakeford Group are asking to rezone about 3.72 acres on the west side of Beatties Ford Road between Pauline Lane and Sunset Road. The petition is asking to change the zoning from a residential classification to an urban-residential classification to allow for the development of up to 85 one- and two-bedroom apartments for senior citizens in a single building with common areas.

The public hearings will be held at 6 p.m. at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, at 600 E. Fourth St.