At a Mooresville town board meeting three years ago, a developer pitched a large planned community — a combination of 560 single-family homes and apartments across 125 acres two miles southwest of downtown. To gain the board’s support, the developers promised a $15 million road through the middle of its development that would also connect two highways and help alleviate traffic congestion in the fast-growing town 30 miles north of Charlotte. But that’s not how it played out. A year later, state