September 2016
Charlotte City Council approved a text amendment to the city’s Tree Ordinance on Monday, August 22, 2016. The text amendment consisted of three revisions to the tree ordinance:
1. Add a definition which clarifies single family development.
2. Limits the application of the single family tree save incentives to single family developments which are subject to the subdivision ordinance.
3. Single family developments electing to preserve greater than 25% of the parcel as tree save area are required to establish a 20 foot buffer around the development.
Two of the revisions took effect on August 22, 2016 and the third amendment, the buffer requirement, will take effect on November 22, 2016.
The 2002 Tree Ordinance revision added a requirement for single family developments to preserve a minimum of 10% of the parcel as tree save area; this requirement was incorporated to reduce clear cutting of trees during project development in an attempt to preserve the existing tree canopy. Incentives for preserving greater than the minimum required tree save area were also introduced which allowed for increased density through the reduction of lot sizes and street frontage requirements.
Openings are available for the Soil Erosion and Sedimentation
Control overview seminar and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Certified Site Inspector
(CMCSI) certification preparation on Thursday, October 13, 2016 at the Mecklenburg County Offices at 2145 Suttle Avenue, 4th
Floor, Charlotte, NC.
Applications to register for the October 13th Seminar can be downloaded from our website at http://cmcsi.charmeck.org.
If you have any questions regarding the CMCSI Training Seminar, please
contact Jeff Bock at 704-560-9798.
All meetings are open to the public.
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES TECHNICAL ADVISORY (DSTAC) COMMITTEE: Meetings
are typically held on the second Wednesday of each month in Room 136 of the
Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center (600 East Fourth Street, Charlotte, NC)
from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm.
STORM WATER ADVISORY COMMISSION (SWAC) MEETING:
Meetings are typically held on the third Thursday of each month at 4:30 pm at
the Mecklenburg County Offices at 2145 Suttle Avenue, Charlotte, NC.
TREE ADVISORY COMMISSION: Meetings are typically
held on the third Tuesday of every month at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government
Center (600 East Fourth Street, Charlotte, NC) beginning at 5:00 pm.
Please note with the launch of the completely revamped City of
Charlotte website on Friday, September 16th, Land Development's website address
will change to charlottenc.gov/ld. The
new website is redesigned and enhanced to provide “responsive” design that
automatically adjusts pages to for mobile device screens as needed. The
current address (development.charmeck.org) will continue to redirect to the new
address for a short period of time, but please be sure to update your bookmarks
to charlottenc.gov/ld.
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