FIve Points CAC : High Speed Rail Meeting

UPDATE: Five Points CAC Meeting
Posted by: Philip W Poe
Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:30 pm (PDT)

Click here to view the final agenda for the August 26th Five Points CAC meeting. To increase the seating capacity, the meeting has been moved from the Garris Building in Fletcher Park to Our Savior Lutheran Church on Glenwood Avenue.

Click here [http://fivepointscac.org/category/topic/high-speed-rail] to
view all content related to high-speed rail on the Five Points CAC website.
Additional information will be posted this week.

Neighborhood leaders, please forward this information to the residents in your neighborhood. This is a VERY IMPORTANT meeting.

Philip W Poe
Co-Chair, Five Points CAC

www.fivepointscac.org

Raleigh's New Development Code Public Meetings

Raleigh's New Development Code Public meetings. The consultant team that the city hired to re-write the code will host three learning and review sessions on the Diagnostic and Coding Approach report:

* Monday, March 15:12-2 p.m.
o All Saints Chapel, 110 S. East Street
* Monday March 15: 6-8 p.m.
o Progress Energy Center Fletcher Opera Theater 2 E. South Street
* Tuesday March 16: 6-8 p.m.
o Providence Baptist Church, 6339 Glenwood Avenue

Click here to learn more about the New Code, the Diagnostic and Approach Report, and how to voice your interests and concerns with the ongoing process.

Apply for a free Energy Audit from Preservation NC

Tell us your drafty house story!

You could be the one lucky Raleigh homeowner that wins a free home energy audit (a $350-500 value) from Preservation NC, the Raleigh Historic Districts Commission, and Home Performance NC.

Visit PreservationNC.org/EnergyAudit

Entries accepted through March 31st — hurry!

Do you ever feel like you're heating and cooling the entire neighborhood? Don't know how to begin making your historic home more energy efficient? A home energy audit could tell you where to begin and how to prioritize your money-saving efforts.

Preservation NC, the Raleigh Historic Districts Commission, and Home Performance NC have teamed up to offer one lucky Raleigh homeowner a free home energy audit. The winning audit will be videotaped to create an informational video about home energy audits and common problems and solutions. The video will be used online and at public events to promote energy-efficiency improvements in historic houses.

Want to know more? Visit PreservationNC.org/EnergyAudit. There you can tell us why we should choose you and your house. You can even go to our Flickr group to upload pictures or post a video auditioning yourself and your home to our YouTube group.

Creative submissions are encouraged! A complete list of contest rules is available at PreservationNC.org/EnergyAudit.


For more information, contact Elizabeth Sappenfield at esappenfield@presnc.org.

Form-Based Code Workshop: 02/03/10, 6:30 PM

The City of Raleigh is revamping its development code in the form of a Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). The UDO seeks to translate Raleigh’s goals and aspirations for the built environment, as set forth in the recently adopted 2030 Comprehensive Plan, into clear code standards that produce a predictable built form. Applying the right rules in the right places is essential for success.

The workshop is free and open to the public

THE RALEIGH DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING & CODE STUDIO PRESENT:

An Introduction to Form-Based Coding
February 3, 2010
6:30 p.m.. – 8:30 p.m.
City Council Chambers, Room 201
Raleigh Municipal Building

Learn everything there is to know about how urban form can be integrated in the UDO and what tools may be used in Raleigh at the neighborhood and citywide level.

Get answers to these questions:
· What is a form-based code?

· What tools are available to achieve good urban form?

· What are some examples of using form-based code and tools in other cities?

· How might the code and tools be used in Raleigh?

Bring your own questions to the Q&A session.

MEET OUR PRESENTER:
Lee Einsweiler is a planner with over twenty-five years of experience in a variety of settings. As a principal at Code Studio, Lee’s projects involve planning, zoning and plan implementation. Lee has sharpened his skills by preparing zoning and subdivision regulations for jurisdictions across the country, and has been personally responsible for over 50 code projects, including complete revision and adoption of over 20 codes. Lee’s recent work focuses on redevelopment activity in urban areas, culminating in recent innovative projects in Dallas, Denver, Louisiana and Memphis. Versatile in both conventional zoning and new code approaches, Lee has prepared pure form-based codes and successfully incorporated form-based elements into conventional codes. Lee serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Community & Regional Planning at the University of Texas, teaching smart growth tools at the graduate level. He is a frequent speaker at state and national planning conferences on the issues of smart growth, form-based codes, transit-oriented development and mixed-use code concepts.

