(Note: This blog entry has been corrected. Some of the percentages I had used were incorrect, based on incorrect information from the NC Association of County Commissioners. Sorry for any confusion.)

Senator Clodfelter, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Co-Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has filed Senate Bill 1201. This Bill would increase the current deed stamp tax from 0.2 percent to 0.5...

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I attended a breakfast meeting at the Governors Club this morning, sponsored by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber, the Chatham United Chamber, the Chapel Hill Association of Realtors and the Home Builders Association of Durham, Orange and Chatham.

Participation was cut off at 200, a full house! Keith Megginson, Chatham Planning Director, presented an overview of past, present and future Commercial and Residential Development in NE Chatham. Paul Black, Planner with TJ-COG, presented the Regional Factors of the NE Chatham area.

I was asked to respond to Land Transfer Tax questions and one...

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I have requested our BOC to look at the zoning on Pea Ridge Rd. between US1 and Old US1. This area is current zoned for Heavy Industrial, and I am asking to have to rezoned to RA-40 (residential/agricultural) for the following reasons:

1. We don’t currently have Conditional Use control over what might come, based on what is allowed in Heavy Industry Zoning without BOC review or approval. We have had serious air quality issues in that area and water remains an unknown factor. Southeastern Chatham citizens would like some pre-decision voice in our community, also.


2. The...

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