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The Raleigh City Council voted this week to move forward on developing a new facility on a hazardous waste site after depleting a $300,000 escrow account earmarked for environmental cleanup. Additional cleanup efforts would cost $420,000 over the next three years, with the total climbing to about $1.5 million over thirty years of monitoring.
Raleigh city councilors delayed voting on banning smoking in city parks Tuesday because of unanswered questions over costs for signage and how to enforce the ban.
The Raleigh City Council could ban smoking in parks this week. Councilors will also consider a major reorganization of city administrators and could nix a land deal because of environmental problems.
The city has a new plan that would guide future development around the Jones Franklin Road, Western Boulevard and Hillsborough Street intersections. The West Citizens Advisory Council approved the plan this week and it will go before the council early next year.
Councilors approved a new set of rules for downtown push-cart vendors. They also approved a set of commuter rail recommendations and 75 bike racks downtown, issues a new $100 million bond, and named the Wilmont apartments as Raleigh’s newest historic landmark.
the Raleigh Historic District Commission (RHDC) will be reviewing and updating its guidelines that govern how home renovations, exterior changes and new commercial buildings are handled in the oldest parts of the city.
City councilors are again considering the issue of road races blocking major streets. They also approved a $4.4 million bid to expand a waste water treatment plant, and gave the go-ahead for a fair housing billboard and four annexations.
A city council committee is mulling over a new set of rules to relax restrictions on food trucks and change the way push carts operate in downtown.
City councilors put the bakes on new residential annexations at their Tuesday meeting. They also voted down a new set of rules for the 100-year floodplain and approved a solar array for the convention center roof. In one of the odder motions in recent council memory, they also voted 5-3 to follow state contract law.
Eugene Weeks officially joined the Raleigh City Council Tuesday to represent District C after being sworn in at the beginning of the meeting. Following the swearing in, councilors questioned the city manager on work he requested for the Lightner Center without have a contract in place and ended their meeting by approving a very contentious zoning case.
