Rolls of hay make a still life at Fisher Farm Park, off Shearer Road. (Chad Randolph photo)

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To the Editor:

Davidson Neighbors PLEASE Help: In two weeks, the Davidson Board of Commissioners will vote on a zoning change to allow a day care center in the middle of a rural planning area along the heavily traveled Mayes Road. (See April 26, 2010, “Planning and town boards to discuss Woodland Discovery”) My neighbors and I are urging the board to vote against the change. Read the full story

Davidson firefighters responded to a variety of minor calls over the past week, from cooking fires to a brush fire to a request by police to help open a vehicle that was damaged in a fatal auto accident over the weekend. Here are the details, plus a summary of the past week’s medical calls: Read the full story

Davidson’s Town Board and Planning Board will hold a joint session during the Town Board work session Tuesday, April 27, to discuss a zoning change request for Woodlands Discovery, a nature-focused pre-school proposed in a former home on about 10 acres at 13101 Mayes Road in east Davidson. Read the full story, plus the latest home sales, on our Real Estate page.

Tonight’s Town Board meeting also includes an update on the MI-Connection cable system from general manager Alan Hall. And Public Works chief Doug Wright will talk to the board about possible changes in the town’s trash and recycling pickups in the coming budget year. Those include possibly switching from weekly recycling pickups with small bins to bi-weekly recycling with roll-out containers, and ending town-managed curbside leaf collection and switching to an outsourced program of weekly pickups of bagged leaves.

Full agenda is on the town website.

Police are investigating a reported break-in last weekend at the construction site of the Community School of Davidson High School on Armour Street. Contractors reported about $9,400 worth of tools and copper tubing/wiring were reported missing. Also, a South Carolina driver’s Volvo was seriously damaged Monday when she ran off Beaty Street. Details on those and other incidents below. Read the full story

Police have arrested a 43-year-old Davidson man on charges related to an April 3 break-in at a South Main Street office. Also, police are investigating an alleged Easter Sunday assault on Cardinal Court in which a Davidson man was left unconscious. And they’re looking into break-ins on Armour Street and East Rocky River Road. Read the full story

By DAVID BORAKS
DavdsonNews.net

Davidson’s Town Board on Tuesday approved an amendment that limits the permanent improvements that homeowners may make on homes in the town’s affordable housing program. The new policy is aimed at ensuring the homes’ values don’t climb so high on resale that they’re no longer affordable.

Tuesday’s meeting was a long one, lasting more than four hours. Much of the session was taken up by a public hearing on a zoning change request for Woodlands Discovery, a proposed nature-focused pre-school on Mayes Road. Read the full story

Firefighters put out a grass fire on the side of the road near a Concord Road home Tuesday afternoon. Also, we have more information about last week’s brush fire off Callaway Hills Lane in the Runnymede neighborhood: Fire officials say they’ve issued citations after an illegal leaf burn got out of control.

Also, firefighters and police were called to Davidson IB school Thursday after 2 articles of burned clothing were found in an outdoor stairwell. And on Saturday, a smoke alarm went off as a student cooked salmon in a Davidson dorm. Those items and more below.
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