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Residents and housing advocates clash over Lily townhomes at Matthews public comment
Summary
At a June 9 meeting, residents urged the board to reject a proposed townhome project near Queen's Grant schools citing traffic concerns while academics and nonprofits said the development would add for-sale homes at price points below $400,000 and create affordable units for Habitat for Humanity.
Members of the public used the town's allotted public-comment period on June 9 to press opposing views about the proposed Lily townhomes development.
Alex Freeman, who lives near the project area, urged the board to reject the proposal on traffic and land-use grounds, saying the site "has too much traffic" and that the developer's traffic-impact analysis (TIA) was flawed because it used counts taken during low-traffic final-exam periods. Freeman also said the developer's TIA omitted a proposed 64-unit multifamily project that he said would share an intersection with the Lily townhomes, and he warned that anticipated cost…
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