[Music] Heat. Heat. Oh, [Music] good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the council session. We will start with the pledge of allegiance and councelor Jones will lead us. I pledge alce to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Uh, next we have the consent agenda and we had one item pulled G1. Is there anything else on the other items? Uh yeah, I mean up to you. Do you want to make a motion on the remaining items and we can approve those first? I'll move approval of the remaining items. Second. Second from councelor Patton. Um any other discussion? If not, all in favor? I I. All oppose? Nay. All right. So that passes and now uh councelor Silver on G1. Yeah, just for the city manager, I appreciate I sat down with uh both Kerry Painter and the assistant city manager, Evan Raleigh. Um I there was an illustration in the packet. Uh I sat down with the assistant city manager earlier. I'm satisfied with the illustration. I understand it's just an illustration, but I am voting to be consistent with what was in that design knowing there may be some minor modifications. Uh just want to make sure that is how it's going to go forward. And with that, I'd move that we approve that item to go out to bid. Second. All right. Um, we've had a first and a second. Any other conversation? If not, all in favor of the motion, I. All opposed. All right. And that passes. And that brings us to public comment. Good afternoon, uh, Madame Mayor, members of council. Uh, I'm Ran Northam with the communications department. Uh, just want to welcome folks to our council chamber and give a couple quick tips for using our microphone and podium in case especially if anybody hasn't been here before. But um, please as you get up to the podium, take your time, adjust the microphone so that it's just below your mouth and you speak over top of it. Um, please don't move your head from side to side because uh, while we might be able to hear you in the chamber, those who are listening at home will not be able to hear you and we definitely want to make sure you're heard clearly. And also, we do have a handheld microphone for anybody who is not able to stand up at the podium. We'll be happy to bring that to you as well. Um, and please don't lean in real close to the mic either. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you. Uh, first speaker is Mama Kai Sanders. Good afternoon, y'all. It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you for this forum. Um, I appreciate your service to our city and fulfilling your requirement to listen. Last week, I ended my comments by saying, "Do you know what makes a safe, vibrant, and healthy city? places where families can go together all day, every day. I'll continue by adding places where our youth can go and hang out with their friends, doing things they enjoy, and places our seniors can explore and enjoy, too. Downtown needs to be flooded with businesses that serves f that serve families of all sizes and ages. One main reason is because I believe parents spend more money on their children than any other demographic, especially when it comes to things that they can do together. But a more important reason is if you really want downtown to become a walkable community, you have to focus on families raising children that are not reliant on cars and are comfortable taking the bus and riding bikes. That means having businesses that would bring groups of people like families or youth into downtown by taking the bus to hit up shops and do various activities for the whole day and then heading back home. It could also look like bringing one car with four people in it, like a family or a grandparent transporting youth versus one or two people in multiple cars as they gather for the night. And if families don't live close to a bus stop, with all the parking lots close to places bus stops are adjacent to, they can do a parking ride, take the bus downtown and back to their cars. That saves gas and potentially potentially provides more quality family time with someone else driving. In order to accomplish this, I'm working on the first step to launch an entrepreneurial accelerator for youth with the educational technology company Wisdom has been taking courses through. My goal is to have 10 to 15 viable businesses that could launch during the holidays. Wisdom's business is one of them. One thought is to pilot some of them as pop-up shops in the lobby of the convention center or in other currently established locations in downtown. This is an important step in launching the decade of the child initiative. I've been talking about. The other part of changing the landscape of downtown to be more family-friendly is to create a new activity center that is intentionally planned. This is important for two reasons. After last week's public comment session where we had so many courageous public servants speaking about their challenges, it's clear the city needs another activity center and it needs to bring in a significant amount of tax revenue. Revenue that's comparable to what downtown or North Hills provides. Joe Minoszi, the most recent reflecting Raleigh guest speaker, addressed the importance of these centers when he spoke on May 29th. But the city already knows this because there are supposed to be six according to the comprehensive plan that was written under council member Silver when he was the city's director of planning and development. If there are six, we know they are not performing the way downtown and North Hills are. creating a new and expanded amphitheater and convention center out complex out at Triangle Town Center where underutilized land plus increasing density equals an incredible opportunity would become an economic entertainment epicenter for district B. Thank you. Next we have Nikki E. Yeah, it says I know I was like wait Nikki W. Good afternoon. We are close approaching Junth declared a federal holiday which is this Thursday June 19th. However, it has not been honored as a federal holiday in many spaces. We heard Go Raleigh employees request that service be placed on Sunday schedule to honor that. As with all other holidays, though not in agreement with the evaluation of some issues they placed on the table with this one, I completely concur. The Junth celebration at Dicks Park was cancelled due to assumption of inclement weather. It should have been rescheduled not cancelled as this is an important event for African-Americans and helps to bring all residents of Raleigh culturing connectivity aiding and affirming that all people should be and are free. Measures measures could have been taken for the festivities to persist even in the rain. Many felt the thunderstorms advisory to be a scapegoat and a smack in the face and a seeming compliance with governmental agenda now in place to erase the history and dignity of the African-American people and all people of color. But perhaps this can be remedied by placing the Junth celebration back on the schedule, whether at Dorothia Dicks or elsewhere, or the proposed downtown Junth parade, even if delayed, to prove people mistaking that Raleigh does not devalue their people of color. I also declare decree, believe, and receive that restorations be made of the historical fourth war in addition to other reparations. Despite the weather, the no king's rally participants stood in solidarity the very same day as should have been done with the Junth celebration. This victorious coming together of those opposing and choosing to fight the power unauthorized in many aspects led to people moving on with restored hope, new friendships, fortified faith, and empowered to make moves to hold on to and claim their rights and freedoms. People protested the abuse of power, lack of consideration for veterans and disabled, the plot to decrease and limit education and research, penalization of free speech, opposition to LGBTQI rights, frivolous parades in the light of slashes to social security, Medicare, SNAP, and Medicaid, attacks on women's rights, and the most recent devastation, the take on immigration. Signs read, "Let them work, let them learn, let them live." I totally agree with this assertion as it pertains to those trying to do just that. Though let's not forget that we have another population here in the city who have been pleading the very same thing for a while. The population I was once a part of and continue to stand and fight for the unhoused. The identification of many unhoused are intersecting of these very rights making them more comprehendable of their struggles. These are people in life-threatening situations at no will of their own who just want to work, learn, and live. People period. So again, I ask for considerations into public toilets and assistance with food and water to get through this tumultuous summer heat in order to treat them as such people. Because allowing people dignity and respect, valuing their mere existence helps them to get a long way. We must stand tall for if we bend, we fall. And in the words of our Latino friends, El Ploidos Hamas Vincto, thank you. Thank you. Next we have Sarah Cuadri. Sarah here. Okay. Um, next we have Octavia Rainey. Good afternoon. Today I'm here to speak on fourth ward. Fourth ward is very dear to me. So I'm going to tell the truth today. in the city of Raleigh when you first went in and brought in the redevelopment plan for fourth ward. Let's be clear, District D did not want fourth ward. District D did not want Smoky Hollow. I'm being clear. I'm being clear. The city of Raleigh have negligently in District D funded every project in District D. Let me show you some examples. You funded the park in Carol Lee. Yes, you did. You funded the District D Alliance. You went way on Peace Street and played with the infrastructure on Capitol Boulevard and Peace Street. You funded that. You funded 25 projects and you never thought about fourth ward. That's called systematic discrimination. That's what that is called. And I don't understand what all the councilmen who represented district, all of them told me, Octavia, we're not interested in We are not interested in fourth ward. Fourth ward is the past. That's what they told me. Eric Reed, the former district D, he tried his best to help. Jane Harrison is trying, but Jane got to do better. Now, what I'm asking for the fourth world association and Mitch, when you get that report from the city manager, you tell the city manager, she better go back to 1974 and she better come up to the present to talk about how you funded district and you left fourth ward out. Is that systematic discrimination when you fund all the projects and you leave fourth ward out? How could you do that? The only three projects that came out of urban renewal was the NCA building, Heritage Park, and the Chamber of Commerce. That's all that ever came out. Then you came back years later and you created a streetscape plan that took out all the black businesses. Stormy took them out. Took them slam out. That was wrong. You even took out a black church. What I'm asking the city for now is $2,000 for the fourth world association so they can have their reunion. The second thing I'm asking the city for is three things. Number one, we want to come before this city council in a work session for an hour. I'm bringing the churches because y'all need to hear from them how y'all have disrespected what they stood for. It's wrong. Thank you. Next, Misa Seltari. Good afternoon, um, Mayor Janet. Um, no one should ever face threats or violence for their faith. The bomb threat against Sagal Raleigh last year in Val must be condemned. That's for sure. But let's stop pretending anti-semitism exist in a vacuum divorce from political context. Israel violent actions, not Judaism, are driven much of the global outrage. What are witnessing is a growing backlash against a state that claims to act in the name of the Jews while carrying out brutal campaigns of occupation and war. From the slaughter of 10 thousands of gazins to crossber strikes in Lebanon, Syria and now direct attacks on Iran. Israel not just committing war crimes is dragging the war towards wider conflict. And instead of distancing themselves, the US are backing it unconditionally. The fuels of resentment not just the government but tragically and wrongly towards the Jewish people. Let's be clear, Israel does not represent Jews. Judaism, Zionism is different. Zionism is a political project, not a religion. and many Jews inside and outside Israel opposite on on their morals, religious and human grounds. Equating Jewish identity with Israel state is a Zionist narrative and it's dangerous. It erases Jews voices of desert and points all the criticism as hate. Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism. In fact, conflating the two allow Israel to commit atrocities without being accountable because any objection is painted as hate speech. That manipulative and its dangers real the real people. If leaders like you, our mayor Cole, want to fight anti-semitism, that should be start by standing up against the reckless criminal behavior of the state of Israel. Claiming speaking the name of the Jews while insating the hate and suffering for all. Condemn all the hate, but don't ignore the root. People don't just hate Jews. They hate violent regime hiding behind Judaism and that distinct matter. Free Palestine. Thank you, Hennedy Ali. Hennady Ali, I call on you again. Stormmy, Jonathan, Megan Mitchell Janet Christina Corey, and Jane. I call on you all to pass a ceasefire resolution for the Raleigh community to help momentum around US policy surrounding sanctioning Israel, forcing them to stop their warlike agenda, putting the whole world at risk on multiple levels. The US must rally and we must start at local levels. I know deep down in your subconscious you know what Israel is doing is wrong. We are watching a live stream genocide and denying that is denying facts. Without me telling you, please ask yourself, do you know the death toll? I come in here week in week out giving death tolls of children, giving ampute death toll, uh amputee tolls, orphan tolls. They're in the 39,000. And I was walking with my husband the other day and I couldn't even I say the the the number so much I don't actually think about how many children that is. Watching only US news will not give you those answers because Apac made sure that GZA ministry numbers were not allowed to be used. Israel is committing war crimes on so many levels. I couldn't even cover them all. The heads of Israel are international criminal court crim international criminal court criminals. Yes. Why do we trust these judges in every other instances except when it comes to Israel? Why are we not rallying against Israel's actions to reduce hate against the Jewish community? I say this because Israel wants to be known as the Jewish state. So why would we not bother to protect our Jewish brothers and sisters from the most dangerous thing to them, Israel? After we put an end to the war, we then have to face the military apartheide occupation of the state of Israel. I I sometimes I wonder if people actually understand that that that's what it is and that is a problem. Again, for imager imagery sake, imagine the movie Hunger Games. and the capital is Israel. And in order to secure their security of thieving lands and resources, they institute a military occupation. Sounds too movie like to be real, right? Wrong. It's real and it's happening in Palestine. I will never stop saying free Palestine no matter what Satan says because that would make me a coward and I'm not a coward. Free Palestine. Thank you. Athena Wallen. Hi everybody. My name is Athena Wallen. Um, I've been expressing deep concerns about creek erosion and I've been advocating very strongly about traffic calming and getting bike lanes on Brookside Drive and I'm hoping that that will begin soon and I'm so appreciative. Um the strange and and difficult thing is that both the trafficcoming and and connected infrastructure argument is also in line with the need to rehabilitate our creek systems because these are natural spaces that can become third spaces for our communities. These are natural spaces where we have natural habitat wanting to thrive, wanting to educate, wanting to get people curious, wanting to connect us back into what is literally in our backyards. These are across all aspects of Raleigh. These little creeks and these little sections of neighborhood I think need to be reinvested in, re- reanalyzed so that we repurpose the given land. I've been advocating for Brookside specifically because there's such an observable opportunity for that creek. I've been trying to advocate for a way to strategize how to plan around uh creeks when it comes to urban density. And I want us to consider what that might be like if we have creek streets to help us guide because with creeks and low points in the neighborhoods, we have a lot of underground pipe network that we are not really considering how that's being dumped into the already eroding banks and how that kind of conflicts with uh you know erosion issues and it all compounds when you're reaching a neighborhood like Brookside where many of the lots are becoming re you condos, uh, larger homes. We're losing our root systems. We're losing our tree, uh, canopy systems, and we're not doing anything to replenish. These are spaces that we could intentionally rebuild and reanalyze all throughout Raleigh. This is a street that should be walkable, that should be inviting, that should be inviting people to get outside because it's beautiful. But we don't even have a connected sidewalk. And I know that's in in the future, but how long has it not had a connected sidewalk? How long have we neglected our storm storm water creeks? Can we please define strategies to connect communities to assets that are already there? These are connected systems that provide us that environmental resiliency that we need. And if it's failing, then communities all throughout Raleigh are suffering. Can we please strategize and analyze and reanalyze the importance of these systems right along creeks? Thank you, Brian McInness. Brian McGinness. Hello council. Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you and I I commend you for your attention and listening to all of us always. As a fireman, I would like to say I am a the foot of this body of city of Raleigh department. I'll walk where you want to walk. Um so to speak, you know, we have a physically nature job. And so I'd like to just report to the brain, maybe you guys through the heart about uh our city. And I'd like to report to you on my personal opinion of our fire department. Um we are a very greatly cultured, strong, bonded group that um is here to serve the public and do our job the best we can. And so take take uh take solitude or you know take confirmation in that that we're here and I believe just my opinion were full of a lot of genuine good people. So continue to think of us in that way. Um, I know there's some tension here and there and things, but anyway, I say that I also through the heart want to tell you I'm a firefighter. I've I've been a Marine veteran and I've seen people be killed in military things. You know, I I witnessed us as the United States Marines wrongfully target a vehicle and shoot and kill a young teenage boy along in the passenger vehicle of his father's truck. And and in the particular moment this happened, the the the the planets aligned to where we could stop our convoy. Our our colonel got out, actually approached and talked to the man who had just lost his son in this military mistake. And you know, um somehow they talked about it because we're all sitting in this awkward caravan waiting for this weird explanation. And and they talked it out. We moved on. Big mo major point there. A father lost his son right before his eyes, right next to him due to a gunshot wound and a mistaken war place of war. And I saw many other collateral damage aspects like this. So I say all that to say I am very aware. I care for people and I'm very aware of the the messiness and loss and extreme uh damage that war can handle. So with that perspective, I've been waking up 20 months now watching very carefully the atrocities in Gaza and it's just reliving these realistic sess. I'm trying to convey that I know this better than you guys. You guys know how to handle decorum in and um in these speeches much better than I do, but I do know these severe depths of sadness and severity. And I and again, so my wife and me really explained things very seriously about the situation in Gaza. the world dynamic, the world scale, and everybody else has so many good things to say, but I just want to rehighlight those points and thank you again for what you do. Thank you. All right, that concludes uh public comment. And next, we have the report and recommendation of the planning commission. And we have uh well I'll hand it over. Thank you madam mayor, members of council. My name is Binham Walter. I work in planning and development and I am joined by the chairperson of the planning commission planning miller. this afternoon. The planning commission is reporting out a single item to you this afternoon and that is um Z7022. Our typical reminder of some upcoming holidays. None of these conflict with your scheduled meetings. You do have some public hearings already scheduled for July 1st in the evening. have a joint hearing with the Raleigh Historic Development Commission around a uh proposed historic landmark designation for the Weber House on Delmont Drive, the return of uh the text change to zoning conditions for 200 West Street, and then also a return of a public hearing for an item on Athens Drive that was opened earlier in June. So, as I mentioned, Z7022, this is Glennwood Avenue at Lake Anne, is uh coming out to you, the uh proposed zoning here is a blend and would go to a combination of CX5, commercial mixed use, five with conditions, R10 with conditions, and some conservation management. The planning commission recommends approval based on the signed version of conditions that they saw that um were previously submitted. The applicant had submitted an unsigned version due to the Memorial Day holiday. There was some confusion about the deadline. The applicant, the planning commission, and staff are all suggesting that you wait until your next meeting to schedule the public hearing so that those signatures can be offered on the more recent version of conditions. So, I recommend you defer this until July 1. The applicant is here. If you happen to have questions for them, and if you have questions for me or the chair, we're happy to entertain those. Okay. Thank you. Uh, councelor, it says here in our notes that some commissioners who opposed had concerns with the clarity and the forcibility of the conditions. Is that something chair you could respond to or the applicant because I don't seems like they weren't signed which means the conditions that were heard are the conditions going forward or based upon that feedback they're willing to provide revised conditions. I just wanting clarity on that point. Thanks. Thank you. Yes. So make sure I don't miss anything in my notes. Um this resoning case, the first round of conditions that were presented to the planning commission this year um included several conditions that staff had concerns about due to their enforceability, as you noted. One related to language that needed to be clarified. Another related to a condition that we typically don't see in resoning cases, and that was one where the HOA um requested that the applicant hire a third party to serve as the HOA's ombbudsman to the city council. Um and in their second round of conditions the um I'm sorry in their first in the second time that we heard it this year um the issues with the clarity had been addressed I um with that language but the condition with the ombbudsman um still remained and staff had concerns about that. So the people who voted against cited the staff's general concerns with this condition with the ombbudsman condition and those that um voted in favor cited um the fact that the condition was allowed under the UDO um that with the respect to the requirement to