STEELE
CREEK NEWS
2004
Steele Creek Residents Association Meeting is February 25
(February 10 , 2004)
The Steele Creek Residents Association will hold its 2004 annual
meeting on Wednesday February 25 at 7:00 p.m. at Southwest Middle
School. Anyone interested in the Steele Creek Community is
encouraged to attend and learn about initiatives that are spurring
as well as reacting to changes in the area.
Coach Joe
White, Chairman of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board, will be
the featured speaker. Coach White has close ties to the Steele Creek
Community, having coached at Olympic High School for many years. He
was elected to the School Board in 2003 after having served two
terms on the Charlotte City Council. He has over 35 years experience
working with and for students and parents in the public school
system.
New residential
development is expected to add 8,000 to 10,000 new students in
Steele Creek over the next ten years and to contribute to crowding
in local schools. Charlotte Mecklenburg School System's long range
plans call for building as many as five new elementary schools in
Steele Creek by 2014. (Link
to news story.)
Linda Blackwelder
and Doug Youngblood of the Steele Creek Library Association will
speak on the efforts of that association to raise funds to
supplement collections and equipment at the new Steele Creek Branch
Library, which is expected to open in summer 2004. Their goal is to
make the Steele Creek Library the best branch in the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg system. (Link
to Steele Creek Library Association web site.)
Mecklenburg County
Park and Recreation Commissioner Karl Froelich will talk about a
local group's efforts to promote the establishment of a community
trail system in Steele Creek. Routes are expected to follow
currently designated Mecklenburg County Greenway corridors as well
as utility and highway rights-of-way and will connect schools,
parks, employment centers, and shopping areas, as well as the new
planned residential communities in Steele Creek. (Link
to more information.)
Representatives of
the new Steele Creek Family YMCA will provide information about the
new facility now open in Ayrsley at Highway 49 and I-485 and plans
for a future full facility within Steele Creek. (Link
to more information.)
Four major
residential developments are planned in Steele Creek: Ayrsley,
Berewick, Palisades, and Sanctuary (Island Pointe), and
representatives of the developers have been invited to give updates
on their progress.
Southwest Middle
School opened in August 2003. This will be the first chance many
area residents will have to see this new facility, and the Residents
Association is pleased to be showcasing it at its meeting. (Link
to school web site.) It is located at 13624 Steele Creek
Road (Highway 160), about one third of a mile north of the intersection of
Highways 49 and 160. The school is located on the left (if heading
north) behind the new Steele Creek Branch Library site. The meeting
will be in the Southwest Middle School Dining Room, which is at the
right front of the building.
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