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Support
Protected bike lanes please.
Suggestion
Protected bike lanes are crucial. I live in the Waverly area and going beyond this immediate area on a bike right now is sketchy at best. Cars will not respect the space and safety of a bike if all you do is paint some lines on the ground, you need physical separation or barriers.
Concern
Again, just want to reinforce the point of building protected bike lanes. Coming from a place like Broward County in Florida where they have had a renewed emphasis on bike lanes but also are one of the most dangerous in the country for pedestrians and bikers I cannot strongly emphasize how much of a difference this will make. No one wants to ride a bike when there are cars going 40mph+ whizzing by you 2 feet to your left.
Suggestion
I would strongly suggest that the city move forward with bike lanes that are protected and separated from the road/street through the use of either grade separation or as would be easier here putting it between the sidewalks and the street parking. This webpage give some good points and illustrations of what I mean.

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While I love seeing the inclusion of bike lanes and seeing that there is thought being put into building more of them out in a city like Charlotte that has a severe lack of them, let's take the opportunity to build them right the first time rather than having to go back and do it later.
Concern
South Charlotte has been inundated with apartments and duplexes and needs more stand alone homes. Aside from the obvious, that we cannot handle additional density house. Some of the other many benefits of standalone homes include:

Outdoor Space – Private yards are ideal for the families moving to this area
Long-Term Investment Appeal – Detached homes often appreciate more steadily and are in higher demand among homebuyers.
Reduced Shared Infrastructure Strain – Less burden on shared utilities, schools, roads and amenities compared to high-density housing.
Concern
Recently, the Ballantyne area has created a housing shortage of standalone homes, especially those on more than .25 acre lots. People move out of the city to areas like this for standalone homes and decent size lots - that has become completely unaffordable for many now because there are so few options. Apartments and townhomes are popping up like crazy meanwhile we don't have any more room on our roads or in our schools. Focusing on the development of standalone housing rather than apartments and townhomes could solve multiple issues.
No
Absolutely not. This is nonsensical high rise development that destroys a wildly successful and imperative commercial center to surrounding communities and beyond. The idea that you would replace a significant revenue generating commercial area with a community center density intensive area to satisfy erroneous and unproven assumptions is unjustifiable.
Question
This temperature range seems odd. Where is it 32 degrees in the summer?
Suggestion
Ardrey
Suggestion
There already is a significant variety of housing types in this area, with the exception of subsidized low-income housing. I can see a place for some where there is a lot of walkable destinations and employment.
Question
This range of median incomes is so large it doesn't tell the reader very much.
Concern
Nowhere in this doc can I find any definition of "moderate density, mixed use" or "mixed density" or for that matter, any of the incredibly vague terminology used. As someone who lives off Blakeney Heath, there's no way on this planet that road can handle the inevitable traffic this silly(?) design will bring. Tell you what - happy to meet any of the planners(?) at 0800 and anytime from 1530-1700 hr at the intersection of Rea and Audrey Kell so they can witness what traffic is like NOW
Stop pushing leftist policies. We need parks and open space.
Concern
NO ROUNDABOUTS AT INTERSECTIONS OF AUDREY KELL AND REA RED, NO ROUNDABOUTS AT INTERSECTIONS OF REA RD AND TOM SHORT!!!!! DO NOT DISTROY OUR BEAUTIFUL SECTION OF CHARLOTTE!!!
Concern
5 story building what constitutes mixed use? commercial office ground, parking garages?
Concern
Your adding 4 story buildings bordering current residential area. We currently have pr0blems with trash, traffic along a scenic route along with the Omni school.
Concern
Instead of adding to all the congestion let’s improve the roads, sidewalks first.
Concern
Whoever drew this clearly has never been to Blakeney. Regency is not going to demolish all of the anchor retail of this shopping center (Target, Harris Teeter, etc) to build apartments and a park - that's the most valuable part of the shopping center for them... If this site is worthy of being upzoned to CAC (which is is), then the adjacent N1 parcels are all being severely underutilized as single family homes.
Rather than expecting the commercial owner to destroy their biggest value driver to make the site denser and more walkable, maybe look at the adjacent sites that are underutilized.
Concern
This is an incredibly congested intersection. More pedestrian improvements, while nice, would definitely slow down traffic - especially when 521 is expanded from 495 to SC border.
Concern
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.
Concern
We need street lighting down here in the Ballantyne Area. Parts of Rea Rd. Are dark and Ardrey Kell is like a country road at night. It is dangerous.
Concern
Saving our tree canopy is a joke. They just took down 20 beautiful large cherry trees on Rea Road last week and they are taking down more on Rea Road near 485. I am totally disgusted with what I am seeing happening. You may say that you will replant some, but I won’t see them get large in my lifetime!!!