hire an ombbudsman the enforcability was awkward but it was not insurmountable. Um the neighbors and the applicant had put in extensive work in this project over the course of three years to negotiate these conditions and the neighbors would not support this project without that condition. Um and in addition the neighbors who wanted the condition were well organized and advised and represented by their HOA and so they were um well advised by their council and by the city that these conditions um might that that condition might have an enforcability issue and they still wanted it anyway. Um, and finally, those that voted in favor cited that they didn't think it seemed right to penalize the applicant who had worked diligently um to engage with and satisfy the neighbors with respect to that condition. Okay, chair, you said a lot there. I don't know if I can whether we should hold this where I can have this conversation when the case is heard. From my perspective, I believe condition should mitigate an impact. So, I just need to understand what impact is that specific one mitigating cuz I agree it's unusual, but what you're saying is I wasn't clear that the code doesn't disallow it. Correct. Okay. So, I don't know whether you wanted to respond because that Yes. Uh is an interesting condition. Isabelle Maddox here for the applicant. Um good afternoon members of council. Um Councilman Silver. Yes. Uh there we have negotiated with the HOA long and hard and the condition of the uh Chair Miller spoke about is a requirement that we appoint a third party representative on storm water issues so that if the neighbors have a concern during the course of the development, they have somebody they can call can get quick answers to. And this person would coordinate with staff, not with council so much, but with with staff, with the with the staff stormwater department. So, there'll be a three-way conversation. The neighbor can complain to the so-called ombbudsman who can get together with staff and say they're not doing what they said they were going to do and they need to fix it. And it it's would all be at the front end of the project while we're under construction. And so that um the city's got lots of ways to enforce it. They've got a lot of leverage during construction. they can stop the permits, they can stop work, they can do all sorts of things. So, we we feel like it's a reasonable suggestion. I realize it's not the norm, but the HOA was very insistent that we include this. Um, they wanted the extra lever of city enforcement so that they wouldn't have we have a side agreement, but the the recourse if we didn't do what we said we were going to do would be to sue us and that's a expensive and long drawn out process. So, they think if they get the city that leverage with the city that really helps. So that that is why we've keep it keep this in. Um in the short term, we did submit some sign conditions the Friday before the Tuesday planning commission meeting, but because of the Memorial Day holiday, that wasn't early enough. And so those are there. They just need to be um we just need an extra day. So we we will resubmit those. But we still have an issue with staff. Wasn't 100% happy about the conditions. I'll tell you that. But we feel like it was a good compromise between staff, neighborhood applicant. Well, I share staff's discomfort, so we'll let the case continue on, but um well, councelor Patton and then Jones. Um yeah, it's staying on this with the the third party ombbudsman like I'm trying to understand why the neighbors needed to be a third party. And I mean, we have neighbors who contact the city all the time when they think development is not going according to plan. Can someone illuminate for me that that the need for it to be a third party? Well, we we added a few extra storm water conditions. Um they they just felt that um because of the sensitivity. We got Turkey Creek there. We've got Lake Anne. They're very concerned about stormwater impacts of any development in this location. Um they they they wanted a contact person they could have a you know direct relationship with so they could they wouldn't have a question about how long is it going to take me to get up with somebody in the city. So we we agreed to do that. Councelor Jones and then Mayor Promp. Thank you guys so much for being here. Thank you Isabella. I know that we've spoken in the past about this case. Uh I still I have reached out to the HOA but I have not heard back. Um so I will continue my outreach to you. Are you saying that with that condition whether or not it's confusing but if that goes through that they are in support of the case? Yes. So it's okay. Well I will they supported the case at planning commission understanding that we we still had to hold get y'all to hold it today. We go ahead and submit the officially submit the sign conditions. um knowing that staff doesn't love a one or two conditions, but they're not prohibited by the code and I feel like it it'd be a good compromise. Right. And I just wanted to add some some clarification about this. Um this is in my district. I'm very active with all of my residents that have uh concerns. I think I haven't spoken to them because they haven't responded to me, but I think because this is actually in the county, so this is not uh this neighborhood is not um city of Raleigh. Um, this addition might be, I'm just speaking out of turn, might be because they feel that they don't have representation on council since they're in the county. That might be part of it. Um, but that is not something that I have I can clarify to you because I have not spoken to them. I will make it a more concerted effort to to have that conversation and let them know that I am here. I am more than happy. But, um, it does bring me some comfort that uh, and when I verify with them that if this is in there that they would be supportive uh, because I have not heard anything whether yes or no, from them. Yeah. and I I'll make sure to let their counsel Josh um Hansen know that you know you'd like to have a conversation mayor time. Well, I will say that um I'm probably unique in this room because I'm the only person who's ever worked as an OMBbudsman and that's not how the position functions at all. Um and so I don't know that you're going to be able to get the results with that type of person. um because that's not that's not how the role of a non-budsman doesn't work that way. Um because they're supposed to be more of a neutral arbiter. They're not, you know, the people who kind of hold a hammer over somebody's head. Um so y'all may want to go back and and think about who if it's going to be a third party um fulfilling this particular particular role there. That's not how that's going to work. Well, the the word on bbudsman is just a general that's not in the condition. It's a a it's a stormwater expert, a engineer with stormwater expertise would be appointed to be able to evaluate the situation and be able to speak the same language with city storm water people and the developer. So maybe budsman is not the correct term is not okay but we don't use that in the condition. That was just a sort of a sort of my short term short hand. Councelor Silver, I know this one is coming back for July 1st, but I do want to be clear that when this does come back, I always want to know what condition is mitigating. If it's that we don't trust the city and their process, I just want to hear what it is cuz I don't want to set precedent for every zoning case that we want to have a special site agreement for whatever reason. We have inspectors, we have regulations, we have processes and to say that's okay. We want insurance policy. I just want to know again what is the condition mitigating so as I vote I can understand how does this condition fit in. This is a zoning map amendment going from one classification to another. And so I just want to be clear as this comes back on July 1. Well, we have to vote on that but that is just something I want to express. Fair enough. Okay. Do we need to take any action to delay it or can we just make no action? Okay. I move to have this um Well, I don't know. Were you going to say something? You're headed in the right direction. Please keep going. I was going to say I move to have this case brought back as a special item on on uh July 1st. Second. All right. All in favor of the motion? I. All opposed. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Special items. Tax exempt private activity bonds. Uh we have the city clerk. That item was pulled. Good afternoon, mayor and council. So, um the Montasauri School of Raleigh had requested a public hearing. Uh it was due to the timing of the adoption of your new guidelines uh back in May. Uh subsequently they have determined they're going to pursue an alternate path to refinancing their bonds. So the requested public hearing is not is no longer necessary. Okay. Thank you. And I don't believe you need to take any action. Right. Okay. Uh we will move on. Uh report and recommendation of the city manager. Good afternoon, mayor and councel. We have three items and then I have two employee highlights for your attention. First, we have um a request for local approval for the public financing authority of Wisconsin for some bond issuances for Triangle Square redevelopment project. We have Annie Balman Mitchell from Housing and Neighborhoods here to present this item. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Thank you for having me here today. Today, we are going to discuss a request that's brought forth by the developer of Triangle Square project. The request is seeking authority to execute a local approval letter, which is a necessary step for the project to move forward in its financing, which they're requesting from the um public finance authority from the state of Wisconsin. Just wanted to do a quick overview of the proposed project. This project will be developed by Triangle Town Center Holdings. The proposed project will develop 468 affordable units through four different phases. In total, that will compose 180 senior units and 288 family units. As you can see, the site is located next to Triangle Town Center, which is immediately adjacent to the amenities located in that area. And we do have a few members of the development team here available today to answer any questions you might have about this brief presentation. Thus far, the development team has secured $9.3 million in bond financing, which will be issued through the public finance authority of the state of Wisconsin to cover pre-development costs for the project. The Raleigh Housing Authority has also preliminarily approved the issuance of bonds to serve as construction financing, which will um offer repayments for those pre-development finances. And today, we are seeking authorization for the mayor to execute a local approval letter. The according to the developers council, Wisconsin statute prohibits public finance authority agencies from issuing bonds unless the local entity has approved the financing for the project. The since the project is located in the city of Raleigh, we the developer has requested that the city execute the local approval letter. This letter would not um require any obligation on behalf of the city for the project. simply to meet the statutory requirements set forth by the Wisconsin statute. And that's everything I have today. I'm happy to answer any questions or we have Mark Tipton here with a member of the development team if there's any specific questions he can answer. Thank you, uh, Councelor Patton. Thanks for this. Um, I'm glad to see some action on this site. Um, can you or the applicant um talk about the unit mix both like bedroom mix and then um the affordability? Sure. I'll have Mark come forward and answer those questions. Hi, I'm Mark Typton uh from Wake Forest, North Carolina and uh the manager of the development team. Uh what was your question? If you um can you talk about the affordability mix and the unit like bedroom mix that we'll see on the site? I don't I can't specifically speak about the bedroom mix, but uh we do 60% of area median income uh all of them. And um we uh we just finished Oak Forest, which is just down the street. It's 120 units of senior. We're going to be doing the first 192 units of affordable housing uh for the this bond. This bond allows us to get it going. And this uh acknowledgement of the bond is what is required by uh Wisconsin. Uh so it it's just an acknowledgement of it. And um but the uh the first phase is 192 units and then we'll come in and the reason we're able to do this is because of the QCT. Now the QCT is only good for a year and so uh that gives us a 30% boost in other to make the numbers work. Um and uh that's why we're trying to get this thing started now uh to to be able to make that happen. Sure. So they'll all be at 60% AMI or same. