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Members of a Southeast Raleigh community continues to debate a proposed Historic Overlay District. This is part-two of a series examining historic overlay districts and the issue surrounding this one.
City councilors request that more information be provided to residents before deciding on a historic overlay district in Southeast Raleigh.
The past year saw the unseating of a controversial Republican-led school board, a new student assignment plan and a flat budget for the third year running, but, despite the board changing hands, there won’t be a quick fix to student assignment or the system’s budgetary woes.
A City Commission hopes to continue making Raleigh a place where walking and cycling have become the rule, not the exception.
According to a report issued by the Center for Responsible Lending, Raleigh’s African-American and Latino communities have been hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, as well as communities with the highest percentage of minorities and those with low to moderate incomes.
Raleigh’s efforts at regulatory reform produce three procedural changes to development review for 2012. Among them: If a project fails the review process three times, the city will inform the owners why.
The Raleigh Planning Commission approved site plans Tuesday for a new bar on Glenwood South and many extra parking spaces for the North Carolina Rate Bureau’s planned building on Old Wake Forest Road.
Wake County Commissioners and the City of Raleigh approved financial incentives this week for Red Hat to stay in Raleigh.
New Wake County School Board members Jim Martin, Christine Kushner and Susan Evans, as well as returning members Kevin Hill and Keith Sutton, were sworn in on Tuesday, marking the beginning of a new era.
City Councilors will appeal to the state for concealed weapons exemption, after approving a state-required law Tuesday permitting the concealed carry within city limits. In other business, the council the showed their opposition to a gay marriage amendment and created a new committee under new Mayor Nancy McFarlane.
