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Planning board narrowly recommends approval of Station South rezoning for 348‑unit transit‑oriented project
Summary
The board recommended approval, 4–3, of R‑24‑15 (Station South), a rezoning for roughly 21 acres that would allow up to 348 units and an option for a parking deck if regional transit funding is secured; members split over whether the proposal is too intensive without confirmed rail funding.
The Huntersville Planning Board recommended approval, by a 4–3 vote, of rezoning petition R‑24‑15, Station South LLC’s proposal to rezone about 21 acres adjacent to Old Statesville Road to a transit‑oriented residential conditional district for mixed‑use development.
The applicant described a two‑track proposal that the staff and developers presented as “option A / option B.” Option A anticipates the proposed red‑line commuter rail stop and includes a parking deck conceived to serve commuters and the adjacent commercial core; Option B presumes the rail funding package is not approved and replaces the deck with surface parking and more conventional horizontal mixed‑use frontage. The plan presented to the board proposes up to 348 total residential units (transcript: 278 apartments and 64 townhomes) and six mixed‑use buildings; the applicant offered five obtainable units for 15 years (two at about 80% AMI,…
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