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Well, I'm glad glad to see this project moving forward. So at the appropriate time, happy to make a motion to authorize the mayor to execute the letter. Okay. I'll just say that that is your motion if you're comfortable. Okay. And we have a second. Any other discussion on this? If not, all in favor of the motion, I I. All oppose, nay. Thank you. I love you. Thank you. It's not our usual response. Okay. Uh, next we have the affordable housing development at 15 Summit Avenue, Angela Blackman. Good afternoon, esteemed council members, city manager, and mayors. Um, I'm Angelina Blackman, um, a part of the redevelopment group in housing and neighborhoods, and I would like to present our recommendation for the 15 summit affordable housing development partner. Skipped a page. Here's a brief overview of what we'll talk about today. So, I'll go over the background of the RFP and then I'll talk a bit about the process and the proposals and then I'll uh present the recommended development partner. Here's a quick timeline of the project. Um, in June of 2023, the initial request for proposal was issued and we received only one complete proposal from NextStep Development. their proposal, their proposed development was not permitted in under the existing zoning. So in February of 2024, the site was reszoned and then in December of 2024, the RFP was reissued with proposals due in February. Upon the the due date of the new proposals, we received four complete proposals from CASA, Evergreen Construction, NextStep Development, and Fortress of Talitude. The the proposals were evaluated under the criteria that you see here. They had to show alignment with the city goals. They had to show project viability, financial and financial feasibility. And they also had to present that their development team's experience or show their development team's experience. So this the after evaluation staff recommended CASA as the development partner. They have a unique partnership with Operation Coming Home who proudly serves veterans. They they their tiny home design produced a they well their tiny home design showed a very balanced gentle density with compact yet comfortable homes. Kasa also has a very extensive 30-year history of developing, owning, and managing supportive housing. Their project also had a significant amount of donated labor and materials already committed which lowered their development cost and in turn it allowed them to have the lowest city subsidy requested as a result. Here's a quick look at Kasa's site design. Um, and just to give some reference, um, it is on the corner of Summit Avenue and Waterwork Street, and it is across the street from Eliza Poolool Park, if everyone is familiar with that area. So, their project would produce 11 affordable housing units, all under 60% area median income or AMI. Um, with three of those units being 30% or below 30% of area median income and AMI. The staff recommend that council approve conditional commitment of $368 and50 uh 300 $368,000 $368,573,000 in gap financing and authorize the budget transfer. also adopt the resolution for ground lease and then also authorize appropriate CD officials to execute all required loan documents. And so that is the end of the presentation but uh Kasa is also here with operation coming home team and they're excited to be here today as we present them as their the recommended partner for 15 summit Avenue. Right. Thank you. We have questions for Yeah, I've got a question. Y um thank you so much. I'm really excited to um motion this forward when the time is appropriate. Um I would like to hear um just from the uh applicant um you know just a little bit about you know who you expect to live here. Um I know there's some specific ideas. Um this is going to be a fabulous development I do believe. I'd also like to hear from staff a little bit about um the choices between the four options, you know, the various proposals. I do want to uh just say thank you especially to NextStep Development who did put in a proposal in the initial RFP process and then they followed up with a second proposal. Um and it looks like you know the major difference to me is project cost. Um, but I just wanted to kind of again understand from staff's perspective why the this particular proposal was chosen. Okay. I'll answer what I can. Um, if I need to get back to you or if I need to have uh other staff support me, then I'll call them up here. But Cornelius um is here from Casa along with uh OC representative here. I'll let them answer any of your questions on the project. Thank you so much for having us. Uh my name is Cornellis Kirk. I'm real estate developer with CASA and I'm joined by Paul Kaine with Operation Coming Home. I believe the question was about who we expect to live there. Um prior to putting our proposal together, we uh were in contact with the VA homeless uh veterans service. They are already uh prot uh planning on providing referrals. They would love to provide referrals for all 11 units. Um so we also expect it'll be members of the HUDVASH um program. in case they cannot provide all the referrals needed. We also have developed a partnership with veteran bridgeome um who I believe has been in contact with the city before. Uh but they provide kind of light case management and one of their biggest needs is connecting their veterans to housing. So they will also be a referral partner. Uh one unit will be set aside for a referral from the city itself and we've spoken with city staff and they expect that given the pool of people that they're working with um they expect that could be a veteran as well. But all 11 units will be dedicated to veterans. Um, and I believe it I think it actually might have been backwards. I believe four of the units will actually be for folks who are earning at most 30% of area median income, four for 50% area median income, and then three for 60% area median income. If we're able to, that might be even deeper affordability than 60% AMI. If the VA is able to pro provide more referrals um from folks from the HUD bash program, uh we could have more vouchers in there to still make the property cash flow at 60% AMI rents, but it would actually be serving someone who is earning less than say 25,000 per year. Thank you. Um did you guys have any additional questions? I think the other question was for staff related to the proposal selection. Uh oh. the proposal selection. Um I have a director here to support. So yeah, thanks for the question, Emily Sutton, Housing and Neighborhoods. Um so the the applications were scored by a group of staff between the housing department and planning development and um CASA came out on top for these scoring criteria listed here. So, um, for all of these areas, CASA was the highest scoring application. So, that's how they were determined to be the recommended authority. Okay. Yeah. And I'll just note in my background info, it does look like they have the lowest some of the lowest project costs. I know there might have been lower costs if we went with a larger apartment building type. Um, but I do like this type of mix. It's kind of a unique um housing from what I can see in the city. It is. Yes. And they had the lowest uh per unit subsidy cost as you mentioned. Um a lot of that and Cornellis, you can speak to this as well is due to their um donations that they have already secured for inind labor costs as well as um other development support. I can speak to that. Yeah, please. Thank you, Emma. Uh, one of the reasons why our cost per unit is so low is thanks to Operation Coming Home. Um, you know, that's a sort of a nonprofit partnership between Veteran Corps and then the Wake County Homebuilders Association. So, they use their pool of, you know, their building network to get a lot of the cost donated for this. So, we're estimating of those costs up to potentially 80% of vertical construction will be donated through their um contracting partners as well as maybe up to 50% of the site work costs. So, that's why we're able to This is a new model for CASA, but it's something Operation Coming Home has a lot of experience with. So, that's one of the reasons why we're able to have much lower costs than a normal project of this size. Yeah, I love the partnership. Do you want to add anything? Uh thank you for for considering us this for this. Um Operation Coming Home has a 17-year history of building new homes for injured veterans. In fact, tomorrow or Thursday morning, we're do the groundbreaking for home number 29 in Garner. And every home built has been 100% provided to the recipient mortgage free. And it comes to the generosity of the developer who offers the land for free, the builder who then leans on his trade partners who all then provide there at either a generous discount or for free. So we come to this project with that that background and that history of of knowing the the hearts of our members who are willing willing to step up especially for veterans. Um and so the the amount that's been offered as the uh the gap funding uh we hope to even lower that need as we go that uh we believe that that the number that's being offered up in this is very realistic in terms of the history we have from the the giving of our community and and our goal personally is to lower that even more. Great. Thank you. I think with that, I'm going to go ahead and motion forward to approve the conditional commitment of gap financing funds to CASA for this 11 unit uh rental development. Second. Any other conversation? If not, all in favor of the motion I. All oppose? Nay. And that passes. Thank you so much. Um for deeply affordable units for veterans. That's awesome. The next item is um strategic plan. So, we have Heather Laos, Heather McDougall, and Christina Laos here from Strategy and Innovation. We're all off track today. Um, we're we're playing different roles here today. So, great. So, Heather McDougall, yes. Um, really excited to present this to you and we are just again grateful for the ongoing support and time that you've given. And I'll take it over to Christina Laos. Yes. Good afternoon, mayor, council, city manager. I am Christina Laos with the office of strategy and innovation and we are very excited to present the proposed FY26 to 29 strategic plan. So we have developed a plan that is community informed, focused, clear and that provides a path for us to meet our residents most important needs. This plan helps to direct our efforts where it really matters guided by your priorities, our resident voices and staff perspectives. But before we get started today, we want to share some of the successes from our previous strategic plan that are driving the momentum as we go into our next one. So, if you'll take a moment to watch a video, making life better for the people who live and work in Raleigh is what the city's strategic plan is all about. We launched the plan 5 years ago as a blueprint for real change. We focused on what truly matters. increasing affordable housing options, getting around town, supporting public art and local businesses, protecting our environment, and ensuring everyone's voice is heard. Starting a small business is super overwhelming. There's a lot that goes into starting one. So, it was our mission as a small business team to create a centralized