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Tuesday, voters approved $146 million in City bonds for public improvements, housing and neighborhood improvements.
Projects like the Cross Charlotte Trail, new police stations, sidewalk and pedestrian safety improvements and the Northeast Corridor Infrastructure program are funded with public improvement bonds. The city’s Housing Diversity program is funded through the housing bonds, and the Comprehensive Neighborhood Improvement Program (CNIP) is funded with the neighborhood improvement bonds.
More information on which projects are funded by the bonds can be found at www.charlottefuture.com.
For full details of Tuesday's vote, visit the Citywide Newsroom.
Neighborhood & Business Services' Facade Improvement Grant program assists businesses and commercial property owners with improving their building's appearance. In doing so, the program helps bring signs, parking and landscaping into conformance with current codes.
As part of the program, the grant provides eligible businesses or property owners with 50 percent reimbursement for certain architectural renovation expenses. Sixty percent reimbursement may be available on a case-by-case basis for businesses who utilize a certified Small Business Enterprise firm.
Applications are due Saturday, November 15. For more information, contact Veronica Williams-Mosley at vmosley@charlottenc.gov.
The Knight Cities Challenge is seeking innovative ideas that answer the question: What is your best idea to make cities more successful?
All residents are encouraged to participate in the Challenge as it seeks new ideas to make cities more vibrant places to live and work. The challenge offers grants from a pool of $5 million funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The initial application asks for two primary pieces of information about your project in 150 words or less. Finalists will be asked to further develop their ideas. There is no limit to the number of ideas that can be submitted and no idea is too big or too small. The application period ends Friday, November 14.
For more information about the challenge and idea submission, visit http://knightcities.org/.
The Creek ReLeaf Program is a collaborative effort of the Charlotte Public Tree Fund, Charlotte Mecklenburg Storm water Services, the Center for Sustainability at Central Piedmont Community College, the Sierra Club Central Piedmont Group, and volunteers to plant trees in riparian areas (floodplain and stream buffers) in Mecklenburg County and the surrounding region.
You can join the effort by volunteering and planting seedlings and installing weed mats, tree tubes and fiberglass stakes which protect each new tree from weed growth, flooding and deer browsing.
Click here to learn more about the program, and register to lend a green thumb.
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