CORNELIUS – The age-restricted Bailey’s Glen subdivision in Cornelius may soon have a neighboring age-restricted subdivision named Bailey’s Glen II, formerly known as Barnhardt. The Cornelius Board of Commissioners on Monday unanimously approved a rezoning request that will allow Bluestream ...

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Charlotte and Raleigh are poised to grow faster than any other large urban areas in the country over the next fifteen years. In fact, Charlotte’s population is projected to grow by 71 percent from 2010 to 2030, according to a ...

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CORNELIUS – The town has launched a new committee, the Pre-Development Review Committee, in an effort to guide developers on conditional zoning applications prior to their official submission with the city. The committee will be staffed by representatives from several ...

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CORNELIUS –Courtyards at Nantz got held up in traffic Monday night at Cornelius Town Hall. The Cornelius Planning Board tabled a proposed 63-unit single-family age-restricted subdivision after representatives of developer Epcon Communities balked at the town planning department’s requirement that ...

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CORNELIUS – A recent death has thrown an ambitious plan for a large mixed-use sports complex and office building project into limbo. A proposal for the project has been filed with the town of Cornelius for the property near the ...

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CORNELIUS – A startup charter school will ask for a delay on a scheduled Jan. 6 conditional rezoning hearing on a plan to take over and rehab existing church and school buildings at the Cornelius-Huntersville line, the developer’s lawyer said. ...

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HUNTERSVILLE – The Huntersville Planning Board last week granted Epcon Communities a continuation until Dec. 17 on a rezoning request to allow the developer more time to answer officials’ concerns about a proposed single-family subdivision restricted to adults 55 and ...

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CORNELIUS – The town’s Board of Commissioners on Monday voted unanimously to delay two related decisions, one on a new land-use plan and another on a rezoning request by a developer of a proposed residential subdivision. Former Cornelius Mayor Gary ...

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CORNELIUS – If at second you don’t succeed, try, try again, again. That’s the latest tactic being taken by car czar Rick Zoerb in his yearlong battle to make a major expansion of his Hyundai dealership, prominently positioned at the ...

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CORNELIUS – An independent consultant’s report forecasts that the town of Cornelius would save resources and money and would grow in population more conservatively if the town adopts a proposed new land-use plan to replace the 17-year-old one now in ...

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