Assistant City Manager Debra Campbell believes Charlotte is about places – a lot of places and many different types. To her, bringing them together under the city’s umbrella – while maintaining their diversity – is a critical challenge as planners ...

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Initial efforts to find a new director of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department yielded a number of promising candidates and “efforts to negotiate” an offer, but the search should be deferred until a new city manager is hired, a top city ...

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Off-campus student housing is no longer what it used to be – and that has created several quandaries for local policy makers contending with density, zoning and student safety in north Charlotte. Developers around UNC Charlotte have steadily been building ...

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Local developers were bullish on the future of Charlotte’s apartment market at Bisnow’s Tuesday morning panel discussion on multifamily communities in Charlotte. Dubbed “New Development and Rezoning for the Future: Charlotte’s Multifamily Boom,” the breakfast at The Westin had more ...

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Some 150 people from the Charlotte-area business community attended The Mecklenburg Times’ “Future Charlotte – Building a Vision” inaugural breakfast forum at Byron’s South End on Wednesday morning. The event, sponsored by CREW Charlotte, featured a panel of community leaders ...

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Ed McKinney moved to Charlotte a year and a half ago to take the job of assistant planning director for the city of Charlotte. His previous role as a consultant for a design and engineering firm in Atlanta had him ...

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Debra Campbell has been named assistant Charlotte city manager by Manager Ron Carlee. Campbell formerly had been planning director for the city. She is filling the vacancy created by Eric Campbell, who left to take a position in Dallas. “Debra ...

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CHARLOTTE – At a public hearing last month on a proposed change to the city’s zoning ordinance, concerns from neighborhoods about those prompted caused City Council to ask the city’s planning staff to hold additional community meetings. The Elizabeth neighborhood ...

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CHARLOTTE – For the past several years, the city turned a blind eye to some restaurants that operate illegally. But it now has plans to bring them into compliance, and will hold a community meeting March 4 in order to ...

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Santa Fe has its Spanish Pueblo; coastal South Carolina its Lowcountry style and the Midwest its Prairie School. Florida has its room. Charlotte historically has been architecturally dominated by Craftsman Bungalow and Colonial Revival homes, but they weren’t created in, ...

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