[Music] he [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the e [Music] [Music] the e la [Music] e [Music] the e [Music] n [Music] e and welcome to the March 17th uh zoning meeting we begin our meeting with an invocation and an expression of inspiration and before we do that we will begin with introductions and let's start with the clerk Billy tons Deputy city clerk good evening Renee Johnson and I'm honored to represent District 4 good evening James Mitchell city council at large Liz Babson assistant city manager good evening Dante Anderson mayor protim District 1 Malcolm Graham District to Ed dggs district 7 good evening Lana Mayfield council member at large good evening Victoria Wat council member at large ter hegler gray senior assistant C the attorney excellent so as I mentioned we begin our meetings with an invocation and an expression of inspiration followed by the Pledge of Allegiance the invocation by a council member is intended to underscore our proceedings we celebrate the religious diversity of the entire Community including those without religious will we all please uh bow our heads please oh wise and gracious father we thank you for your mercy and for your grace we thank you Heavenly Father for the city we call Charlotte we thank you for the citizens who call Charlotte home now father bless each council member and the families we represent that through your grace and mercy Heavenly Father we make decision that would be best for the city of Charlotte with this I pray and with all believers under my voice say amen amen amen and if you're able please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all so I'd like to provide an explanation of our zoning process and the process begins when applications are submitted to planning staff for review cases of two types are on the agenda decisions and hearings decisions on cases for which public hearings have been previously held and there's no further public comment allowed and then you also have hearings where anyone wishing to speak is asked to see the city clerk before the start of the hearing staff will give a presentation with no time limit and the petitioner um those who are in favor of it receive three minutes combine to present their case unless uh two one of of two things occur there's either opposition that has signed up to speak or if staff is in opposition the petitioner gets 10 minutes the opponents get 10 minutes and the petitioner receives a two-minute rebuttal if no one is opposed to uh to the petition or signed up to speak then staff provides a short presentation the public hearing is closed and we move on to the next public hearing petitions goes to the zoning committee of Planning Commission for review and recommendation and at this time I'm going to pass it on to the chair chair Blumenthal to introduce his committee thank you very much mayor protim and thank you councel uh my name is Andrew blumthal it's my pleasure to serve as the chairman of the zoning committee of the Planning Commission uh please allow me to introduce my fellow committee members here this evening we have Shaun Anil Clayton cely Rick Wier Teresa McDonald and Robin Stewart uh the zoning committee will next meet on Tuesday April 1st at 5:30 p.m. here in this building at that meeting the zoning committee will discuss and make recommendations on the petitions that have public hearings this evening the public is welcome to attend that meeting however please note that it is not a continuation of any of the public hearings that we are hearing this evening prior to that meeting you are welcome to contact us to provide input you can find all of our contact information and the information on each petition on the city's website at charlot planning.org thank you mayor pel thank you chair so let's begin with the withdrawals and uh deferments that we have uh this evening and we'll do all of those in one motion Mr Pon I will pass it on to you because I believe there are some new items that have been added to that list yes thank you uh so we do have several items for deferral uh and one withdrawal so start with item number eight that's 2024 1118 by weekly homes LLC that request is to withdraw the petition uh item 9 2024 131 by py homes uh is the deferral uh request to April 21st uh item 10 2024 134 by St Charles Avenue LLC also requesting a deferral of decision to April 21st item number 11 2024 136 by Keen Building Company uh also deferral request to April 21st item number 14 20241 one6 uh by febin neash uh that is also a request to defer that decision to our April 21st meeting and then we have uh one hearing uh requesting a deferral that is item 16 petition 202 24-14 by Aviation Medals of North Carolina uh requesting their hearing be deferred to our April 21st meeting as well that that's all we have for this evening thank you is there a motion motion to defer and allow to defer all thank you all in favor please raise hands any oppos that is unanimous we will move on to our consent agenda items resoning petition items three through 7 may be considered in one motion except for those pulled by a council member please note that these petitions uh meet the following criteria uh they've had no public opposition to the petition at the hearing staff recommends approval and the zoning committee approves as well and there have been no changing changes to the petition after the zoning committee's recommendations are there any consent items Council would like to pull for question or comment or a separate vote Miss Mayfield thank you I would like items number three and seven to be pulled for separate vote okay items three and seven all right is there a motion to approve the following petitions and adopt the zoning committee's consistent statement of consistency for each of the petitions as they appear in our agenda and I have to read the the numbers for the record uh petition 20241 133 petition 2024 135 and petition 20241 140 do I have a motion to approve and adopt so moved second all right any comments all in favor raise hands any opposed okay that is unanimous is there a motion to approve uh petition number 20241 126 and adopt the zoning committee's statement of consistency uh for the petition as it appears in our agenda so moved there's a motion I'll second it and there's a discussion any discussion Miss Mayfield this is as I shared before with this particular petition the concerns that I have is that this is in the airport overlay area the long-term impact of this what I personally am not comfortable with is fast forward a decade or so later we're looking at tax dollars having to be a part of a mass displacement event I do appreciate app that the partitioners have added some additional insulation around the windows that's great inside the unit but if you ever step out of that building I think it is a bad precedent after spending thousands of tax dollars through the airport to buy out properties hotels motels trailer parks as well as single family homes that are directly in the airport overlay area I do believe that my colle colleague even though she is not here tonight sent the email to everyone I received a text from her and we have I have a different understanding based on the text cuz when we looked at the actual map of where the location is based on the airport overlay I still have a lot of concerns for this so I will not be supporting this petition thank you any additional comment Miss Johnson I just have a question we did receive an email from council member Brown that she was in support of it correct text I would encourage my colleagues to make the decision the best decision that they can I've share why I have concerns with this particular petition okay thank you any additional comments Mr DRS so I I appreciate the concerns that Miss Mayfield has raised I'm I'm afraid that it invites uh other situations in which uh questions like these are raised and that we don't have an organized answer for I mean the truth is this has been brought forward in an orderly fashion people who choose to live there will know what they're getting into uh so uh I intend to support it I think we should back up the district rep we did a lot of work on this she told me went to a lot of meetings and engaged with a lot of people and I believe based on our procedures right now that we should approve this thank you any additional comments I will state that uh uh Miss Brown did send an email and said that she supports this particular petition I did received that for from her she is traveling today wow Miss asir yes thank you um sorry I I agree uh council member Brown who is a district council member uh had sent an email in support of this resoning petition I also want to acknowledge the work that has happened over last several weeks to address some of the community's concerns specifically around the noise and additional insulation um with that I think um our job is difficult because we're trying to balance supply of the housing while addressing some of the community's concerns uh so we have to take all of that into consideration so this will definitely help provide additional housing that we need so I'll be supporting the district council member Brown uh with uh with this resoning petition and I'll be voting in favor thank you yep we have a motion and we have a second unless there's any additional comment we'll go to the vote all in I'm sorry I don't know where the vote is I'm just if necessary we can read I don't think we vote I you ready to vote I mean for the changes I say what I say it no that's a public records request I just I'm not sure everybody saw the message from this ground so we could read it into the record or if we're ready to vote let's vote if you would like to read it into the record U Mr DS you can absolutely um I can read the text message I will read the uh I think the recommendation portion uh she had indicated to me she had reservations she said I later realized that this resoning request was one I had dedicated significant time to working closely with both the community and developers even visiting the site in the rain to ensure we could achieve a solution I share the same concerns as council member Mayfield regarding the Project's location within the airport overlay that said since the community and developers were able to address and resolve key concerns I want to ensure this context is taken into account we move forward thank you for your time and consideration so that's the input from our colleague okay thank you hearing no additional comments all in favor raise hands any opposed Miss Mayfield opposes okay is there a motion to approve petition number 20241 148 and adopt the the zoning committee statement of consistency as it appears in our agenda so move second all right there's a motion and a second any comment Mr Graham thank you madam mayor protim I'm going to support the the uh the petition uh in front of us uh with reservations um I did have an opportunity to visit with a citizen and actually took a car tour of of the uh Mountain Allen Lake area mount H Huntersville Road in particular uh and just kind of get a a sense of the current uh existing infrastructure and traffic congestion Etc and um uh it uh it um C is a concern um and as a result uh I'll be hosting probably sometime in late April early May uh a town hall meeting uh in that area specifically related to planning the state of the infrastructure uh bringing in ncdot other most of the roads over there are State on roads that probably needs to get a better understanding in terms some timelines and just kind of basic information regarding um future Road improvements over there so I urge you to support it but I just want to communicate directly to uh the public that um there's some work being done on the ground to make sure that everyone's on the same page in terms of how we move forward um as relates to um future zoning uh decisions in the area uh and acknowledging um needing to communicate further with the state of North Carolina regarding some of the um um state roads in the area thank you Mr Graham Miss Mayfield thank you as a resident that lives in that area and drives that road every day the concern that I have I've already shared it is a two-lane road the current location is the State Employees Credit Union that is what potentially will be redeveloped for this mosy family there is a light there thankfully but it's also right right next door to a current multif family development that is leasing right now the challenge is whether you make a left or a right at that light immediately out of this potential development it is a two-lane road and trying to it can easily take 30 minutes depending on the time day and that is multiple times throughout the day to get back towards Bell Haven if you're trying to access Bell Haven up to Brookshire or if you make a right trying to access the state maintained road that has a very interesting design where you're getting on to 16 and having a merge two plus Lanes if you want to stay on to Brookshire we do not meeting on this conversation I do not think that it is a good idea for us to compile the traffic concerns with the hopes of having a discussion later regarding traffic Improvement because those pain points impact the residents today and by if we're if we don't have a clear plan through ncdl that's going to align where the road whitening is going to happen prior to this development being completed or simultaneously to give some type of relief creating un necessary additional traffic for our residents even though there is a bus ride over there that bus is also sitting in traffic okay it is a challenge that we have regarding how we are approving projects and not considering the impact on the residential communities that are already there thank you Miss Mayfield Miss watlington um my question is for staff I want to understand that as well as it relates to infrastructure on this one I do see that the entitlement versus the proposed is actually a reduction that said um as council member Mayfield has just explained today is already a problem so anything net um um addition to that increases the problem and as we think about just from a broader conversation around our budget and our ability to invest in the things that we need to respond to growth which we understand now very clearly does not pay for itself um I'd like to understand what specific to this petition is being done for traffic mitigation oh yeah good evening Jay Carpenter with C dot uh specific to this petition U because of the low the relatively low number of units um the development does not trigger any uh study or additional look at traffic mitigation and does not meet the uh the levels needed for additional mitigation so um they would be responsible for