Planning board recommends rezoning for 77-home ‘Brilliant Grove’ on McCrary Road with lake-access and traffic limits

The Mooresville Planning Board recommended the Town Board approve CZ-2025-20, a conditional traditional neighborhood rezoning and annexation for a 35.61-acre site on McCrary Road that would allow 77 single-family detached homes developed by Mattamy Homes.

The proposal, presented Sept. 23 by town planner Patrick Werner and by the applicant’s team — land-use attorney Colin Brown of Alexander Ricks, planner Sarah Beeson, Mattamy representative Jerry Whalen and engineers from ESP Associates and Design Resource Group — would annex the property into Mooresville and rezone it to a conditional traditional neighborhood (CTN) with a committed density of about 2.2 dwelling units per acre and three common open-space areas totaling about 3.06 acres.

The board’s recommendation includes the ordinance’s original 16 conditions plus two additional conditions negotiated at the hearing: (1) no direct lake access from the development for residents for recreational purposes, and (2) a limit of 25 certificates of occupancy that may be issued before the construction and operation of the right-turn-only improvement at the intersection of McCrary Road and NC 150. The board approved the recommendation by motion of Mr. Cole, seconded by Ms. Smith; one member voted in opposition and the motion carried.

Why it matters: The site sits within the Lake Norman WS-IV watershed overlay, which constrains impervious surface to…