Massive waterfront community will offer rare Lake Norman public access, developer says
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story gave the wrong location of a proposed LIV Development community in southern Iredell County. The development is planned along the Lake Davidson shoreline.
Developers affiliated with the LangTree at the Lake mixed-use community at Interstate 77 Exit 31 have proposed building a massive nearby development that would offer rare public access to Lake Norman through a shoreline greenway.
The proposed community on Transco Road in southern Iredell County would include 353 multifamily units, 136 town homes, 90 duplexes, a waterfront restaurant and a public multi-use shoreline greenway, Estes McLemore of LIV Development said in a rezoning application filed with the Mooresville Planning Department.
LIV Development is based in Birmingham, Alabama.
Nequette Architecture and Design, also based in Birmingham, is the architect for the project.
The 96.79-acre site lies in Iredell County outside the town of Mooresville. The developer also wants the town to annex the property so the development can receive town services, such as sewer and water and police and firefighter response.
The heavily wooded site lies south of Langtree Road and is bounded to the south and east by Lake Davidson and by Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. to the west. The property is in a critical area of the Catawba/Lake Norman Watershed district, Mooresville Planning Department documents show.
Langtree Development Co. LLC owns the property and authorized McLemore and LIV Development to represent the LLC in the rezoning request, according to planning department records.
“This development will provide public access to Lake Norman, which is one of the main goals in the One Mooresville Land Use Plan,” LIV Development officials wrote in their rezoning application.
A 10-foot greenway multi-use path “will run the entire length of shoreline of our project,” about 7,685 feet, the developers wrote.
The greenway “will give our residents and the entire public access to the lake that they currently do not have,” according to the LIV Development application.
Mooresville would provide a trail head on a town-owned parcel to the north that would give the public direct access to the greenway.
“It is our hope that this greenway will help start a much larger greenway system that will bring in miles of opportunities to enjoy nature and encourage connectivity throughout the entire Town,” the developers wrote.
“Most importantly,” according to LIV Development, the project would provide a major public road extension through the entire site.
The new road would extend Langtree Campus Drive to the future Mooresville East West Connector road, further opening the area to development, the developers said.
The new Transco Road community would consist of two “villages,” with more dense buildings in the north village, the developers said.
The Mooresville Planning Board voted to recommend the project at its meeting Tuesday night, despite environmental and over development concerns raised by residents, including from the nearby Davidson Pointe community. The Mooresville Board of Commissioners has final say.
Developer to discuss 6-story downtown Cornelius plan
Learn more on Nov. 16 about a Charlotte developer’s plans to transform part of downtown Cornelius with a six-story residential-commercial building and a parking deck.
The informational community meeting regarding Highline Partners’ plans is scheduled for 6 p.m. in Room 204 of Cornelius Town Hall, 21445 Catawba Ave.
Called Mills Market, the project is planned for the southeast corner of Catawba Avenue and Meridian Street, according to the project page on Cornelius.org, the town website.
The first floor of the building would house commercial uses and the remaining floors a total of 263 multi-family residential units, according to the developer’s rezoning request for the 2.33-acre site.
At its Nov. 21 regular meeting, the Cornelius Board of Commissioners is scheduled to hear a presentation from the developer and receive public comment. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Town Hall.
The plans would next go before the Cornelius Planning Board for a recommendation and then to another Board of Commissioners meeting for a vote to approve or reject the project. Those meetings are yet to be scheduled.
Board pans proposed ‘live, work, play’ community
The Mooresville Planning Board on Tuesday night recommended rejecting national home builder D.R. Horton’s plans for a massive “live, work, play” community of 314 apartments north of Lake Norman Regional Medical Center and the Lowe’s headquarters in Mooresville.
Nine three-story buildings would house the apartments on about 31.5 acres near the intersection of Medical Park Road and Charlotte Highway (U.S. 21), according to a D.R. Horton rezoning application at the Mooresville Planning Department.
The community would include a pool with a sun deck and a cabana; a dog park; grill and patio areas; and a community gym, according to the application.
“Significant green space” would “provide a natural buffer and transition to adjacent commercial developments,” the developer wrote in the application.
The community would be “both pedestrian and cyclist friendly,” according to the application, but the Planning Board unanimously agreed with town planning staff that the project is too dense and lacks pedestrian connections.
The acreage lies on the north side of Medical Park Road, east of Charlotte Highway.
The planning board is an advisory panel that makes recommendations to the elected Mooresville Board of Commissioners, which has final say on rezonings.
Before work could start on the project, commissioners would have to hold a public hearing before voting on the request. Town planning staff would then have to sign off on a site plan, and Iredell County inspectors would have to issue building permits and a certificate of occupancy, according to Mooresville Planning Board documents.
Deny planned 99 Mooresville town homes, board recommends
The Mooresville Planning Board on Tuesday night sided with nearby concerned residents and recommended denying plans by Mooresville developer Nest Communities Inc. to build 99 town homes on Shadowbrooke Lane, off Brawley School Road on Lake Norman.
Called 298 Shadowbrooke Lane, the 15.58-acre development would include two-story town homes in groups of four to six, according to the documents.
A stream bisects the mostly wooded site, records show.
The developer’s plans call for a shared-use path along the creek in the middle of the property and nearly 4 acres of open space.
At its meeting Tuesday night, the Mooresville Planning Board in part found the project was too high of a density for the immediate area. The Mooresville Board of Commissioners will have the final say on the project.
This story was originally published November 9, 2022 at 6:00 AM.