It's something you likely don't care about until it impacts your neighborhood: zoning. However, Charlotte leaders are working on a plan that could transform 84% of neighborhoods in the city and they're asking for your input. The plan, called the Unified Development Ordinance, may not pull you in. Quite frankly, zoning is its own language that can be difficult to translate. But it's crucial to the shape of a city. "In a lot of ways, it's the most.
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The Overstreet Mall is almost completely empty after tens of thousands of people shifted to remote work in the past year.
Much of Charlotte looks pretty much the same these days as it did before the coronavirus pandemic seized our world. People out and about, and there’s traffic on the roads again. Shopping centers are full once more.
But uptown is still upside down a place where the pandemic never loosened its grip. And that’s created some odd moments, like Jeremy Engel riding his skateboard down South Tryon Street at lunch hour recently.
He never had to stop or turn to miss anyone or any vehicle.
Leaders of a 26-mile light rail project to connect Gaston County to uptown Charlotte, Charlotte Douglas International Airport and beyond recently refined the proposed track alignment through Belmont and presented the refinement during a virtual meeting this week.
Though portions of Charlotte Area Transit System’s LYNX Silver Line most likely won’t run until the 2030s, riders could one day board the light rail in Belmont and ride it along Wilkinson Boulevard to stops near the airport, Bank of America Stadium, the LYNX Blue Line light rail, Ovens Auditorium and Bojangles Coliseum and through Charlotte to downtown Matthews, Stallings and Indian Trail.
Talking Policy in the Queen City with former FEMA Administrator Brock Long
Former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Brock Long will headline UNC Charlotte s third annual “Talking Policy in the Queen City” symposium Wednesday, Feb. 24, from noon to 1:15 p.m. EST via livestream.
The event, hosted by the UNC Charlotte Public Policy Ph.D. Program and the Gerald G. Fox Master of Public Administration Program, in partnership with the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, calls attention to national, state and local policy insights and perspectives and how they affect citizens and organizations in Charlotte and beyond. This year’s discussion with Long focuses on how organizations can improve their cultural preparedness and emergency management systems.