East Raleigh

The East CAC will meet on Monday, March 15th at 7 PM at Lions Park Community Center, 516 Dennis Avenue.

We’ve got an exciting meeting this month with Planning Director Mitchell Silver and staff speaking to us about the upcoming plans for our New Bern Avenue and Capital Boulevard corridors. As you know, these areas have been neglected for years but now our city is turning its attention to them, putting development plans in place that will guide their growth for years to come.

Come hear what the city has in mind and tell us what you’d like these two “Main Streets” of East Raleigh to look like. We want to hear from you!

In addition, the East CAC OPED committee will meet at 6:30 before the main meeting to discuss the formation of separate Planning, Outreach, and Economic Development committees. If you’d like to play a role in one or more of these new committees, you’re encouraged to come to this meeting.

A reminder: this month’s meeting will be held in the community center’s gymnasium as our usual meeting room is being renovated.

Everyone have a great week and we’ll see you Monday!

Note: This CAC meeting will be streamed live on the Internet.

Z-18-09, the convenience store at Poole Road and Norwood, lives on. It will appear next at next Wednesday’s Comprehensive Planning Committee meeting, 24 February, at 1 PM in the City Council Chambers.

See below for the agenda.

Mark Turner
East CAC
741.6329

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COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING COMMITTEE AGENDA

The Comprehensive Planning Committee will meet on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 1:00 p.m.

Location: Room 201, City Council Chambers, Raleigh Municipal Building, 222 West Hargett Street, Avery C. Upchurch Government Complex, Raleigh, North Carolina. For information call 966-3040 (City Clerk’s office) or 516-2626 (Planning Department).

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Now that the sun is returning to the sky it’s a good time to discuss alternative energy and energy efficiency. Brian Lips and Joseph O’Neill from the N.C. Solar Center will answer questions about available federal and state energy incentives.

We’ll also welcome Raleigh Police Capt. Stacy Deans, who just took over as the Southeast District Commander from the retiring Capt. Earnhardt.

It should be a good meeting. Hope to see you Monday!

PLANNING COMMISSION’S
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE AGENDA
February 2, 2010 – 9:00 A.M.
Room 305 – Municipal Building

The following items will be discussed in the order in which they appear on this agenda, unless otherwise determined by the Chairman.

TC-7-09 Front Yard Parking for Single Family Detached Dwellings. Amends the Zoning Code to regulate the front yard area of single family detached dwellings by further limiting the area which may be devoted to driveways and parking areas, requires the driveway and parking areas to be paved or contain crushed stone with defined borders and requires vegetative screening in certain situations. The proposed regulations will apply to all new driveway and parking areas and may require compliance of existing violations within one year of adoption.
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The East CAC will hold its first meeting of the year on Monday, January 25th at 7PM at Lions Park Community Center, 516 Dennis Avenue. This is a week after our normal meeting date as the third Monday is the Martin Luther King holiday.

On the agenda is a report from our Lions and Lockwood playground redesign committee. We’ll also hear from David Thompson, the city’s Residential Traffic Safety Engineer, about traffic calming measures that neighborhoods can pursue. We’ll vote again on Z-18-09, the Poole Road and Norwood convenience store. We’ll also hear from the Salvation Army on their proposed “Center of Hope” shelter on Capital near Crabtree, SP-71-09.

In addition, Mr. Thompson can address address sidewalk questions during his presentation. Also, Parks staff will discuss upgrades now taking place at nearby Oakwood Park.

Hope to see you January 25th!

Happy new year, Eastsiders!

The East CAC’s Outreach, Planning and Economic Development (OPED) committee will meet Wednesday, January 13th at 6:30 PM at Lions Park Community Center, 516 Dennis Avenue.

On the agenda will be Z-16-09, the convenience store property at the corner of Poole Road and Norwood. Also to be discussed are the proposed study areas of New Bern Avenue and Capital Boulevard. These study areas will help guide the development of these two important corridors.

Hope to see you there!