Update on infrastructure survey (see post just below this):
I’m trading voice mails today with city planner Jonathan Wells, and he leaves word that the planning department hopes to put that survey online. But because I haven’t reached him, I can’t tell you when. “Soon.”
One fact to add to the comments below – love the new arena or hate it, but that money couldn’t have gone to build schools. That’s because city of Charlotte built the arena, but city money doesn’t and can’t by law build schools. County money builds schools. Yeah, I know, it’s confusing. (The arena money could have built roads or hired more police officers, however.)
Another fact to add, to Rick’s comment about the land transfer tax: The main stated reason city and county folks are interested in a land transfer tax more than impact fees is that it brings in millions more per year than impact fees would and isn’t felt as directly by those who pay it. It just gets folded into the closing costs.
And just one last thing, in case you aren’t confused enough: In North Carolina, counties can’t build roads. No such thing here as a “county road.” We have city streets and roads, and state roads. Not that anyone brought it up, but it’s another thing newcomers (and even old-timers) have a hard time figuring out.