The committee could organize these projects as community work days. A. Normally, the developer, Landcraft Properties, would have transferred ownership of the streets to the North Carolina Department of Transportation for maintenance. The Charlotte Department of Engineering currently is collecting information about the streets to determine if they qualify for acceptance by the city for maintenance. If so, city acceptance should occur by August. The city has programs in place to reduce speeds and traffic, including the installation of speed bumps and 4-way stops and the setting the speed limit at 25 mph.
Speed humps require a petition but also require a large traffic volume.
However, the city does not install 3-way stops. The homeowners association has obtained 25 MPH speed limit petitions and will begin the process of collecting signatures once the streets are accepted for city maintenance. Since the state would not put these in, and the intersections probably do not meet city criteria for additional stop signs, the association paid to have them installed in early 2001. Charlotte Department of Transportation inspectors had said that the city would not remove the signs once annexation occurred. A. Several residents had expressed an interest in having street lights, and Prism contacted the Mecklenburg County Engineering Department, which provides a process for installing and paying for street lights following a plan jointly prepared by Duke Power.