Property taxes have been on many residents’ minds lately, and the conversation often focuses on cutting costs or tightening the budget. But there’s another powerful way a town can keep taxes in check, by shaping development to create a balanced and diversified tax base.
Development
Conditional Rezoning – What It Means for Waxhaw
Next Tuesday, July 22nd at 6:30 PM, the Town of Waxhaw will hold a public hearing regarding a proposed conditional rezoning of 33 acres located east of NC-16 and north of Waxhaw Parkway East.
One Sentence. One Fix. Pass HB24
Time Is Running Out: Pass HB24 and Restore Local Zoning Control Before the Legislature Adjourns House Bill 24 would reverse the SB 382 damaging ban on downzoning — but it’s stuck in committee with only three days left. Click here to skip to the call to action with email lists and sample emails. In 2024, […]
When Legislators Prostitute Themselves to Special Interests
North Carolina Senate Bill 382 began as a disaster relief bill, a widely supported and necessary measure to help our State recover from Hurricane Helene. But in a stunning act of political deceit, a last-minute provision was quietly slipped in to strip local governments of their zoning authority. This bait-and-switch tactic, buried inside an emergency relief bill, is […]
Death by a Thousand Bills
Sick of hearing about the latest attack on local control by our state legislators? So am I – but here’s another one from our out-of-control government in Raleigh. Death by a Thousand Bills. North Carolina House Bill 661, just today rammed through its final House vote, is a dangerous giveaway to developers and industry—at the […]
SB 205: The Pool Bill That Drowns Local Control
SB 205 – Legislation that started as a bill to deregulate private swimming pools is now being used as a trojan horse to continue the attack on local government that was exacerbated by HB 765. SB 205 doesn’t just tweak pool rules. It amends Chapter 160D — the same statutes HB 765 targeted — to prohibit local governments […]