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Raleigh City Council will get a preview of the new government complex at tomorrow’s meeting

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On tap for the December 2nd meeting:

The Hillsborough and Morgan streets roundabout design is back in front of council for final approval. The design consultant is more than halfway done and city staff recommends council approve the plan so far and put the project out for bidding. A city consultant will present the initial design for the new city government complex and public safety center. Budget and Economic Development Committee:
The downtown parking report went to the BED after council’s last meeting and the committee is now recommending that the city take over the parking program and enforcement. Planning:
The Planning Commission recommends the council reject the text change to prevent new pawn shops from opening in Buffer Commercial, Shopping Center and Neighborhood Business districts.

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New circulator bus for downtown Raleigh

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C. Duncan Pardo

Folks downtown will have a new way to get around early next year. The city released its plan for a downtown circulator bus for public comment today. The circulator will run from Peace Street, down Glenwood South, over to Dawson and loop around to come back up Wilmington. The proposal has two buses on the route, to have a bus come around every 10 minutes.

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Fixing downtown parking

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C. Duncan Pardo

The Downtown Parking Task Force gave its report to city council today. The task force recommends the city make all downtown parking metered, increase on-street parking rates and stop using a contractor to handle downtown parking. The task force worked for almost a year on the report about how to improve parking downtown. Task force members praised the city for its public parking decks, but said the available parking needs to be advertised better and on-street parking needs to cost more than parking in a deck.

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November 18 City Council preview

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A joint hearing with council and the planning commission tops tomorrow’s city council agenda. TC-19-08 would require single-family homes or infill lots being converted into multi-family use, such as houses being converted into apartments, to go before the planning commission and approved by council. On the continuing Hillsborough Street roundabout saga, city staff will recommend council initiate condemnation proceedings on four properties. The agenda says, “Negotiations, thus far, have been unsuccessful.”

The properties are:

HBS Properties, LLC
2020 Hillsborough St. SKS Properties, LLC
2400, 2414, 2420 and 2430 Hillsborough St.

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Cameron Park, Oberlin Village residents pack council meeting

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Two hot topics brought West Raleigh residents to today’s city council meeting. The council discussed the new building proposal for Cameron Village, but held the real debate for next week. Moving down Clark Avenue to Peace Street, council members assured Broughton High School parents and alumni they would help find a compromise for student parking at the school. And a 6-2 council vote approved new permanent water conservation measures and increased the number of days people can water each week.