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01/16/2023

Huntersville's own study projected substantial growth of 63% in the next 18 years...housing needs and services have to be provided. Choices are rural land developed...or commercial land and surface parking lots redeveloped. Birkdale Village recaptures employees, residents, and guests with multiple stops on one property versus multiple trips on Sam Furr.

01/16/2023

Birkdale has proposed TO THE TOWN that they add an additional lane on Lindholm to line up with the turn lanes and provide better exiting on the property. The street is owned by the Town, but Birkdale has offered to take that responsibility on. Why would that not be noted anywhere or commented on? Fiction is the only thing posted, Fact is that there are proposals!

01/16/2023

Compare the below...FIRST is the impact of two developments that are not mixed-use and located further from services, daily needs, and major road infrastructure: 522 daily trips, $270k in tax revenue projected to the City. SECOND is the impact of the additional development at Birkdale Village with mixed-use recapture rates: 401 daily trips, $620k in additional tax revenue. The tables are all part of the applications to the Towns...check them out.

11/28/2022

DIS-information: The Town and developer don't have any plans for improving traffic impact.

FACT:
1. Traffic impact from residential or commercial use creates a REDUCTION when developed in a mixed-use property over the traffic impact of development on a free-standing model.

2. Traffic impact on smaller Town roads is greater than traffic impact on major State and Federally funded Routes/Interstates. Common sense, one would think.

3. NC Department of Transportation has planned, funded, and scheduled for 2025 to commence further improvements to SR 73 (Sam Furr) through the intersection with I-77. Note: The Town and numerous property owners have sought changes with the State for the past several years, all of which have been dismissed by the State.

The benefit to Birkdale Village is supposed to be:

- Faster ingress/egress at Birkdale Commons Parkway.
- Additional Exit lane on Lindholm onto Sam Furr

See attached STATE funded improvement diagram below.

Facebook False articles by the same few people are standing between guests at Birkdale Village and more parking, better traffic management, more jobs, a stronger Town, and less community driven development traffic.

Stop the DIS-information. Email your support: [email protected]

11/28/2022

Facebook False: Dis-Information: "the developer failed to notify the neighborhood HOA’s of the Sep 22 community meeting and even the second upcoming community meeting on Nov 1, which by ordinance must occur PRIOR to the public hearing. These notifications are required to be in compliance with the town ordinance."

https://www.businesstodaync.com/letter-to-the-editor-birkdale-village-rezoning/

FACT: The developer has had numerous meetings with neighborhoods and organizations - ONLY 1 meeting is required by ordinance, which took place on Sept. 22nd...however, we held a 2nd at the Town Board's request on November 1st in order to give everyone another chance for questions. The ordinance for notification requires residences within 250' and any HOA within 2,000' to be notified. The addresses are pulled from the tax roll, submitted to the Town for review and approval, and upon approval are sent via mail. This has happened twice, with full review and approval of the Town...which the Town has confirmed during the meeting itself to those in attendance.

All of this is clear with full approval of the ordinance by the Town and acknowledgement in the meeting by the author of the opinion link above.

When your neighbor refuses to tell the truth to their neighbors and blatantly misleads them that is DIS-Information; spreading lies with the intent to damage. Attempting to damage you, Birkdale, the Commissioners...No excuse!

Contact the Town Board and support FACT: [email protected]

11/28/2022

DIS-information: Adding parking and associated density will be worse than the parking remaining as it is today. Those who complain without a solution are the same trying to scare YOU about a solution.

FACT: The density and additional parking would add effectively 655 spaces in addition to the 478 spaces already provided over the code requirements.

1,384 spaces required
1,862 spaces provided
450 new spaces from the office, available on weekends
205 recaptured for an event by hotel and residential

That is a total effective parking count of 2,517 vs. the 1,384 required.

Don't believe the lies that less is more....more is more.

11/28/2022

"What will happen, they asked, if developer North American Properties is allowed to get its way?" (Charlotte Observer Link Below)

Answer: FACT: There would be a lot more parking, overnight options, and traffic spread out over much longer time period.

