Lots of people are moving out, ... I'm not the type to move out. I won't move out. Where would I go? Where will I go with these two old men?

Our house has always been where everyone comes to eat - even before this. I'd never know how many were coming,

That morning, summer sulked and gathered darkly over Charlotte, and heat shimmered on pavement. Traffic teemed, people pushing forward to promise as they drove through new construction, and the past was bulldozed away.

new people moving in and then the county scrambling to find out how we're going to fund it.

Does it have to go to a vote of the people?

The beautiful thing about this is that it's an unbiased survey. We invited people from all sides of issues to work together in committees to define concerns and decide together what facts went into it. And it is a work in progress. This is just the beginning.