City Council Zoning Meeting on 2026-03-23 5:00 PM - Mar 23, 2026
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Charlotte Zoning Meeting
1h 57m
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5 agenda items
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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You need a gal. Bang, bang, bang. Good evening. I'd like to call to order this March 23rd zoning meeting of the Charlotte City Council. My name is Ed Driggs. I am the District 7 member of City Council and I chair the Planning Transportation Development Committee and in that capacity I will be sitting here tonight. We start our meetings with introductions and we'll begin with the clerk.
Billy Thomas, Deputy City Clerk. Teri Hagler-Gray, Senior Assistant City Attorney.
Good evening, Dimple Ajmera, at-large member. Good evening, Dr. Victoria Watlington. I have the pleasure of serving you as a member at-large. Good evening, Joy Mayo, representing District 3. Good evening, Dante Anderson, District 1. Allison Craig, deputy city manager. I didn't make a commitment.
Who is leading the March 23, 2026 Charlotte zoning meeting and what are introductions?
I didn't introduce myself. I'm sorry, your turn. Good evening, everyone. James Mitchell, mayor of Pro Temps. I'm sorry.
Good evening, Kimberly Owens.
I represent District 6. Malcolm Graham, District 2. Good evening, Luana Mayfield, council member at large. Good evening, JD Masueta-Arias, proudly representing the Eastside District 5. Thank you. We will begin our meeting with an invocation, expressions and inspiration, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. The invocation by the council members is intended to solemnize our proceedings. We celebrate the religious diversity of our community, including those without a religious faith. Tonight, it is my turn to deliver the invocation. So I hope you will join me for a moment of reflection. Heavenly Father, accept our thanks for this day and all its blessings. We ask that you guide and direct our efforts to serve our community and everyone who lives in it.
Grant that each of us may be just and fair and act as good stewards of the trust that our citizens have placed in us. Bless those who work with us to serve our community, particularly those who do so at grave personal risk to themselves. May Charlotte always be a place that we all can be proud to call home. Amen.
Amen.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
So we have a couple of events tonight that are not within the normal sequence of our meeting. So the next, the first item is going to be a public hearing on community area plans. And in particular, this is a hearing on changes to the adopted, the seven adopted plans that are indicated by the work that was done on the seven plans that have not yet been adopted. And the intention is that we will modify the adopted plans to conform them to the plans that we will adopt. Because there's a hearing tonight, we're not actually gonna vote on that tonight. We will listen to what is said at the hearing and our intention will be to vote on the 13th of April, right? So do we have speakers signed up? Yes. All right, so here we go.
We've got those and these, right? And yes, Ms. Holmes, is she gonna speak to this? Can you move your body a little bit?
Just one more. Before the speakers, I was just going to give you a brief overview. As you are well aware, since the deferral on the 24th of November and our engagement that followed that, there have been a recommendation of several new policies that touch on neighborhood change, so how we... deal with development in existing neighborhoods and how we preserve neighborhood character. Policies also that speak to environmental impacts, so specifically around adjacent uses and how we are context sensitive to those adjacent uses. And then a third category, infrastructure and how we take into account our growth with our infrastructure. We also have minor additions and revisions that just clarify language, and then several map changes across several of the area plans.
So with that, we can go into the hearing. I was just gonna give you that brief overview before we dove into the speakers.
All right, so that was basically the staff presentation, and therefore we can proceed to the speakers.
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Agenda
5 items
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
1:30–7:49
2
Who is leading the March 23, 2026 Charlotte zoning meeting and what are introductions?
7:49–47:04
3
What is the purpose of the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the meeting?
47:04–50:33
4
What changes to the seven Charlotte Future 2040 community area plans are being presented at the public hearing?
50:33–1:03:05
5
Which community members spoke in favor or opposition during the Community Area Plans hearing?
1:03:05–1:57:40
Speakers
1 identifiedOfficials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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