This Week/Next Week at City Hall -- July 31, 2017

This Week/Next Week at City Hall – July 31, 2017

Community SCALE wants you to be aware of what’s happened/what’s coming up at City Hall each week.  

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Here are some of the events planned for the coming weeks.  It’s always helpful to have community members attend to show interest in these topics, ask questions, etc.  If you plan to attend any of these meetings, we’ll be glad to include your meeting summary in future articles.

Week of July 31 – what’s coming up

Wednesday, 8/2

• 6:30pm – Citizens for Athens Drive Community Library meeting – Athens Drive High School Library, 1420 Athens Drive

Thursday, 8/3

• 3pm – Stormwater Management Advisory Commission – agenda includes
• Comprehensive Plan Update process,
• Stormwater Quality Cost Share project and updates to the program, and
• Drainage Assistance Project recommendations

• 10am – 2pm – Planning 100 x 100 Pop Up – Market & Exchange Plazas

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All meetings at Raleigh Municipal Building, 222 West Hargett Street, unless otherwise noted.  

Go to RaleighNC.gov to find links to latest meeting agendas and materials and also for updates on meeting cancellations.

This Week/Next Week at City Hall -- July 24, 2017

This Week/Next Week at City Hall – July 24, 2017

Community SCALE wants you to be aware of what’s happened/what’s coming up at City Hall each week.  

Please feel free to forward this email.  If someone forwarded it to you and you want to be added to our email list, please email communityscale@gmail.com

Here are some of the events planned for the coming weeks.  It’s always helpful to have community members attend to show interest in these topics, ask questions, etc.  If you plan to attend any of these meetings, we’ll be glad to include your meeting summary in future articles.

Week of July 24 – what’s coming up

NOTE – Many CAC meetings currently are featuring presentations on Police Body Camera Use

Monday, 7/24

• 6pm – Citizen Planning Committee for Walnut Creek Wetland Park, Walnut Creek Wetland Center, 950 Peterson Street
• 7pm – Midtown CAC – Five Points Center for Active Adults, 2000 Noble Road
• 7pm – South Central CAC – Roberts Park Community Center, 1300 E. Martin Street
• 7pm – Discover Architecture – Historic Oberlin Village – Cameron Village Regional Library, 1930 Clark Avenue
• 7:30pm – Glenwood CAC – Glen Eden Pilot Park, 1500 Glen Eden Drive

Tuesday, 7/25

• 6 – 9pm – Chill on the Hill – Dorothea Dix Park, Harvey Hill

Thursday, 7/27

• 10am – 2pm – Planning 100 x 100 Pop Up – Market & Exchange Plazas

Week of July 17 – what happened

• 7/17 Stormwater Stakeholder Meeting – staff reported that the office has NOT been deluged with requests from builders to exceed impervious surface limits set by the text change adopted 11-27-16, which limits the amount of impervious surface that can be added to an existing house.  The text change sets a threshold percent of maximum impervious surface per lot, ranging from 20% for R-1 lots up to 51% for R-10 lots.  Builders may add any amount of impervious surface up to these thresholds without needing to install storm water controls.  Beyond these thresholds, builders can build more than 400 additional square feet of impervious surface only if they also include in the design appropriate storm water control "devices" that keep the storm water amount from that property the same as it was before the addition.  The office created an online tool that builders can use to estimate at the BEGINNING of the design process whether the design is compliant with these thresholds or not.  The builders really like this tool, too, and they're using it. 

• 7/20 – Raleigh family takes City, developer to court over home with 28-foot-wall

• 7/21 – Candidate filing for October 10th Raleigh City Council Elections closed – make sure you’re registered to vote!

 Week of July 10 – what happened

• 7/11 Comprehensive Plan meeting on Sustainability – focus was on Environmental Stewardship, Economic Strength and Social Integrity.  The division is doing some innovative things to clean water and to better manage solid material in the process of cleaning water to go back into the Neuse River to become another town’s drinking water.  Issues brought forward from the audience included a city wide composting program for kitchen scraps, improved recycling collection in townhouse/apartment complexes, recycling in schools, solar incentives for new home builders, and the textile recycling program.

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All meetings at Raleigh Municipal Building, 222 West Hargett Street, unless otherwise noted.  

Go to RaleighNC.gov to find links to latest meeting agendas and materials and also for updates on meeting cancellations.

This Week/Next Week at City Hall -- July 10 & 17, 2017

This Week/Next Week at City Hall – SPECIAL TWO-WEEK EDITION

July 10 & 17, 2017

Community SCALE wants you to be aware of what’s happened/what’s coming up at City Hall each week.  

