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Residents spoke against a potential rezoning along Six Forks Road during Tuesday’s City Council meeting. In other business, Athens Drive High will get a new football stadium and Parks and Recreation is increasing its fees.
If approved by the City Council, two more affordable housing developments could come to Southeast Raleigh.
The recession continues to have a large impact on the creation of the city budget, but city officials say it’s too soon to tell what type of impact the ailing economy will have on this year’s plan.
A City Commission hopes to continue making Raleigh a place where walking and cycling have become the rule, not the exception.
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.
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.
New Raleigh Councilors were sworn in Monday night. Earlier in the day, Wake County Commissioners re-elected Paul Coble as commission chair.
Cardinal Gibbons High School could soon be expanded. The Raleigh Planning Commission recently approved the school’s expansion site plan, along with several other rezoning and site plan items during its meeting Tuesday. The decisions will go to the City Council Dec. 6 for final approval.