Frontage improvements along their uh development Frontage but nothing uh externally outside um their their Frontage at other intersections or locations okay thank you okay Miss Johnson so I don't I was I'm going to be talking about this later the cumulative impact and infrastructure and we we as a council really need to be intentional and and start addressing this or or change the policy so that it is addressed if we look at development as a puzzle we know the one piece may not impact or trigger traffic studies but if you look at the area as a whole and and see or what the residents are seeing and feeling and I think that's our responsibility we do need to do that so I appreciate your concern council member Mayfield and I think we as a council this is something we deal with with almost every petition which is why we ask for the infrastructure studies so thank you thank you uh Mr Graham uh again speaking for a second time it's um 80 units doesn't trigger any type of requirement as the staffer indicated in terms of directing a a broader type of infrastructure requirements um I think a net addition can apply to any resoning we do throughout the city uh in terms of adding more to um perceive and real uh infrastructure needs and our requirements um so I I think this petition doesn't take any away anything away from it or add to it other than the fact that it's certainly yet another uh example where um um as we look at the at the entire region not just this particular petition um there's a bigger question that needs to be answered that goes beyond the scope of this particular petition I think the petition meet meet the requirements that we need to vote to approve it but certainly as I indicated earlier there's a broader conversation that needs to be had uh of reaching out to Residents already I think there's a number of individuals agreed that the steps that we're taking uh El let make sure that we do some Foundation setting in terms of where we at we we know that the staff is doing their um uh action review uh planning review throughout the city uh I want to bring some attention to this particular segment of the community the mountain all Lake segment goes beyond just monal Hunter for road is the whole Community right and so I think the initial steps that we're taking uh to gather information study the um um future the um Road improvements in the area many of which are are beyond our control their state supported roads uh and so just making sure that um the citizens um know um what's coming when they can expect it how they begin to uh advocate for um control growth right I think we all know throughout the city whether it's in District 2 uh 67 four which are the the pain points in terms of where growth and developments are occurring um that we need to be mindful and certainly I am as well um but I don't think this petition um uh will uh is the issue is the broader issue of really working with our state Partners to find out how do we figure out a larger problem as okay Mr drgs I just want to note it's not like we're not doing anything about this right we've got a huge Mobility plan in the works uh that contemplates a referendum in November just want to plug that uh that will give us resources for for large investments in Mobility uh roads rail bus and so we're moving forward uh to solve those issues and then these conversations about zoning will take place in the context of a potential that we haven't had to actually deal like create more opportunity in the mobility space instead of just kind of managing the situation we're in thank you thank you Miss air yes uh thank you I'm glad Mr DRS brought the mobility up because this side is very close to in fact uh cats number one uh this site is located along the route of the cats number one and 18 local bus so that really helps us U connect affordable housing with Mobility options and that's what we want to see more of uh as someone who is a product of public transportation and affordable housing um this is so critical as we connect people to um greater opportunities and upward Mobility I think this helps us address that with affordable housing I appreciate the petitioner work uh to bring affordable housing help us meet our affordable housing goals uh along the transit line and if I can add just one more thing Madam mayor protim and thank you council member ashir and council member direct about talking about the mobility uh and and and in the bus in particular because when I did my driving tour one of the things that I noticed that there was bus stops but no bus shelters that's part of the Mobility plan that's part of the mobility so the the issue of that we're trying to plan for goes well beyond the scope of the petition that we're voting on tonight and I don't want this petition to be held hostage of a bigger issue that we're trying to trying to resolve thank you thank you I have Miss watlington and then I think we can proceed to the vote sure um great points by all that said though we still our process is designed for us to vote petition by petition um and I think it's a question of whether we lean in considering what we hope to have that is not yet approved by the voters um to have in terms of funding going forward I will say that each part of our city is different right so there are some places we just had a handful of consentient items that I think all of us unanimously agreed was the appropriate thing to do because every every place in our city is not experiencing the same level of traffic um congestion or infrastructure issues so I do think that it's appropriate to take these decisions on a caseby casee basis across the city while also understanding that we are trying to do something at the broader level um but I want us to be very careful not to not to um position our zoning decisions as if it's something that if you meet these criteria you automatically get approved that's not my understanding of our process um and so I just want us to be thoughtful about each one of these and it sounds like each of our colleagues have their reasons for sitting where they sit on these but I just want to assure the public that we're we're this is not a situation where if it meets particular minimum criteria we automatically approve it because at the end of the day you've elected us to determine what's appropriate where at a parcel level and so we definitely intend to continue to do that thank you Miss watland I think we've had the opportunity to have uh dialogue and caucus around this multiple times unless there any other additional comments we shall have the vote we have a motion in second all in favor please raise hands all opposed Dr watlington and Miss Mayfield opposed okay all right thank you so we will move on to our nonconsent agenda items and we will begin with uh agenda item number 12 Miss Johnson thank you for um the opportunity I just wanted to lift up to the developer um we did work closely with the residents and the developer to try to get to uh a point where the residents were more supportive of the petition so I will be supporting this today thank you any additional comments hearing none all in favor raise hands any opposed that is unanimous we'll move on to to petition item number 13 is there a motion to approve petition number 2024 072 and adopt the zoning committee statement of consistency as it appears in our agenda second there's a motion by Mr Driggs and a second by Miss Johnson any discussion hearing none all in favor raise hand Mr DRS did you have a com I just wanted to mention briefly Miss Molina is not here tonight for family reasons she has recommended to all of us that we approve this so uh uh I'm I'm with her that is correct Miss Molina has a family issue that keeps her from being here tonight but she did communicate uh with the council that she support this only number three absence in three years what she I know okay and and comments all right all in favor raise hands any opposed that is unanimous and um we that concludes our decision portion of the evening and we will move on to our uh hearings but before we move on to our hearings Miss ashir has a comment Miss ashir yes uh thank you Miss Anderson uh I'd like to bring to the attention of the councilor very disturbing occurrence earlier today uh the petitioner for resoning petition 20241 16 appeared at my home unannounced and uninvited um and this visit was startling for my children oh my God and to my family members so you know I serve at the pleasure of the porters and the residents uh not my family so I ask that going forward um that everyone respects the privacy of each one of us that serve and as we conduct the work of the people uh so I that's all I have thank you sorry that happened to you thank you Miss Ashira and uh that is uh quite disturbing okay we will move on uh Mr Driggs I would like to uh extend the courtesy of the chamber to the UNC Charlotte MBA class this evening here with Mike Wilson uh would you stand up okay all right thank you mayor Port absolutely uh welcome welcome so we'll move on to our hearings and we will uh begin with agenda item number 15 petition number 2024 138 by peak development the location is approximately 8.54 Acres located on the north side of shopton road west east of Kirkland Commons Drive and west of Corey Brett Lane in District 3 Miss Browns District the current zoning is in 1A proposed zoning is n1d CD staff recommends approval of this petition upon outstanding issues resol related to Transportation the environment site as well as B building Design After staff's presentation uh Miss Britany Lind and Mr Brown um will have 10 minutes and uh miss Mr Percy Crosby are you present is Mr Percy Crosby present okay uh Mr Crosby will sign up to speak in opposition so without uh Mr Crosby's presence then the petitioner will have three minutes thank you Seth thank you this petition is approximately 8 and a half acres located north of shopton road west east of Kirkland Commons Drive and west of Cory Brett Lane site is wooded vacant and surrounded by a mix of single family detached single family attached multif family residential as well as commercial uses the current zoning is n1a proposed zoning is n1d CD the 2040 policy map recommends the neighborhood one place type the proposal is for a community of 60 duplex and or detach single family dwellings in accordance with E1 n1d standards it would front load all units from the public Street commits to a 10-ft classy landscape yard along both the eastern and western property boundaries commits to design standards including covered porches and Stoops as predominant features provides common open space along the public street with recessed parking to accommodate visitors and commits to several Transportation improvements including restriping of shopton Road West to provide a left turn lane into the new public Street an 8ft planning strip and 8ot side sidewalk along the shopton road West Frontage an 8ft planning strip and 6ft sidewalk along the new north south public Street and Street stub to the east for future connectivity staff recommends approval of this petition upon resolution of outstanding issues related to Transportation the environment and site and building design it is consistent with the N1 Place type recommendation proposes duplex Andor single family detached dwellings building forms that are consistent with the N1 place type though not required by ordinance the petition commits to installing a 10-ft landscape area planted to class C landscape yard standards and a petition preserves the rear of the site is a 100t green area and undisturbed Watershed buffer I'll take any questions after the petitioners comments thank you Miss lens you have three minutes good evening mayor protm members of council and zoning committee as my presentation is coming up I prepared for 10 minutes so I'm going to fly through it in three um just want to emphasize two quick location points first one this is a fantastic infield development for walkability when we talk about a 10-minute neighborhood this is a six-minute walk to the um bewick Common's commercial development that has a Harris Teeter it has Banks it has restaurants it has a church it has medical uses you can go to a dentist all within walking distance of this site um as you can see from the site it's vacant parcel but surrounded by mostly the Barwick development so fantastic walkability also the site shape is kind of interesting we've been calling it skinny shopin which makes for the layout um part of why we're requesting this rezoning is because of the the skinny shopin layout so jumping to a buite development you know you can do duplexes in A1 but based on the A1 restrictions you have to put a road through the site they'd be loaded on one side those would likely be rental product from my understanding of of financing and the yield that this would get versus the plan that we're proposing is still all duplex units so from a resoning perspective we're not asking for a change in form it's still duplexes but we're able to fit more Lots on and load them on both sides of the street to um present a yield that then allows for it to be a for sale product the um other thing I want to emphasize is the how this site is kind of insulated from its neighbors so to the West this is kirkin common this is um part of the bewick community they have a 50ft HOA controlled buffer on their side that we can't touch we can't get into they have 50 ft of buffer we're proposing a buffer on our side as well we've also talked with the Cory Brett Drive neighbors uh Cory Brett Lan excuse me um this culdesac with these beautiful large lots and we're proposing a buffer on their side as well again this is N1 compared to N1 so no buffers required um but we're proposing a 10-ft landscape buffer uh classy plantings and a fence the other thing I want to emphasize is just the community outreach we've done a lot of community outreach before even filing the resoning um we met with the SC the Steel Creek residents Association they're kind of an umbrella Organization for the area their official position is not opposed so then we filed the rezoning application had our official community meeting council member Brown participated in that uh we then met with the bewick HOA um hosted a meeting at their Clubhouse we've also had multiple site visits with those Cory breett neighbor neighbors and I'm pleased to report that two Cory Brett neighbors have emphasized their support and I have two support letters to share with you tonight um as far as other community outreach we'll continue working with the neighbors I'm certainly happy to to reach out to Mr Crosby to to make sure we're trying to address their concerns but um overall I think we've made some great progress and we'll