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Less than a week after permits were issued for a new 360-unit apartment complex, City Council voted to approve another complex of 215 units on Oberlin near Cameron Village.
The Comprehensive Planning Committee last week voted to recommend several changes to the city’s Unified Development Ordinance and Comprehensive Plan, which included adding official definitions for words like “supermarket.”
At the City Council’s afternoon session Tuesday, Councilman Thomas Crowder announced that he was losing his battle with cancer and may not be able to finish out his current term, which runs through December.
Despite the controversy surrounding the city’s free R-Line service, a group of Cameron Village stakeholders have come together to petition the city to include their neighborhood as part of the service’s route.
This week in the Development Beat, work will soon begin on a controversial Hillsborough Street development with the demolition of three existing structures, Raleigh gets yet another trampoline park and the Cameron Village Drafthouse officially gets downsized.
After seven years on the force, Raleigh Police Officer Robert Wagner resigned at the end of July in order to find investors for a feature-length version of his short film “Bragg ‘N East.”
A Raleigh businessman bought the North Raleigh “party mansion” last month for $1 million. A representative told the Record he plans to use it as his primary residence.
This week on the Development Beat: Brixx pizza and cycling fitness studio received final permits to open in Cameron Village. The city also issued work permits for the new women’s hospital at WakeMed.
Planning Commissioners had a packed agenda this week, and heavy storms flooded a portion of Capital Boulevard, renewing discussion of the city’s plans to purchase and demolish the buildings.
Members of the city’s Comprehensive Planning Committee Tuesday reviewed a number of items dealing with inconsistencies between the Comprehensive Plan and the kinds of development the city has allowed to move forward.
