Site Selection

The site selected for this North Carolina Healthy Built Home is located in the city of Belmont, approximately 20 minutes west of uptown Charlotte. With an easy 15 minute drive you can reach Charlotte - Douglas Airport. The lot is 1.35 acres in size and is located in a beautiful gated lake side community that has a lake front pool and club house for the residents and their guests. The back of the lot faces south and slopes to the small creek at the bottom. There are plenty of trees located on the lot and there are two flat road bed areas which add to the interesting topography. Those two areas would be great spots for intermediate "gathering area's" for fire pits, gazebo, etc. That could be added later to enhance the nature experience behind the house. Across from the creek the site backs up to 193 underdeveloped acres. The house will be positioned so the long axis of the house that runs E and W will be within 15 degrees of true South to allow for great passive design. We will design the house to see if we can qualify for NC passive solar tax credits.