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 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 12th, 2008 by David Boraks
The $516 million Village at Lake Norman mixed-use development proposed off U.S. 21 in Cornelius is still awaiting government action on promised road improvements. But developer Cornelius Bromont LLC is moving ahead with plans for a 2012 opening of the first retail stores. And on Wednesday, the developer announced a new name for the project: [...]
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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 10th, 2008 by David Boraks
This week’s calendar in Davidson includes an Election 2008 lecture at the college tonight by Newsweek editor Jon Meacham and the monthly Town Board meeting on Tuesday. Exhibit openings are scheduled at Cornelius Arts Center and Lake Norman Art League Friday and “Hamlet” opens as the lead-off production in Davidson College’s newly renovated Barber [...]
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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 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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