The transit-fueled vision for University City’s North Tryon Street business district took another step forward last week. About 100 people reviewed planners’ latest ideas for stimulating people-friendly business and residential nodes around our three future light-rail...
Efforts to shape the development surge expected to accompany light rail has reached a critical juncture. Planners presented their first draft of area plans for three North Tryon Street transit stations at a community meeting on March 11. The vision contained in the...
Try to imagine how light rail might transform car-focused North Tryon Street between the I-85 exit and UNC Charlotte. Could a South End-style makeover happen here? Should it? About 60 people met last week to consider that idea, as expressed in a proposed update to the...
Charlotte’s new online tool for public feedback gets its debut in University City. People wanting to review and comment on proposed changes to the University City Area Plan can do so at http://ucap:charlotteplanning.org. Planners have held two meetings on the changes,...