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Sustain Charlotte voices support for city’s FY 2023 Budget

Good evening City Council, Mayor, and Staff, My name is Elina Shepard. I am the program manager at Sustain Charlotte. We’re a nonprofit organization that advocates for sustainable land use […]

Candidates responses are in!

Heading to the polls soon? We’ve got you covered! Check our survey results to learn more about what candidates think about key sustainability issues. Thanks for reading! As a nonprofit, community support […]

Uptown Charlotte Cyclelink debuts after years in the making

  The protected bike lane spanning all of downtown Charlotte that Sustain Charlotte and supportive residents first petitioned the City to build in 2016 is officially open! It began as a campaign designed […]

Our final UDO series post: help Charlotte’s neighborhoods grow sustainably

Welcome back to our UDO series! If you’ve missed our previous blogs, no worries, we got you! To catch up, you can start with our introductory blog where we talk about what […]

We’re asking NC to invest infrastructure funds equitably + sustainably

Sustain Charlotte recently signed on to a letter with 18 local, statewide, and regional organizations to Governor Cooper calling for NCDOT to follow USDOT guidance to invest funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure […]

How Charlotte’s new development rules will support sustainable transportation

Welcome back to our blog post series about the UDO, Charlotte’s first and only Unified Development Ordinance that will define our city’s development for the next several decades! If you […]

We’re sharing key details of the rules that will guide Charlotte’s growth

Welcome to our series of blog posts about the Unified Development Ordinance (abbreviated as UDO)! Perhaps you have heard that in October of 2021, the city released the first Unified Development […]

We’re asking for a Mecklenburg County budget that grows our greenways faster

Sustain Charlotte partnered with Partners for Parks and Park and Rec Commissioner Paul Freestone to sign up as a group and coordinated on our comments to speak with one voice […]

Will new development guidelines make it easier to travel without a car?

In the absence of a robust plan to manage traffic congestion and support transportation choices, rapidly growing cities are faced with real challenges to ensure safe and time-efficient travel for […]

Thank you for our biggest and best Biketoberfest yet!

Thank you to everyone who helped make the seventh annual Biketoberfest a stellar success! We could not have asked for a better day – beautiful weather, a full line-up of […]