Planning Commision and the Comp Plan: Part II

From the City of Raleigh:

Official Agenda – July 14, 2009, 9:00 AM
City of Raleigh Planning Commission

Room 201, City Council Chambers, Avery Upchurch Municipal Complex

• INVOCATION

• OLD BUSINESS

• A. COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE REPORT

• 1. 2030 Comprehensive Plan – June 23, 2009 Meeting

• 2. 2030 Comprehensive Plan – July 7, 2009 Meeting

• B. 2030 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

• 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES –
  

June 23, 2009 Planning Commission Meeting
July 7, 2009 Committee of the Whole Meeting

• 4. OTHER BUSINESS

• A. Report from the Chair
• B. Report from the Members
• C. Report from the City Attorney
• D. Report from the Planning Director
• E. Committee Agenda Items

• 5. ADJOURNMENT

FUTURE MEETINGS
ALL PENDING ITEMS MAY NOT BE SCHEDULED FOR DISCUSSION. COMMITTEE CHAIRS SET THE AGENDA APPROXIMATELY ONE WEEK PRIOR TO SCHEDULED MEETING

Committee of the Whole - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 – 9:00 AM – Room 305 (RMB)
Pending Items:
*Z-4-09 – Buffaloe Road, north side, west of I-540, Conditional Use **(Harris Creek) (PC 1/27/09)

Text Change Committee: No Pending Items
Strategic Planning Committee: No Pending Items
Transit/Land Use Committee: Pending Items:
Transit Rail Station Development Strategy (PC 8/20/02)

Deferred Items:

• S-6-09 – Lot 5 Block 12 Lakeview Section Budleigh (Wade CAC) (PC 6/9/09)
• TC-4-09 – Comprehensive Plan Update – Concurrent Actions (PC 4/28/09)
• TC-5-09 – Parkway Corridor Overlay District (PC 4/28/09)
• Z-6-09 – Creedmoor Road, west side, northwest of Sawmill Road intersection, Conditional Use **(Haresnipe) (PC 5/12/09)
• *Z-23-09 – Lake Boone Trail, south side, east of Horton Street intersection, Conditional Use **(House Creek) (PC 4/28/09)

LEGEND:
(VSPP) indicates that a valid statutory protest petition has been filed on this request.
(*) indicates that a portion or the entire area of this case is located in a floodprone area.
(#) indicates that a portion of or the entire area is located within the Falls Lake or Swift Creek water supply watershed protection area.
(+) indicates special conditions for stormwater management.
(**) indicates the drainage basin the case is located in.

**********REMINDER**********
• Zoning Tour – Friday, July 17, 2009, 8:30 a.m.
• Joint CC/PC Public Hearing – Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 6:30 p.m.

Committee of the Whole / June 23 AM meeting

June 23, 2009 Agenda
Agenda for the Planning Commission special Committee of the Whole meeting to continue their review of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. June 23, 2009, Raleigh Municipal Building City Council Chambers, Room 201, immediately following the regularly scheduled PC meeting (approximately 10:45 a.m.).

PLANNING COMMISSION’S
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE AGENDA
June 23, 2009 – Immediately following Planning Commission
Room 201 – Municipal Building
The following items will be discussed in the order in which they
appear on this agenda, unless otherwise determined by the Chairman.

• CP-1-09 2030 Comprehensive Plan. The proposed changes to the Comprehensive Plan update existing System Plans as Plan Elements; add new Elements addressing Land Use, Environmental Protection, Urban Design, Arts and Culture, and Regional and Interjurisdictional Coordination; replace the Urban Form Map and related guidelines with a Future Land Use Map; and reduce the number of Area Plans from 67 to 21. The Committee will begin review of the elements during this meeting. General topics related to the elements will be discussed. A number of area-specific future land use designation requests were made at or after the Public Hearing on March 19, 2009. The Committee will discuss the following listed requests; however, items listed in Section 1 of this agenda are the subject of a pending rezoning petition. The following itemized list contains a general location, reference number, draft land use designation for the parcel(s) in question and the requested land use designation.

1. Deferred/Site of Current Zoning Case

A. *East of I-440, south of Lake Boone Tr. (PH-18.2) Draft designation on the Future Land Use Map is Moderate Density Residential and Public Parks and Open Space. Commenter requests a change to Office & Residential Mixed Use and Public Parks and Open Space.

B. *Millbrook Rd. and Creedmoor Rd. (LT-011) Draft designation on the Future Land Use Map is Office & Residential Mixed Use. Commenter requests a change to Neighborhood Mixed Use.

C. *World Trade Blvd. south of Globe Rd. (LT-013.5; PH-13) Draft designation on the Future Land Use Map is Business Commercial Services. Commenter requests a change to Office/Research & Development.

2. Land Use Policies

A. Staff has drafted for consideration a policy addressing retail in the vicinity of freeway interchanges for inclusion in to Section A.11 “Retail Land Uses” of the Land Use Element.

3. Deferred Future Land Use Comments

A. Hillsborough St. to Morgan St. west of St. Mary’s St. (PD-11) Draft designation on the Future Land Use Map is High Density Residential. Commenter requests that a portion be designated Central Business District. Staff recommends this item be deferred.

4. Discussion of Comprehensive Plan Elements Pending Items Not Scheduled for Discussion:

• Z-4-09 Buffaloe Road, north side, west of I-540. 48.08 acres is requested to be rezoned from Conservation Management (CM) & Manufactured Housing (MH) to Conservation Management, Residential-10 CUD & Neighborhood Business CUD.

Raleigh Planning Commision Considers 2030 Comp Plan

The Committee of the Whole (of the Raleigh Planning Commission) review of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan continues on June 23rd. Details of this meeting follow.

June 23, 2009
The Planning Commission has scheduled a special Committee of the Whole meeting to continue their review of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan.

June 23, 2009 Raleigh Municipal Building City Council Chambers Room 201 immediately following the regulary scheduled PC meeting (approximately 10:45 a.m.).