Our neighborhood is a microcosm of Raleigh’s traditional neighborhood values married with new development. It is regarding one such development, Trophy Brewing, that we seek your assistance in addressing issues created by the removal of minimum parking requirements.
Some might say we want density on the bus line. But that is a joke!! Nobody who is paying half a million dollars for a condo will ever set foot on the bus! They will get in their car, which is parked in the parking garage in the building! I’ll bet even the people in the two tiny units making 60K a year won’t ride the bus. The City is using the excuse of a bus line to allow developers to knock down our neighborhoods.
Litchford Forest zoning case Z-43-25 was scheduled for its public hearing to occur June 2. Due to inadequate public notice in the N&O, the hearing could not take place. Council did NOT follow the normal process. Instead they did a HUGE favor for the applicant and sent the case back to the Planning Commission to allow new conditions to be added despite the applicant missing the deadline to add conditions. This is just one more example of the City Council bending over backwards for developers while putting neighbors through the gauntlet an additional time.
The City of Raleigh has continued to move forward with its “Leaf Out” plan to steward and grow Raleigh’s urban forest. Parks staff presented an update on the plan to City Council on March 17, and the City Council responded enthusiastically to endorse the proposal to plant 24,000 native trees in Raleigh by 2032 in celebration of the city’s 240th anniversary. Now the question is how much money the City will include in next year’s budget to launch the campaign.
Behind the doors of Solid Waste Services, there are years of heartache. Years of lies. Years of betrayal. Manipulation. False accusations. Suffering stacked on suffering.