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When Sean Langley heard a state senator wanted Charlotte and surrounding communities to repay $64 million<\/a> spent on the suspended Interstate 77 South toll lane project, he dismissed the claim.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe don\u2019t owe anything,\u201d said Langley, who is president of the McCrorey Heights Neighborhood Association. McCrorey Heights was one of several neighborhoods along the I-77 corridor that would have been impacted by the toll lane project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would we owe the state? What are we paying them for,\u201d Langley continued. \u201cI don\u2019t think all that money that has been used to do preliminary work\u2026 was all in vain. What we\u2019re asking for is alternative options.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s political theater.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, Sen. Vickie Sawyer, a Republican representing Iredell and part of Mecklenburg County, proposed a draft amendment to a bill being debated<\/a> by the General Assembly.<\/p>\n

The amendment would require Charlotte and other local governments that voted to rescind the funding agreement<\/a> for the I-77 South project \u2014 effectively killing it \u2014 to reimburse the North Carolina Department of Transportation for money it already spent on the plan.<\/p>\n

Until those governments pay up, the state wouldn\u2019t start new transportation projects and would withhold Powell Bill funds, which is state aid that pays for road maintenance.<\/p>\n

Her proposal landed in local leaders\u2019 inboxes Thursday afternoon. Charlotte City Council members say they\u2019re waiting for guidance from the city attorney\u2019s office on how to proceed amid ongoing discussion about I-77\u2019s congestion issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some say they weren\u2019t surprised the General Assembly wanted to insert itself into discussions on a local project business leaders say is needed to continue the region\u2019s economic growth. Others, such as Langely, scoffed at the idea of repaying NCDOT.<\/p>\n

But Sawyer isn\u2019t mincing words when she says her draft should be taken seriously<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been vetted, supported, and will be in the budget. This is me actually being kind to the City of Charlotte, and to those communities who did vote to rescind,\u201d Sawyer said in her weekly radio show on WAME in Statesville. \u201cAnd I am communicating to you right now that this will happen. This is not a joke. You will lose this, and you will have to pay back the money to the state, and until you pay back the money from the state, your Powell Bill dollars will be frozen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlotte set off a chain of events<\/a> in May when the City Council voted to rescind its support for the I-77 project\u2019s funding agreement. The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization quickly followed suit<\/a>, shelving the project that had been in the works for over a decade and ruffling feathers at the state level and among business leaders.<\/p>\n

CRTPO member and Mineral Springs Mayor Rick Becker cautioned that the General Assembly could get involved during the board\u2019s May meeting. He wasn\u2019t surprised by the amendment because it tracks with how the General Assembly has inserted itself into local politics in recent years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think that (the General Assembly) were going to just let it drop,\u201d Becker said. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen what the General Assembly does. As a municipal official, I kind of don\u2019t like it but we have to work with what they do\u2026. I see this as being perfectly in line with their feelings. If (the General Assembly) wants the road built and the municipalities are standing in the way, they\u2019re going to handle it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The claim that the state should recover money for sunken costs \u201chas merit,\u201d said Ed Driggs, the Charlotte delegate on the CRTPO. He was the only Charlotte City Council member who took a vocal stance in favor of the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I hate to think Charlotte is liable for a big chunk of it,\u201d Driggs said.<\/p>\n

Sawyer\u2019s draft would divide the reimbursement based on the weighted value of CRTPO votes.<\/p>\n

Charlotte is on the hook for the most with 41% of the vote. Representatives with Mecklenburg County, Davidson, Monroe, Cornelius, Matthews, Mint Hill, Huntersville and the Metropolitan Transit Commission also voted to rescind.<\/p>\n

Like Langley, Charlotte City Councilmember Victoria Watlington doesn\u2019t think Charlotte should be liable for any reimbursement.<\/p>\n

Charlotteans voiced concerns about the project, and council members acted, Watlington said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere shouldn\u2019t be a punishment or a penalty for exercising our authorized authority,\u201d Watlington said. \u201cIt\u2019s not even just about 77. It\u2019s about a much broader precedent that\u2019s being set for the state of North Carolina. If I\u2019m Asheville, Wilmington or Duck, I\u2019m looking at this like, wait a minute. Does this mean that we\u2019re subject to, not just in transportation, but in any topic to then be retroactively punished for decisions that we make that are within our authority, especially as new information comes to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sawyer initially took a softer stance following the CRTPO vote. She told WBTV at the time<\/a> she hoped the General Assembly wouldn\u2019t get too involved in the issue. She supported Charlotte and wanted to keep the funding in the area, she said.<\/p>\n

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Her tenor hardened during her Friday radio interview. Businesses along I-77 such as Carowinds need the expansion project to move forward, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you are 15 years into a project, and then on a political whim, overnight, rip it out, you are doing a generational damage to your community,\u201d Sawyer said. \u201cI don\u2019t like tolls. I don\u2019t. But this is the only way the community will receive relief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sawyer directed The Charlotte Observer to her radio interview when asked for a comment.<\/p>\n

Driggs hopes Sawyer\u2019s proposal will nudge the project back on track because the community benefits it would bring are a \u201cno brainer,\u201d especially compared to \u201cwarfare with the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Driggs noted a provision in Sawyer\u2019s draft that would block NCDOT from removing the I-77 project from the state transportation improvement program or otherwise changing its position on that list until January when the department is already planning to review the list and reprioritize.<\/p>\n

That could give the city and NCDOT more time to work through their differences and open a window to address the concerns that derailed it in the first place, Driggs said.<\/p>\n

But NCDOT is already in the process of removing the project from the list, according to an agency representative. It\u2019s unclear if the agency will halt that process, but NCDOT said it \u201ccan\u2019t speculate on what would occur if or when this amendment becomes law.\u201d<\/p>\n

NCDOT planned to add toll lanes to an 11-mile stretch<\/a> of I-77 from uptown to the South Carolina border. A private-public partnership funding agreement was approved in 2024.<\/p>\n

I-77 South, according to NCDOT, has the state\u2019s highest congestion levels, seeing over 160,000 cars a day. The toll lanes would address congestion and crashes, NCDOT said.<\/p>\n

But residents heavily opposed<\/a> the I-77 South project after NCDOT released preliminary designs for the roadway in November<\/a>. Those designs showed roadways through people\u2019s homes, particularly in historically Black neighborhoods<\/a> that have borne the cost of growth before. Residents wanted to see more transparency and engagement from NCDOT.<\/p>\n

And the agency tried. It opened a community engagement center and held several community benefits meetings<\/a>. But the trust between residents and NCDOT<\/a> was already lost, according to District 2 Councilman Malcolm Graham.<\/p>\n

Residents of McCrorey Heights still want to see improvements to areas along I-77, Langley said. And again, something should be done to the corridor to address congestion concerns.<\/p>\n

Charlotte has already allocated $300,000 toward a study looking at alternative designs, modeling and simulation techniques for land use planning, Watlington said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people think we\u2019re saying do nothing and that\u2019s not what we\u2019re saying,\u201d Langley said. \u201cWe\u2019re saying do something that also doesn\u2019t cause harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was the reason Charlotte City Council voted to rescind the funding agreement, Watlington added.<\/p>\n

But an amendment to pay back funds for the project isn\u2019t a bridge to collaboration, she continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been an opportunity to really step back and say what about this process needs to be adjusted,\u201d Watlington said. \u201c … I hope that we all can be adults about this and disagree respectfully while also coming together for the ultimate end goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was originally published June 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM<\/span> with the headline “NC senator \u2018being kind\u2019 with proposal forcing Charlotte to repay I-77 toll costs.” <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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