resource hub on our website for small businesses to go on and find all the resources and information that they need to get started. So, the home buyer assistance program provides down payment assistance for first-time home buyers. And over the last 5 years, we have provided assistance for over 200 families to purchase their first home. Every project, service, and improvement is powered by city staff who bring these goals to life. We love that the strategic plan is an opportunity for us to always be thinking about how we can improve, how we can innovate, and really have the greatest impact we can have for Raleigh. From small wins to transformational changes, the strategic plan has helped make Raleigh a better place. As we close this chapter, we're already turning our focus to the next strategic plan and new opportunities ahead. Together, we make big ideas happen. Okay. So today we will go through an overview of this upcoming strategic plan and a recap of the process we followed to develop it. U we'll go through a highle walkthrough of the priorities that are contained in the plan we're proposing and then end with the recommended action and any questions you may have for us about the plan. So, as an overview, the strategic plan is council's formal direction to city staff and it provides us an actionable strategy to ensure that we are directing our time, talents, and efforts where we can have the greatest impact. This plan is also an opportunity for us to bring together cross-dep departmental expertise and really try to find new ways of solving pressing city challenges. The strategic plan also serves as a bridge for translating your long-term vision into our near-term action. And here I just want to note that we have worked with the comprehensive planning team to share learnings and to coordinate our approach as both of these plans are being developed. We also looked at various city master plans to identify areas where work is already being driven forward by various departmental efforts and to ensure that what is in the strategic plan serves to complement work that is already happening um or is planned to be happening but that is not really duplicating that work as well. Once the plan is adopted it continues to inform our departmental work plans and then our budget allocations over the years. So I'll share a little bit. You've heard this some of this before, but we'll recap how we developed the plan that you saw um before you today. Our approach is grounded in national best practices and strategic planning. And this includes the results of our internal evaluation, learning from peer cities, reviewing academic peer-reviewed literature, and learning from external experts across various industries and places across the country. All of these best practices emphasize the importance of prioritizing initiatives that are within the city's purview and influence, making sure our initiatives are focused and actionable, the importance of enhancing our data and reporting practices, and also ensuring that our strategic planning is aligned with our budget planning so that we have the staff and the resources to actually carry out implementation. So all of these best practices and many more are included in the framework that we put together for this strategic plan. We also went through a robust process to involve input from residents, city council priorities and also staff perspectives. So more than a year ago, we started this process by looking at our 2022 community survey results. And this gave us a snapshot of resident satisfaction with our current programs and services. We used the results of that survey to inform our resident engagement plan which included both reviewing existing engagement plans so that we could see what have we already heard from residents before. And then also designing a new plan, a series of new surveys and focus groups and really trying to prioritize hearing from people who were most impacted by those programs and services that we wanted to learn about. Many thanks to all of the staff who helped us review and analyze that data. And then we presented the results of that engagement effort to city council at the council retreat earlier this year. Since then, we have had a chance to look at the 2024 community survey results and we have worked with staff across our departments as well as a data consultant to develop the initiatives in the plan. So, in total, this is more than a dozen engagement efforts, and we captured input from over 350 residents, over a 100 staff members, and more than 2,000 community survey respondents. So, as you can see, we had a lot of data. So, to bring it all together, here is what we did. We started by getting clear on the vision and really determining what is the impact we want to have on our community. And here we really appreciate city council's direction to identify that focused set of key objectives that you most want to invest in at this moment in time. With that vision, we worked to identify outcomes. So defining the measurable outcomes that will tell us we are working towards that desired impact. Now the challenge here was for us to identify outcomes that are broad enough to be meaningful but still narrow enough to be actionable and focus in an area where we can really make a difference. Once we had our outcomes, we worked to identify initiatives. So these are the projects that will help us drive towards those outcomes. Each initiative is aligned to an outcome and those outcomes roll up to a strategic objective. And together this makes our theory of change for how we will get work done. Now the essential ingredient here are these outcomes. So making sure that we are clear on what are those outcomes that we're driving towards because those outcomes will allow us to keep working towards our vision, our desired impact while also giving us the flexibility to adjust our specific tactics and approaches over time as we learn new information or as our context changes. So as long as we all align under the outcomes, the way that we get to those outcomes can change if and when it is appropriate to do so. So I want to walk through an example to help clarify how this is showing up in the plan that you all have reviewed and we'll take an example from the economic development and innovation key focus area. So our vision is here the council identified strategic objective that you see I won't read it out loud but you see this listed on the screen. Next to identify our outcomes we looked to identify how would we know that we're making progress towards this ultimate vision. Uh here we identified improving resident satisfaction with the ease of doing business with the city. Um and in this instance this measure comes from our community survey. From here we worked to identify one or more projects that will drive towards that are associated with the ease of doing business with the city. In this case we know that a key pain point associated with this is the time that it takes for a vendor to get paid. So we structured an initiative around faster contracting and payment times. One way that we can monitor this work is by looking at the average time to complete a contract. So hopefully this paints a clearer picture of how we followed this process, tried to really align with the priorities that you set out for us, staying focused on the goals and then also trying to look at data as much as we can at this point in time. Now, I do want to emphasize that the measures we've identified so far are very, very much preliminary. They were designed to help us get started on this work, but some of implementation is actually going to involve staff looking into each of these issues, gathering baseline data, determining what our approach might be, and as a part of that, finalizing the appropriate performance measures and potential targets there. So all of that is really dependent on what approach we take, the resources needed, how many resources we have available. So that work think of this as the first step towards our measurement and tracking journey in the strategic plan. So with that context, I think we are now ready to get into the content of the plan. So um the full plan was shared as a part of the agenda materials but I'm going to do just a highlevel summary of what is included in each key focus area. So the current plan oh no the current plan has seven key focus areas 11 objectives and 49 initiatives. Our seven key focus areas are here on the screen. We have discussed these before. Um, some new additions are a newly named quality of life, a newly named environmental resilience, and then community safety and housing as standalone key focus areas. Under community safety, our objective here is to advance a holistic approach to community safety to foster security, trust, and a sense of connection among residents. Here we are supporting neighborhood connections and making public spaces safer and more welcoming, including making our hospitality district more sociable. We are also continuing alternative response models and investing in safer street designs. Under economic development and innovation, we have two objectives. the one you just saw around streamlining and modernizing our business support processes and also another to enhance our local arts and culture ecosystem to drive both resident engagement and economic growth. Here we are making it easier for businesses to navigate city processes to access support and to get paid on time and also expanding partnerships and investments to showcase our creative sector. Under environmental resilience, we are expanding our community and climate resilience programs, investing in smarter storm water systems, cooling strategies, and climate resilience hubs that can protect our residents from flooding and extreme heat. We're also testing and expanding sustainable waste programs and other efforts to engage our residents in climate action. Under housing, we have the two objectives here. Advancing solutions to mitigate housing insecurity and promoting more walkable mixed income communities. Here we are supporting financial assistance, early intervention programs, and other housing programs while ensuring that new homes get built so that residents have a variety of housing options. Under organizational excellence, we have three objectives around improving our customer service experience, establishing clear service standards, and then strengthening our workforce. Here, we're making it easier for residents to request and receive consistent highquality city services while also investing in pay, policies, and professional development for our staff. Under quality of life, our objective is to expand access to Raleigh's arts, parks, cultural, and recreational assets. And here we are bringing programming into more neighborhoods, including outside of the downtown core, and making sure that our programs reflect the diversity of interests and needs of our community. And finally, under transportation and transit, we are enhancing mobility and accessibility to improve transit frequency, pedestrian safety, and connections between transportation options. Here we are investing in sidewalks, bike routes, and more frequent Go Raleigh service to better connect our residents to the services they need, but also focusing on comfort, safety, and frequency, especially for those who rely on transit the most. Now that concludes the priorities that are in the plan. But our strategic plan also includes this governance framework which is designed to describe city council's role in providing oversight on our strategic direction and our focus areas while also allowing staff the flexibility to make smaller adjustments as implementation occurs over time. So this just helps us make timely progress on this work while also preserving alignment with your key objectives. So this plan um once adopted it will be available on the city of Raleigh website. Um I believe you know we want to have a discussion um once it is has been adopted it will go into effect on July 1. Um this is where you can find it online when we are ready to do so. But this plan gives us a focused and