Salisbury City Council ~ Please Implement Our North Main Improvement Plan!

Hello Friends & Neighbors!

A representative from the NOMA neighborhood attended City Council meeting on December 16th to voice concerns about the appearance and condition of the North Main Street corridor. The North Main Improvement Plan ~ approved unanimously by City Council July 2007 ~ has not yet been implemented.

The North Main Corridor is the last remaining residential corridor into the City, saved from becoming another commercially infested 'Innes Street' by the residents who live there. We are soon to become an even more highly visible corridor, with the upcoming Central School Office coming to North Main, and the highly successful programming at the NC Transportation Museum to the north. At Council's open forum portion of their agenda, our representative said the neighborhood supported reduced lane widths along N. Main Street, implementation of on-street parking, and planted medians along N. Main since that corridor is no longer the bypass for Interstate-85. All these items are per the North Main Improvement plan and are in synchronicity with our residential culture and would enhance the same.

We additionally asked City Council if, in their upcoming planning retreat in February, they would consider how to work with the Housing Advocacy Commission and the Community Appearance Commission to develop stronger ordinances to prevent the Demolition by Neglect we are seeing in NOMA and throughout other areas of the City.

Our representative had asked in an earlier Council open forum for attention and help from City Services with the street weeds growing on Main Street between the curb and the road, citing that residents along N. Main Street (who are normally charged with maintenance of this City-owned extension of their property) cannot be expected to stand in the road along this busy corridor to trim street weeds.

Speed limits are often exceeded along this wide stretch of road, and it would simply put our residents at risk to ask them to perform this maintenance, especially when the City has the tools to provide the service and provides the same in other neighborhoods. 

At the close of that open forum, Mayor Woodson said he agreed that this was endangering our residents and asked Interim-City Manager John Sofley to implement the weed removal.

At the close of the December 16th meeting, Mayor Woodson asked if the previously requested weed removal had been accomplished, we told Council members it had not, and he again requested of Mr. Sofley to please attend to.

We wished Council members a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year ~ and we hope that our concerns do not fall on deaf ears!  Go, NOMA!!

If you would like to see a copy of the North Main Small Area Improvement Plan, please contact City Planning administration:


Diana Moghrabi
Senior Administrative
Specialist Planning, Code Enforcement, Engineering
Office: 704-638-5242
Fax: 704-638-8437
dmogh@salisburync.gov

City of Salisbury
217 South Main St.
Salisbury, NC 28144










NOMA ~ The North Main Neighborhood
northmainneighborhood@gmail.com