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Sunday, May 11, 2008 --- 73 days ago http://www.charlotteobserver.com/someck/story/619139.html
| A public hearing on Thursday night for a proposed charter high school drew questions about how the area will handle the increased traffic. About 45 people attended the meeting where Queens Grant Preparatory High School officials requested a zoning change to allow them to build a 42,000-square-foot school on Lawyers Road. Commissioners are expected to vote on the zoning change at their next meeting, May 22. Some residents said that while they support education, Lawyers Road is already crowded. Traffic concerns about another section of Lawyers Road were brought up last month at a meeting with developers of the Bridges at Mint Hill shopping complex, which will have all of its entrances off Lawyers. "The issue is not the school. The more schools the merrier as far as I'm concerned. But they need to find somewhere else to put it," said Donna Chisum, who lives near the proposed school site. School official Philip Adkins said the school could change its start time to ease traffic woes. That could appease residents like Pam Brynarsky. Brynarsky lives off of Lawyers Road and said she isn't allowing her Independence High School son to get his driver's license yet because of traffic in the area. "We're just concerned about kids driving," she said. "That would be a possible solution, and hopefully they'll consider that carefully." The school, an expansion of Mint Hill's Queens Grant Community School, started this year with about 105 students ... |
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