Clodfelter’s bills win him friends and enemies
While some of Sen. Daniel Clodfelter’s legislation from the short session of the General Assembly found many supporters in the real estate industry, others were viewed as wrongheaded moves that would hurt livelihoods.
How City Council members seeking re-election voted on real estate regs
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. […]
Officials struggle to wash hands of dirty deeds
When someone files a deed for a property they don’t actually own with the office of Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds David Granberry, there’s nothing Granberry can do to stop […]
Lawmaker tries, fails to block erroneous deeds
Registers of deeds battling erroneous deeds filed in the name of the Moorish Science Temple of America will get no intervention from the state — at least for now. In […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department tells builder to scrap plans for protruding garages
Robert Burkett thought he’d build up to 73 single-family homes in Park South Station in south Charlotte. Burkett, president of Concord-based J&B Development & Management, had planned to sell the […]
Bill puts pause on proposed residential building rules
A bill sitting in the North Carolina General Assembly has resulted in the brakes — at least for now — being put on some regulations that have been proposed by […]
Clodfelter wins Senate approval for bill affecting appearance of new homes
Sen. Daniel Clodfelter, a Charlotte Democrat and critic of the city of Charlotte’s proposed design standards for residential construction, has won Senate approval for legislation that would ban regulations that […]
Homeowners battle second attack after close encounter with annexation
Marvin is a village of about 5,500 residents in western Union County, just north of the South Carolina line. It has wide, open spaces, with sprawling farms and horses dotting […]
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