continue coordinating with those neighbors and with council member Brown so I'll take any questions thank you I I see you've had 50 um residents of attend uh the meeting that's very high numbers based on what we see these days so that level of uh Community engagement is uh to be commended are there any additional comments move the public he and be Clos second second okay have a motion and second all in favor raise hands any opposed that that is unanimous we'll move on to agenda item number 17 we have a speaker in opposition for this show up show up petition number 20241 137 by wil's Asset Management the location is approximately 13.29% AC CD staff recommends approval of this petition upon resolution of outstanding issues related to transportation and may I ask is Mr Michael fa present thank you sir so we have opposition so um Miss Grant you'll have after staff's presentation you'll have 10 minutes Mr F will have 10 minutes and then you will have a two-minute rebuttal thank you all right thank you mayor protm 2024 137 13.29% preserve with some of the county facilities some N2 just off to the West over on Oak uh and then some campus uh for some of the nearby schools a little further up Johnson alley we do get into a fairly large Community Activity Center Place type uh as well on the south and north side of i485 uh the proposal is for up to 145 dwelling units uh combined with duplex Triplex quadruplexes uh as well as other multif family dwelling units uh that would be attached uh access is provided via new public Street off Johnston AER uh and then uh at the existing intersections of morning dove land and song Sparrow Lane so those would align with existing intersections across the road uh does provide a pedestrian Crossing with a rapid flashing Beacon and striping across Johnson area to allow pedestrians to cross safely uh does commit to a 30ft setback along Johnson aor as well uh and then a 25ft wide buffer uh back towards the school and to the park also uh commet open space would be a minimum of 50 ft in width and have a maximum length of 500 ft and it does provide uh preferred architectural design guidelines for uh those buildings that are adjacent to Johnson aor or that will have their orientation uh towards Johnson Road and also would not include any more than six units in a building uh that does front along Johnson Road as well so you'd have no more than six of those attached units along that Frontage as mentioned staff does recommend approval do have some outstanding issues related to transportation to work through uh while it is inconsistent uh there are several factors we look at in those situations uh including some of the proximity to uh things like activity centers schools uh and other types of community uses and Community serving uses which this does uh have a very close proximity to some of those so that is one of the reasons that staff does recommend approval of this it is a a unique piece of property here that's kind of wedged between the road and some schools and open space uh and so an infill project like this does seem to uh be generally appropriate in that kind of context again particularly considering the proximity to uh the activity center there just to the West uh further up Johnston aor so uh with that we'll turn it over to the petitioner as well as the community and we'll take any questions you may have following their presentation thank thank you thank you thank you Miss Grant good evening may proam members of council members of the zoning committee Bridget Grant land use consultant Morin Van Allen it's a pleasure to be here tonight on behalf of wil's asset management I also have a couple of our other project Partners drg design Resource Group is a landscape architect and homes our development partner you all are pretty used to me giving fairly short presentations so I apologize this one's going to be a little longer I want to give a little more time to it our site as Dave mentioned is 13.29% Johnston AER Road a unique thing about this site is that the family has owned it for over a hundred years they in fact sold the land to build the robins Glenn neighborhood across the street some time ago and this is the last part of the assemblage that they have as Dave mentioned the area is surrounded with a unique mix of zoning it's definitely not all n1a you can see on the map there's a good bit of n2a ur2 n1b and if you look at the place type map there is an activity center that's located within 1.25 miles staff and I often talk about how do you make the decision even before we go in for our prese submittal meeting what's the appropriate zoning what level makes the most sense in this location so some of the factors that go into consideration are the fact that it's located within the 1.25 area miles of a Activity Center it has great proximity to schools parks and other services the road Frontage bike Lanes Greenway connections proximity to similar Place types it provides a transition between one place type and the next tier of intensity there are funded infrastructure improvements in the area the Mard Creek Road widening is funded and efforts have already begun on rideway acquisition so it's it is moving forward it also provides some Community benefits this is the overall layout sometimes it's just a little easier to see it in color we had our first community meeting and our first round of Staff comments and we were given a good bit of feedback and we tried to respond to all of it so it was requested that we decrease the density and we reduce the total number of units by 20 it was asked that we shift the buildings away from johnl so we increase the setback to 30 ft we've committed to build all of the units for sale we've increased the buffer adjacent to the school from 10 10 feet up to 25 ft and there's a commitment for a midblock Crossing across Johnson AER that will provide safe access to both the park and the school we did go back and have a second community meeting in collaboration with the D4 Coalition we continued to have conversations with staff so ultimately after the second round of meetings we showed this more detailed plan just to give everyone idea of how the form of the overall Community would lay out rather than just the building bubble diagrams we showed these illustrative images to give an idea of what the home's product would look like in terms of quality change of roof lines the front door orientation that all of the units would be alley loaded and during as a result of the second meeting and collaboration with not only the D4 Coalition some of the neighborhoods as well as the prosperity Village Association that we would cap the rentals the number of units that could be rented from 25% down to 20% we identified as the Builder we confirmed that we have 53 guest parking spaces in additional teach unit space and then we're looking at over two acres of pocket parks with enhanced Landscaping seating areas dog runs we also deferred our petition for one month to allow time for additional feedback I think all in all we really appreciate all of the collaboration that went into working with the community the D4 Coalition confirmed that they are not opposed to this and prosperity Village said and I quote they're okay with it um when I look at the summary of everything that resulted from the conditional zoning benefits I do want to point out that through this process through Community engagement we reduce the number of units we're providing a great midblock Crossing to the park and to the school that commitment to for sale is a high value in this area where they've seen a lot of Rental Community opportunities we've made sure that we address the guest parking The increased setbacks the quality materials and again would continue to collaborate with the neighbors as needed with that I'm happy to answer any questions after thank you Mr F if you could come down um to the podium here to my right and you will have 10 minutes upon your arrival the one that Miss Grant was just that do I start whenever you're ready okay well I appreciate you having me here um my name is Michael fa I've lived in that neighborhood for 20 years Robins Glenn which is directly across the proposed development um been a resident in Charlotte since 1988 um attended College here as did my wife um who is a teacher in Charlotte mberg um I get that Charlotte is growing I understand I also understand that property will likely be developed um in some way other than what exists there now which is for houses right so I I get that I understand that um I kind of wanted to address the fact that there's I'm the only speaker here there is a lack of speakers here um we're a very kind of workingclass middle- class neighborhood there's probably a lot of people that are still at work that couldn't come to a meeting like this I'm fortunate enough to be able to come um I know that emails have been sent and we're working on a petition as well to allow easier access for people to voice their concerns um but I think a lot of people feel like it's not going to matter if they come or not and I to say that but that's the way most people in our neighborhood that I've spoken with feel it won't matter what we say it's going to happen so just thought I would address that um the main concerns that I've been hearing from other people in the neighborhood through email and through conversations is the traffic um this development is about a 100 yards from a te intersection with malard so Johnson noer tees with Mard Creek um most mornings it backs up past the park my wife has to be let out most of the time to get out of the neighborhood and so do other residents literally it's stopped traffic you have to be let out to get out um and this will just add twice as many units as it's almost the same as what ours is in terms of numers of units so you're just adding that much more at a choke point um it's my understanding that there hasn't been I know you guys discussed this a little bit earlier there hasn't been a traffic study since about 2022 or something like that um I know this doesn't meet the threshold for it based on the number of what do you call them drives or whatever it is that you guys refer to but we've had pretty much constant development on Johnston oler for the last two or three years literally every day dump trucks up and down up and down up and down it's constant development and I think as Miss Johnson was saying if you take the cumulative effect of that all those developments combined would easily meet the threshold for a traffic study um and it's not like this one happened three years ago and then there's another you know they're not spread out it's been Perpetual development at that opposite end of Johnston oler um so that's one of our concerns um also the way Johnson noer Road was redeveloped a while back they put in traffic circles down at that end and access points over to get to 45 and to get across where you can go to there shopping centers and other things on that side on this end there's none of that it's still a two-lane road um and it's a two-lane road at a choke point um they talk about the widening of Mard Creek but that's not going to make a difference in the choke point you still run into even if it's a four-lane road you're still running into it on Johnson oer at a stoplight so that's not going to make any difference it might actually make it worse because more people start using mad Creek because it'll be a more appealing Road for them um even if you think that will make a difference my understanding is also that that road widening is slated for 2031 so that's six years before that road will even be widened um so that's that's one of the concerns with traffic um the other major concern I hear from residents that I've spoken with is it's out of character with the neighborhood and if you look and I printed out a whole bunch cuz a lot of times when you look at the some of the images that are shown from the developer or from other places you see a tighter in image but if you look at it from afar it just the the the and I can I can give you these if you want I mean you can see all there's there's all that development down here but up here there's none of that right and again that to me is because the infrastructure was put in place down there to accommodate more of that development than is right up at this end of Johnson oer right where it meets with malard Creek um the they're proposing three story units that will Tower over our neighborhood it will I mean I don't know what the height I can't find what the actual height is anywhere um I believe I forget what the I looked up what the maximum height is for it but um I don't know what the actual height will be but there are three story units there is nothing in the area like the school is one story the elementary school is one story the community center is taller you know the highest in our neighborhood are two sto smaller two-story homes so it's it's going to be a large towering over our neighborhood it's just it's kind of inconsistent and if you look at the if you look at an overview on Google Maps and I I encourage you to do so you will see all the other there is a lot of development but it's not on that end of the road and I think there's a reason for that um so that was one of ours I know that the prehearing analysis and I know you know I don't know enough about zoning but states that it is inconsistent with the 2040 policy map recommendation for the neighborhood one place type so that alone tells me that that wasn't initially what was they thought should be there but you know I don't again I don't know enough about zoning so um it's also a very Green Space at that end of the road and that will you know that will destroy more of the Green Space there's already a ton of green space that's been destroyed we have I45 kind of back behind our neighborhood a little ways off um since all that development has occurred it is so much louder you can hear 485 you used to kind of could hear it but you can't so when you destroy the Green Space you're you're affecting the quality of life for the residents there by with the just the noise you can stand in maler Creek Park now and it sounds like you're standing next to 45 and I used to play soccer in that Park all the time and it was very peaceful so it's not quite as peaceful of a neighborhood but that's how things go um one thing I wanted to address is is motivations and and in this is not a criticism of anybody but the land owner's motivation is obviously to make as much money off of that land as possible that's why they're selling it to a developer um the developer's motivation is to make as much money as possible from developing that land and that's why the three story right because