Request for the reversal of the Sale of Sedgefield Middle School Property
& Key Talking Points
“Surplus” classification of property under question for the following reasons:
- City plans to increase density surrounding the light rail line.
- Area adjacent to school property has seen a 108% growth in apartment homes alone just since 2012 (that is an additional 9,000 units).
- Potential for redistricting and/or student reallocation requiring expansion of this site in the future.
- Absence of alternative close-in sites for additional schools to meet future demands of city.
- Revenue from any potential sale does not benefit the Sedgefield schools
- Several Sedgefield School key staff do not support the development of multi-family housing on that property.
Green Space in short supply:
- Sedgefield neighborhood has a paltry amount of green space, as does SouthEnd.
- Population increases will only make the above point more poignant.
- Charlotte’s investment in wetland preservation and creek improvements seem wasteful in light of the destruction of this green space. No impact studies have been conducted on the potential detriment to the adjacent wetlands surrounding this property.
- Given all the deforestation from Marsh development and adjacent SouthEnd, as well as many other areas in the vicinity, this property represents an actual tree save area that helps meet the city’s 50% tree canopy goal by 2050.
Process under question:
- Stakeholders (neighborhood associations, neighbors, parents of student body) unaware of sale and classification of this school property.
- Lack of understanding of method/process for classification of this property as “surplus” remains. Please provide this to us.
- Publication and notice of property sale. How and why was Pulte chosen?
** School board members and commissioners should not continue their practice of making decisions in a silo. In other words, this property sale decision cannot and should not be made solely on the basis of school needs. This decision is more complicated than that and the citizenry deserves a comprehensive approach by its elected officials that considers ALL the ramifications of selling this county property to a private developer.
Updates
August 30, 2016
We just hit 1,000 signatures to save the Sedgefield Middle School land. Post the link to your Facebook page right now and email our council representative. We need to force a real conversation about our green space.
Reached 1,000 supporters
August 27, 2016
August 26, 2016
We just hit 100 signatures to protect Sedgefield Middle School land. Post this link on Facebook today and email your city representative to demand they stop this sale.
August 25, 2016
We are approaching one thousand signatures and need a final push to force the board to acknowledge our opposition. Post the link to your Facebook page right now and tag your local representative to demand they stop this land sale.
Reached 100 supporters
August 23, 2016
273 Comments
I am a member of the Park Commission. I believe it is fair to say all of my Park Commission counterparts are distressed about the potential sale. We are also perplexed as to how the process that even got this far didn't include a conversation with the Park Commission.
Selling assets to pay for operational costs is always short-sighted. The county should buy the property to enhance/enlarge the existing park. Mecklenburg County needs to be the responsible party and save the inner-core green space.
While I support greater density in the Sedgefield / Dilworth area, the current use of the land as a pocket park provides much needed green space and contributes to public health, stormwater infiltration and improved air quality.
We live directly next to the proposed land sale. As a Sedgefield Middle Grad, our classes used that space for science classes. As an adult I love that my child might someday study the same area. If the sale goes through, we will lose even more of our natural space.
This property is part of the Dairy Branch creek flood plain. Development there would be subject to flooding in heavy rain storms, which seem to be happening more frequently, and would increase the chance of flooding portions of Sedgefield park and adjacent properties.
