CAC

*****Please make plans to attend our summer social/meeting to be held on*****  July 9th at 6:00pm at Powell Drive Park.

SECAC Community in person meeting scheduled for: Thursday July 9, 2026. Where: Barwell Road Community Center 5857 Barwell Park Drive. Raleigh, NC 27610 Time: 7:00 pm -8:30 pm Growth and development in the Southeast Raleigh area that will impact you. Come out and hear what Is being built in our aera and what plans are being made for Raleigh`s new strategic plan. Important agenda items.  1-Barwell Road Widening Project Update, 2-Raleigh Disability Depot Development at New Hope and Poole Road, 3-Comprehensive Plan 2030, Reflecting Raleigh Update.     During Phase 3 of Reflecting Raleigh, the city will work to draft of the Next       Comprehensive Plan based on the information we received in Phase 1     and Phase 2. 4- Overview Rezoning Case# Z-8-26 5525 & 5605 Rock Quarry Road Staff update. The request is to rezone approximately 42 acres from CX-3-CU to CX-4-CU. Essentially, we are asking for 1 additional story of building height. Please share with your community.

Our second organizing meeting for restarting Raleigh’s Central CAC (Citizen Advisory Council) is on Saturday, July 18 at 2:00 PM in the John P. “Top” Greene African American Cultural Center (401 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). We hope to create a new Central CAC board that reflects the diversity of our community. So please get involved and consider being nominated to a board position. It’s a great way to meet your neighbors! We want to have a list of nominations that we can vote on at our meeting in July. Please respond to Mike Motsinger (michael.motsinger@gmail.com) and Brian Rineer (brineer@bellsouth.net) and let them know about your interest in restarting the Central CAC. Also let them know if you would like to serve on the new Central CAC board and be nominated to a particular position (Chair, 1st and 2nd Vice Chair, Secretary, and Multimedia Coordinator).

We are taking the month of July off and will have our next meeting on Tuesday, August 25 at 7:00 PM in the Pullen Park Community Center. Because we are providing food, we’re asking folks to register for the meeting. There’s a registration link in the PDF, and the information is repeated below. The Rent is Too High! Let’s talk real housing affordability. Hear from housing organizers across the country and discuss new tools Raleigh should consider. What about...Community land trusts? Rent control? Tenant unions?  Tuesday, August 25 6-8 pm Pullen Park Community Center (408 Ashe Ave) Dinner Provided Moderated by Raleigh City Councilor Jane Harrison • Hosted by Hillsborough-Wade Citizen Advisory Council (CAC) Register: https://forms.gle/aYq7hPowbEQVkeVQ7