HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93009_1621 (2)Pope asked for a clarification on the 914 boat slips. Oldham said
they could be broken down as follows:
321 private boat slips
396 community
197 marina "
TOTAL 914 boat slips
Commissioner Johnson thanked the Crescent representatives for
decreasing the number of households in the referenced area. He
mentioned this would help the County as far as school facility
needs. Johnson said that growth in the southern end was occurring
faster than the County could handle. Infrastructure and school
need ramifications will soon be felt over the entire County.
Johnson mentioned that if the tax rate had to be increased that
this wouldn't be fair to the long-term residents of the northern
end of the County. "These residents have lived here all their
lives and have not done anything to create the growth problems,
however, they might have to suffer the brunt of additional
taxation." Mr. Johnson asked about a past offer of some land for
a new school. He said he understood some individuals on the school
board could not agree with some of the conditions, e.g., time frame
for design, construction and placement, etc. The Crescent
officials were asked if property could be donated for some type of
school with no conditions attached.
Fields mentioned that on August 29, 1997, a meeting was held
with Dr. Sinclair about this matter. He mentioned that previously,
Crescent offered to the school system three sites. There was no
design criteria mentioned. Fields said his organization now had
two sites available. The only condition that Crescent wants is
that a high school be started sometime in 1999 or 2000. Fields
said that (1) Crescent was willing to donate a school site and (2)
Crescent was working with the NCDOT in "attempting to come up with
a joint participation (private/public venture) on road improvements
to Brawley School Road."
Commissioner Johnson said he could not allow a developer to
set the time frame as to when a school building would be built. He
said if this was done, he had abrogated the authority of county
government to someone else. Johnson said the County wanted the
land, however, it wanted to build the school on its own schedule.
In response to Commissioner Johnson's remarks regarding the
time frame for building a high school in the southern end of the
county, Commissioner Fortner said that Dr. Sinclair gave the time
of five years during the budget discussions in June. That was five
years until the school needed to be completed to take care of the
projected growth.
Commissioner Fortner thanked the Crescent officials for their
concerns about the Brawley School Road area and the school
facilities. She said she was greatly concerned about the lack of
public sewer in the lake area, especially the Brawley School Road
area. In addition, she mentioned that Iredell County had a study
done by a professional engineer in the early 1980s which
recommended that sewer in the lake area be the number onepriority
for water and sewer in the county. Fortner went on to say that
county commissioners, past and present, have not and are not taking
sewer lines in the lake area seriously. "We should be working with
the Town of Mooresville and developers to insure that the quality
of water remains pure. We should have a tight land use plan that
would establish the population density and what would be allowed
there. Then, county commissioners, present and future, should not
deviate from the plan to increase density. If county commissioners
are to be good stewards of Iredell County, and I think we have a
moral obligation to do so, we cannot just do what is least
expensive and politically expedient for today. Future costs could
be exorbitant if counties ever have to clean up Lake Norman. This
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