Clement Avenue

An intimate, low-traffic residential street with a strong sense of block community.

Clement Avenue in context

Clement Avenue is the kind of street people mean when they describe Elizabeth as a neighborhood rather than an address. It runs a short distance south of East 7th, carries almost no traffic that does not belong there, and has the block-level social texture that comes from small lots and porches facing each other across a narrow roadway.

The housing is bungalow-dominant and consistent in scale: one and one-and-a-half stories, deep porches, gabled dormers, original wood siding on many houses. Lots are narrow even by district standards, which means side-yard additions are constrained and most successful renovation work here has gone up into attic space or back into the rear yard rather than sideways.

Practically, the constraint on this street is parking. Driveways were built for a household with one car, and several houses have none, so residents park on the street and the street is not wide. That is manageable day to day and genuinely tight during neighborhood events. The compensation is that everything on East 7th — coffee, dinner, groceries of a sort — is a walk of a few minutes.

Architecture on Clement Avenue

• Craftsman bungalow

Daily conditions

• Narrow lots and tight on-street parking
• Short walk to East 7th Street businesses
• Low through-traffic

Verify parcel-specific facts for any address on Clement Avenue — setbacks, easements, flood zone, and historic district status — against Mecklenburg County POLARIS and the Charlotte Historic District Commission before making decisions.