Northeast Middle & Outer

Last week I saw a group of half a dozen or so young children walking along the right of way of Tryon. Why? No sidewalk.

Many new residential developments have been constructed in the past 7-10 years and those developments have been required to install sidwalk/sidepath along public streets. These residential developments are supported by the City's 10-minute city policy. HOWEVER, the CITY is not connecting the residential developments to commercial. If density is being approved with the premise that people need alternatives to vehicular travel, improving equity for those without cars, connecting people to transit, encouraging walkability, etc. then the City needs to fund the gaps in these connections. And the pedestrian improvements need to make sense -ensure there are crossings in areas where people are already traveling by foot. People frequently cross Tryon near the PNC shopping area in spots where there is no official crossing across 4+ lanes of traffic and raised medians.

Pedestrian facilities need funding along Harris Houston

Pedestrian facilities need funding along Pavilion

Hopefully I have tagged Harris Houston.
The number of people that I have seen walking along Harris Houston risky life and limb to get to Food Lion is unfortunate. There are many single family developments along this road and either for exercise or necessity people walk along Harris Houston to get to the grocery store, post office, and other shopping. This road has some topography challenges and curves that are difficult to see around on a clear day. Pedestrians need an option that does not require them walking in the road.

Summary - Fund ped improvements along Pavilion Blvd
Pavilion Blvd need to be prioritized for design and construction funding for pedestrian improvements. It appears PNC was not required to install pedestrian accommodations (which is wild) when it was approved. Regardless, the nature of PNC that includes parking on the opposite side of the street necessitates increased pedestrian activity. In addition to the people visiting PNC, people use the roadway for recreational and transportation purposes. People walk, run, and bike for enjoyment. More importantly, there are a couple multi-family developments along Pavilion. The generally presumption is that people that live in multi-family developments are more likely to be cost-burdened and generally presumed to need to be near essential services that can be accessed by foot. This area has many of these businesses within walking distance, but there is no continuous sidewalk along Pavilion or Harris Houston to connect folks to these places. Additionally, there is existing development that is unlikely to redevelop such that a new developer would have the responsibility to install sidewalk/sidepath.

Reducing reliance on cars to access work, shopping, services, etc. is key to making Charlotte and especially NEMO a more affordable place to live. Achieving contiguous infrastructure (e.g., greenways, sidewalks, bike lanes) should be actively pursued by the city rather than waiting for private developers to slowly fill in gaps.

Vacant land can have many uses. If not preserved as vacant, developing vacant land as mixed use community and neighborhood centers should be considered - not just residential.

Flooding this area with residential development will drive down everyone's property values (including existing residents). Without also adding community/neighborhood activity centers distributed throughout the area, a high concentration of housing will increase congestion by forcing residents to drive out of the area for work and shopping.

What exactly is the difference between community activity center and neighborhood activity center?

Please leave the landscape of existing neighborhoods alone. No duplexes etc should be built in existing neighborhoods

On General Industrial Drive, K&S sanitation's facility has trash trucks that back up to the Eastway Rec trail system and to single family homes on Banfshire Rd. The trash trucks are unsightly and can be pretty smelly particularly during summer. Encouraging/requiring additional landscape buffers and the future land use plan suggesting a non-industrial use for this site would greatly benefit this area from an environmental justice standpoint.

Investing in sidewalk connectivity from Bingham Drive to North Tryon and from Curtis Drive to Eastway Drive would greatly benefit this neighborhood and has been expressed as a desire by these neighbors. They have a lot of cut through traffic and residents have to walk in the street. The neighboring Eastway recreation center is a huge benefit and extending sidewalk in the neighborhood would encourage residents to safely walk to the rec center. A pedestrian signal in front of the rec center would also make crossing safer.

The number one priority in 10 out of the 15 neighborhoods is for housing availability? There is no shortage of housing or apartments we have vancancies because they overbuilt! So the only reasonable conclusion is that the study suggests our housing prices are too high? That's capitalism...you can't control the market prices or the macro-economic environment. Just because I want to live in quail hollow doesn't give me the right or mean they should build cheap duplexes so I can. This study focuses on a far-left socialist agenda rather than real ways to improve the city. Genuinely curious how many tax dollars were spent on this study to tell us we need more of this race here and that race there. Charlotte councilemen let me save you some of our money in the future build bike lanes and improve walkability.

For mobility, safe bike lanes are essential. I live off of Neal Road, and there is no safe way to bike down University City Blvd to get to shopping, restaurants, and eventually UNCC. Similarly, North Graham provides a corridor to uptown, but there is no safe way to reach it by bike other than sidewalks in various states of disrepair.