you can put more units so you can sell more so you can make more money I understand that that's their motivation um to maximize their profit and that that to me is why these designs are up and not out um so I think that's correct me if I'm wrong I think it's your responsibility to kind of act as an arbitrator between the two right because our motivation in the community is to keep the community as close we like it the way it is right that's just natural um but I think it's your responsibility to be an arbitrator between that um and say well we're not just going to rubber stamp your ability to maximize your profit and for the owner to maximize their profit we're going to take into consideration what's already there how the community feels and what they would like and the quality of life for the residents that are already there I know Scher it's all about growth right now um but sometimes it feels like it's more about people that they want to come or that are coming and less about the people that are already here or have been here that's the way I a lot of people feel at least that I've spoken with um so you know I I I understand the developer will say well if we you know decrease this or if we you know we have to decrease the number of units because we make it smaller if we made it single family we'd have you know we the market won't bear it we can't can they I mean I mean I don't know can they not they is it just that they can't maximize their profit or is it that they just you know they can't make any money if they do that or they don't or they'll have to raise the price do they have to raise the price or do they just want to make as much money as possible so those are all concerns that we have um you have two minutes left okay um so the other and and I had some concerns about the Builder and this is just because what I do for a living as I work for attorneys and I do background we help prepare them for trial um I looked up in South Carolina South Carolina's really easy state to look up court records there's a lot of lawsuits against homes I didn't look at every single one but some of them are related to building an environmental concerns um that was a concern I had and then some questions I had for the for the developer just in general because in the community meetings report the develop States the anticipated quote anticipated Market is for firsttime home buyers they're committed to them being for you know to be bought purchased uh owner occupied I guess um they proposed a 25% rental cap to allow residents for sort of unforeseen circumstances you know your job moves you you might have to rent your home while you're trying to sell it that seems high to me I when the 20% that that they went down to still seems high to me I thought that was a minimum 20% is still what 29 homes or 29 people all going to have a life event at the same time that requires them to rent their homes so um some of the questions I had was what are the height what is the height of those going to be um will they commit to a lower cap than the 20% um would they and this was something at our District 4 neighborhood Coalition meeting that we talked about was also putting in a 12-month restriction on renting that's a very common provision in HOAs um with obviously um individual Case by case so if you you know your job did move you you could and you only live there for six months you could go to the HOA and say hey this is what happened and they say that's fine you can rent it um so I'd like for them to commit to a 12-month uh uh restriction before you can R okay um and then what happens if they don't sell as anticipated will they just change the HOA to allow a higher rental cap those are kind of questions we have right because we we do want it to be owner occupied um the concern is that they'll just change it you know they they'll commit to that but then after the fact it'll get changed and next thing you know it's turned into a complete random community so those are some of the questions I will leave it at that um and thank you for your time thank you Miss Brant you have two minutes for your rebuttal there's a lot to unpack this I'm just going to try to hit some of it quickly um we appreciate the process and think that that we got a lot of great feedback out of the two Community meetings and phone calls with the D4 Coalition and prosperity Village that helped us make all of those changes and the question about the commitment to them they are in fact conditions of the resoning so we can't change this from a for sale Community to a rental Community it's a commitment to for sale the reason you put the 20% cap in and that's kind of a market rate practice it gives people the opportunity in times of economic change or crisis or job loss or loss of a loved one you're able to rent your home and so it gives a home buyer the ability to be able to rent if in fact they need to um another thing that he hit on was the anticipated word it's because we can't commit to every home buyer being an absolute first home firsttime home buyer so the product type that they're building the type of amenities that we're including in the neighborhood the size of the homes and the location make us believe that it's Market ready for a firsttime home buyer that's what we anticipate and that's what they Bank on when they're identifying the types of homes that they're trying to build but we can't guarantee that it's absolutely a first-time home buyer that's just essentially why we use that terminology in terms of infrastructure in the area the maler Creek Road widening will assist and help with some of the stacking that occurs on constant erer by increasing the capacity along that Corridor and your ability to make turns out onto Mard Creek I think that the amount of development in the area speaks to the fact that ncdot has funded it I think that sometimes ncdot and other Transportation improvements are reactive and this road widening is in response to that you have 20 seconds I can go ahead and leave it there oh the maximum Building height is by ordinance 48 ft is the maximum height in all residential zoning districts and we're all the n1s and we're sticking with that happy to answer any questions thank you I have Miss azir and then Mr Mitchell thank you I have I have a couple of questions I'll start with staff so first on the height so speaker had mentioned that Mr fost had mentioned that this is a three story unit so and I see surrounding neighborhood is mostly single family homes um I'm trying to figure out how would this look uh would this development be towering over single family so do we have a view for that U I'll answer your question first do we have a view we don't we don't have a view I don't know if the petitioners provided any kind of renderings we're also dealing with some technical issues on our projector right now which is why that's down so uh hopefully we'll get that back up here shortly uh as uh the petitioner mentioned 48 ft is the height we don't measure it by story so it could be a twostory 48t building or three story uh but 48 ft would be the max height for that uh and if there are any kind of renderings or ways to uh display graphically what that looks like across Johnson just toos to the houses that are over on the other side of the road u in the neighborhood across the street there uh that'd be something that if the petitioner could put that together that would be I think something that could be benefit beneficial for everybody to kind of see what that may look like yes I think that would be helpful um so uh Mr Patton under current zoning which is n1a what would be the max height 48 48 yeah okay so they are requesting the same yeah yeah okay so regardless of the resoning the height would still they would be allowed even by right to build up to 48 ft that's correct um yeah I looked at uh just some of the renderings that's attached to our resoning petition and just from looking at it I I do understand Mr F concerns around out of character uh specifically um going from 39 single family homes to over 145 multif family units um primary really this de this uh location being single family home uh it does concern me uh can you speak about Green Space uh I don't think you had an opportunity to speak about that in your rebuttle but if you can just talk about uh Green Space that would be great unfortunately I can't pull my presentation back up but I believe off the top of my head we had over 2 and a half acres of open space we tried to use open space as we say describe it as an organizing element for the site plan we also have the opportunity to really capitalize on outdoor recreation by the the fact that we're adjacent to the park one of the things we did to offset height also increased open space was increase the size of our setback away from the road so that moved the homes further away from johnon noler and that softens the relationship between existing buildings also created more open space so one of our goals was to try to leave pockets of usable open space throughout the community and increase the buffer so you would have a better experience of open space and green space on the periphery uh well I look forward to working with the district council member to hear her thoughts and uh community's concerns because I do understand that there a lot of community members that can't make it to 5:00 p.m. uh zoning meeting uh especially when we're dealing with traffic throughout the city so uh I look forward to hearing more and um hopefully we can come to some resolution before the decision next month thank you thank you Mr Mitchell thank you mayor Pro David staff uh this I just have one question I think was a little disturbing is the vehicle Tri generation I mean the the existing use is 40 trps per day the entitlement is 424 trps per day but this proposed res zone is 1,5 trips per day so my first question why wasn't a traffic study triggered I mean that that's I don't know what percentage that is but that is that's a tremendous impact for us not to have a traffic study so can yeah I can I can turn it over to folks that seat out to discuss what those thresholds are but yeah be happy to turn over them evening so for individual developments uh the threshold can change based on what what the zoning is and where where the location is uh in this case um looking at a traffic study would come in somewhere between, 1500 and 2,000 trips so that's our uh ordinance threshold for for when we can require one um so so a th000 is is below U what our ordinance requirements are for an individual development is that under the new Udo yes okay so it's 1500 to to 2,000 troops okay wow thank you Meo to thank you and Mr Carpenter if you could stay there you know that's pretty interesting because you have a multiple effect of you know 2 to 3x of what the entitlement is so um very interesting Mr Mitchell around the um the proposed trips the question that I have is that Mr F had brought up you know the uh we recognize that Johnston this Road Johnston Oiler is a arterial road is is that correct yes and there have been some rotaries installed um at at a certain part of that road can you just share are there any plans um with seedot or NC DOT to make any adjustments to the balance of that road potentially adding new arterials or doing any additional uh traffic calming flowing measures uh so the uh the roundabouts at the Western and kind of closer to the prosperity area have been done um as part of various capital projects um the the balance of Johnson oler Road in the vicinity of these developments uh is built to uh what this city has identified as its its final full cross-section so it's a what we call a two plus Avenue uh so two lanes and a center turn lane uh as well as bike Lanes um so that uh it it is built at its current time uh to its full cross-section uh there may be um traffic caling or other measures identified over time um but there's no plans for additional widening or other projects along this Corridor uh there are multiple pedestrian related uh projects being uh installed um the current development proposes a Crossing in front of their Frontage um but also to the West close to the high school uh there's a pedestrian signal being installed in the near future uh that should be operational this year okay thank you Miss Johnson oh thank you thank you Mr fa you did a great job of speaking thank you I know we' we've been talking a lot so thank you and I ALS and and Jake if you'll stay there thank you and thank you Bridget I appreciate your working with the community um and all and adding all of those concessions my question is for staff I have been working closely with staff and I want to thank Holly and um Jake also I gave my colleagues a copy of a map with recent development I know you all can't see this in District 4 and I wanted to have a copy overhead but there we're having technical difficulties but this is what I'm talking about when I talk about cumulative impact and this is what our residents feel so while this petition is only going to increase the trips by I think a thousand I asked you earlier do we know the number of units that have been developed since 2022 Andor the number of trips that have increased in this area since 2022 um I'd have to refer to um my colleagues in planning on the number of units um I don't have that information um we do have uh some we have traffic counts in the area that have um been up updated both cot and ncdot do uh yearly or um by anual traffic counts so we do have some measure of how much traffic has changed uh over the past 3 years uh there's been some increase um along johnon Road as well as merer Creek um but we don't have um necessarily available the number of trips by unit count um available but that's something we could provide um to you do you have an idea like a percentage or anything that you could share tonight there's a few different traffic counts in the in this area um I think in that 2022 study the ADT uh was somewhere the daily traffic was somewhere around 5,000 and I think the uh the most recent counts um there was some at the end of 2024 in September um showed uh a traffic count in the range of 6,000 I think um ADT so um okay so I I gave my colleagues a copy of all of the development in District 4 and this doesn't include 2024 I can email you that as well but this is what the residents are feeling um and and there's no plan to improve Johnson AER road because it is it's currently at um how did you say it it's the way it was designed or it meets the the vision that area it's the full cross-section of of what the city has envisioned for um for this road so I again I appreciate the developer working with the community they've done every they've done a lot right and