Town Board expected to OK multi-family construction ‘time-out’ on Monday
Gilroy, Osborne, Furcht, Sansbury
Dec. 17. By Dave Yochum. As promised, the new Town Board—driven by Colin Furcht, Dave Gilroy, Michael Osborne and Todd Sansbury—will consider a resolution calling for a time-out on multi-family apartments, mixed-use development that includes multi-family and development of land set aside for rural preservation.
Commissioner Denis Bilodeau, the lone incumbent to win re-election, said he will vote for the resolution at Monday’s board of commissioners meeting.
The resolution says:
“The Board of Commissioners does hereby intend to disapprove any conditional zoning applications from this date that include more than ten units for all of the following: multifamily apartment residential development, mixed use development including multi-family, and single-family residential development in various areas including those areas currently zoned rural preservation, where density may need to be studied. In addition, building heights shall be evaluated in all categories, with the exception of Town Center.”
To read the resolution, click here.
The vote
The resolution, which is expected to pass 5-0, directs town staff to begin a nine- to 12-month study to update the Land Use Plan.
Background
Rampant growth and lagging infrastructure were the twin issues that saw four pro-growth commissioners decisively lose their seats on the town board in November.
Bilodeau
Furcht, Gilroy, Osborne and Sansbury ran on a “contract with Cornelius” that called for a mutli-family building moratorium to put the brakes on new construction.
Bilodeau distanced himself from the four incumbents—and won.
Attend
The Dec. 20 Town Board meeting will begin with a 5 pm pre-meeting to review the agenda, in Room 204 in Town Hall. The regular meeting begins at 6 pm in the Assembly Room on the ground floor.
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Thank you, current commissioners, for both listening to the citizens of Cornelius, and for keeping your promise.
I will never understand why the zoning board, the town commissioners, and the DOT don’t work together. They must never travel from Rt73 through Catawba to Jetton Dr. It’s impossible from 4:15 – 6:30 to drive half the speed limit for several years and continued apartment, new businesses and new development persists. What’s wrong with town’s paid leadership???
I think that you over estimate the power that the town commissioners and zoning board have. The fact is that they DO work very hard with the DOT. But the DOT does… what the DOT wants. That includes $$$ allocations and priorities. It’s like trying to push an elephant. And prodding… only tends to make it more upset.
We live on the complete opposite side of Cornelius and Cawtabs and I can tell you the OTC 1000% agrees.. except maybe the “half the speed limit” part.. It’s just gridlock…
Thank you for listening!