Virginia builder plans 200 Lake Norman townhomes near major new highway
A Virginia builder plans 218 townhomes near a major connector highway under construction in Mooresville near Lake Norman.
Gabriel Farms on N.C. 115 would include “market rate” housing “that the teachers, firefighters and other critical workers of Mooresville will be proud to call home,” Davidson lawyer Lawrence Shaheen, who represents Reston-based home builder Stanley Martin, wrote to Mooresville town planner Patrick Werner in December.
“These units will be a perfect entry point into the community for citizens and families of the Town of Mooresville,” Shaheen wrote. The company has not given a price range for the homes.
The Mooresville Planning Board has scheduled a public hearing and vote on a rezoning for the project at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Town Hall. The board is an advisory panel that makes recommendations to the Mooresville Board of Commissioners, which has final say and would consider the rezoning at a meeting to be announced.
Mooresville has a housing shortage, lawyer says
The 50-acre site is just south of Langtree Road and Mount Mourne Loop and just north of Mooresville’s East-West Connector, a four-lane divided highway under construction from Langtree Road to N.C. 115.
A traffic impact analysis has been completed, Shaheen said, “and Stanley Martin stands ready to work with the Town to mitigate the impacts of this development.”
Mooresville has a housing shortage, Shaheen said, and “the need for market rate housing is becoming more and more prevalent with each passing day.”
“We know that the goal of the Town of Mooresville is to provide and approve housing that meets the needs of the citizens,” he wrote. “Stanley Martin is committed to working in lockstep with the Town towards this goal, working to maintain Mooresville’s spot as the premier location to work and live in the region.”
If the rezoning passes, the developer would complete the last of the townhomes in a first phase of the community by 2030, according to Planning Board documents.