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City budget recommends record bike and pedestrian investment (Press release)

Recommended Charlotte City Budget Includes a Doubling of Funding for Bicycle Program and Vision Zero, Tripling for Sidewalks CONTACT Meg Fencil [email protected] 704-968-2187 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Charlotte, NC (May 4, […]

Growing congestion, empty tracks: Why there’s still no Red Line to North Meck (Charlotte Urban Institute)

Sustain Charlotte has launched a petition drive urging NS and the NCRR to work with CATS to allow commuter rail onto the O line. As of Tuesday, March 23, it […]

2040 plan public hearing includes wide range of opinions as council looks to late June vote (Charlotte Business Journal)

Undoubtedly, a 2040 plan initiative that would allow duplexes and triplexes on all single-family residential lots in Charlotte, and quads on arterial roads, has gotten the most attention. Meg Fencil, […]

Morning buzz (Charlotte Business Journal)

WBTV reports Sustain Charlotte, led by founder and executive director Shannon Binns, has launched a petition in hopes of convincing Norfolk Southern to change its stance on sharing railroad tracks […]

What kind of Charlotte do we want? (QC Metro)

Every now and then we have an opportunity to demonstrate who we are, or at least, who we want to become. A chance to live our values by shaping the […]

Charlotte 2040 plan stuck on single-family zoning issue (WFAE Charlotte Talks)

Hear Shannon Binns, executive director of Sustain Charlotte speak about Charlotte’s 2040 Comprehensive Plan. Two years in the making, it became a hot topic when it came before City Council. […]

Group petitions Norfolk Southern to change policy to get Lynx Red Line project back on track (WBTV)

Sustain Charlotte started this petition to try and change the prospects. In just a few weeks it gained more than one thousand signatures. “We can’t fit all those cars on […]

Sustain Charlotte launches petition urging Norfolk Southern to let CATS build Red Line (Charlotte Stories)

Sustain Charlotte launched a petition four days ago, which has already been signed by more than 400 people, urging Norfolk Southern CEO Mr. James Squires and North Carolina Railroad CEO […]

‘Change is happening’: Discussion on Charlotte’s 2040 plan continues ahead of public hearing (Charlotte Business Journal)

In the past several weeks, groups that include community organizations, real estate development groups and neighborhood homeowners associations have come out with strong opinions about the 2040 comprehensive plan. Tuesday’s […]

Unlikely allies. Developers, community advocates want big Charlotte growth plan delayed (Charlotte Observer)

Shannon Binns, founder and executive director of nonprofit Sustain Charlotte, which supports the plan, said the ”disproportionate” influence developers have had in Charlotte has created many of the social and […]