OUTRAGIOUS the City is out of control on allowing these developers to built these massive apartment complexes and it WILL BE A MASSIVE REGRET BY MECKLENBURG TO HAVE IT TO SPIRAL SO FAR FAR OUT IF CONTROL, for intelligence will reveal build enormous amounts of NEW ROAD SYSTEMS TO ACCOMMODATE THE MASSIVE ANOUNT IF PEOPLE YOUR CRAMING TOGETHER, AND YOU ARE WRONG THEY ARE NOT ALL GOING TO USE THE LIGHT RAIL, THEY ARE GOING TO USE THEIR CARS, THIUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF CARS IN DEADLOCK BECAUSE THERE IS NO SOACE TO BUILD THE BIGGER ROAD WHERE THE CITY IS CRAMMING THESE OVER SIZED HIDIOUS HIGH RISE BUILDINGS BLOCKING THE VIEW IF THE UP TOWN SKY LINE ALL OVER THE PLACE,,THERE ARE THOUSANDS IF OTHER PLACES TO BUILD MEGA APARTMENTS, AND MORE OFF THE ROAD WITH SEPARATE PARKS AND GREEN SPACE FOR THISE TENANTS WITH OUT PLACING THE BUILDINGS RIGHT UP AFAINST TRAFFIC!!!! IRRESPONSIBLE BACKWARD THINKING, JUST LIKE DESTOYING PERFECT DESIGN ON TYVOLA WITH EIGHT LANES TO HAVE THE BEAUTIFUL ARENA THAT COULD HAVE BEEN EXPANDED, INSTEAD CRAMMED ONE UP TOWN AND MADE IT FAR MORE INCONVENIENT FOR THE MASSES, AND CRAMMING NASCAR HALL OF FAME UPTOWN CHARLOTTE WHERE IT NEVER BELONGED, NOTHING BUT TAX PAYERS LOSING... AND THE CITY COMING ACROSS AS FOOLISH BAD PLANNERS, WELCOME TO CHARLOTTE, USED TO BE A BEAUTIFUL CITY BUT BECAUSE IF GREED TBINK THEY THEY CAN SOLVE PROBLEMS BY CRAMMING TOO MANY HUMAN BEINGS IN TO SMALL SPACES AND RUINING THE THE CITY SKY LINE, SO WELCOME PEOPLE TO COME TO CHARLOTTE N.C. TO TOUR THE STREETS AND LOOK AT MASSIVE APARTMENT COMPLEXES!? MECKLENBURG COUNTRY YOU ARE RUINING PAST DESIGN BY ENGINEERS THAT TOLD THE CITY TO EXPAND THE ROAD PRIOR TO INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT CITY FAILED TO DO THIS PROPERLY, SO MORE DEMOLITION TO “TRY” TO MAKE WAY, BUT WILL STILL BE TO DEFICIENT BECAUSE YOU CAN NOT FIT A CIRCLE INTO A TRIANGLE, STOP! STOP STOP!!!! USE MECKLENBURG COUNTY FUNDS TO CLEAN UP ALL OF THE NEGLECTED AREAS OF CHARLOTTE!!!! EASTLAND MALL AREA, FREEDOM DRIVE, WILKINSON (whi
Keep the space green.
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Request for the reversal of the Sale of Sedgefield Middle School Property
& Key Talking Points
“Surplus” classification of property under question for the following reasons:
- City plans to increase density surrounding the light rail line.
- Area adjacent to school property has seen a 108% growth in apartment homes alone just since 2012 (that is an additional 9,000 units).
- Potential for redistricting and/or student reallocation requiring expansion of this site in the future.
- Absence of alternative close-in sites for additional schools to meet future demands of city.
- Revenue from any potential sale does not benefit the Sedgefield schools
- Several Sedgefield School key staff do not support the development of multi-family housing on that property.
Green Space in short supply:
- Sedgefield neighborhood has a paltry amount of green space, as does SouthEnd.
- Population increases will only make the above point more poignant.
- Charlotte’s investment in wetland preservation and creek improvements seem wasteful in light of the destruction of this green space. No impact studies have been conducted on the potential detriment to the adjacent wetlands surrounding this property.
- Given all the deforestation from Marsh development and adjacent SouthEnd, as well as many other areas in the vicinity, this property represents an actual tree save area that helps meet the city’s 50% tree canopy goal by 2050.
Process under question:
- Stakeholders (neighborhood associations, neighbors, parents of student body) unaware of sale and classification of this school property.
- Lack of understanding of method/process for classification of this property as “surplus” remains. Please provide this to us.
- Publication and notice of property sale. How and why was Pulte chosen?
** School board members and commissioners should not continue their practice of making decisions in a silo. In other words, this property sale decision cannot and should not be made solely on the basis of school needs. This decision is more complicated than that and the citizenry deserves a comprehensive approach by its elected officials that considers ALL the ramifications of selling this county property to a private developer.
Updates
August 30, 2016
We just hit 1,000 signatures to save the Sedgefield Middle School land. Post the link to your Facebook page right now and email our council representative. We need to force a real conversation about our green space.
Reached 1,000 supporters
August 27, 2016
August 26, 2016
We just hit 100 signatures to protect Sedgefield Middle School land. Post this link on Facebook today and email your city representative to demand they stop this sale.
August 25, 2016
We are approaching one thousand signatures and need a final push to force the board to acknowledge our opposition. Post the link to your Facebook page right now and tag your local representative to demand they stop this land sale.
Reached 100 supporters
August 23, 2016
273 Comments
Instead of selling it, why not invest in this school so it can compete with other top schools in the district and further benefit those residents who have invested in this area with hopes of having children attend a highly "ranked" school?
