Dueling e-petitions ask for support — or not — for Birkdale Village proposals
Rendering of new Birkdale
Nov. 2. [Updated] By TL Bernthal. Birkdale Village has launched a petition drive on Facebook to show support for a rezoning request for its latest plans; within hours, a Greens at Birkdale Village resident posted one to seek support for the opposition.
At issue
On Nov. 21, the Huntersville Town Board will vote on whether or not to approve a rezoning request from North American Properties, the owners of Birkdale Village, to build Class A office-over-retail, a boutique hotel, luxury multifamily and two parking decks adding a total of 900 spaces to the center.
At least half of those spaces would be available to the public on nights and weekends, according to NAP.
The petitions
Birkdale Village’s link to the support petition has been available for weeks on the Birkdale Village website, and a Facebook item was posted Tuesday afternoon.
“While design concepts won’t be finalized for many months, we believe our refined vision best represents the future of Birkdale and Huntersville,” NAP said in the posting.
Within hours, Brian Rice posted on Facebook, starting a dueling petition to show opposition to the plan, raising this question: If the Town Board approves such a move in Birkdale Village without considering traffic, safety, and property value depreciation, what might they do in other areas around Huntersville?
How it’s going
The tallies, as of this morning: 129 signatures in 15 hours opposed to North American Properties’ current proposals vs. 95 in 20 hours showing the love for the plans.
[Update] By 5:15 pm, the support petition had 103 signatures, while the “Say ‘No’ to proposed Birkdale Village code changes – don’t let big money ruin our village” petition had 303.“I’m hearing more feedback against rather than for the project at this moment,” Huntersville Town Manager Anthony Roberts said in an email. “That is typical.”
I oppose the new plan. It’s a complete destruction of the quality of life that was once a quite peaceful village. This massive construction plan would cause more traffic crowding an noise for the small area that is Birkdale !!
Opposed! Traffic is already heavily impacted in that area with all the retail activity and commuting confluence to 77. Birkdale golf course is in the beginning stage of building a hotel/convention center across the street, starting in the near future. This is obvious that developers are not considering the impact traffic, congestion, and loss of open space will have have on an already busy area.
Amazing how a quaint walkable community for all things practical is turning into a city of its own without fixing the traffic issues all around there. It’s all about taxes that will be brought in I imagine.
The deaf ear from the leaders on traffic being the number one issue is again amazing. Now if the investors wanted to widen or add to the road system in the area it might stand a chance. Otherwise no more projects when the road system corrections are delayed for years or not even on the books
Yes..I agree with those people opposing more businesses into Birkdale shopping areas..the parking problem needs attention..and the inroads n out also need more lanes ..very congested in that area..I stay away from the movie theatre because of the parking issues..
“Buckdale” developer says, “…we believe our refined vision best represents the future of ‘Buckdale’ and Atlantaville…”
“…best represents the future…”
Buckdale, here we come.