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UNC Health Care will soon manage care at the Wakebrook Recovery Center. In other business at Monday’s County Commission meeting, Commissioners are looking for an alternate source of funding for the Veterans Day Parade and approved a new roof for the firearms education and training center.
Residents are invited to submit their questions to local political candidates an upcoming candidate forum hosted by the N.C. Center for Voter Education and Raleigh Public Record. The forum will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Hampton Inn, 3621 Spring Forest Road. Although the forum will be moderated and timed, residents are invited to submit their own questions as they enter. Doors open at 6:30. Candidates from the following races have been invited to speak: N.C. House Districts 35, 38, 40, 49 and N.C. State Senate Districts 15 and 18.
People attending the State Fair in Raleigh next month will see some changes in how animal are displayed, after an E. Coli outbreak last year sickened dozens.
Raleigh’s food truck program seems to be going so well that councilors are considering easing some of the rules associated with it, including allowing more food trucks on a piece of property and allowing trucks to do business downtown. Today, only one food truck is allowed on a quarter-acre piece property. If the change is approved, two would be allowed. A change would also allow trucks in the Downtown Overlay District (DOD). The DOD covers most of Downtown Raleigh, with the exception of Glenwood South down to Hillsborough Street.
Planning Commissioners approved a site plan this week for Citrix’s new downtown office.
The North Carolina State Fair opens Thursday. Until then, food trucks are being washed down, signs are being painted, supplies are being delivered to every corner of the fairgrounds in west Raleigh.
City Councilors Tuesday agreed Tuesday to a new system for evaluating Raleigh police officers, but some officers say it creates a quota system for traffic stops and arrests.
City Councilors Tuesday rejected using city parking decks as advertising space, but approved a public hearing for a change in the food truck ordinance, more urban pygmy goats and sensitivity training and outreach for the ART program.
New zoning changes for RTP will allow the area to have a more urban feel.
New software enables residents to add comments to City Council agenda items.
