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The Mooresville Planning Board has unanimously rejected<\/a> plans by three major developers for a total of 550 homes along one of the Charlotte region\u2019s worst congested highways<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The projects are \u201cunreasonable\u201d and out of line with less crowded nearby developments, board members said in identical motions that recommended rezonings for the projects be denied by the Mooresville Board of Commissioners.<\/p>\n

The commissioners, who have final say, will consider the rezonings at a meeting to be announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest challenge we\u2019ll have is going to be navigating N.C. 150,\u201d board member Jeremy Katz said on Tuesday, June 23, before making a motion to recommend rejecting up to 99 townhomes by Maryland-based Caruso Homes<\/a>. The development would be on 19.35 acres at 825 River Highway (N.C. 150 West) and have only right-in, right-out access, according to the developer\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

N.C. 150 is known for its notorious, decades-old backups from Interstate 77 exit 36 west several miles to the lake, especially during the morning and afternoon commutes, in both directions.<\/p>\n

The board also recommended torpedoing Georgia-based Davis Development\u2019<\/a>s up to 261 multifamily homes and a community of as many as 190 attached homes, called Parc at Lake Norman, by Charlotte-based Prestige Homes.<\/a><\/p>\n

Resident Kacey Pope urged the board to recommend denying the rezonings, and no residents spoke in favor of the projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last few years, this town has invested significant time, expert input and resident feedback\u201d into its thoroughfare plan, Pope said. \u201cThe applications do not exist in a vacuum. They all add pressure to the same stretch of 150, the same school system and the same housing market.\u201d<\/p>\n

N.C. 150 is being expanded under a $249 million project<\/a> that will see 10 lanes at a revamped I-77 exit 36 and additional lanes into Catawba County on the lake.<\/p>\n

Pope said the widening is meant \u201cto address yesterday\u2019s problems, not tomorrow\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same is true for our schools,\u201d she said, noting how Lake Norman High School, on Doolie Road off N.C. 150 near the lake, \u201cis already near capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iredell-Statesville Schools is building Weathers Creek High<\/a> in nearby Troutman for $130 million \u201cto relieve pressure\u201d on crowding, and elementary schools that feed into Lake Norman High \u201care already closed to out-of-district transfers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The proposed developments \u201cwould add hundreds of families to a school system that is already trying to catch up,\u201d Pope said.<\/p>\n

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And she said housing communities within three miles of the projects have an overall vacancy rate of 13%.<\/p>\n

Under questioning by the Planning Board, a representative of one of the developers said the vacancy rate is 10% at the company\u2019s existing development off N.C. 150.<\/p>\n

Safety is another concern, Planning Board members said.<\/p>\n

Asked by the board about expected emergency response times to the proposed Caruso Homes development when N.C. 150 is expanded, Mooresville Fire Chief Shane LaCount<\/a> said \u201cit\u2019s going to add additional time.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was referring to one direction of travel that would require emergency and other vehicles to enter a planned U-turn lane to loop back to the development.<\/p>\n

N.C. 150 is expected to be widened by 2030, state highway officials have said.<\/p>\n

Pitches by the developers regarding the quality of their planned homes didn\u2019t sway the board.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal with any of our projects, especially when we\u2019re developing near one of our other ones, is always to exceed what we\u2019ve done before with Class A quality,\u201d a representative of the planned 30-acre Davis Development project at 833 River Highway told the board.<\/p>\n

Davis Development built the Parian Mooresville<\/a> luxury apartments located across from its latest planned development.<\/p>\n

Before voting against the project, board member Laura Temple said the proposal packed too many homes on the site.<\/p>\n

Before voting against the 30.7-acre Parc at Lake Norman project, Katz complimented the developer for proposing another way to funnel traffic from the property other than N.C. 150. The developer ditched the alternative after 70 neighbors in the nearby Morrison Plantation<\/a> subdivision protested.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thank you so much for working towards interconnectivity,\u201d Katz told the development team. \u201cAnd I\u2019m actually a little disappointed in my friends in Morrison Plantation for not having the wider thought process of understanding the safety aspects of getting people through town, getting traffic off of 150.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plans for cut-through roads off N.C. 150 have failed for decades.<\/p>\n

In 2012, opposition by neighbors, including NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, sunk Mooresville\u2019s longtime plans to alleviate chronic N.C. 150 traffic tie-ups by building a bridge across a Lake Norman cove.<\/p>\n

The bridge would have spanned Morrison Cove in the McCrary Creek section of the lake. It would have linked Doolie and Oak Tree roads, providing quicker access from N.C. 150 West to Brawley School Road and Interstate 77\u2019s impending Exit 35.<\/p>\n

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