Hearings TONGHT on possible new project near Bridges Farm Rd

Last year, readers will remember the swirl surrounding a possible massive new development called "Lake Davidson" off of Bridges Farm Rd just north of Davidson over the Iredell County line.  That development rezoning request was beaten back after intense citizen opposition and some embarrassing text messages between Mooresville elected officials disparaging those citizens opposing the project came to light.

Now, it appears something new (but possibly related) may so be in the works.   The below information was received by aShortChronicle over the weekend and has not been confirmed with the Town of Mooresville.  It is being passed along due to the timing of the meetings being held tonight, Monday 3/19.

On the agenda for tonight's Mooresville  Board meeting, there are multiple resolutions and hearings to support something called "Project Control".  (See pages pages 26 – 28, 41 and 43.)  These items revolve around building an access road from Transco Rd to the project site.  While the site location for Project Control is not mentioned, the separate reference to a traffic separation study involving NCDOT's rail division has residents in the area concerned it goes somewhere near the Norfolk Southern rail line along 115 in the Bridges Farm Road area.

The agenda does not give any specifics on what Project Control entails, however a 2014 post on the Mooresville economic development website references a Project control as:

Project Control...aims to attract a North Dakota-based producer of environmentally friendly, nontoxic pest control with incentives of $58,200 to $112,520 based on investment ranging from $3 million to $5.8 million. Carney said the company would initially build a 60,000-square-foot facility and create 14 jobs, and could add another 380 jobs over the next four years.

The concern among residents is that the access road construction and the tax incentives to support it are precursors to restarting efforts at more intensive development in the area.  State grants and local tax incentives being sought total roughly $2.5 million.

Head to Mooresville Town Hall tonight at 6pm to see how this unfolds.