BREAKING NEWS: Exit 30 Hotel land owner reportedly revokes CSD parking lease

In a move that shows the true importance of parking for the proposed Hyatt Place hotel next to the Community School of Davidson, the land owner for the project has apparently revoked the parking arrangement currently in place with the school.   Tuesday morning the below was posted to the school's Facebook page by CSD's Joy Warner.  This notice comes on the same day Davidson's Board is scheduled to receive an update on the project at its monthly 6pm work session.

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aShortChronicle has been telling readers for months that parking would be the major issue in this project.  However, the notion that the school administration has been opposing this project over parking is a complete farce.  If anything, the school has been conspicuously absent from the public discussion on the impacts of this hotel proposal.  Clearly, this is more a move to deflect the conversation from the real impacts of major development on this property.

As aShortChronicle told readers in this piece, the developer has the opportunity to put its money where its mouth is over the parking issue by voluntarily signing a parking sharing agreement with the school.  That would have been a show of good faith that the project team truly felt its parking was adequate and primarily needed after hours when it would not conflict with the school.  Instead, the project has chosen to take this route.

Absent a parking sharing agreement, the loss of access to this parking lot for the school has likely been a forgone conclusion since the beginning of this proposal.  However, after this action while project negotiations are ongoing, any Commissioner who supports this project is also effectively condoning bullying.

Let's hope Davidson Commissioners are better than that.