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 14th, 2008 by David Boraks
Residents of Davidson’s West Side who are concerned about redevelopment of the Metrolina Warehouse will hear a presentation about asbestos removal by a Mecklenburg County environmental expert at their next meeting Thursday, Nov. 20. The meeting is open to all Davidson residents and begins at 7 p.m. at the Senior Nutrition Center cafeteria behind [...]
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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 November 4th, 2008 by David Boraks
Barack Obama won 54 percent of the votes in Davidson Tuesday. But the town’s two polling places offered a split preference, reflecting the difference between the Democratic-leaning older parts of town and the Republican-leaning neighborhoods of River Run and McConnell.
Meanwhile at 11 p.m., Democrats Jennifer Roberts, Dan Murrey and Harold Cogdell Jr. appeared on their [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2008 by David Boraks
By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net
About a dozen West Side residents met again Thursday night, Oct. 30, to discuss concerns about asbestos and plans for redeveloping the Metrolina Warehouse, at Sloan and Depot Streets. It was the third neighborhood meeting on the issue. The group made no decision to support or oppose the developer’s proposal to clean up [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2008 by David Boraks
Residents of Davidson’s West Side neighborhood have organized a meeting tonight (Thursday, Oct. 30) to discuss asbestos removal and other concerns over a proposal to redevelop the Metrolina Warehouse site downtown. The meeting is open to the public and begins at 7 p.m. at the Senior Nutrition Center cafeteria, behind Ada Jenkins Center, 212 Gamble [...]
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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 24th, 2008 by David Boraks
Updated Saturday, Oct. 25
A revised site plan unveiled Thursday for the proposed Davidson IB School renovation and community center project shifts new construction toward South street, puts parking beside and behind the buildings, and includes a driveway loop behind the school for student drop-off and pickup. But many of those at a planning workshop at [...]
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