Hillsborough-Wade CAC meeting on Zoom

Hillsborough-Wade CAC meeting on Zoom: Tuesday, March 26 at 7:00 PM

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Hi CAC neighbors,

REMINDER: One week from today we will have our monthly Hillsborough-Wade CAC meeting on Zoom. Please put Tuesday, March 26 at 7:00 PM on your calendar. The Zoom link is at the bottom of this email. For right now, our H-W CAC Board has decided to alternate monthly meetings between in-person and Zoom. We hope this will help accommodate the most people and their schedules.

Also, we have an AGENDA UPDATE. The Biophilia presentation has been moved to our April in-person meeting so we can accommodate Brian Smith’s schedule. Our meeting next week will have an interesting pairing of the future Hillsborough Street Phase 3 improvements and the rezoning case which is along that same section of the street. I’ll also give an update on what the RCAC and City of Raleigh are doing since the February 6^th vote to restore City support.

Current Agenda:
• Update from the Hillsborough Street Community Service Corporation.
• Presentation on Biophilia and Raleigh’s membership in the international network of Biophilic Cities.* (moved to next month)
• Report on progress from the RCAC and City of Raleigh
• Presentation on the future Phase 3 of Hillsborough Street improvements. This phase/section is the stretch from the roundabout at Shepherd & Rosemary westward to the I-440 Beltline interchange.
• Update on rezoning case Z-83-22 (property includes where the Arby’s was on Hillsborough Street).

*One of our very active CAC members and super volunteer, Marsha Presnell-Jennette, thought it would be good to hear from Brian Smith (our Natural Resources Superintendent) about the Biophilic Cities Network and Raleigh’s efforts to improve our environment and connections to it. Read more about Biophilic design and concepts.

Below the Zoom link are some photos from our February meeting. Last month’s meeting was a celebration of the recent City Council vote to officially recognize and support CACs once again. We had an interesting and informative group discussion about community engagement with City Councilors Christina Jones and Jonathan Melton. Councilor Jones introduced the motion on February 6^th to reinstate City recognition and support of CACs. Councilor Melton was our 5^th vote we needed to make it happen. A big thanks to them and the entire City Council that voted unanimously last month.

Two more links for your review: the Community Engagement presentation that the City Council received at their retreat before the February 6^th vote. Councilor Melton mentioned this presentation to me at our last CAC meeting and thought our members would be interested in it. Also, Lance Shinholser at the Community Engagement Office is leading the effort for a “Vote Local 2024” campaign. He suggested it as a potential agenda item for one of our meetings between now and election time.See you next Tuesday on Zoom,

Mike