Eight years ago, Leyla Bahmanyar bought a house in Concord for the quiet.
Farmland stretched nearby. Traffic was light. She found a place that felt close enough to family but far enough from Charlotte’s sprawl.
Today, Bahmanyar, 41, finds herself boxed in by subdivisions. Stormwater systems grew strained and left her street flooded after heavy rains. She works part time at a veterinary trauma hospital in Charlotte, but says traffic forced her to cut back her hours…