House Bill 765 will help reduce the housing in North Carolina.
Rep. Jeff Zenger's bill promises to bring much-needed reforms to the state’s construction and development industry.
The N.C. Coalition of Charter Schools is urging the N.C. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s decision against a proposed charter school in Wake Forest. A new friend-of-the-court brief filed Friday targets the state Appeals Court’s 2022 ruling supporting the town.
The N.C. Supreme Court will consider a lawsuit challenging Wake Forest’s decision in 2020 to block construction of a new charter school. A 2-1 ruling from the state Appeals Court last year supported the town in the legal fight.
For the better part of the past decade, residents have been fleeing high-cost, highly regulated cities like New York and San Francisco for more affordable urban areas like Charlotte and Raleigh, thus helping to fuel North Carolina’s impressive economic growth. But if “not in my backyard” (NIMBY) activists have their way, stricter building regulations — and thus...
All the much-touted growth of 120-people arriving in the region per day is occurring in the surrounding counties.
The N.C. Court of Appeals has issued a 2-1 ruling favoring the town of Wake Forest in its legal dispute over construction of a new charter school. But some state lawmakers want to make it more difficult for local governments to stand in the way of new charter schools.
Proposed legislation could lead to new neighbors for North Carolinians living in the mountains and along the coast.
RALEIGH — Caving to pressure from environmental activists, the Alamance County Board of Commissioners has rescinded its initial approval and is prohibiting its county manager from investigating a public-private partnership that could create a multimillion-dollar revenue stream for the county by turning its solid-waste landfill into a regional operation. Only the retiring chairman supported the staff recommendation to pursue interest by four companies in operating the Austin Quarter Landfill near Saxapahaw. The 4-1 vote in September all but guaranteed Alamance County residents will be hit with multiple property tax rate increases over the next several years.
Controversy arising from the basic unfairness of impact fees resurfaced recently in local politics. Durham County, eager to harvest a windfall of revenue to pay for new-school construction, brazenly ignored state law and imposed another fee on developers to pay for growth. Conversely, Cary voters, concerned about a slowdown in growth partly caused by high impact fees, dumped a mayor who practiced “smart-growth” politics.
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