A rezoning plan could add 850 homes and more in Steele Creek. Here’s what residents need to know.
Residents can find out more Aug. 11 about plans for a major Steele Creek development near Olympic High School.
Mecklenburg County planners mailed notices July 29 about a public meeting on a Pulte Home Corp. project at Brown-Grier and Steele Creek roads. The company wants to rezone more than 127 acres. The change would allow almost 850 new homes and apartments, plus commercial space.
“The purpose of this rezoning request,” the public notice states, “is to accommodate a multi-use development on the site that could contain up to 292 multi-family dwelling units, up to 550 for sale single-family attached dwelling units and up to 80,000 square feet of gross floor area devoted to non-residential, commercial uses.”
The 6:30 p.m. meeting will be held in the fellowship hall at Central Steelt Creek Presbyterian Church, 9401 S. Tryon St., Charlotte. Pulte officials will give information and answer questions. The public session is a requirement in the rezoning process.
Dave Wiggins, who runs steelecreekresidents.org, messaged his group this morning with details of the Pulte community meeting.
“This may be one of the most significant rezonings in Steele Creek for some time,” he said. “It could set the tone for future development in Steele Creek.”
A site plan submitted to the county shows commercial uses along the west side of the property at the Brown-Grier and Steele Creek intersection. Apartments would be immediately east, up to one of two new internal roads. Single-family and open space would be farthest east to the property line along Steele Creek.
The project is surrounded to the east, west and south by existing residences. A watershed overlay comes up to the property, which will have seven water quality areas to collect and filter runoff, according to the site plan.
The latest zoning request is part of larger development near Olympic High, and in Steele Creek overall. The Charlotte Observer reported plans for a 120-room Residence Inn by Marriott nearby at Dixie River Road and Trojan Drive, and 271 apartments under construction at Sandy Porter and Brown-Grier roads.
Another 48 acres west of Sandy Porter, between Shopton Road West and I-485 is approved for development as the third phase of Steele Creek Commerce Park. The four-building site will have up to 525,000 square feet of warehouse, distribution or office space. Another 74 townhomes were approved for almost 10 acres, and a storage unit facility plan denied, near South Tryon Street and Wright’s Ferry Road, west of Steelecroft Parkway.
Other approvals this year include 45,000 square feet of office and childcare space beside Christ the King Church and up to 48 apartments at the end of Calawood Way.
The largest decision looming is an almost 1,400-acre rezoning request from Crescent Communities and Lincoln Harris. A public hearing date hasn’t been set, but developers there already held their community information meeting. The project is a mix of residential and commercial uses between the Catawba River and Charlotte-Douglas International Airport.
John Marks: 803-831-8166
This story was originally published August 2, 2016 at 11:12 AM with the headline "A rezoning plan could add 850 homes and more in Steele Creek. Here’s what residents need to know.."