I am a member of the Park Commission. I believe it is fair to say all of my Park Commission counterparts are distressed about the potential sale. We are also perplexed as to how the process that even got this far didn't include a conversation with the Park Commission.
Selling assets to pay for operational costs is always short-sighted. The county should buy the property to enhance/enlarge the existing park. Mecklenburg County needs to be the responsible party and save the inner-core green space.
While I support greater density in the Sedgefield / Dilworth area, the current use of the land as a pocket park provides much needed green space and contributes to public health, stormwater infiltration and improved air quality.
We live directly next to the proposed land sale. As a Sedgefield Middle Grad, our classes used that space for science classes. As an adult I love that my child might someday study the same area. If the sale goes through, we will lose even more of our natural space.
This property is part of the Dairy Branch creek flood plain. Development there would be subject to flooding in heavy rain storms, which seem to be happening more frequently, and would increase the chance of flooding portions of Sedgefield park and adjacent properties.
OUTRAGIOUS the City is out of control on allowing these developers to built these massive apartment complexes and it WILL BE A MASSIVE REGRET BY MECKLENBURG TO HAVE IT TO SPIRAL SO FAR FAR OUT IF CONTROL, for intelligence will reveal build enormous amounts of NEW ROAD SYSTEMS TO ACCOMMODATE THE MASSIVE ANOUNT IF PEOPLE YOUR CRAMING TOGETHER, AND YOU ARE WRONG THEY ARE NOT ALL GOING TO USE THE LIGHT RAIL, THEY ARE GOING TO USE THEIR CARS, THIUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF CARS IN DEADLOCK BECAUSE THERE IS NO SOACE TO BUILD THE BIGGER ROAD WHERE THE CITY IS CRAMMING THESE OVER SIZED HIDIOUS HIGH RISE BUILDINGS BLOCKING THE VIEW IF THE UP TOWN SKY LINE ALL OVER THE PLACE,,THERE ARE THOUSANDS IF OTHER PLACES TO BUILD MEGA APARTMENTS, AND MORE OFF THE ROAD WITH SEPARATE PARKS AND GREEN SPACE FOR THISE TENANTS WITH OUT PLACING THE BUILDINGS RIGHT UP AFAINST TRAFFIC!!!! IRRESPONSIBLE BACKWARD THINKING, JUST LIKE DESTOYING PERFECT DESIGN ON TYVOLA WITH EIGHT LANES TO HAVE THE BEAUTIFUL ARENA THAT COULD HAVE BEEN EXPANDED, INSTEAD CRAMMED ONE UP TOWN AND MADE IT FAR MORE INCONVENIENT FOR THE MASSES, AND CRAMMING NASCAR HALL OF FAME UPTOWN CHARLOTTE WHERE IT NEVER BELONGED, NOTHING BUT TAX PAYERS LOSING... AND THE CITY COMING ACROSS AS FOOLISH BAD PLANNERS, WELCOME TO CHARLOTTE, USED TO BE A BEAUTIFUL CITY BUT BECAUSE IF GREED TBINK THEY THEY CAN SOLVE PROBLEMS BY CRAMMING TOO MANY HUMAN BEINGS IN TO SMALL SPACES AND RUINING THE THE CITY SKY LINE, SO WELCOME PEOPLE TO COME TO CHARLOTTE N.C. TO TOUR THE STREETS AND LOOK AT MASSIVE APARTMENT COMPLEXES!? MECKLENBURG COUNTRY YOU ARE RUINING PAST DESIGN BY ENGINEERS THAT TOLD THE CITY TO EXPAND THE ROAD PRIOR TO INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT CITY FAILED TO DO THIS PROPERLY, SO MORE DEMOLITION TO “TRY” TO MAKE WAY, BUT WILL STILL BE TO DEFICIENT BECAUSE YOU CAN NOT FIT A CIRCLE INTO A TRIANGLE, STOP! STOP STOP!!!! USE MECKLENBURG COUNTY FUNDS TO CLEAN UP ALL OF THE NEGLECTED AREAS OF CHARLOTTE!!!! EASTLAND MALL AREA, FREEDOM DRIVE, WILKINSON (whi
Keep the space green.
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Instead of selling it, why not invest in this school so it can compete with other top schools in the district and further benefit those residents who have invested in this area with hopes of having children attend a highly "ranked" school?