community centered strategy for the future of our city. one that reflects what residents want, the priorities that you all as a city council have championed, and what we as an organization can deliver. So, our recommended action is for council to adopt the proposed plan. Um, but we are happy to answer questions and have discussion as needed. Thank you. Great. Thank you for the presentation and all the work. Do we have questions for Yes. I'm not sure if this is a question for you or for the city manager. Well, first thank you and I do plan to support the plan uh during our retreat. You know, at least I shared uh the idea about big ideas and I do know uh council member Christina Jones and I attended one of the big ideas session, but I think I may be talking about something different. I'm just one of eight. So, I just want to make sure we have this fuller conversation with the colleagues. But some of the big ideas that I was talking about and I want to make sure they're not precluded if we adopt this plan. But some of the big ideas I think people get excited about, you know, the expansion of well, first the existence of the convention center, now the expansion and Red Hat and the Raleigh, you know, the acquisition of Dicks Park. Some of those big conversations that get people excited. You know, I see in the future, not in my district, the reimagination of Capitol Boulevard. Some work was done years ago on that from downtown to 540 as one of the amazing opportunities this city for affordable housing and transit and multimodal uh connection from downtown the Dicks which has been talked about. So I don't know if that's in the city work plan or that's part of strategic plan. I just don't want those precluded because it's really what made our city great. Uh the reimagination of Hillsboro Street and I can go on and on and on. So when I looked at this and I know I brought it up at the retreat both before and after and during just want to make sure is that part of a work plan as we get excited about this is what the public expects to see the acquisition of the DMV site. We just had a workshop. I just noticed that's not part of it. This is more operational. So I just want to know where that fits in. Is there still an opportunity to discuss those conversations? I'm one of eight. So, I don't want to speak behalf of my colleagues, but that is the only part when I ran for council I got excited about because I noticed how this city was made great about some of those big ideas that people get excited about. So, don't know who's the best one to answer. I do know there are, as you stated, there are department work plans. We just finished the downtown plan by interface to help the big ideas to push downtown forward. Don't know how that fits in. So those are some of my questions because I want to make sure I have comfort if I adopt this those conversations and ideas are now off the table. Uh absolutely and I think that we live and breathe big ideas every day through you know through the wonderful work. So Pat and his team comprehensive plan and all of that those I think are embedded throughout um some of those larger plans that you see. uh the strategic plan is really meant for like a three-year you know fouryear targeted window in which we needed cross departmental teams to come in and give us maybe a fresh eyes or fresh look on it but the work you're describing I'm fully confident uh is something that we we do and is uh absolutely something that makes Raleigh vibrant but I think some of the larger plans would speak to some of those larger ideas. Okay. And for the city manager, is there a chance because I know there's a lot of plans that have been developed. Uh is that part of the work plan? Because I'd like to see some of the bigger picture ideas because we just had a workshop before this one on one of those big ideas. So I know some of the things that I can share, you know, with my district about what they could expect to come that's kind of on the table. Absolutely. Each department presents a business plan each year as part of their departmental operation system for the year um for the lack of a better word. And quite frankly, evaluations and all of the work throughout the year are aligned and tied to that work. We are bringing back on July the 1 as we committed a projects update and that will be an overview of all of the major projects to include almost each one of the ones that you mentioned a few minutes ago just so that you can have a progress update on where we are where we're going next. I think as we continue to have the conversation of how we continue to breathe life into the strategic plan, that would be a greater opportunity at the fall midyear um city council retreat where we can then talk further about some of the projects that aren't necessary on the road map in design or financing at this point but in concept so that we can kind of figure out how we can get them into the mode of being considered for operationalizing. Thank you. Is that part of a work session or that's going to be an agenda item on a regular business meeting? The project's update will be a regular agenda item. Okay. It will either be under the manager's report or as a special item since we committed to bring it back on a quarterly basis. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Councelor Jones. Thank you guys so much for your work. I apologize that I couldn't get my comments in on time, but I I appreciate your feedback and incorporating the questions that I did present. I think overall I love all of the uh the seven keynote key areas. Um what I had questions on which I won't you know specifically ask all of them but they were more around the metrics and I think you addressed that. You said hey that's this is just the initial plan but we need so as we move forward making sure those metrics can define all of those uh initiatives that we we're putting through I think is going to be my constant follow-through question as we move through. um some uh comments that are outside of what uh I think for you. I think it's more for discussion on on council. Um we have we going from the four I mean we have five right now going to seven and noting that all of our strategic initiatives are what really fuel our committee work. Um I I understand that moving from four committees to seven is a little bit like daunting. And so I offer just some thoughts on that because that's what I was thinking about. And is there a possibility to combine some so that we stick with the four but we do like maybe community safety and organizational excellence together since it's about community and staff support you know maybe that's together maybe EDI and quality of life go together uh for economic development and then the quality of life aspect. Can environmental resilience and housing go together and then put transit there? that leaves us with the four that we currently have expands the scope of work but I do understand that like GNR you guys are so busy so is house adding housing that's a lot that's a lot to you so that I just offer those as thoughts and then one more thing um is that I I also think this is a great opportunity to include our boards and commissions and saying how do we assign how do we guide some of their conversations toward a specific initiative and so uh I won't break it down but I've broken uh I won't say it here but I've broken them down into the 28 boards that we have on the website and separating them among the four groups that I just mentioned to you. Um, and kind of giving them some guidance to say, "Okay, community engagement board, we're going to put you with community safety and organizational excellence." That way when we have questions, you know that that's the committee that is really fueling the work that you do. Um, I have I'll send that out to everybody else so you can see all my thoughts. But these are just my opinions and really how do we take this strategic plan um to something that is actionable and that the community can say, "Okay, I can make my voice heard there." So, I just wanted to throw those thoughts out. Um, but thank you so much for your work. It was great. Um, I will just ask the city manager. So, in terms of uh Councelor Jones's suggestions of of following up after, assuming this will be approved and um uh this is a great framework for the rest of our work. Could we talk about those committee names and how that would those would combine? Yes, staff has done some pre-work and ideally we were trying to see what was going to come out of the boards and commission review to kind of inform what the recommendation would look like for what we do with the new structure. We have some new names or some combinations as well. So that is going to be coming um relatively shortly after we get some direction from the study from the special committee. Thank you uh councelor Patton. Um yeah, thank you for all of this. Um, thanks for giving us opportunities to provide comment from the time of the retreat and and on through. Um, I think one of the big notes that we had as you launched the public public facing part of the process was just to make it very accessible to the community, less jargony and and just very readable. And I think that you have like accomplished that brief. I think it's very accessible to the community. Um, so so props to you for that. Um, I'll echo council member Jones and I think um we've had some communications to echo this too, but like some of these are um as as you mentioned like very broad now and we'll dial in. I do think um you know so I'm I'm looking at some of the public safety ones. So they say like uh improved ratings of safety in Raleigh overall. At some point it'll be good to get to a place that says we're bringing per you know we're bringing perceptions of safety from 85% to 87% or whatever the sort of realistic target is and putting some some numbers around that will be good good work to do in time. So um yeah anyway good work so far. I think that's a good like a feedback for for a future evolution of this. Um yeah, I think so. Council Harrison. Yeah, I just want to extend my thanks for being part of this process. Um I didn't get to do this in my previous term. It it wasn't the right time. So, it's just really, I think, helpful to bring us all up to speed on what our shared goals are as a council and as a city. And I appreciate you all taking our feedback and um you know incorporating it into the strategic plan. I can see it there. Thank you. Okay. Any further discussion? If not, is there a motion to for approval? Approve. Okay. Second. All right. All in favor of the motion? I I. All oppose? Nay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. And just a couple of employee highlights. Um, we typically talk about rams and wolves and eagles and Aggies at this table, but today we're going to highlight Listen, look at Jonathan down there. Today we're going to That's the wolf. Uh, the wolf. Um, we're going to highlight a pirate. He is probably going to get me for doing this, but um just last month, East Carolina University recognized um our newest ACM, Nikki Jones, as a distinguished alum from the department of regional um planning. And in that um accolade they said um from the department chair Michelle Nance celebrates Nikki as an outstanding leader and public servant who has built an incredible career rooted in service, leadership and impact. Nikki rose through the ranks of local government, including here in Raleigh two times, meeting every challenge with purpose and heart. So Nikki Jones is the distinguished alumni or alumni from East Carolina University from the department of planning and regional city region. So yeah, I'm looking at him getting my words twisted up because he's going to get me later on today. Um and next, um Carrie Painter. So, the International Association of Venue Management typically acknowledges um this particular person on their way out the door when they're about to retire. So, Carrie is not about to retire. Let's get that real clear. She's got some projects to finish first. Um, and so Carrie, um, just a couple weeks ago was acknowledged