At the 4pm work session, Commissioners will here about the CMS bonds. North Mecklenburg is getting very little out of this mega round of school bonds. The Lake Norman Chamber, Cornelius, and Huntersville have given their official thumbs down on this package.
At the 6pm work session there will be multiple updates on controversial projects.
Commissioners will hear an update on the Potts-Sloan-Beaty Connector. See here for the presentation. The presentation appears to be an explanation of how the Town got to this point. It does not appear to be covering the equally controversial piece of work at the south end of Potts Street at the intersection with NC115 which is being treated as a separate project by NCDOT. To be honest the presentation reads like the standard update that comes from Town Hall once people know what a project is actually going to mean. It is the update where the Town says "we've been planning this for years, so concerns are a bit too late. Sorry. You should have been paying more attention all along."
The second controversial project on the docket Tuesday evening is another update on the Griffith Street hotel. It looks like there is new set of parking plans and an updated landscaping plan. See here for the documents. Readers will remember that the vote on this conditional use was postponed from the October 10th meeting supposedly due to the developer requesting more time for its landscaping plan. What wasn't mentioned until it was a surprise addition to the agenda at the last meeting was a $20,000 budget amendment by the Town to also add buffer behind Woodies. The Town had been trying to get the Hotel developer to take care of the Woodies buffer as a condition of approval for its project. However, that $20,000 taxpayer funded budget amendment is looking more and more like a concession to the developer than the other way around.
This is the last Board meeting prior to the election, and it doesn't appear anything has changed with how this administration approaches issues.
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