RCAC Members,
It seems that we are down to 2 options for the Neighborhood Recognition Awards locations (Convention Center or Council Chambers) if we want to keep the program on October 16. We will need to make a decision soon so we can revise the forms and get those out to you. Please respond by Tuesday with your vote for location. Thanks.
Some may receive this twice as I had a yahoogroups listing for previous years. If that's the case, please excuse and disregard this one.
Serving with Excellence,
Dwayne C. Patterson
Neighborhood Services Supervisor
Community Services Department
919.996.5710
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The Downtown Living Advocates is a new neighborhood association in downtown
Raleigh. If you would like to meet our new neighbors in downtown Raleigh,
you are invited to attend a mixer.
Date:
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Time:
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location:
18 Seaboard
Street:
18 Seaboard Avenue in Seaboard Station
You can learn more about this new neighborhood organization at.
http://www.facebook.com/RaleighDLA
Philip W Poe
PWPoe(a)att.net
919.832.6777 voice
919.522.1078 mobile
919.832.6775 fax
Hi folks;
You may want to take a look at the attached agenda item TC-04-09. It has 11 pages of proposed wording changes to the Municipal Code. It is not a very user friendly document if you don't actually look up the existing Municipal Code sections to see the topic or what the proposed change is doing. Some changes are simply because they have moved things from a separate document into the Comprehensive Plan but other changes are quite significant and bear looking at more closely as they affect your neighborhoods.
Paul
paulbrant(a)mindspring.com
----- Original Message -----
From: City of Raleigh - Department of City Planning
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Sent: 7/24/2009 4:51:16 PM
Subject: Planning Commission Agenda - July 28, 2009
July 28, 2009
Planning Commission - Agenda
July 28, 2009 - 9:00 a.m.
Council Chambers
City of Raleigh | One Exchange Plaza | Raleigh, NC 27602 | US
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Everyone,
Please note that the item I ( Development Guidelines-Fragile Neighborhoods) on the agenda refers to the issue of hidden lot lines under recombined multiple lots as well as preservation of development threatened neighborhoods. Hopefully a number of you can attend.
Paul
paulbrant(a)mindspring.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Puccini, Ralph
To:
Cc: Eldredge, Leslie
Sent: 7/22/2009 4:19:28 PM
Subject: July 29, 2009 City of Raleigh Comprehensive Planning CommitteeAgenda
Please see attached.
RLP
Ralph L. Puccini
Assistant Deputy Clerk
Office of the City Clerk and Treasurer
City of Raleigh
P. O. Box 590
222 West Hargett Street
Suite 207
Raleigh, NC 27602
Telephone: (919) 996-3040
Fax: (919) 996-7620
E-Mail: Ralph.Puccini(a)ci.raleigh.nc.us
Website: www.raleighnc.gov
At the last RCAC meeting, it was agreed the RCAC would compile a list of
concerns related to the latest draft of the Comp Plan. These concerns will
be forwarded to the City Council for consideration as it begins its final
review of the Plan. Below is my input for institutional impacts. I consider
this a transition issue between uses; however, most of the discussion about
transitions has focused on transitions between the Central Business District
(CBD) and the adjacent neighborhoods.
INSTITUTIONAL IMPACTS
As Raleigh has grown, churches, schools and civic centers are morphing from
relatively low impact neighborhood facilities to relatively high impact
destination facilities. As a consequence, the quality of life in
neighborhoods is either threatened or eroding as residents experience the
adverse effects from more noise, intrusive lighting and additional traffic
and parking congestion.
Because most of these institutions were considered neighborhood facilities
in the past, they are typically zoned residential. However, the increases in
scale and activity make the residential zoning classification obsolete. A
change of use or more robust regulations are now needed for these properties
to mitigate the adverse impacts on adjacent properties.
Philip W Poe
PWPoe(a)att.net
919.832.6777 voice
919.522.1078 mobile
919.832.6775 fax
Let me throw this out for possible discussion at next week's meeting. We
have a number of neighbors in the East CAC who had no idea that the CAC
existed. We're working to get the word out through flyers and yard signs
but I've been unable to find a fitting description of what a CAC is or does.
So, let me ask the group: how do YOU describe your CAC to neighbors who
haven't heard of CACs before?
Mark
East CAC
Thank you, Mark, for pushing for this much needed change. mbp
In a message dated 7/7/2009 2:44:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
cac-chair(a)eastraleigh.org writes:
It's official. City Attorney Tom McCormick just got permission from the
City Council to work with city staff and public works on changing the
ordinance for neighborhood signs funded by Neighborhood Improvement Grants.
This will waive the insurance requirements for these signs when these
signs encroach on the public right of way.
Regards,
Mark
East CAC
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It's official. City Attorney Tom McCormick just got permission from the
City Council to work with city staff and public works on changing the
ordinance for neighborhood signs funded by Neighborhood Improvement Grants.
This will waive the insurance requirements for these signs when these
signs encroach on the public right of way.
Regards,
Mark
East CAC