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Votes at a glance (selected items recorded in the meeting transcript):

- Petition 2025014 (Pult Homes): Motion to approve and adopt the zoning committee statement of consistency passed; Council Member Mayfield recorded an opposition. (Transcript: Mayfield raised traffic and trip generation concerns before voting; outcome: approved with one recorded no.)

- Petition 2025017: Motion to approve and adopt the zoning committee statement of consistency passed; Council Member Mayfield recorded an opposition. (Transcript: Mayfield expressed concern about privately maintained interior roads and homeowner responsibilities.)

- Deferrals (unanimous): Petition 2025015 (agenda item 8) and petition 2025021 (agenda item 14) were deferred in a single motion and approved unanimously.

- Petition 2025047 (agenda item 9): Approved unanimously after a motion and second; staff described this item as a text amendment series to the UDO and characterization as routine cleanup.

- Petition 2023074 (agenda item 10): Approved unanimously; council voted not to send changes back to the zoning committee and adopted the zoning committee's consistency statement.

- Petition 2024124 (agenda item 11): Approved; Council Member Mayfield recorded an opposition. The petition included commitments on landscaping and lighting standards and a 100‑foot buffer enhancement.

- Petition 20251016 (agenda item 13): Approved unanimously after minor changes were accepted.

Other items: Several petitions were presented for public hearings and either had no final vote recorded at this meeting or were continued to later dates. Those included petitions 2024127 (Wood Partners — Forest Park mobile home park; hearing closed with no final decision), 2024112 (Dream Key Partners), 2025013 (True Homes), 2025020 (Sage Investment Group), 2025028 (Canvas Residential Partners), 2025029 (Summit Avenue / Wellesley Heights), 2025036 (Range Works driving range), 2025037 (East Group Properties land swap), and 2025038 (Long Valley OFC conventional rezoning). Some of these hearings produced closure of the public comment period but council either asked for more information or did not take a final vote that evening.

How decisions were recorded: Many approvals were taken by voice vote after motions and seconds; where a single member explicitly opposed, the transcript recorded that member by name (most frequently Council Member Mayfield). The clerk and staff reported unanimous outcomes on multiple items by voice vote when no opposition was raised.

Next steps: For petitions that passed, staff indicated any outstanding technical revisions or conditions must be resolved before a final published ordinance or formal adoption is processed. Deferred items will return to a future zoning agenda; items with closed hearings but no decision will appear on a subsequent council meeting for deliberation and possible action.

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The proposed rezoning would allow up to 395 residential units across two development areas and up to 25,000 square feet of nonresidential uses, staff and the petitioner said. Bridget Grant, land use consultant with Moran Van Allen, told council the plan includes transportation and on‑site infrastructure commitments, a proposed roundabout at Prosperity and Benfield roads, new sidewalks and bike lanes, and design commitments for housing. \"There is a workforce housing commitment within this project,\" Grant said, describing a pledge that at least 5% of units in Development Area 2 would be income‑restricted at no greater than 80% AMI for at least 15 years.

Why it matters: Forest Park residents said they face direct, imminent displacement if the land sale and potential redevelopment proceed. Dozens of residents and community organizers urged the council to delay or reject the rezoning until relocation plans and protections are firmly in place. Council members and staff framed the issue as both a land‑use hearing and a separate property‑owner decision: the current mobile home park owner notified residents in May 2024 that park operations were expected to cease in May 2026, a notice residents said they received with uneven communication.

In public comments, several residents described decades of residence and investment in their homes and pleaded for options that would let them stay. \"I've been living in the park for 20 years. I found neighbors that I consider friends and family,\" resident Joshua Teague said. \"I don't want to leave the park. I want to stay with my family. Please vote no on this.\" Leonel Chavez described family ties and the financial impossibility of finding comparably priced housing in the area: \"Nowhere in the Charlotte area will we find $500 affordable housing and apartments around Forest Park cost three times that for a studio,\" he said.

Petitioner response and timeline: Carter Siegel, speaking for Wood Partners, said the current property owner — who has owned the park for about 60 years — notified residents in spring 2024 of an intent to close operations and sell. Siegel said that notification provided up to two years for residents to plan and that Wood Partners has committed to working on a transition plan and to offer assistance. \"We will do everything. We will work hard to try to make that transition reasonable,\" Siegel said in a brief rebuttal.

Legal and policy context: Staff said the petition is inconsistent with the 2040 policy map's Neighborhood 1 place type but recommended approval \"upon resolution of outstanding issues related to site design,\" noting the site's adjacency to an activity center and the petition's transportation and workforce housing commitments. Council members noted that statutory and regulatory protections for mobile homeowners are set at the state level; Council Member Braxton Mayfield (appeared as \"Miss Mayfield\" in the transcript) referenced a state bill described in testimony as a Mobile Home Park Act (House Bill 1110 was cited in the hearing) and asked staff and the city attorney to clarify residents' rights under state law.

Council and staff follow‑up: Council members asked the petitioner and staff for concrete relocation and anti‑displacement measures, and for a staff follow‑up on (1) the number of occupied units and affected residents, (2) the lease terms residents hold on their lots, and (3) whether state law provides protections for mobile homeowners that apply here. Staff said the owner delivered a notice in May 2024 and that the two processes — the owner's notice of intent to sell and the city's rezoning process — are distinct but overlap in effect. Petitioner representatives said relocation assistance plans and weekly coordination with social service partners would be part of discussions going forward.

Outcome and next steps: The council closed the hearing for this petition on June 16; no final zoning vote was recorded at the meeting for this petition. Several council members said they would continue engagement over the summer, and staff agreed to provide follow‑up materials on legal protections for residents, an occupancy count and potential anti‑displacement measures to inform any future decision.

Ending note: Residents leaving the meeting asked for continued, direct contact with their district council member and with staff for assistance. Council members urged residents to remain engaged and to use upcoming outreach meetings to press for concrete relocation plans and documentation of any assistance the petitioner and property owner will offer.

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