Hearing on Lowe's Development September 4, 2007

The New Hanover County Commissioners will hear the continuation of the developer's request to rezone 16.2 acres on Porters Neck Road at Market Street for a 169,000 square foot Lowe's home improvement store (and 42 possible other uses). The Commissioners meeting will begin at 5:30 pm, and this item is scheduled for 6:30 pm. If you'd like to come, please plan on arriving at 6:15 pm or so.

The meeting will be held in the New Hanover County Government Center, 230 Governmnet Center Drive, Suite 135, Room 401. This room is the Human Resources Training Center. The government center is located in the failed shopping center that you can see from S. College Street as you approach Market Street, but can't get to. To enter the government complex, turn off Oriole Drive, following signs for the government center; or turn off Eastwood Road onto Racine, pass the entrance to Home Depot, and turn right at the next intersection. There are signs here, too, for the government center.

The developer's package has swelled to 103 pages. It does contain considerable additional information from July's package, including accident data, traffic analysis data from several studies, numerous aerial photos with traffic configuration plans laid out on them, and copies of citizens' emails to the county. If you'd like a copy of this Adobe pdf file document, please email me directly at dbauereis@ec.rr.com. Warnings: a) it's a 16 mb file, so will take a while to download; b) if you read the whole thing, you'll know more than any of the commissioners, who probably won't.

I'm in the process of wading through the document, and hope to make smaller, specific topic portions of the file available shortly.

Thanks for your interest, and please come out on September 4th!