Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Cost Of Bike Lanes
Millions Of Your Money Spent On Vanity Projects for The 1%?
Urban density
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Just Lower Taxes & Unzone
Are the protections afforded by zoning worth being forced into homelessness? Some would say yes, but I disagree. The Buncombe County Commissioners were presented a number of options to fool…
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Creating Problems for to Solve
Southwestern Community College and affiliates received $1.5 million from the Golden Leaf Foundation and Duke Energy. Funds will go toward training people who live here to stay here. Once that…
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I Like This Angle
In discussions about housing in Asheville government officials, developers, neighborhood activists, and even non-profit representatives are often featured in the media, especially when a dispute over a particular proposed development…
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Yet another chicken or the egg argument
This one focuses on light rail: (NC Transportation Secretary Gene)Conti rarely misses an opportunity to promote mass transit. He noted during his keynote speech that legislation passed last year allows…
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Another Cost of High Density Development
Did you catch this little nugget tucked away in Uptown enviro-scribe Bruce Henderson’s account of a faulty septic system in Mint Hill? In the past two years, county records show,…
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The Density God Reappears
Nuther clip-n-save quote from QC officialdom on our land-use goals. The topic is tear-downs and “McMansion” infill development in close-in neighborhoods like Plaza Midwood and Elizabeth. Neighborhood association types are…
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The High Density Urban Lifestyle
It gets a little denser every day in Charlotte.
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Re: Public transit
No, they’re just dense enough for this:
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Public Transit
Successful light rail. Thank goodness the majority of American cities aren’t dense enough for this.
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"There will be a different kind of land use"
This decree from Charlotte’s official “economic development manager” applies to the stretch of Independence Blvd. not already resembling Mogadishu. Pray what will take its place? Charlotte officials are looking at…
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Michael Smith: Burbs Are For Heathens
Buried in an altogether strange info-mercial of a piece on families in Uptown by a former Uptown paper of record reporter, we get a clip-n-save quote from Center City Partners…