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Big Stink Over Asphalt 

City planning flaws created Optimist Park fiasco

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click to flip through (2) RADOK - Lillian Chance and June Lackey have lived in Optimist - Park all their lives. Now they have an asphalt plant - across the street to look forward to.
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  • Lillian Chance and June Lackey have lived in Optimist Park all their lives. Now they have an asphalt plant across the street to look forward to.
 

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Campbell says that while they have initiated corrective rezoning in the past in order to synchronize with neighborhood plans, in most cases there has been a generalized land-use pattern already in place. The problem is that in the case of Optimist Park, the previous land-use pattern has been predominantly industrial; one of the reason such a big deal was made of the new neighborhood plan was that it would supposedly reverse that pattern. (According to the neighborhood plan, in terms of land-use by acreage, 65 percent is industrial, 12 percent is single-family, and three percent is multi-family; by zoning, 19 percent is multi-family, and 75 percent is industrial).

"Never in our wildest dreams did we think an asphalt plant would be located on that site," says Campbell. "However, what this has done is raised some issues that will not only impact Optimist Park, but the entire city in regards to uses that are now currently permitted in close proximity to residential areas. I think we need to go back and take a look at this. This isn't the first asphalt plant to be built in Charlotte close to residential areas. Of course that doesn't make it right, either."

-- Sam Boykin

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