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A new hospitality permit would allow merchants to play amplified music outdoors without a judicial hearing, but would require owners to agree to mediation with complaining neighbors.
Members of a City Council committee want $75,000 included in next year’s budget to fund crossing guards at 11 Wake County schools.
Solid Waste Services staff provided members of a Council committee with some options to enhance participation in the recycling program.
Wake County Commissioners want to move forward with their own emergency operations center and have asked staff to include it on the county’s next five-year capital improvement plan.
Four projects delayed by Planning Commission, new developments along Capital Boulevard, and some say the Unified Development Ordinance isn’t being implemented the way the city promised.
City Councilors this week disagreed on the scope of work for the newly formed sign task force. Councilors also asked that the city attorney’s office fight a state ordinance that would take away the city’s ability to regulate trees and approved the eighth design contract amendment for Forest Ridge Park, a two-hour parking restriction on Seaboard Station Drive and more road races.
Thousands Raleigh property owners will soon receive postcards by mail announcing that their property, or property adjacent to theirs, is proposed to be rezoned as part of the Zoning District Remapping Project.
Councilors agreed to use general obligation bonds to fund upgrades to one of Raleigh’s original squares.
Lorrin Freeman won the nomination Tuesday to be the Democratic candidate for Wake District Attorney. Republicans Cruden and Griffin will likely have to go to a runoff to decide that nominee for DA.
Incumbent Joe Bryan defeats challenger Fred Puryear in Tuesday’s primary election for Wake County Commission District 1.
