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Your Vote Log

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Here’s how you can keep track of how everyone is voting on the Waxhaw BOC. It goes back about four years and will be kept up to date going forward – your vote log. Most of the focus is on growth/development, but it also has a few other items of interest.

Social District Consensus

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Social district consensus – this wasn’t widely reported at the time, so it’s worth re-iterating even now. Back in January during their retreat, the Waxhaw Board of Commissioners were in agreement that the town should not move forward on Social Districts. This was not an official vote, but we achieved a social district consensus during […]

2×2 Update from Commissioner Wedra

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2×2 Update from Commissioner Wedra – Since the majority of the Waxhaw BOC insist on continuing with “2×2” meetings which the public are not invited to, Commissioner Wedra has kindly provided a video report of the discussions. Multiple residential developments were presented, one of which was “pre-zoned” a few years ago. For a snapshot of […]

Transparency Rejected

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In the March 12th meeting of the Waxhaw BOC, the three holdovers from the previous administration went back on their transparency agreement at the January retreat – reverting to the practice of private “two by two” meetings. The meetings will not be broadcast or recorded – transparency rejected. The following video is queued up to […]

Taxes and Residential Development

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On Friday, March 8th in a special meeting of the Waxhaw Board of Commissioners, Randall Arendt (Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute) from Greener Prospects was brought in as an expert, and unexpectedly commented on taxes and residential development. He stated that “you never get more tax dollars from development unless it’s non-residential”. However, […]