as the lifetime achievement award for convention center managers. And quite frankly, um, they typically give it to somebody who's about to close out their career, but when they most recently had their conference on the scoring sheet, Carrie hit it out the park, she had the highest score, so they had no other choice but to acknowledge her. And so she was this year's re recipient as the lifetime achievement award. And so what they touted about her was her experience in venues in Raleigh, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Niagara Falls, Louisiana, and San Francisco. So Carrie cannot retire until she finishes the convention center in Red Hat. Um, and so you're getting your award and your roses early, but we just wanted to highlight Carrie Painter as well. When I say we have the dream team, we truly do have the dream team. Your employees, um, our employees are out and about doing great work, not only in this community, but in their respective industries and professions and it helps to put Raleigh on the map in a positive light. So, that concludes my report today. Thank you. All right. Next, we have matters scheduled for public hearing. Uh we have Bryce Abernathy from housing and neighborhoods for the first matter. We are public nuisance abatement. Good afternoon, Madame Mayor, council. Uh Bryce Abernathy with Housing and Neighborhoods Code Enforcement. Um I'm bringing three properties today for uh link confirmation for public nuisance action that was taken um to clean up the properties. Uh first we have is 3423 Marsh Lane Way. It was a uh mix of tires, furniture, mattresses, kind of you name it, it was out there. Um we actually worked with this owner for quite a while and uh he kept bringing more stuff out. So that resulted in the in the nuisance pavement. Uh second property we have is 2928 O Kelly Street. Uh this was just high grass and several large piles of limbs that were on the property. Um, we did talk to the owner about uh two weeks before we went out there to to clean up the property. And the last property was 3605 satellite court. Um, as you can see, some large large piles of limbs and appliances and uh just some household items piled up into the yard. Okay. Do you have questions for Mr. Abernathy? Just one question. Um, so my understanding with the new um, uh, you can get tools, you can get a lawn mower. Is that something now that is made known to folks like with the tall grass? It is. It is. Um, we've done the social media blast. Um, in our notices of violation that we send out for public nuisance items, we also include an insert with information on the tool share program. Okay. Thank you. And yeah, it looks like the owner might be in New Jersey, so we might be hard for them to use our tool share program. Councelor Jones, I have a question, not specific to this case, but in dealing with public nuisances. Um, when a resident makes a complaint about a public nuisance and we contact the property to fix it, uh, they are responsible immediate for for fixing it unless they don't respond and the city comes in. Correct. Right. Correct. the property owner is responsible for the property owner is responsible um they're given a specific amount of time to address this and then we get to this step. So this is after all that's happened. What happens to the cases where somebody has made a a a complaint and the property owner property owner does address it. Are there do we keep tabs on if that happens repeatedly and and how do we address that? Yes. Um, so the way the public nuisance code directs us is any more than one notice of violation within any 12-month period comes with a civil citation for kind of repeat offense kind of items. Um, we do keep I mean records go back to when our software started back in 2018. So, um, that's kind of how we would address uh repeat offender kind of properties. So, if it's more than once in in a in a calendar year, the 12 month, it's just any 12 month period. any 12 month period. Okay, great. Thank you so much. I appreciate you. All right. Um I can go ahead and open the public hearing for 3423 Marshall Way. We have no one in support or opposition. Close the public hearing. Do we have a motion? Move approval. Second. Any other discussion? All in favor of the motion? I All oppose? Nay. And that passes. Open the public hearing for 2928 Okelly Street. I have no one signed up in support or opposition. Close the public hearing. Do we have a motion? Move for approval. Second. Okay. All in favor of the motion? I I. All oppose? Nay. All right. And the final open the public hearing for 3605 satellite court. I have no one signed up in support or opposition. And I'm closing the public hearing. Move for approval. Second. All in favor of the motion? I I all oppose. Nay. Eyes have it. Thank you. All right. I'll move on to second item is 5716 North Hills Drive. Um this is a housing case that we've been that code enforcement has been involved with. Um we completed we received a complaint about this property in February of 2023 and went out through visual observation. Um the complaint was about some deterioration on the exterior of the home. Um, we did go out there and take a look and the backside of the house is got some damage to it and a lot of a lot of um some structural issues to the siding and the sophet, a lot of wood rot and that kind of thing. Um, we did meet the owner on site and completed a full inspection of the inspection of the property. It's been vacant the entire time. Um, there is significant um, deterioration on that back side. Um, there are spots where you can see the exterior or the lights coming through. Um here here's a picture of what it kind of looks like on the inside and that was that picture was taken about about a year or two ago. So um I have spoken to the property owner on several occasions uh most recently yesterday where he informed me he was wanting to sell the property. Um he's kind of talked about selling it through this entire process. Um, the ordinance that I'm asking for you to adopt today is a 90-day repair or demolish ordinance. And essentially, that is giving the owner 90 more days to either repair or demolish. Um, if he were to start working in that time period, and it may push beyond that 90 days, we can certainly work with him on on that a time frame to get those repairs made. Or the other option is if he sells it within that 90 days, we would work with any new owners um to make repairs or or demolish within that time frame. Okay. Um do you have questions for staff? And then just to clarify, at the end of the 90 days, if neither of those scenario happens, either the current property owner does not begin work nor do they sell it, then the city would repair. That that would be the conclusion that we would tear it down after 90 days and then the lean would be applied at the appropriate appropriate amount. Okay, I'm going to open the hearing on 5716 North Hills Drive. I have no one signed up in support or opposition and I am closing the public hearing. Move for approval. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Uh, all in favor of the motion, I I. All oppose, nay. Eyes have it. Thank you for your work. All right. Next we have the petition annexation of 3400 3500 Barwell Road. Christopher Golden. Good afternoon madame mayor, members of the council. Christopher Golden with planning and development. Um the first annexation you've got before you today is AX525 on Barwell Road 34 and 3500 block. Uh one large parcel zone RX3 conditional use and R10 conditional use. Those were approved back in 2021 and 2024. The lot is approximately 27.7 acres. The proposed use on this property is 216 town homes and one detached house. There was a subdivision approved in 2024 on this. There's a site plan that's currently under review. There's a there's water on site. There's sewer to the site. It's surrounded by similar residential uses. You can see that parcel in the larger scheme of things where it's in that little uh it's not necessarily an unincorporated pocket, but it's close. Um so off of uh to the north of Rockorey Road and to the east of uh South New Hope Road. Um so even further zoomed out you can see that to the east of I40 in the belt line. Uh to the west of the news river, you can see the utility location here. Your blue and green lines. Blue is water, green is sewer. So they're through the site and water's through the site and sewer is adjacent. uh the current zoning on those properties as I mentioned before and you can see on the future land use map that's moderate scale residential and then the site plan and topography no fl no uh flood planes uh present. So uh if this is annexed today this would come into the boundaries of uh council district C and if you have any questions I am more than happy to answer them for you today. Okay any questions for Mr. Golden. All right, I will open the public hearing on uh 3,400 3500 Barwell Road. There is no one signed up in support or opposition, so I will close the hearing. Madame Mayor, if I may, um I move for approval of annexation. Second. Right. Any other discussion? If not, all in favor of the motion I I. All oppose. Nay. Right. All right. So, one against. Okay. The next item uh was petition annexation AX0725 3810 3824 Mitchell Mill Road in District B. Thank you. So, this is zoned R4. It's almost 3 acres. It's in the 3,800 block of Mitchell Mill Road. The proposed use on this on this is 14 town homes. There was a subdivision approved on this in 2023. Uh, oh, it's not showing. That's odd. Um, thank you for pointing that out. I'm looking at my screen. Uh, is there any way we can pop this on? I don't I I see the presentation on my screen, so we're just not seeing it on the main screen. Thank you. Perfect. All right. So, I'll back up there. Uh, mentioned the acreage, mentioned the zoning. Um, so proposed use 14 town homes, subdivision is approved on that. Uh there was also a site plan approved on this in 2024. There's water and sewer adjacent to the site. This is located in an unincorporated county pocket. Um if you count the fact that it's a larger pocket uh where Raleigh is bordering that and Wake Forest to the north, uh it does have the service consideration being outside those standard response times for full fire response. Um there is water in Mitramill Road. There is sewer available in uh the subdivisions around that. You'll see that in just a moment. So you can see the site location there uh just to the south of Mitchell Mill Road. Um you can see that site location zoom out. So it's just to the south of Lewisburg Road in the northern part portion of of our city. Um here you have the utility location. You can see plenty of those water lines around the site and some of those green sewer lines in Mitchell Mill and the subdivisions to the south and to the west. The current zoning is R4. Um and then the future land use map shows that as uh residential low-scale residential. The site topography and flood plane is showing uh pretty fairly level site uh not showing any flood planes in that area. You can see the site location here from above. It's uh it is at the time of this photograph wooded and you can see an approved subdivision plan right there showing the uh footprints of those uh 14 town homes. And there is this uh view of the site from the street view. If you have any questions, more than happy to answer them. Also, if you do annex this today, it'll come into the boundaries of council district B. So, okay. Questions, Councelor Patton? Yeah. Um, probably not for you. Making sure we're still on track to hear the fire master plan at our next meeting. Yes. Yes. And then this is not associated with the there's not a reasonzoning correct companion to this. Okay. Okay. Uh, yeah. Councelor, I just have Thank you so much. I just have a question to help understand as I'm looking at these annexation reports. Um something that just since our council retreat I've been focused more in on is that 10ear fiscal impact um analysis. Uh and I I the last one went by really fast so I didn't I didn't get to explain. Okay. um can you help me understand when you get to this