Public hearing and Monroe City Council meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. on Aug. 13

Public hearing on private school, wine tasting and retail shop downtown and mixed-use development

Monroe’s August 2024 City Council meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug 9, 2024 at Monroe City Hall at 215 N Broad St. The community is invited to attend.

The meeting includes a public hearing on two conditional use permits and one rezone. The conditional use permits are to make way for a new private school planned for 303 S Broad St. and a wine tasting and retail wine store at 114 S Broad St. in downtown Monroe. The wine tasting and retail facility is planned for the former Broad Street Boots location.

Also on the agenda for Tuesday’s public hearing in the plan for Breedlove Farm, billed as “a true mixed-use development master” planned to incorporate quality urban planning and design inspired by community input.” The application is for the 105.87-acre property located northwest of Monroe’s downtown and bordered by Charlotte Rowell Blvd to the west and north, Hwy 11 to the east and the Monroe Pavilion development to the south.

According to the application, “this mixed-use development will include multiple housing types, retail, office, commercial, natural areas, and civic areas. These uses are thoughtfully integrated in the master plan to create a unique sense of place for residents and visitors that ties the historic nostalgia of the Breedlove Farm, once an operational cattle farm, to an urban development designed to meet the current demands of the City.” This proposal had been discussed in a 5-day open community forum at the Wayfarer Hotel in March of this year.

Click or tap on this link and then on the relevant agenda item for information on each agenda item. The full agenda follows.

I. CALL TO ORDER

1. Invocation
2. Roll Call
3. Approval of Agenda
4. Approval of Consent Agenda
   a. July 9, 2024 Council Minutes
   b. July 25, 2024 Council Minutes
   c. July 28, 2024 Council Minutes
   d. June 18, 2024 Planning Commission Minutes
   e. June 25, 2024 Historic Preservation Commission Minutes
   f. July 13, 2024 Downtown Development Authority Minutes
   g. June 13, 2024 Conventions and Visitors Bureau Minutes
   II. PUBLIC FORUM
5. Public Comment(s)
   III. BUSINESS ITEMS
6. City Administrator Update
7. Assistant City Administrator Update
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8. Department Reports
   a. Monthly Central Services Report
   b. Monthly Code Report
   c. Monthly Economic Development Report
   d. Monthly Finance Report
   e. Monthly Fire Report
   f. Monthly Police Report
   g. Monthly Solid Waste Report
   h. Monthly Streets & Transportation Report
   i. Monthly Telecom Report
   j. Monthly Water, Sewer, Gas & Electric Report
9. Department Requests
   a. Various: Sale of Surplus Items
   b. Utilities: Bid Award for Raw and Finished Water Main Extensions
   IV. NEW BUSINESS
10. Public Hearing(s)
    a. Conditional Use – 303 South Broad Street
    b. Conditional Use – 114 South Broad Street
    c. Rezone – 1125 North Broad Street
11. New Business
    a. Conditional Use – 303 South Broad Street
    b. Conditional Use – 114 South Broad Street
    c. Rezone – 1125 North Broad Street
    d. Final Plat – Rivers Edge Phase 1
    e. Resolution – Property Condemnation for Water Line Project
    f. Resolution – Franchise Fee
    V. DISTRICT ITEMS
12. District Items
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13. Mayoral Update
    VI. ADJOURN TO EXECUTIVE SESSION
14. Real Estate Issue (s)
15. Legal Issue (s)
    VII. ADJOURN