District 4 Coalition I want to give them a shout out as usual I feel like they're really raising the standard for development District 4 but I hear Mr F and I hear the residents that have emailed me and I'll share them with my colleagues we've received numerous emails and the residents want to be heard because they're not able to get out of their community so what do we as a council do in that situation and it's not holding the developer Hostage to talk about the impact of growth in the area it's what we're called to do so um I'm going to continue to work with the developer but really want my colleagues and and I don't if you all could see this I mean this is just how the the residents this is their daily life and we have to be very conscientious of the quality of life for our current residents we are charged to lead for the future but we need to manage for the current situation and for the quality of life for our current residents so I'll continue to work with the resident I mean with the developer and the residents perhaps if we can have another uh community meeting with with the robins Glend subdivision specifically and um I I'll we'll be talking more okay thank you move to close set okay y there's a motion in a second uh Miss Johnson before we vote I will say that this is a very um helpful map of your District to see in addition to the uh rezonings but the byright development as well which of course does not come in front of council and so we don't really have immediate visit ibility into it it would be interesting to see a similar map for the the remaining districts for all of the districts and I think that this and i' and I've said this before we they this should be able to be accessed at a moment's notice someone needs to track some hopefully someone's tracking this the development because this is what the neighbors are feeling so here's a copy for anyone who wants it um but this is the District 4 map and does not include the 2024 resoning so I think we should be asking these questions because you know this is we we've talked about the infrastructure and perhaps there are areas that there is just no more room for development if there's not going to be Improvement and the traffic is what it is we have to ask those tough questions so thank you thank you we have a motion and a second to close public hearing all in favor raise hands any oppose that is unanimous thank you we will move on to agenda item number number 18 petition number 20241 146 by Panther Stadium LLC the location is approximately 25.3 Acres May I I believe that there's a technical difficulty with respect to getting the um presentations up on the big screen would you all mind taking a recess so staff can sort can work work this out is there a um Mr petton is there a a viable path to resolving this issue or is it just simply an issue that we have to deal with that's what we're trying to determine so we're trying to figure out if we can get it to that TV which I don't think we can so we're trying to come up with some other Solutions but I don't know if we've got a good answer for you on what that solution may be at the moment so I think we just need to recess for a few minutes so we can assess what's going on and try to reconvene when we can get something back up for the public okay so we can take a 10-minute recess and it is 6:22 we will return at 6:32 thank you [Music] oh [Music] w e [Music] n [Music] n oh [Music] n [Music] the [Music] n [Music] the [Music] [Music] no [Music] n [Music] n [Music] [Music] the [Music] n [Music] n [Music] e [Music] n [Music] n e e e e recess and I believe that we have solved our technical issues and so we are ready to proceed again so we're going to officially come out of recess and continue the meeting and we are on agenda item number 18 as a part of our uh zoning hearings process petition number 2024 46 by Panthers stadium LLC the location is approximately 25.3 Acres located east of West Morehead street north of South mint Street and West of South Graham Street and District 2 Mr Grahams District the current zoning is UC the proposed zoning is uex Staff recommends approval of this petition upon resolution of outstanding issues related to Transportation site and building design and and environment as well as requested technical revisions after St staff's presentation Mr Jeff Brown and at Mr Al Austin will have three minutes thank you thank you the site is just over 25 acres located in Third Ward of Uptown along mint Graham and Morehead streets site is currently zoned Uptown core they requesting a type of conditional petition an exception petition for the Uptown core zoning District this request is consistent with the policy mounts recommendation for the regional Activity Center please type the exception conditional petition allows petitioners to request flexibility from quantitative and certain qualitative zoning standards in exchange for offering public benefits uh in two out of three categories sustainability public amenity and City improvements The Proposal itself um would propose to allow for all UC uses including Stadium practice facility training facilities live performance venues among others um sorry excuse me it's a lot of notes on this one the petitioner provide publicly accessible open space areas to be maintained at a minimum of 25% or greater than full ordinance requirements for the publicly accessible open space that accounts for the public amenity category of their public benefit would include elements such as pedestrian scaled lighting seating and um other amenities for that public Plaza space it would also have a minimum size of 1500 square ft minimum dimension of 25 ft in any direction location of the areas May shift as development takes place or activities and operations are adjusted throughout the life cycle of the site such areas shall be closed periodically due to security and safety needs of associate events on the site the uh petitioner would also offer City Improvement category public benefits and they would offer two pedestrian pathway connections the first of which would be a 10-ft pedestrian pathway connection between Morehead street and mint Street which shall be accessible to the public via with limited restrictions and there would also be a near adjusted construction of a minimum 10ft shared use path connection as a continuation of the shared 's path connection from the Panthers practice facility site that would extend from the existing tunnel under the railroad underpass to connect to Graham Street that would be dependent on some physical constraints but uh pass shall be accessible to the public with limited restrictions as well uh based off those standard events if the petitioner is unable to provide these first priority City Improvement pedestrian Pathways due to factors beyond their control they've identified some alternative benefits that they would be providing which would include providing sidewalk improvements to support pedestrian Mobility along 250 ft of existing substandard sidewalk along the Duke Energy substation they would also improve sidewalk to six feet in width and they would also commit to install pedestrian Crossing improvements to ground Street requests ex Provisions to site and building standards including the bill to Zone decreasing Bill to percentage to 50% decreasing minimum Building height to 10 ft for smaller accessory structures increasing maximum building link to 1, 1500 ft increasing blank wall area to 40 ft decreasing minimum ground floor height to 10 ft for those smaller accessory structures increasing maximum prominent inry spacing to 500 ft decreasing ground and Upper Floor transparency also have an ex provision to increase Max height of some Lumin AES and delaying extinguishing time from an hour to 4 hours request an ex provision to allow maneuvering surface parking driveways and circulation to be reconfigured on the site would not increase in size but may be located within the estblished setback but not within the required setback request an ex provision related to maximum distance of bicycle parking from a building entrance request an e provision to allow parking structure opt design option D also request Provisions related to signage includes advertising operations electronic signs related to numbered signs number and size of these ground signs size and location wall mounted signage size of ribbon board size and location of entrance Walt tunel signage Banner size size limitation of flags requests exps for Street standards uh with notes that the existing curve line for West Morhead Street Frontage shall remain rather than be relocated so that the future back a curb is 30 ft from the center line and gram Street and mint streets would require 10ft sidewalk and 8ft amend Zone with tree grates from the existing back of curb petitioner would provide a 10ft sidewalk with the flexibility to provide alternative planting conditions such as planting strips that vary a little bit in width commits to provide a Max a maximum of 40 short-term bicycle parking spaces notes that petitioner May seek administrative approval of a master signage package for the site and provides a couple of Transportation commitments uh notes Street stre streetscape improvements to West Morehead as new development occurs across the site Transportation improvements would be completed prior to May 31st 2030 streetscape improvements along West Morad Street shall be constructed before certificate occupancy is issued for new building expansions or new buildings of 20,000 ft or greater within development areas B1 or B2 streetscape or Transportation approvement along mitt gram shall be constructed before certificate occupancy is issued for new building expansions where new buildings of 20,000 ft or greater within development areas A1 or B4 that pretty much covers it for our actual conditional notes there staff recommends approval of the petition upon resolution of outstanding issues regarding Transportation site and building sign environment as well as requested technical revisions development such as state stadiums and their Associated facilities result in unique zoning scenarios that challenge our typical ordinance requirements and prompt innovative solutions to contend with those regulatory limitations exception conditional petitions offer a mechanism to flex those quantitative and limited qualitative zoning and streetscape standards and should be reserved for situations like these where extenda circumstances make Meeting those ordinance standards in undue burden the existing and proposed facilities have atypical build building designs that do not adhere to the base standards for the UC anying District the petition commits to several public benefits in exchange for the requested ex Provisions the publicly accessible open space and prode Pathways will enhance public use of the site and functionality across the site while extending Mobility options to the surrounding areas and I'll take questions following petitioner comments thank you Mr Brown Mr Austin Miss Wright and Mr little you have three minutes thank you mayor protim and members of council uh it's a pleasure to be here assisting temper sports and entertainment on the stadium resoning uh we'll be we'll be short here but I want to uh thank staff Holly Dave petton uh Brandon Brazil and Jay Carpenter we're still working hard on staff issues and we're uh very optimistic will also be able to provide good resolution for the shared use path um want to thank also very much former councilman R Austin who's in the audience as you saw uh as a strong leader not only formerly of council but also in the Third Ward neighborhood and we've had a continued great engagement with council member former council member Austin let me turn this over to uh Caroline Wright uh who is the chief venues officer for teer sports entertainment thank you thank you Jeff thank you mayor proam Anderson and members MERS of council and the zoning committee I'm Caroline Wright Chief vs officer Tupper sports and entertainment and I'm pleased to be here tonight for the stadium resoning as staff mentioned this is a largely Technical rezoning and I want to emphasize our commitment to making this facility a sports and entertainment Gathering Place that the entire Community can be proud of for many years to come I want to thank council member Graham who represents District 2 and was active on The Practice Facility resoning last year and the resoning of Bank America Stadium council member Graham participated in our recent community meeting held at the stadium as well as council member Lana Mayfield the resoning is a necessary step for the first part of the renovation of Bank of America Stadium that will occur in phases we appreciate the continued partnership on the city with the city on the stadium improvements and the resoning of the Carolina Panthers practice facility throughout all of this we've continued to very thoughtful and considerate in our approach we have very much enjoyed the opportunity to engage with members of the and continue to work with third war Community leaders throughout the process including as mentioned Al Austin who is the interm president of the Third Ward Association and who is here in support during a community meeting held in February at Bank of America Stadium we were able to gather feedback from community members which continue to inform this process based on these conversations we understand the importance of the modernization of the shared use path and continue to work with seedot and other stakeholders on The Pedestrian Improvement we also continue to work closely with planning staff on the remaining items and commit to that as mentioned the resoning is a critical first step forward and allowing our plans to go forward as we get it to permitting and we want to thank mayor protm Anderson and members of council for your support to date and we look forward to your continued partnership benefiting the city of Charlotte and the Carolinas thank you for your consideration thank you any comments Mr dggs I don't have a question I just want to say we appreciate our partnership with Cher Sports as well um and I do want to acknowledge uh former council member Austin who uh I don't think anybody here at the day has served with I did uh you did that's right uh and just want to welcome you Al uh very distinguished gracious council member it was a joy to work with him and it's nice to see you tonight and well dressed I work does that count yeah and that voice booming booming voice uh Mr Austin you've been here a few times I'm not sure if you want to make this a regular habit of coming on Mondays I've already asked him Miss right I I do want to Echo the sentiments of Mr drgs I thank the panther organization