There has been a lot of talk recently about population density.
Population Density creates a city and a neighborhood's character and quality of life as much as architecture and climate.
New York City has twice the population density as Los Angeles. Which means that while shopping along 5th Avenue, you're likely to bump elbows with some stranger every 30 feet, but in Los Angeles while shopping along Rodeo Drive you might even find a curbside parking spot.
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A quick search of US Census Data from 2020 shows that in Charlotte, NPA 181 and 262 make up much of Piper Glen. (Each NPA is a unique geographical area assigned by the US Census Bureau.)
The site of the proposed David Gillespie Project and Rezoning Request is located in NPA 181 and 262 above. They are similar in size and have a combined area of 2,101 acres and include 6,072 residents. Which equates to a population density of 3 people per acre.
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If you step back a little further and include the surrounding neighborhoods that make up the Four Mile Creek Watershed and the Rea Road Neighborhood Coalition, you find that the population density increases to 4 residents per acre living on 6,680 acres.
County wide, Mecklenburg County has a population density of 3 people per acre. A total population of 1,115,482 residents, living on 349,491 acres, which gives Charlotte it's comfortable easy lifestyle and our wonderful Rea Road neighborhood's their character.David Gillespie wants to rezone the Gillespie Property with a density of approximately 3,300 people on just 53 Acres. That is a density of 63 people per acre versus the Rea Road Area's 4 per acre. Building 22 homes per acre in an area that according to Charlotte and Mecklenburg County has only one (1) home per acre.
Even the rather crowded nearby Arboretum Apartments, at Providence and Pineville-Matthews Road (US Census NPA 206) has a density of just over 11 residents per acre.
Want to learn more? Explore Mecklenburg County's Quality of Life Data Base.
4 comments:
Charlotte has gone nuts. City Council approves Gillespie's wacky plan and next thing you know they will put a Amazon distribution center at the former Cedar Wood golf course.
This information is something I've never seen before. The city's own database makes the case to kill this David Gillespie project. FULL STOP!
Why would they want 1,100 on such a pristine space? Why would the city allow this change? and who is this David Gillespie?
Are you sure about these numbers? It seem really high? And the retirement community looks and sounds like a gimmick and I doubt that they could build anything of quality on the property given the construction market. It would be another David Tepper deal gone to dirt.
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