{"id":16322,"date":"2012-11-14T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=16322"},"modified":"2012-11-14T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T13:49:07","slug":"southlight-and-neighborhood-reach-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2012\/11\/14\/southlight-and-neighborhood-reach-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"SouthLight and Neighborhood Reach Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 11 months of delay, an affordable housing project in South Raleigh is moving forward.<\/p>\n

Representatives from SouthLight are planning to build a 16-bedroom affordable housing complex for people suffering from substance abuse disorders or mental illness.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, SouthLight requested $600,000 in funding from the city for a 32-bedroom complex, but the project size was decreased after new federal regulations were put in place.<\/p>\n

SouthLight is now requesting only $450,000 in funding from the city, a request councilors approved Tuesday in the Budget and Economic Development committee meeting.<\/p>\n

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The complex will be built on SouthLight’s property located on Garner and Newcombe roads.<\/p>\n

According to the city’s Scatter Site Housing Policy, the property is located in a Priority IV area, meaning affordable housing wouldn’t normally be allowed.<\/p>\n

The policy aims to spread such supportive housing facilities to areas of the city that don\u2019t have a majority of minority or low-income residents.<\/p>\n

Councilors considered the request because SouthLight owns the property and purchased it in the early 1990s with the intention of building housing.<\/p>\n

The project quickly came under fire from area residents who said SouthLight did a poor job communicating with the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Residents, particularly from the Biltmore Hills Neighborhood Association, said their main concern was safety as some potential residents may have criminal histories.<\/p>\n

Residents of the SouthLight community would stay for up to six months while undergoing various treatments.<\/p>\n

At Tuesday’s meeting, SouthLight CEO Tad Clodfelter said the organization has spent almost a year working with Biltmore Hills and the South Citizens Advisory Council in hopes of coming to a consensus.<\/p>\n

Along with downsizing the project and increasing a tree buffer between the property and the neighborhood, the complex will no longer have an entrance on Newcombe Road.<\/p>\n

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The open lot where SouthLight representatives plan to build supportive housing.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

South CAC Chair Norman Camp said SouthLight representatives have done everything that they asked them to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can assure you that some of [the residents] may have come from our community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Councilor Eugene Weeks commended SouthLight for working with the community to satisfy the neighborhood’s concerns.<\/p>\n

The entire Council will vote on SouthLight’s funding request next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SouthLight will build a 16-bedroom affordable housing facility in South Raleigh after months of disagreement with neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,23],"tags":[1072,928,1074,482,1073],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}