About 45 people attended the meeting where Queens Grant Preparatory High School officials requested a zoning change to allow them to build a 42,000 square-foot school on Lawyers Road.
Commissioners are expected to vote on the zoning change at their next meeting, May 22.
But some residents said while they support education, Lawyers Road is already overcrowded. Traffic concerns about another section of Lawyers Road were brought up last month at a meeting with developers of the Bridges at Mint Hill shopping complex, which will have all its entrances off Lawyers.
"The issue is not the school. The more schools the merrier as far as I'm concerned. But they need to find somewhere else to put it," Donna Chisum, who lives near the proposed school site, said.
In response to a question from resident Nancy Sardinia, school official Philip Adkins said the school could change its start time to ease traffic woes.
