The N.C. House is scheduled to vote this afternoon on a bill, “Zoning/Design & Aesthetic Controls,...
Mary is a lifelong newspaper journalist who spent several decades at The Charlotte Observer as an editorial board member and columnist, concentrating on Charlotte regional urban and suburban growth, planning, urban design, transportation and land preservation. She left the Observer and joined the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute in June 2011, where she works on strategic community and university partnerships and oversees the institute’s online communications. She had a year-long Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University and was a Knight Fellow in Community Building at the University of Miami.
A.B. Journalism UNC Chapel Hill
Urban and suburban issues, Charlotte region and North Carolina politics and government, writing, editing and journalism.
MOST RECENT POSTINGS
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 15:57
Bill to limit local zoning powers: Two views
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Monday, March 18, 2013 - 09:33
Check out ‘Chesser’s Choices’
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If you visit the PlanCharlotte front page (PlanCharlotte.org) you’ve spotted a new feature - “Chesser’s Choices.”
UNC Charlotte Urban Institute senior analyst...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 09:55
Contest: Show us the places you love
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What places in our region have a hold on your heart? Is there a building or a patch of woods so special to you that you’d lie down in front of a bulldozer to save it? We want to know about it.
To celebrate our first anniversary,...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 18:35
A two-wheeled approach to civic engagement
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It was a sunny Sunday in February, temperatures edging into the 60s, and the greenway sidewalk was jammed with walkers, parents pushing strollers, and bicyclists. So many cyclists were on the narrow path along Little Sugar Creek that I witnessed...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 16:46
Measure to encourage low-income housing wins council OK
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The Charlotte City Council, with no discussion, Monday unanimously OK’d a measure to try to encourage developers to build more low-income housing in affluent neighborhoods. The council also heard a series of pro- and con- speeches...
Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 17:19
Growth challenge dwarfs the streetcar spat
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Since Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx gave his State of the City speech Monday, most of the publicity has focused on ...
Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 10:47
What’s the City Council hearing, saying at its retreat?
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 15:54
Capping I-277? Not high on city’s to-do list
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The idea to put a roof on Interstate 277 tends to be what grabs people’s attention, but that project is – if not back-burnered – far down on the Charlotte City Council’s to-do list. Instead, the city’s transportation...
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 08:25
Tracking neighborhood trends just got easier
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Published To: ui.uncc.edu --
Since 1993 the City of Charlotte has tallied information about some (and in later years all) city neighborhoods, in its regular Quality of Life reports. But this year major changes are afoot for the project, which ...
Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 09:03
Matthews at the crossroads: Can it grow up, instead of just grow?
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Published To: plancharlotte.org --
When I moved to Charlotte more than 30 years ago, Matthews was the suburb. It lay directly in the path of the major growth trajectory – southeast. The drive to central Charlotte was a reasonable 25-30 minutes. The cute, but...
