Posts by Mike Lyda:
- With the increase in traffic congestion that will come from the development of “site 1″ it will likely mean the elimination of the current awkward intersection of Pitts School and Poplar Tent to avoid traffic backups that could block the intersections for I-85.
- The development of “site 1″ will likely require the addition of a stop light, possibly a turning lane, and other changes to the traffic pattern in that area. This would be the opportune time to move the location of the Pitts School and Poplar Tent intersection.
- It’s.. um.. shown on the 2015 Concord Land Use Plan. It’s just a proposal, but it’s a proposal that people are apparently working towards.
More questions about the Overcash project
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments
After my post last week on the Overcash project on Poplar Tent Road, there has been a flurry of activity from the concerned citizens of Gable Oaks, Carriage Downs, Freedom Acres, Kings Crossing and other nearby neighborhoods…and interestingly enough, from the Mayor’s office.
There are a few things coming out of the smoke and mirrors game that seems interesting and I am unclear as to exactly what they mean. I’ll list them off here and let you decide what you think it all means.
1 - There’s a fairly well grounded rumor that was voiced in a meeting recently that Pitts School Road is slated to be moved to intersect with Poplar Tent Road at the current location of Shelton Road. I say the rumor is fairly well grounded because.. .
The red and white dashed line indicates the proposed route for the relocated Pitts School Road. Grey indicates Industrial property. Yellow is residential. Notice that there is no agricultural (green) shown.
2 - On the 2015 Concord Land Use Plan the property for “site 2″ is shown as Industrial (above in grey)- even though it is currently zoned at the other end of the spectrum (agricultural as shown below in green) and is located immediately adjacent to residential areas, in contradiction to the CDO. A possible oversight, but potentially a prophetic one to say the least.
3 - The meetings with concerned citizens who are banding together to fight the rezoning of “site 2″ so far haven’t included the adjoining property owners who own the property to the West and South of “site 2.” This property is currently not zoned residential but is zoned agricultural. It is unclear to me where these property owners stand on the proposed rezoning of site 2 from agricultural to I2, but they potentially stand to benefit the most from a possible Pitts School Road relocation and also stand to gain if the precedence is set for agricultural land in that area being rezoned to the opposite end of the spectrum (I2), which precedence the current zoning request for “site 2″ would create. Their agricultural land would be on a major thoroughfare and adjoining land zoned either I1 or I2. So, the odds of their agricultural land being rezoned could be improved if the zoning request for “site 2″ goes through. It’s also interesting to note that on the 2015 Concord Land Use Plan, most of the adjoining land that is currently zoned agricultural is shown as industrial. (See below for current zoning - green is Agricultural and also see the image above where some of the same land is grey indicating Industrial)
4 - Some of the flurry of activity in recent days has been meetings between the Mayor of Concord and the citizens of the neighboring subdivisions. As the mayor is a potential voting member of the City Council that, in a quasi-judicial capacity, may decide whether this zoning request is accepted or denied, it should be clear that he should not be meeting with parties who have an interest in the decision. He has placed himself in a position to either excuse himself from a very controversial decision (and as an elected official it’s sometimes important to duck such decisions I suppose) or vote to approve and then he can claim he bent over backward to meet with the homeowners. It is unlikely to me that he will vote to deny the zoning change and allow an opening for appeal by the developers who can claim he was meeting with the homeowners and was therefore biased in his decision.
5 - The city is currently set to have the projects planned for “site 1″ and “site 2″ both considered at the same time rather than considering the separate applications for rezoning individually at their own pace and on their own merits. This puts the pressure on the homeowners of Gable Oaks, Freedom Acres, and Carriage Downs to support “site 1″ and NOT fully reject the zoning change to “site 2″.
6 - Ronald Gold Overcash owns well over 90 pieces of property in Cabarrus County. Could he find a better location in the county to put his concrete plant, trucks, and demolition debris than one that puts these very unresidential and unagricultural operations less than 100 feet away from $300,000 homes?
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Overcash project on Poplar Tent
May 7th, 2008 · 16 Comments
Over 200 residents of Carriage Downs, Freedom Acres, and Gable Oaks showed up Tuesday evening for an information meeting regarding two planned zoning changes to property owned by Ronald Overcash near the I-85 and Poplar Tent Road interchange. The zoning changes are needed in order to accommodate a large mixed use development on the North side of the interchange and the construction of a concrete casting plant off of Shelton Rd. on the South side of Poplar Tent Road and adjacent to residential lots in Gable Oaks, Freedom Acres, and Carriage Downs.
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