[RCAC] ALERT - regarding administrative approval fo certain site plans

Dear CAC Chairs, SWCAC last week accidentally learned that we have a group housing project known as Lineberry Student Housing (GH-1-11) that requires only administrative approval (thanks to a mayor who served in the late 80's). The negatives about the project are: 1. on one side is Lennox Chase - home to people who are trying to get their acts together - including some people who are registered sex offenders, 2. the nursing home across the street is a "post-acute care" facility that also house Alzheimer's patients who do not need the late night noise levels that come with many/most student housing complexes, 3. the parking issues that come with student housing because there never are enough parking spaces for residents and their guests (so we can expect their vehicles to spill over into the nursing home parking lot and on Lineberry Street, Lake Wheeler Road and other streets in the neighborhood) and 4. they are so far from NCSU and other colleges and universities that they can create serious traffic problems in our single-family neighborhoods and on two-lane Lake Wheeler Road that already is overwhelmed mornings and evenings with commuter traffic. We have nothing against students, but this is not the best location for student housing. Because of "administrative approval," it will be built and then we will have the problems/issues listed above. My request to all of you who will be having a UDO presentation is to help all parts of future Raleigh development by asking that "student housing" never be located adjacent to or near nursing homes or facilities such as Lennox Chase AND that any group housing project must have City Council approval, not just "administrative approval" and that the developer of any group housing project attend the appropriate CAC meeting to explain their project and get CAC input and approval. Thanks for reading this email. I hope you will help improve the group housing approval process with your input into the UDO. Mary Belle Pate 2nd vice-chair and former chair SWCAC