{"id":20639,"date":"2013-11-13T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=20639"},"modified":"2013-11-14T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:41:28","slug":"north-boylan-sees-decrease-in-hookah-bar-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2013\/11\/13\/north-boylan-sees-decrease-in-hookah-bar-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"North Boylan Sees Decrease in Hookah Bar Complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents in a North Boylan Street neighborhood are reporting a decrease in problems previously blamed a nearby hookah bar that drew an after-hours crowd from Glenwood South. <\/p>\n

In the three months since the issue was last heard<\/a> in the city\u2019s Law and Public Safety Committee, the Sahara Hookah Cafe on the corner of North Boylan Avenue and Peace Street has increased security, added indoor bathrooms and began discouraging customers from parking in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Staff \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/p>

The Sahara Hookah Cafe at the corner of Glenwood and Boylan. <\/p><\/div>\n

A parking restriction was also instituted, so that only residents and their visitors can park on neighborhood streets at night. The new restrictions seem to have to cut down the noise and litter that residents claim were associated with the cafe. <\/p>\n

At Tuesday\u2019s committee meeting, Raleigh Police Capt. Robert Council said that the number of complaints has dropped significantly, with fewer than five complaints coming in since the beginning of September. <\/p>\n

He said that about 50 parking tickets have been issued since the restriction was put in place. \"no.parking.sign\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Resident Phil Poe said that while the neighborhood has seen a dramatic change for the better, he believes the City Council should continue to look at where hookah cafes should be located in relation to residential neighborhoods. <\/p>\n

The committee agreed to consider the matter closed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New management and more strict parking restrictions seem to have eased some of the problems neighbors say stem from a nearby hookah caf\u00e9 after bars on Glenwood South close. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24029,"featured_media":20643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1262,1338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20639"}],"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=20639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}