um not only for the presence in the community but the partnership uh you all do so much uh behind the scenes and in terms of investment community and making sure that um kids who don't have an opportunity to see games get to see games and to make sure that um you have that reach that goes deep and wide and you don't toot your horn about that at all I just want to greatly appreciate the tea Organization for that level of commitment thank you very much okay we have uh we'll go we we'll come around I have Miss asir I have Miss Johnson and then I have Mr Graham all right thank you Miss Anderson uh I appreciate the work between the community especially third war neighborhood and petitioner on all the work that's been done to come to this point I certainly appreciate it um it's it's not um it's not every day where we see this level of collaboration and partnership so certainly it speaks a volume of the community engagement that you all have done I certainly appreciate the leadership of of um Mr Austin uh even when he was on Council he was certainly very collaborative he got me up to speed and a lot of things he used to sit right next to me and I appreciate how you used to walk me through some of the resoning petition and here I am on the other side now um but you're still the best dressed man as you as you were when you were on Council that's all I have thank you thank you Miss Johnson thank you and I want to applaud um the for sports and also the third W community group led by Mr Austin former council member um as well I want to PL and I want to thank Al Austin publicly many of you don't may or may not know when I moved here I reached out to City Council Members um as a new Resident and I didn't know where my district was and Al wasn't even my council member we turn we found out afterwards but he met me and he served me and he helped me and he truly truly walked his talk so I worked on his campaign and met some folks and so he's the reason that I'm sitting here today so I just want to acknowledge you and thank you for the work that you continue to do thank you thank you Mr Graham well I'm not going to say anything good about Al my fraternity brother because his head is already swollen but I want to get back to the resoning right um for for a second for a second and and I too Echo um the collaboration and the partnership between um uh temper sports and entertainment in the city of charot specifically relating around uh the two resoning this is our second one and uh Miss green who's also with us tonight and Miss R has certainly been accessible uh um to me as well as to the staff and uh to resolving any outstanding issues they also been very accessible to the community and there's one issue that I know that we all receive an email about that they are still continually working on it is not as it's kind of complicated right um because there a lot of hurdles that has to be um cleared to ensure that whatever happens there that safety is the first and utmost um concern relating to um um the access for players um um the curve on Graham Street uh the substation the rail line so they acknowledge those issues and are willing uh and have been work working with staff since January I think um to um ensure that um they fulfill the obligation that they made so uh look forward to supporting it again um next month when we vote on it and certainly um enjoy the partnership uh and certainly um Mr Austin is a a Jew to this community for sure thank you thank you any additional comments move to close second all right hearing none we have a motion to close in second all in favor raise hands any opposed that's unanimous thank you we will move on to agenda item number 19 petition number 2024 064 by JF Lawrence Properties LLC the location is approximately 7.59 Acres located along the north side of shopton road east of Still Creek NE etj closest to at District Two for the board of County Commissioners Miss leaks District as well as uh closest to District 3 uh council member Brown's District the current zoning is n1a Ando proposed zoning is ml2 CD n o and N1 a CD Ando staff recommends approval of this petition upon resolution of outstanding issues related to site and building design as well as the environment after staff's presentation Miss Holland will have three minutes and Miss Holland if you would like to make your way to the podium uh you're welcome to do so thank you this site is approximately 7.59 Acres located along the north side of shopton road east of Steel Creek Road it is currently developed with a contractor office without door storage which has been operating illegally petition seeks to bring the site into compliance with the Udo current zoning is n1a a n o proposed zoning is ml2 CD AO and N1 a CD AO the 2040 policy map recommends the neighborhood one place type the proposed Al would establish two zoning districts for the site with ml2 CD along shopton Road and N1 a CD to the rear of the site would allow for 9500 Square ft of non-residential uses limit Building height to 80 ft allow for all uses permitted in the ml2 CD zoning district with the exception of automobile service stations automotive repair garages junkyards petroleum storage facil ities landfills quaries and adult establishments would establish a 65 ft Class A landscape yard we're adjacent to CG zoning and n1a zoning and a 25 foot Class B lscape R we're adjacent to I2 CD zoning staff recommends approval of this petition upon resolution of outstanding issues related to site and building design in the environment and I want to just highlight a couple of those outstanding issues um one is that the staff would PR the entirety of the site to be brought under one zoning District the ml2 CD zoning district and also um that we would like to see the proposed outdoor storage area displayed on the site plan to ensure that we have appropriate distance and compliance with the Udo from um adjacent property boundaries the petition is inconsistent with the policy map recommendation for N1 Place type uh however the petition follows four similar adjacent petitions which also rezoned N1 properties to allow for industrial uses the rear portion of the site closest to residential uses along Gerald Drive would remain as a tree save area a 65 fot Class A landscape yard is required where adjacent to CG and n1a Zoning along the west property boundary and the loc location of the site being adjacent to Industrial zoning and within the airport noise disclosure overlay makes it less suitable for residential development as currently zoned and I'll be happy to take questions following the petitioner presentation thank you Miss Holland you have three minutes hi there I'm Stephanie Holland um I don't really have a ton to add to staff presentation I do have a site plan to show think there we go um this is the site plan that we revised in response to staff comments um there are a couple things that were mentioned tonight that we have not addressed in this plan but for the most part the comments that we received were very uh minor and so the petitioner would agree to reduce the building height to 40 feet um really all of the staff comments we intend to comply with um this is as as mentioned it is is ml2 in the front which is consistent with the parcels see if I can do this here um which are industrial as well and then one of the reasons for leaving the portion in the back as in one is it's relatively consistent with these Parcels here as well as the concern from the um neighbor to the rear about impact of storm water for their um I believe there's a creek or a storm water Pond and um the N1 and the tree save would really help to uh keep that area as natural as possible I don't have much else to add but um this is we can certainly comply with the outdoor storage I understand that that's a concern and the petitioner intends to seek a variance after this um at the request of the staff thank you any comment or question yeah uh Miss air yes thank you um so the front portion of the site would be used as storage facility and the back will continue to be n1a which is the single family so the front portion would continue to be used as a contractor office there's several um I think there's three or four buildings on site that are currently used as a contractor office it says contractor office with outdoor storage correct it's currently a landscape maintenance facility um that's where the landscape maintenance company operates from so as a nature of them doing landscape work they have outdoor storage so that outdoor storage would be it has been requested to be moved further from this property line in the corner um currently most of the outdoor storage sits about here so we had worked with um staff on a plan that showed out the outdoor storage in this corner um and we can can certainly work with them on on on those revisions for the second submitt so to follow up on that uh Miss Anderson just wanted to follow up on that so the contractor office with outdoor storage already operates there so I guess I'm I'm just trying to figure out so is it to bring it into compliance okay so this was a rezoning violation I mean zoning violation cor so now okay God makes sense okay so this is really a no-brainer we just trying to get it into compliance so that it can continue to operate as a a contractor office with outdoor storage facility I don't have if there are no other questions move to close second second third okay a motion in second all in favor raise hands any opposed that's unanimous thank you Miss Holland we will move on to agenda item number 20 petion number 2024 073 by CLT operations Holdings LLC the location is approximately 1.51 n Acres located along the north side of alany Street and West Side of Ashley Road and south of lanber Street in District 3 Miss Brown's District the current zoning is B1 CD A and D O proposed Zone cgcd a and doo staff recommends approval of this petition upon outstanding resolutions related to environment and Technical Rel revisions related to site and building Design After staff's presentation Mr Murray will have three minutes thank you hey good evening petition 2024 073 is located along the north side of alany street west of Ashley Road South of Lindberg Street s's approximately 1.51 9 acres and is a vacant out parcel the current zoning is B1 CD a Ando neighborhood business conditional airport noise disclosure overlay Pro zoning is cgcd a anddo general commercial conditional airport noers disclosure overlay 240 policy map recommends the commercial Place type for the site CG district is consistent with this place type little background uh the previous B1 CD resoning uh plan permitted all commercial office and personal service use is allowed in the B1 zoning district with the exception of fast food restaurants proposal calls for a 4,000 ft commercial use with an accessory drive-through maximum Building height is limited to 50 ft 8ft sidewalk and 8ft planting strip will be provided along the site's frontages on both alagan and Ashley roads parking and drive-through areas will be screened from view from adjacent streets access to the site will be primarily provided from Full movement shared private driveways no new access points to public streets will be constructed staff recommends approval of this petition upon resolution of out seeeing issues related to environment and a technical revision regarding site and building design as the petition is consistent with the 2040 policy map recommendation for the commercial Place type um current the current entitlements allow for commercial uses drive-throughs are permitted by right under prescribed conditions in the CG District site is located along arterial streets pedestrian improvements are proposed and the site has access to multiple bus routes Happ you take any questions following Mr Murray's presentation thank you welcome Mr Murray thank you mayor protim council zoning committee David Murray attorney here for the petitioner um I have a presentation I'll go through quickly the purpose of this resoning is for a new Zaxby's restaurant to be located at this site uh this uh previous Max it's not going forward for me oh thank you uh the previous zoning on the site is 25 years old and it has remained vacant since that time this is an out parcel in front of a food line and so this plan proposes to allow a uh qsr a fast food restaurant to be located here um we did a uh Transportation uh study on the site can you okay sorry it's not going forward for me um we did a TI on the site and uh CT determined that uh some improvements at the intersection would be needed for accessible uh pedestrian uh Crossings so we're uh going to contribute those as part of this development um there are no new driveways proposed this is a large site for a fast food restaurant with the intention to keep all the vehicles coming into the site uh so that there's no concerns about backup Vehicles outside on public streets so everything will come into the Food Lion uh existing driveways onto the site and uh enter through the drive-thru as well as the uh restaurant building that's on site um so I'm happy to answer any questions and we look forward to your support we appreciate it I have a question for you um it it's interesting this is a fast casual restaurant right and but there's no driveway drive-thru being proposed it is a drive-thru there is a drivethru okay I thought you said there was no Drive yes there is a drive through there's no new driveways being proposed so we are not cutting new entrances we are using what's existing to bring Vehicles into the Food Lion um development which will keep vehicles from ever risking of stacking out on alagan or on Ashley Road got you I I had some questions about the fast casual model without the drive so okay got you and um this particular property has been vacant for over 20 years or nearly 20 years uh for approximately 25 years uh I believe it was originally a boo and uh boo had some out parcels and the out Parcels just never developed and so this is a great location for a development there's a new uh Town Home Development going up directly across the street from this uh so there will be a new opportunity across the street for a restaurant I'm I'm familiar with the location um it's interesting that you only had three community members at the meeting can you just talk about speak about the community outreach that you've done thus far yes we did have the um head of the of the local Community Association uh attend and so she's been very active with me and council member Brown we've emailed uh multiple times about this project uh as well as the owner of the um Food Lion location shopping center attended as well as uh Mr Drakeford whose town home development is across the street so the