Huntersville East development. (SOURCE: Huntersville planning department)

Huntersville’s town board will meet tonight (Monday, Jan. 5) for a regular meeting that includes the continuation of a public hearing on a proposed mixed-use development on about 60 acres off N.C. 73 at Davidson-Concord Road. The land is along the Davidson border and within the N.C. 73/Davidson-Concord Road planning area, which Davidson, Cornelius and Huntersville jointly studied last year.

The meeting begins at 6:30 at Huntersville Town Hall, 101 Huntersville-Concord Road at N.C. 115. The full agenda is at www.huntersville.org. (PDF, requires Adobe Reader software.)

N.C. 73 PROJECT

The board will actually conduct two public hearings related to the proposal by Glendwood Development Co. LLC for a mixed-use development, currently named Huntersville East, on 59.52 acres along N.C. 73, near Davidson-Concord Road. The land currently is mostly farmland, woods or single-family residential. Glenwood’s proposal calls for a grocery store, gas staton, restaurant, offices and housing – 36 single-family homes and 89 townhomes.

One hearing concerns Glenwood’s request to rezone the land from Rural to Highway Commercial/Conditional District.  A second hearing will consider Glenwood’s proposal to amend the town rules to increase the permitted ratio of attached residential units from 30 percent to 80 percent, with conditions, in the Highway Commercial Zoning District.

Davidson’s Town Board has endorsed the N.C. 73/Davidson-Concord Road Area Plan, which was developed with the help of consultants and after a series of citizen meetings it the three towns. But Huntersville’s board voted only to “accept” the plan, and it’s not clear if it intends to follow the plan’s proposal for uses and roads.

RESOLUTION ON I-485

Huntersville’s board tonight also will consider approving a joint use agreement with Lake Norman Charter High School for the use of the school’s new gymnasium.

And the board will take up a resolution proposed by Commissioner Charles Jeter that asks Gov.-elect Bev Perdue and the state legislature give “first priority” to the completion of the I-485 outer belt highway, which Commissioner Jeter calls “North Carolina’s most important road project.”

LINKS

Huntersville East rezoning information on Huntersville town website, CLICK HERE>

Proposed zoning language change submitted by Glenwood Development, CLICK HERE>