CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte City Council will allow Hopper Communities to develop 52 townhomes on 6.5 acres at Endhaven and Elm lanes.
Hopper Communities needed to secure a rezoning for the property, which was zoned for single-family residential.
The city projects the project will generate 355 vehicle trips per day and 12 students to Endhaven Elementary, South Charlotte Middle and South Mecklenburg High.
The site is north of Stonecrest Shopping Center and the new Elm Lane/I-485 bridge.
Councilman Ed Driggs described the project as good land use.
“I will note that there are concerns on Endhaven about traffic safety at the junction with Elm and in general about the growth of traffic because of school development along there. CDOT is working on that. I will continue to follow it but this is a good petition. It should pass.”
Well no one but Ed Driggs was happy about the rezoning in fact that negative was well stated by C Mulligan a few days later on May 31, 2022 12:50pm:
Does the South Charlotte Weekly investigate local news stories, or merely pass along press releases?
Despite what this short piece states, and what Ed "Rubber Stamp" Driggs posts, wouldn't it be interesting to find out what the actual traffic congestion situation is on Endhaven Lane before they go and jam even more unaffordable development into the area.
Six dense neighborhoods feed exclusively onto mile-long, two-lane Endhaven, as do two huge schools (a third one is being built now also). Endhaven connects two busy local thoroughfares, with two huge apartment complexes and two hotels.
The idea that this newly approved development will add only 355 "vehicle trips" and twelve students is borderline silly.
What, exactly, is CDOT "working on"? And now that the new development is approved by the city council and the zoning committee, what difference will it make?
Maybe you could serve the local population by reporting on the effects of "cumulative traffic congestion" on Charlotte streets, or the lack of affordable housing being built into these over-dense, high-priced new developments. Or, the ineffectual city council and zoning committee.
Thank about it next time you're stuck in traffic.
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