{"id":20719,"date":"2013-11-26T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=20719"},"modified":"2013-11-26T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T19:32:49","slug":"possible-publix-property-can-move-foward-with-rezoning-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2013\/11\/26\/possible-publix-property-can-move-foward-with-rezoning-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Publix Property Can Move Foward with Rezoning Application"},"content":{"rendered":"

Owners of a North Raleigh property will be allowed to move forward with an application to remove the 8-acre lot from the existing master plan. <\/p>\n

Raleigh Planning Commissioners Tuesday were tasked with deciding if the property owner, Morgan Property Group, met all the necessary requirements to begin the master plan termination process. Terminating a property means removing it from the developer\u2019s previously approved plan for the area.<\/p>\n

Although Commissions approved starting the termination process, they stressed that the property owner will have a long rezoning fight ahead. <\/p>\n

The master plan covers about 1,100 acres near Falls of Neuse Road and was established in 1994. Most of the property is already developed as high-end single family homes. <\/p>\n

The 8-acre property near Falls of Neuse Road and Whittington Drive hasn’t been developed, and, according to the plan, is scheduled for light retail and office space.<\/p>\n

The News and Observer reported Monday<\/a> that the site may be the site for a Publix grocery store. <\/p>\n

Many of the residents in attendance at Tuesday’s Commission meeting took exception to the potential rezoning of the property for the purpose of a grocery store. <\/p>\n

Resident Stacy Cashin, who lives on Golden Sun Drive, said she wants the developer to provide the market data that showed there was a desire for a Publix in an area that already has five grocery stores within four miles. <\/p>\n

Residents observed that a shuttered Kroger remains vacant nearby. <\/p>\n

Commissioners agreed that there is strong opposition from the neighborhood, but felt that the application met the requirements to begin the process. <\/p>\n

Commissioner Steven Schuster said that the Commission may be allowing the process to start today, but that, “doesn’t mean the Commission is committing to remove this from the master plan.” <\/p>\n

Commissioner Joe Lyle echoed Schuster’s statements.<\/p>\n

“This is going to be a difficult rezoning,” he said. <\/p>\n

Morgan Property Group representatives will return to Planning Commissioners to request the property be officially removed from the existing master plan and request a site rezoning. <\/p>\n

Rock Quarry Road Rezoning Moved Ahead<\/strong>
\nAfter a two-week delay, a rezoning for a mixed-use project on Rock Quarry Road has been forwarded to the City Council. <\/p>\n

The request is to rezone an 8-acre property on Rock Quarry Road<\/a>, just east of Barwell and Pearl roads. If approved, the proposed rezoning will allow for more intense development and up to 4,000 square feet of retail space.<\/p>\n

The Rock Quarry Road corridor is designated as one of Raleigh\u2019s transit corridors. <\/p>\n

Commissioners previously delayed a vote on the general use case because there was no way to guarantee that a transit easement would be provided, something they felt necessary in a transit corridor.<\/p>\n

A conditional use designation would allow Commissioners to make providing a transit easement a condition of approval. General use cases cannot require any conditions. <\/p>\n

The city\u2019s new zoning code, the Unified Development Ordinance, moves away from conditional-use zoning, which requires applicants to add conditions that would minimize the impacts of the rezoning.<\/p>\n

The case will be heard by the full City Council at its next meeting in December. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morgan Property Group will be able to start the rezoning process for a property in North Raleigh that is the suspected location for a new Publix grocery store. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1480,1479,1481],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719"}],"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=20719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}