Please feel free to forward this email.  If someone forwarded it to you and you want to be added to our email list, please email communityscale@gmail.com

Here are some of the events planned for the coming weeks.  It’s always helpful to have community members attend to show interest in these topics, ask questions, etc.  If you plan to attend any of these meetings, we’ll be glad to include your meeting summary in future articles.

Week of July 10

Monday, 7/10

• 7pm – Central CAC – John P. “Top” Greene Center, 401 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
• 7pm – South CAC – Sanderford Road Neighborhood Center, 2623 Sanderford Road
• 7pm – Southwest CAC – Carolina Pines Community Center, 2305 Lake Wheeler Road

Tuesday, 7/11

• 9am – Planning Commission – Agenda includes
• Z-9-17 Edwards Mill Road, south side (Committee of the Whole report)
• Z-10-17 Freedom Drive (Committee of the Whole report)
• TC-4-17 – GI/LID (Text Change Committee report)
• TC-2-17 – Transit Shelters (Text change)
• SP-44-13 – Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites site plan public hearing (Central CAC)
• Z-21-14 – Brier Creek Parkway (Rezoning New Business)
• Z-13-17 – Old Milburnie Road (Rezoning New Business)
• Z-14-17 – Martha Street & Bethel Road (Rezoning New Business)
• TC-15-2017 – Tree Conservation & Forestry (Text change)
• CP-2-17 – Pollinator Habitat (Comprehensive Plan amendment)
• Z-6-17 – Charles Drive – request for waiver of 24-month waiting period (Northwest CAC)
• 7pm – Comprehensive Plan – Sustainability – Campbell Lodge in Durant Nature Preserve, 3237 Spottswood Street
• 7pm – Forestville CAC – Abbott Creek Community Center, 9950 Durant Road
• 7pm – North Central CAC – Tarboro Road Community Center, 121 North Tarboro Road
• 7pm – Northwest CAC – Lake Lynn Community Center, 7921 Ray Road

Wednesday, 7/12

• 4pm – City Council Growth & Natural Resources Committee
• 7pm – Five Points CAC – Five Points Center for Active Adults, 2000 Noble Road

Thursday, 7/13

• 10am – 2pm – Planning 100 by 100 Pop-Up – Market & Exchange Plazas
• 7pm – Northeast CAC – Marsh Creek Park, 3050 New Hope Road
• 7pm – Southeast CAC – Barwell Road Community Center, 5857 Barwell Park Drive

Saturday, 7/15

• 9am – 12n – Friends of Oberlin Village Cemetery Clean up, 1014 Oberlin Road

Please help with a summer weed cleanup of historic Oberlin Cemetery on Saturday July 15 from 9 AM to 12 Noon.  We are asking adults to attend and bring weed eaters, wheelbarrows, weed killer and sprayers.  Our next general cleanup for volunteers of all ages will be held in October.  For more information, please contact Cheryl Williams, 919.592-2333 or ctulette@live.com.

Week of July 17

Monday, 7/17

• 7pm – East CAC – Lions Park Community Center, 516 Dennis Avenue

Tuesday, 7/18

• 9am – Text Change Committee of the Planning Commission

Wednesday, 7/19

• 12noon – UDC Talks – Briggs Building, City of Raleigh Museum, 220 Fayetteville Street
• 6pm – UDC Talks – NC State College of Design, Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall, Boney Drive
• 7pm – Raleigh Citizens Advisory Council

Thursday, 7/20

• 4:30pm – Appearance Commission
• 6pm – Six Forks Rd. Corridor Study: Draft Plan Presentation, Trinity Baptist Church, 4815 Six Forks Road
• 7pm – Atlantic CAC, Green Road Community Center, 4201 Green Road
• Registration begins for 14th Annual Raleigh Neighborhood Exchange Unconference

Friday, 7/21

• Deadline to file for City Council elections

Week of July 3

At the July 5 City Council meeting, Russ Stephenson introduced a resolution to set aside the May 2nd vote regarding Citizen Engagement and CACs in order to restart the citizen engagement process.  The City Council is now scheduled to meet at 4pm on Monday, August 28, for a work session on citizen engagement.

City Council also approved TC-20-16 regarding construction safety barrier fencing.

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All meetings at Raleigh Municipal Building, 222 West Hargett Street, unless otherwise noted.  

Go to RaleighNC.gov to find links to latest meeting agendas and materials and also for updates on meeting cancellations.