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Brier Creek residents prevailed Tuesday in their fight to halt construction of a Firestone Complete Auto Care on the outskirts of their North Raleigh neighborhood.<\/p>\nBrier Creek residents prevailed Tuesday in their fight to halt construction of a Firestone Complete Auto Care on the outskirts of their North Raleigh neighborhood.<\/p>\n
The Raleigh City Council voted 6-1 against granting a development permit to Firestone for the 7,575 foot building, which would have been located on a 1.5 acre site at the intersection of T.W. Alexander and Sporting Club drives less than 400 feet from residential homes.<\/p>\n
The decision was welcome news to the dozens of Brier Creek residents who attended the meeting, holding signs that read, “No Firestone in Brier Creek.”<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, we\u2019re happy. It just does not fit with the neighborhood,\u201d said resident Bill McGivern.<\/p>\n
Homeowners contested that the developer of Brier Creek had promised them that sites surrounding the planned community would remain undeveloped green spaces.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we purchased, we were told it would be a green area. I spent money knowing it wouldn\u2019t be built upon,\u201d said resident John Colangelo.<\/p>\n
Developer plans, however, weren\u2019t the basis for the Council\u2019s decision. Instead, members agreed with Mayor Charles Meeker that Firestone\u2019s plan did not comply with some of the city\u2019s standards for site development. Among the things that Meeker took issue with were the noisiness of the proposed car care center, the scale of the building, and the placement of the retaining wall.<\/p>\n
The only Council member who did not agree with the mayor was District E Councilor Philip Isley.<\/p>\n
\u201cI disagree with the mayor\u2019s comments. I think the site plan requirements have been met,\u201d Isley said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear at this point whether Firestone officials will challenge the decision. That possibility concerned Councilor Rodger Koopman (District B).<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have mentioned that if we deny the approval of this, we\u2019ll almost certainly go to court,\u201d Koopman said during the meeting.<\/p>\n
The city now must figure out if the site will be used for something else. Brier Creek residents expressed a desire for it to become a park.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow should we be looking at this property going forward? Is it something the city has an interest in?\u201d asked Russ Stephenson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brier Creek residents prevailed Tuesday in their fight to halt construction of a Firestone Complete Auto Care on the outskirts of their North Raleigh neighborhood. The Raleigh City Council voted 6-1 against granting a development permit to Firestone for the 7,575 foot building, which would have been located on a 1.5 acre site at the intersection of T.W. Alexander and Sporting Club drives less than 400 feet from residential homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011"}],"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\/24018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}