most interested parties were able to attend our community meeting okay thank you any additional comments Miss ashir thank you um do you have a site plan uh yes we do uh I don't know so you know often times with drive-throughs uh we see that even though there is lot of space within this I guess internally but whenever there is a rush hour you see the lines out the in on public street right so um that's what we're seeking to avoid here I have the site plan up so if you're coming off alagan you took a right turn into the food line and I'm sorry where C can you use that yes I'll uh use my pointer so if we come off alany Street this is the existing drive as it exists today to go to the food line up to the north the new driveway there's also an existing driveway from the food line into this site from the north we're going to keep that open and connect to it but if you're coming in you will come in take a right and then you can go into the drive-thru and around the side staff wanted our loc our building to be at the corner to activate the corner here so that it's not just a drive-thru Lane and it's not just parking so our restaurant will be what you see at the corner instead of driving and parking and then the parking is all internal to the site the one thing I'll also note about this site is because it's a big site for a fast food restaurant there's a lot of open space so there's open space here here in the corner there's open space here in the back and then there's an option if um if it works out to have some outdoor seating areas in the front at the corner uh and then the new accessible pedestrian Crossings are at all four corners of the intersection of Ashley and alany to help facilitate pedestrians and one other thing I'll point out here that's nice about being at the corner is if pedestrians are walking to this they do not have to cross over any drive-thru lane or any driveway into the site so it's very walkable yes no I appreciate the design here where you also have some pedestrian improvements so is there going to be walk up window um there uh the new plan for Zach um if I press this and it doesn't go too fast I've had a delay here um does have a walk up window option on the front yes okay that's great because if you have seating arrangements uh it makes sense to have walk up window as well as you got walking improvements uh so you're making it more walkable well that's great so you said this is xby yeah this is xb's yes okay well that's all I have thank you we can go did you have a comment okay Mr DRS and then miss watlington did you have a comment I thought I saw your hand you don't have I do okay I had a couple of things uh the first one is alluding to what mayor protim has said uh I'd love to see another connection with uh Camp green and Ashley Park neighborhood associations um I'm sure the uh council member Brown is on top of it but that would be something that I'd love to see in outcome because I do know that they meet pretty actively so there may be an opportunity for you to go to them um because they've got a lot of participation in their um their regular Community meetings um in Westerly uh Hills neighborhood is as well um there was that and then my other question was had you given any thought as it relates to um ongoing operations and maintenance of the property um one of the things that we see related to land use and security is that particular establishments often have a hard time um uh managing some of the things that are occurring on their properties in certain zones and so I wanted to know if there if the partitioner had a strategy around uh operating and maintaining oh one of the things the Wester early Hills Community brought up was some concerns about loitering at the Food Lion parking lot and so fortunately the Food Lion rep or the owner of that development was on and so we brought up that um that they have a security uh team that's out there that we're going to get in communication with um and and you know see if there's those type of issues that may come up but we're in contact with that developer because we want to work together with them on that sure and and and that does have some effect on the potential outdoor seating sure and so to the extent that there is any kind of ongoing communication with the community officers or any kinds of strategy I'd be very interested in seeing that as well okay thank you thank you if uh move to close second okay have a motion to close public hearing and second all in favor raise hands any oppose that is unanimous thank you we'll move on to agenda item number 21 petition number 2024 106 by Drake for communities the location is approximately 5.83 Acres located along the north side of Rocky River Road West of Pickering drive and south of B Creek Drive in District 4 Miss Johnson's District the current zoning is n1a proposed zoning is N2 a CD staff recommends approval of this petition upon resolution of outstanding issues related to the environment after staff's presentation uh Mr Brown and Mr Drake for will'll have three minutes thank you thank you site is just under 6 acres north of Rocky River Road East of Old Concord Road and West of East oft Harris Boulevard the media area has a mix of single family as well as multif family residential developments as well as some commercial uses in a Duke Energy facility just to the north of the site property is currently Z neighborhood 1 a and they are proposing to go to Neighborhood 2 a conditional which is inconsistent with the with the 2040 policy Maps recommendation for neighborhood one at this site The Proposal itself is for up to 65 multi family attached dwelling units limits to no more than five units per building this would be town home style units proposes a 12ft wide multi-use path and 8ft planting strip along the frontage of Rocky River Road um east of the Greenway path vehicle access is via private alley Network to each of the units dedicates area Back Creek Greenway to Parks and Rec Department provides a 25t classy landscape yard that's typically a 10ft classy landscape yard that would believe be along the western portion of the property line adjacent to those single family homes open space areas would consist of a minimum of three or more of the following components that includes enhanced planting specialty Paving materials shading elements seaing options minimum of 20 foot dimension in all directions public art and sculptures and decorative lighting contrib contributes $25,000 to The Back Creek Church HOA for the purposes of traffic improvements of the intersection of Rocky River Road and East WT Harris Boulevard and or other neighborhood improvements in accordance with the Charlotte Department of Transportation and provides enhanced architectural and design standards staff recommends appr the of the petition upon resolution to outstanding issues related to the environment and although inconsistent with the adopted Place type for the property the request proposes uses that is similar to the existing and development developing multif family uses in the vicinity of the property the petition also goes beyond typical ordinance requirements in providing a 25t rather than 10ft classy landscape yard where it abuts single family uses enhanced standards are also provided regarding amenitized open space and preferred architectural standards the petition May enhance mobility in the area with the commitment to provide a connection to the Back Creek Greenway as well as $225,000 to traffic improvements and I'll take any questions following the petitioner comments thank you Mr Brown thank you mayor protim council members zoning committee members Colin Brown on behalf of the petitioner uh Bobby dford is here as well in the audience since the my clicker is not working maybe if we could just I don't steuart if you're up there maybe advance to like slide 11 and I'll try to try to just work off this um Holly had a pretty comprehensive overview uh looking at a town home in Phil site if our if our slide does pop up I'll show you that maybe two years ago we had a rezoning essentially right next to this uh where the dford company um received approval for a town home Community that's kind of serving as phase one this will be phase two if you can see the map you would see there's an industrial uh development behind us where Duke is this serves as a nice transition between that and single family neighborhoods we had a good turnout at the U neighborhood meeting uh 15 20 or so people so that's gone well and then we continue to have uh conversations with the B Creek neighborhood association uh that's where some of that additional commitment to some U some funds for some Transportation improvements that have been planned also I think folks are looking forward to seeing the multi-use path completed so happy to don't have any visual aids but happy to take questions thank you any questions or comments Miss Johnson thank you Colin so the previous petition it's uh was out right outside the Farms subdivision right right next door so there's a the Duke driveway kind of will separate you know we're kind of calling it phase one and phase too just been a nice development it's been adopted well I think the community likes it and so I think that's why folks are comfortable with this almost as a faith two yeah and I will say that Mr Drakeford has worked very closely with the community um just a little history that petition before Mr Drakeford purchased it or developed on it um there was a lot of community opposition so Mr drer came in and met with the community so they they've been welcoming so um I'm I I welcome and appreciate look forward to supporting you excellent move to close second all right motion to close in second all in favor raise hands any oppose that is unanimous we will move on to agenda item number 22 petition number 2024 110 by Flor Development Group the location is approximately 51.78 Acres located east of Claude Freeman Drive North of David Taylor drive and west of Senator Royale Drive in at district for Miss Miss Johnson's District Miss Johnson you're on a rooll tonight current zoning is 01 CD n re30 proposed zoning is cac1 ex staff recommends approval of this petition upon resolution of outstanding issues related to building standard and required technical revision after sta presentation Miss Grant will join us again for 3 minutes thank you um I'm going to check in to see if we've got any projector coming back up I cat yeah they are real estate stories give them a sh don't know there we go for now not see are the technical Gremlins back uh yeah I think they're wreaking some Havoc but Doc is working on it and trying to keep us running and operating smoothly so um we can let's see I don't think this is working so if we can go to 110 if we get a chance up up in the booth there we go perfect okay all right so this petition 2024 110 about 51.7 Acres as mentioned in off David Taylor drive uh it is currently zoned 01 CD we can go to the zoning slide and they are proposing cac1 uh with some exceptions so cac1 ex uh and the adopted Place type on the policy map does recommend that Community Activity Center District so this petition is consistent with that place type recommendation if we can go to the proposal great uh so it does allow or proposes to allow uh uses permitted in the CAC District that would include up to 560 multif family stacked residential units so 560 apartments and up to 20 multif family attached dwellings uh it also proposes a minimum 7500 ft of commercial uses uh development areas b c and d in the invent those commercial uses are not able to be developed after 5 Years From the approval of resoning they can uh move forward and and those non-residential un uses would not be required that gives them some time to try to Market those uh it is a little bit of a challenging site in that regard just given it's kind of off some of the main roads and Main thorough fares that are out there but uh we did want to try to see a commitment to trying to attract some of those non-residential to make it a little bit more of a mixed use project this is a two-phase development uh does prohibit drive-throughs uh does request some ex uh Provisions which would be deviations from uh standards in the Udo things like our build to Zone uh some of the uh build two percentage for structures uh and then also uh some of those buildings not or 60% of that building like I said not being uh within that bill two Zone uh there's some pedestrian entry requirements that they're asking for some relief from uh all of those U Provisions that again they're asking for some deviation to uh they're not being waved in their entirety they're just reduced to a different standard then allowed in the Udo and in order for them to make that request they have to provide uh some public benefits in return for those asks and the public benefits they are uh proposing to provide as a result of of asking for some relief from those standards are uh a dedication of two acres uh for open space to mecklinburg County uh and then construction of buildings uh within the project would meet the national Green Building standards uh and so that would be a sustainability benefit and then they would also contribute uh $10,000 to meinberg County Park and wreck for improvements in the Northeast Park District uh so they've got again some of those public benefits uh as a result of asking for some relief from some of the standards uh in the Udo uh they do have some Transportation improvements as well if we can go to the next slide uh David Taylor uh Drive uh an access a would be improved at southbound left turn lane with 100 ft of storage and a separate through right turn lane would be proposed on access a uh they would remark pavement on David Taylor drive uh to create an additional 100 feet of storage for an eastbound left turn lane uh install ADA Compliant bus stops on David Taylor drive uh 12 foot wide multi-use path an 8 foot wide planning strip on David Taylor as well as a 12 wide multi-use path and 8ot wide planning strip on public Street a uh combined westbound left turn lane on proposed access B would be uh installed and then also be some additional restriping uh again on David Taylor for some additional turn lane storage and then 8ft sidewalk and planning strips on the new public Street B and new public Street c so lots of Transportation improvements involved with this one as well uh overall again staff does recommend approval of the petition do have some resolution of outstanding issues for Sight and building design and some technical revisions to uh continue to work with the petitioner on it is consistent with the policy map recommendation and we will take any questions uh following the petitioner's presentation thank you