Posted on November 20th, 2008 by David Boraks
How should planners and town officials calculate potential environmental and public safety effects of future developments on Lake Davidson? Mooresville and Davidson officials on the Lake Davidson Commission were asking themselves that question Tuesday as they learned about a proposed residential development called Lake Davidson Village that someday could add up to 650 homes on [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2008 by David Boraks
Three of the Davidson Town Board’s five members were newly elected just a year ago, unusual turnover for a body that has been fairly stable in recent years. The board will gather in Charlotte Thursday and Friday for a 1½ day mid-year retreat that Town Manager Leamon Brice said will be a sort of mid-term [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2008 by David Boraks
Want to know how our town works? How decisions are made about budgeting, street repairs or Parks & Rec programs? Hungry to know a bit of town lore? Grab an application for the third year of Civics 101, a sort of citizens academy that helps inform residents about town government.
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Posted on November 11th, 2008 by David Boraks
The Town Board on Tuesday voted to allow a house on Davidson-Concord Road to be used as an office for a large-animal veterinarian. In an unusually short 45-minute public session, the board also gave its OK to a new planning approval process. And it adopted revisions to the erosion control ordinance.
Commissioner Laurie Venzon was absent.
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Posted on November 10th, 2008 by David Boraks
The Town Board meets Tuesday, Nov. 11, for a pair of public hearings and votes: on a proposed zoning change at a home on Davidson-Concord Road and on proposed revisions to the county’s Soil and Erosion Sedimentation Control Ordinance. The board also is expected to approve a $37,100 budget amendment and proposed revisions to the [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2008 by David Boraks
By a wide margin Tuesday, Mecklenburg County voters approved a $250 million parks & recreation bond package that includes money for the proposed community recreation center at Davidson IB Middle School on South Street, sports fields at the new Bradford District Park east of town, and for extending local greenways.
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Posted on October 30th, 2008 by David Boraks
Potential revenue losses
$45,000 from property taxes
$71,000 from sales, occupancy and prepared food taxes
$4,000 reduction in taxes from miscellaneous beer, wine and ABC fees.
$21,500 in planning fees
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$141,500 total potential shortfall
Davidson officials are reevaluating spending plans for the current fiscal year as the economic slowdown takes a bite out of revenues from taxes and fees. Town Manager [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by David Boraks
By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net
A conceptual streetscape proposal unveiled at the Town Board work session Tuesday night calls for re-landscaping the area along Griffith Street, off I-77 Exit 30, with trees, flowers, new sidewalk patterns, and public spaces. In a presentation to the board, Laurel Holtzapple, of Groundworks Studio in Charlotte, estimated the work would cost about [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2008 by David Boraks
This week brings several town government meetings, including a town board work session and a rare meeting of the board of adjustment. Ben & Jerry’s sponsors a free outdoor screening of a Harry Potter movie Tuesday downtown, and a pair of concerts are scheduled Sunday - “Appalachian Songbook” featuring North Carolina music and poetry, and St. Alban’s Concert Series with [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2008 by David Boraks
LOCAL PROJECTS IN THE BONDS
$1.5 million for the proposed Davidson community recreation center at Davidson IB Middle School.
Money to extend local greenways: $1.4 million to extend through the town-owned Fisher Farm, off Shearer Road. $1.03 million extend the Southeast Greenway at the end of South Street to downtown Cornelius.
$23 million for a regional recreation center [...]
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