Saturday Nov. 13th (Normal Saturday pre-season) 19,864 Guests
Saturday Nov. 20th (Holiday Event) 21,694 Guests that day
Increase of only 9.2% over any other weekend - people just stay longer because of Santa's arrival. Below is the number of guests on property hourly for Santa versus an average for the prior month.

DIS-information: having more density and more (and more convenient) parking spaces, is worse than having what is there today. The same neighbors complaining about needing parking are the ones spreading dis-information about adding more. The hotel provides its own parking, the residential provides its own parking, the office parking is 450 spaces available after hours...that is 60%-70% of the time when guests are on the property - that is 24% increase in spaces, and those spaces are much more convenient than having to park on the surface lot and walk around the buildings to get to the grove.

Traffic and Parking is a challenge for such large events - there are solutions...
1. More restaurants encourage prolonged stays as the wait times on event days are sometimes 1hr+. There are 17 new leases signed for tenants that will open in 2024, many are restaurants.
2. The office building will provide 450 additional parking spaces, conveniently located on the property. These will be available for after hours and weekends - and events.
3. The hotel will house 125 local family cars who choose to make a day of the visit and would not be leaving following the event - with packages offered such as Stories with Santa for kids after the event.
4. The residential units will house locals who could walk, but will also host many others who would be able to arrive early, stay later, while using the excess and visitor parking within the residential building.
5. Open up the South end of Birkdale Village to exit faster following the event.
6. Widen Lindholm to accommodate two lanes at Townley - which has been offered to the Town, at the developers expense.

The additional improvements impact on an Event Day would be a 26% improvement in the efficiency of parking - not taking into account the longer dwell time for departure.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/lake-norman/article268874862.html

11/22/2022

Parking.

Facebook Fiction: Additional Parking (during non-business hours) is not beneficial and the parking available today is better than adding additional parking. Dis-information.

Fact: Taking October (before the holiday breaks skew normal usage) and analyzing the Guest occupancy at Birkdale Village daily and hourly, the additional parking results in a 19% improvement in car count per parking space factoring in when guests visit. AND, the additional parking is in the same deck location nestled conveniently into the Village rather than parking lots. 70% of the guests at Birkdale Village also visited after 5pm or on weekends...how is having 450 spaces during those times worse? See the graph below.

Don't be lied to by your neighbors, less does not equal more. Even the assertation that adding parking is worse counters common sense. Enough of the lies - if you want to encourage people not to conveniently park in the neighborhood, then give them convenient parking on the property...

11/17/2022

FACT - Measuring Success according to the Huntersville Long Term Plan.

How are we doing?

Feeling Dis-informed about how Birkdale Village "fit" within Huntersville, seems like it is what the Town Board wanted.

11/17/2022

Birkdale is Dismissive about Safety Concerns??

FACT - HPD attended the information meeting and was there to answer questions. Private security on site has increased 30% - and even increased patrol to the adjacent neighborhood tennis courts.

Watch out for who is misrepresenting you in order to sell their opinion as your own...like its straight out of Hollywood...
..they are "interested in two things and two things only: Making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and personal character..."

11/17/2022

The residential building will not exceed 75' - FACT, not Facebook Farce...and it can't go higher. DIS information, again by a few neighbors who are rooting against the community.

Type IIB - as defined with the wood frame structure.
2021 International Building Code Specifications - snips below.
Type IIB Maximum Height = 75'
Type IIB Maximum Stories = 5

Look for yourself: https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IBC2021P1/chapter-5-general-building-heights-and-areas

11/17/2022

Huntersville Zoning Ordinance, Article 4, Apartment Building
https://www.huntersville.org/694/Apartment-Building

Before spreading DIS-information to neighbors and voters - understand how to measure per Town Code. Existing Birkdale Residential is 48' - not including the pitched roofs. Note the graphic in prior posts with the existing residential outline in relation to the new buildings. The pitch adds +/- 10 feet to the 48'...

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