thank you Miss Grant good evening mayor protan members of council members of the zoning committee Bridget Grant land use consultant it's a pleasure to be here tonight with Jay Schaefer with floi Dave did an incredibly thorough job covering the scale and scope of the proposed Redevelopment we will be able to out address the outstanding issues and I'm pleased to say I emailed you this past weekend a letter of support from University Research Partners we worked with them for several months throughout this process to identify the mix of units the open the open space and as Dave mentioned the non-residential uses in coordination with staff so with that I'm happy to answer any questions Miss s you go ahead you go ahead you can okay um question for Mr Patton under proposed zoning where it says Community Activity Center one exception M what what does that mean so exception is a almost like a another form of a conditional District uh the exception is they're asking for uh some relief from some quantitative standards like setbacks uh in this case a lot of it is build two zones or uh pedestrian entry requirements sometimes you see things uh related to the transparency requirements for buildings at a ground floor level uh so the ex uh Provisions allow you to take that standard that's measured in in a number some quantitative way and reduce that down to uh something that maybe accommodates the project a little better in exchange for those public benefits so ex is essentially another form of conditional it's it's a little similar somewhat kind of a cousant to the optional Provisions we used to do in the past uh and it's something we just saw with the Panthers resoning as well so it's just a way to uh get some of those standards to work a little bit better for a project in exchange for some public asks so thank you you're welcome well was good to see um you know I used to work in Research Park area and I've just seen how their area has evolved in past eight years uh with all the developments so I I can see how well this fits in with the other development that has gone and it's really become a job Hub like hub for um not just uh for District 4 but for our entire city that's all I have thank you you thank you Miss aimira I I was going to uh State Miss Grant that it's good to see that you have that letter of support um just given the magnitude of this particular project um with with over 51 acres and so there will be an impact to the community and it's I'm happy to see that you've worked with the community to a point where um a letter of support was provided uh so that's all I had any additional questions or comments close second all right uh we have a motion to close public hearing and second all in favor raise hands any oppose that is unanimous we'll move on to petition item number 23 petition number 20241 139 by True Foundation true home H the location is approximately 4.91 Acres located on the east side of B for Road north of Cindy Lane and west of Cindy Woods Lane in District 2 Mr Grahams District the pro the current zoning is CG and n1b proposed zoning is N1 ecd staff recommends approval of this petition upon resolution of outstanding issues related to transportation the environment site and building Design After Steph's presentation Mr let's see here Mr Eddie Moore and Ron Staley will have three minutes thank you petition 2024 139 is located on the east side of B Ford Road north of Cindy Lane and west of Cindy Woods Lane sight's approximately 4.91 acres and currently undeveloped site is currently zoned n1b neighborhood one and CG General commercial proposed zoning is n1e CD neighborhood 1e conditional 2040 policy map recommends the neighborhood one place type for this site the n1e district is consistent with the recommended place type proposal calls for the development of up to S 29 single family detached dwelling units all units will be House Charlotte eligible and will be deed restricted to ensure affordability for a minimum of 7 years maximum Building height is limited to 40 ft usable front porches and Stoops will be provided preferred building materials include brick um Pitch roofs will have a minimum pitch of 512 and shed roofs will have a minimum pitch of 212 all Transportation improvements and dedication and rights way will be completed prior to the issuance of the first certificate of occupancy staff recommends appr recommends approval of this petition upon resolution of outstanding issues related to Transportation environment and sign building design as it is consistent with the 2040 policy map recommendation for neighborhood one place type would provide attainable housing is within a quar mile of commercial uses such as retail medical and restaurant the site has access to Transit I'm happy to take any questions following Mr Moore's presentation thank you Mr Moore good evening mayor Pro Tim Anderson council members and zoning committee my name is Eddie Moore with McAdams we are assisting Ron Staley with the trueu homes foundation and I so we don't have the slides I'm going to hand it off to Ron a little bit to tell you a little bit of information about the foundation good evening mayor protim council members True Foundation is dedicating 10% of his volume toward the housing that equates to 250 homes a year uh we currently have over 100 homes that will be building in the Charlotte Metro Market and our Doorway to Prosperity program our Doorway to Prosperity program is deeply focused on home ownership in that 80% to 100 10% Workforce housing who is that that's our teachers our firefighters police officers we're currently setting aside uh homes in one of our communities for CMS teachers we'll actually have our first CMS teacher closing next month um I would appreciate your support and thank you for your time thank you any comments or questions Miss air thank you um here is another resorting petition for Research Park area um and it's great to see that there is some affordable housing being developed close to jobs um and I appreciate um I I appreciate uh you helping us meet our affordable housing goal um with that I look forward to supporting this resoning petition okay um thank you Mr Graham yeah just want to say thank you had a great conversation with you prior to you coming down tonight and I look forward to U supporting it as well thank you hearing no additional comments is there a motion to close I move second second we have a motion and second all in favor raise hands any opposed that is unanimous thank you for coming out gentlemen uh we we will move on to petition it agenda item number 24 petition number 20241 142 by Saints LLC the location is 1.5 Acres located east of North Trine Street along the south side of East Arrowhead Drive and north of North Hills Circle and district for Miss Johnson's District the current zoning is ml one proposed zoning is to DNC staff recommends the approval of this petition and after staff's presentation Mr Murray will again join us for three minutes thank you petion 202442 is located on the east side of North Tron Street along the south side of East Arrowhead Drive in north of North Hill Circle sites approximately 1.5 acres and contains a commercial building proper property is zoned ml1 manufacturing Logistics propos zoning is to NC Transit oriented development Neighborhood Center conventional zoning District the 24 2040 policy map recommends the manufacturing Logistics Place type to NC district is inconsistent with this place type and approval of this resoning would revise the policy map to the community Activity Center Place type um this is a conventional rezoning petition there's not an Associated site plan and would permit any use allowed in the to NC zoning District staff recommends approval of this petition as the site is adjacent to other to Zone Parcels including to NC CC and UC all designated as the community Activity Center Place type site is within 3/4 of a mile of the Tom Hunter Blue Line Station the petition could promote the 2040 comprehensive plan goals such as 10-minute neighborhoods and Transit oriented development I'm happy to take any questions following Mr Murray's presentation thank you Mr Murray thank you mayor protim council zoning committee David Murray for the petitioner I'm happy to answer any questions you may have hearing none is close second second we have a motion to close public Hearing in second all in favor raise hands any oppose that's unanimous thank you Mr Murray we will uh conclude with our final agenda item tonight agenda item number 25 petition number 2024 147 by Christina sep sepo the location is approximately 2.11 Acres located along the east side of North Graham Street north of Kennedy Street and south of Johnson Road and district one my district the current zoning is ml1 proposed zoning IM UCD staff recommends approval of this petition and a after staff's presentation Miss uh septimo will have three minutes thank you thank you this site is just over 2 Acres located along the east side of North gaham Street in an area that's largely Industrial in nature but has several commercial uses located along Graham Street just south and north of this property here the proposal itself is to go to inovation mix use conditional from its existing zoning of manufacturing Logistics to this proposal is inconsistent with the policy mount's recommendation for manufacturing Logistics Place type at this property this is a tier one conditional plan meaning that it doesn't have a full on site plan but we did ask them to consider um some development standards for this site to prohibit residential uses so given that it is entirely manufacturing Logistics that they're surrounded by on the policy map residential uses aren't entirely appropriate um for this for this site so they have prohibited residential uses which are typically permitted in the IMU zoning District but that is the only condition uh considered with this proposal itself and otherwise this petition is just moving forward allowing for all other IMU uses staff recommends approval of this petition although it is inconsistent with that manufacturing Logistics Place type we believe that this is an appropriate application the IMU zoning District given that the area is transitioning in some locations away from those purely industrial uses to allow for a more broader mix of commercial office or Artisan Industrial Development and that speaks to the intent of the IMU zending District to allow for more of a transition of uses rather than purely Industrial manufacturing Logistics type profile of the area the uh petition is also located within the North Graham North Trion Street Corridor of opportunity so Shifting the entitlements away from that purely manufactured Logistics uses speaks to that quarter as opportunity intent there and the prohibition of residential uses on that site is appropriate given its surrounding context and that residential development would not be appropriate at this location and I'll take any questions following petitioners comments thank you is it septimo or septimo second one septimo okay after I said it the wrong way I thought yeah there was a different emphasis my apologies you have three minutes good evening um I she described it to a te so I don't have anything else to add um just basically wanted to broaden the um acceptable uses okay um I I do have just one or two questions the questions is we have been seeing a couple of these Imus along this Corridor specifically aando along aando over the last I would say four to six months but she mentioned a use of residential here that that's unique or different than the others could you I want to make sure I heard that properly there's a Prohibition of residential uses is the one condition of this tier of this conditional plant um whereas typically if you're requesting IMU as a conventional resoning request you're requesting all uses allowed within the IMU zoning District which can include include residential uses so if if somebody were requesting IMU con conventionally along atondo that could include residential uses but for this site in particular do any use within IMU except for any residential uses okay okay great thank you for that clarification uh the the last thing I'll say and we've we've said this before which is um to get engagement along this Corridor not only for this particular petition but other rezonings I'd like to see more engagement than just one person coming out to the meeting I know there's a mix in this neighborhood of different uses um there there are businesses and and residents and just a variety of different mix there so uh but I would just like to see an extra ra effort to step out to make sure the neighbors understand what's going on and um how it's impacting a community so they'll have an opportunity to speak I I I did send out invitations uh a number of them came back uh undelivered okay um but the majority of them were delivered um and so I there was only one person interested in participating so um are you saying to go out again and and invite those that were recommended for um to attend well um in particular if you've said that there were some invitations that were effectively returned you know that might speak to the transient neighbor aspect of that area or there might be some challenges with our list I'm not sure but just to to to make an extra effort to ensure that those who should have an opportunity to hear about what's going on in a neighborhood have that opportunity so that's what I would encourage you to do but thank you for sending out the the notifications and speaking to those who did show up Miss Johnson I saw your hand thank you I think and I've said this before but that's an area where the city could do more as far as Outreach if we could put a QR code on the signs I think that that would be so good and and and an effort toward transparency I was surprised by this one petition we've had a sign up for months and then we get comments from the residents that are just kind of learning what's going on and I think if those signs instead of a z in the neighborhood if there was a a QR code where a person could use their phone and it just be very PL plain language this this area is changing or something so we talk about this all the time about not enough community outreach but I think that's one area that we could there's room for improvement what does that sign mean to individuals and you know it's not just on the developer thank you for that that effort but we as the city can do more as well I agree thank you Miss Johnson any additional comments move to close okay we have a motion to close public hearing and second all in favor raise hands that's unanimous and we will conclud clude have a wonderful St Patrick's Day yes [Music] [Music] for