Homebuilder that wanted to forgo public access seeks OK for 78 homes near Lake Norman
A national homebuilder will seek Mooresville’s OK next week for a 78-home subdivision near Lake Norman that drew controversy last year.
In August 2024, a government panel ordered Mattamy Homes to include public access to the lake from the 15-acre site on Langtree Road in southern Iredell County.
The developer had sought an exemption to the town rule that waterfront developments make at least 50% of their shoreline available to everyone. The Board of Adjustment turned down Mattamy’s request, The Charlotte Observer reported.
In October, the Mooresville Planning Board voted 7-to-1 to recommend a rezoning for the development. The recommendation followed Mattamy Homes proposing 3.84 acres of open space, including a required overlook along at least 50 percent of the shoreline, according to the developer’s rezoning application.
Concerns about runoff, habitat loss
Formerly called Cascadia, the planned Regalia at Lake Norman community would be located between two other single-family developments, with hotels to the east and the LangTree Lake Norman mixed-use community to the southeast.
Four neighbors told the Planning Board they were concerned about potential runoff onto their properties, the loss of trees and wildlife habitat, and a need for landscape buffers and re-vegetation of the cleared land.
Representatives of the builder said buffers and replanting of trees were in the planned community’s interest, too, and the development would have underground drainage that wouldn’t affect neighboring properties.
Mattamy Homes is North America’s largest privately owned home builder, according to its website. The builder has opened or is near finishing 13 Charlotte-area subdivisions, including in Charlotte, Huntersville, Kannapolis, Mint Hill and Monroe.
The Mooresville Board of Commissioners, which has final say on rezonings, is scheduled to consider the request at its regular meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at Town Hall.
The board also is scheduled to vote that night on annexing the property from Iredell County and extending water and sewer to the site.