CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A new housing development in Charlotte is breaking the mold.
The city council approved the city’s first car-free development, WSOC reported.
The plans call for 14 units, with 52 being designated as affordable housing. If a tenant owns a vehicle, they will face eviction, the developer told the council.
Residents won’t have to worry about getting to where they need to go. The development will be built next to a greenway, and a mile from a planned streetcar line.
Some opposed the plan, saying the development would be better elsewhere, WSOC reported.
“This is simply the right project at the wrong site. There will be an overwhelming burden of cars that will come over into the neighborhoods. There is no doubt about it,” Counsel member Malcolm Graham said.
But Counsel member Larken Eggleston disagreed, saying, “There’s plenty of places in this country, some of people’s favorite cities in this country and around the world, where the best neighborhoods and the ones where everybody wants to live, work and play in are places where you cannot park — at least certainly not easily.”
The complex will have no parking for cars, saving developers money, but will have bike spaces for the residents and lockers for grocery delivery, WSOC reported.