{"id":20198,"date":"2013-09-04T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=20198"},"modified":"2013-09-05T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T23:24:05","slug":"council-roundup-a-new-downtown-plan-and-dwi-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/city-council\/2013\/09\/04\/council-roundup-a-new-downtown-plan-and-dwi-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Roundup: A New Downtown Plan and DWI Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raleigh’s Downtown Plan<\/a> is one step closer to receiving an update.<\/p>\n

Councilors Tuesday authorized the interim city manager to negotiate a fee and contract with EE&K a Perkins Eastman Company. The downtown plan will outline strategies for ongoing growth in downtown Raleigh.<\/p>\n

EE&K is based in New York. Seven different sub-consultants, four of which are based in the Raleigh area, make up the group that the firm represents and will help complete the Downtown Plan update.<\/p>\n

Odom questioned the amount of work for the four local sub-consultants.<\/p>\n

Mitchell Silver, Raleigh’s planning director, said, \u201cTypically the prime takes the bulk of the services and then the sub-consultants have anywhere from 5 to 10 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The firm will help the city with: downtown planning, urban planning and design, public realm design, infrastructure, vehicular circulation, transit and pedestrian circulation and economic analysis for an update to the city’s Downtown Plan.<\/p>\n

Raleigh Police Department Pursue DWI Squad Grant<\/strong>
\nThe Raleigh Police Department may soon have a new DWI enforcement squad.<\/p>\n

Councilors Tuesday approved the submission of a grant application for about $525,000 in federal funding from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.<\/p>\n

If received, the grant will pay for the creation of a DWI enforcement squad consisting of four officers and one sergeant to detect and arrest impaired drivers.<\/p>\n

The funding will cover the cost of salaries, benefits, vehicles, uniforms, portable breath testers and vehicle upfit costs.<\/p>\n

No city match funding is required for the first year of the four-year grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Raleigh Police Department is pursuing a DWI squad grant. In other business an architectural firm has been selected to help update Raleigh’s Downtown Plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24109,"featured_media":13655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15],"tags":[1377,1378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198"}],"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\/24109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}