East Raleigh

The East CAC will hold its October 2009 meeting at Lions Park Community Center, 516 Dennis Avenue, on Monday, October 19th at 7PM. This month’s feature is the “East CAC History Lesson,” where long-time residents will share some of the history of our neighborhood. Please invite your neighbors for this one as you won’t want to miss it!

Also, we’ll hear from Wayne Schindler from the city’s Parks department, who’ll discuss the upcoming renovations to two East CAC playgrounds and how you can get involved. A handful of CAC volunteers will work with the city to help guide these renovations. You could be one of them!

We’ll also hear our usual reports from Raleigh Police and the upcoming Parks events, including an exciting bike event coming to Lions Park. Hope to see you there!

Election Day is Tuesday!

TOMORROW is Election Day! Here in the East CAC we have candidates for mayor and city council on the ballot. Polls open at 6:30 AM and close at 7:30 PM.

Here are the addresses of the East CAC polling places and their links in Google Maps:

Precinct 01-13
St. Matthew AME Church
1629 Bennett St.
http://tr.im/AJYM

Precinct 01-28
Powell Elementary School
1130 Marlborough Rd.
http://tr.im/AJZ7

Precinct 01-19
Poe Elementary School
400 Peyton St.
http://tr.im/AJZv

Precinct 01-40
Worthdale Community Center
1001 Cooper Rd.
http://tr.im/AJZJ
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The East CAC will hold its next meeting on Monday, 21 September at 7 PM at Lions Park Community Center, 516 Dennis Avenue.

We will hear from Jay Mercer, Director of the City’s Emergency Management Center, who will talk to us about Emergency Preparedness, both from what the City does to prepare for disasters, etc. to what the citizens should do to prepare themselves. He will also bring along someone to talk about the CERT (Community Emergency Response Training) training that is available to those who may be interested.

We will also hear from our CAC’s OPED committee regarding its recommended action on Z-18-09, the rezoning of the convenience store property at Poole Road at Norwood. East CAC residents will then vote on this rezoning request.

Last but not least my term as East CAC Chair is expiring, so we’ll be taking nominations at this meeting for voting at our October meeting.

We hope to see you there!

Mark Turner
East CAC

THE CITY OF RALEIGH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CHANGE THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH

Notice is given that a joint meeting of the Raleigh City Council and Planning Commission is to be held on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber of the Avery Upchurch Municipal Building. Public hearings will be conducted to consider changing the City’s zoning ordinance and map and to amend the City’s Comprehensive Plan.

The City Council may rezone any of the properties described below or any part thereof to any zoning classification, which is more restrictive, including applicable overlay zoning districts. It may also consider and adopt proposed amendments to the Zoning Ordinance and City Code as amended in any manner, following public hearing.
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The East CAC’s Outreach, Planning and Economic Development (OPED) Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 14 at the Lions Park center to discuss rezoning case Z-18-09 involving the Longview Grocery at 2405 Poole Road at Norwood with developer Daniel Coleman.

This involves a rezoning from Residential-6, which the city imposed on the store when it annexed the area in 1948, to Shopping Center-Conditional Use, with conditions including no convenience store, auto facility or drive-through restaurant. (For more details on the case and possible conditions, see the March minutes and the June minutes.) A public hearing is scheduled for October 21 before a joint panel of the City Council and Planning Commission.

The East CAC will be meeting Monday evening at 7 PM at Lions Park Community Center. We’ll have the usual neighborhood announcements and police report and then spend a little time planning upcoming meetings and discussing community concerns. Hope to see you there!

BMX event at Lions Park

Also, Capital City BMX’s national competition starts today at Lions Park. There are trailers and vendors already set up in the park and folks are already arriving. Also, Raleigh’s Parks department did a lot of work sprucing up the park and cleaning up the trash. It looks great!

If you get a chance to wander over this weekend you may enjoy watching the competition. The pre-race starts this evening at 6PM.

Here’s the full schedule:
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