estimated fiscal impact with CIP and the cumulative impact when it is declining because it may be positive. So a lot of these cases today are in the positive right now but as we look forward if it trends that way it's going to be a declining impact. How can we if approved or when approved how can we counteract that? What are the the tools that we have to say all right this is actually we're going to focus on trying to make a better impact on us. Otherwise, if we keep doing that, we're just setting up future councils for uh financial strain. What I what I can say, and I probably would uh defer to my friends in finance on that for the details, I do know that these do look at a very specific area and as those areas fill in, I think those numbers do change. Um so as you get an area that's more urbanized, more infrastructure comes in. So that could change and it could go up in the future. So, it's looking at that one site. For some of those other questions that you ask, I defer to my folks or to my friends in finance and hopefully they can answer that question. Sure. And while while she's coming down, no, please continue. I just want to fill the the gap. Um, it's how uh I know that these are just pieces because we've talked about it before. We've had meetings about these are just pieces of it. I'm wondering as we move forward, how do I in this report get a better sense of the cumulative um and maybe not in this specific report. I don't know where we would get that information because I can only look at these individually. I can look at them as they come as they come and then I have to remember what cases and annexations and that's hard for us to just contextualize in a in a hearing. So in this case may not but if I've got in district B we have a lot you know we have a lot of annexation cases around there. So when when will we get how do we get that full picture so that when we have these decisions I'm not just basing it on something that doesn't mean anything. Sure. Allison Bradshshire finance department. Um, great questions. Let me try to take them one by one. Um, to really answer the second question, we'd be happy to start accumulating these over time a little bit. To your point, we do look at them on a really a standalone basis and we specifically target in on exactly what the the property is going to be. You know, we look at what it is today and then we look at what it's going to be tomorrow. So, we do not look holistically. Um, I think that would be a little difficult. We could begin to build that synopsis, if you will, if if council certainly gives us the direction to do that. Uh, hopefully that might address your first question. Um, also these are um this is really difficult to do. I think we've talked about that as well to really project 10 years into the future. We are conservative because we don't know what property tax rates are going to do. you know how sales tax is going to do. So all this is really sort of a best guess at a very basic financial analysis and the way those capital numbers are constructed is we're really looking historically at the budget. Um and so that may not paint the right picture for the future but that's the data point that we have that we're sort of building out this analysis. So hopefully that's helpful. It is helpful. But what I would ask for help as we're having conversations is I talk with developers, you know, with I think Tar Hill is coming up next and I sat with them yesterday and they did a great job of incorporating some of my feedback from before of this this um cumulative uh tenure fiscal impact. I don't want to be penalizing someone with a vote by not having the information available. So, I understand that these are difficult and and that it's hard, but it it's also difficult to make decisions when I don't know, you know, what is how how am I burdening or helping future councils and, you know, make land use decisions. So, I don't know what the answer is and I don't know that I have a specific like I need this. I don't know what I need, but I know that what I'm given here makes it hard for me to feel justified in standing up for a case when I can see the numbers that are given are declining. And so if that's an unfair measurement, which I totally admit that could be totally unfair, then I just need some more guidance on that. But that's why you'll find you found me more questioning these last few months of like what what is this? What is this? So I don't it's not an attack at all. I'm just trying to to learn. So thank you. Understood. Thank you, councelor Patton. Um, Patrick Young, if I might, I'm sorry, Pat Young, planning in development. I wanted to add to what Allison said with through the comprehensive plan process. We are looking really hard at exactly the kind of toolbox that council member Jones indicated. Um, to do that in real time is really costly and challenging, but we can probably find some surrogates that would give you better information. And so I just wanted to commit uh to trying to address that because we understand the the challenge and I I do think it's really hard and challenging to do this on a case- by case basis. It's the best information we have now. Um so thanks a lot council p and I was just going to um one thing that I always keep in the back of my head is that heat map that we've been provided sometimes. It shows the pro and it's not property tax paid but property values. It shows like downtown's got like this huge bar and North Hills is pretty high and Triangle Town C Center's you know got more and then all the suburban areas are really like revenue neutral to negative but that like parts of the city subsidize other parts of the city and and as long as like the the tall bars stay tall then they then suburban areas can remain negative as and it all comes out kind of in the wash but I again I don't know how we bottle that to make sure that as we are going through these case by case, we're keeping that balance. But anyway, that's just a map that I keep in the back of my brain and maybe it has some usefulness as we move forward, too. If there's if there's no other questions, I'm happy to approve this annexation. Well, let's see. I need to do the uh public hearing. Yep. So, this is now I'm just making sure I know what I'm on. I'm on the uh Yeah. Mitchell Mill. Okay. So I'm opening it for AX0725 3810 3824 Mitchell Mill Road. There is no one signed up for or against and I'm closing the public hearing and councelor Pat uh move to approve the annexation. Thank you. All right. If there's no other discussion, all in favor of the motion I I. All oppose? Nay. And the eyes. Okay. One uh no and the eyes have it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next we have petition annexation AX1 1125 uh 1101 corporate center drive in district D. Thank you. So this one is definitely in an unincorporated county pocket. So completely in an area completely surrounded by the boundaries of city of Raleigh. So it's owned u office mixeduse 5 conditional use. It sits on roughly 22 acres. So the proposed use on this property is 237 multif family units. So those apartments. Uh currently there's a site plan under review for this property. Um it is uh there's water and available uh water available in both Corporate Center Drive and Trinity Road. Uh public sewer is actually available on the property as you'll see in just a moment. So um you can see this property here sits near the intersection of Trinity Road and Corporate Center Drive nestled just to to the uh to the east of I40. And you can see a little bit of a zoom out there and see where that sits in relation to uh I40. Um and then you've got uh the Lenovo Center which is just to the east. Got to get my directions right there. Um you can see the current zoning on this property which again has office mixed use five conditional use. And uh the future land use map for this property shows this at office and residential mixed use. So you can see here the utility location. There's a lot of sewer infrastructure running through this property. You can also see uh that there is uh water in the area and site topography and flood plane. There is uh there is uh flood plane on this property. So, anything that is built would not be on that flood plane. And you can see here that area is wooded uh currently. And you can see the preliminary site plan that's in review that shows a lot of those buildings being built outside of the flood zone clearly um or all of the buildings outside of the flood zone. And you can see the street view here that shows a site as wooded. Uh if it is annexed today, it will be brought into uh the boundaries of council district D. And if you have any questions, I'm more than happy to answer them for you today. All right, questions for Mr. Golden. All right. Uh, I will open the public hearing on AX1 11125 Corporate Center Drive. There was no one signed up for support or opposition, so I'm closing the public hearing. Yeah, this is a motion to approve the annexation by adopting an ordinance annexing the property with effective date June 17, 2025. Second. All right. Any other discussion on the motion? If not, all in favor? I. I. All oppose? Nay. Okay. So, one uh no on that. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next, we have petition annexation AX1724 3301 Tar Hill Clubhouse Road. And we have Binham Walter. Yes, ma'am. Uh Hannah cannot be with us today. So, I'm I'm going to talk to you about a couple of things this afternoon. This is a combined presentation for both the annexation AX1724 and the reasonzoning request on this same property Z1424. I'm only going to talk to you once, but you do need to open two separate public hearings uh to to take action here. So, this is property that straddles Tar Hill Clubhouse uh just on the east side of the river here. So the annexation request, this is uh 78 acres and a fraction currently with AP zoning being requested to go to R six residential six with conditions proposed essentially uh 20 236 single unit houses. There's water and sewer on the site. There are some active assessments on the site for waterline extensions which would be due immediately upon annexation. So then an aerial view of this property in question, we are adjacent to the Alvis Farm property which is owned by the city for a future park. Zooming out, you can see uh Nightdale corporate limits and ETJ shown in yellow to the east. And then you can also see Raleigh uh corporate limits shown in this darker gray here as well as uh ETJ in the even lighter gray and this is in our extr territorial jurisdiction. So this is already in the city's planning jurisdiction. Uh quick uh I mentioned that utilities are present. So you can see the infrastructure that is proximate to this site. Uh there is a good amount of topography here uh given the proximity to the river. A view of the site from uh Tar Hill clubhouse. This is looking into the site. So the site is on either side of the road here. The existing uh paved right ofway. Another view looking uh back from the north through the through southern southern view through the site. So then the resoning request same area uh AP to residential six with consist with conditions. This is inconsistent with the comprehensive plan and future land use map planning commission recommends denials just split vote there. uh generally falling along the lines of either this feels really too far away or we're really already committed to serving this place. Um I want to offer you this is a little bit more context than we typically offer on annexation. You have expressed an interest on things that feel like they're on the fringe. So, um, looking at where city streets already are. City of Raleigh maintains streets already in proximity to this property. You can see the planning jurisdiction boundary coming along here. So, we're well uh inside the planning jurisdiction boundary. And you can see in green city maintained streets already uh committed for service. I mentioned previously the Alvis farm site that is adjacent to this site that's held for Raleigh Parkland on the east side of the noose here. This is a two for one. So you can see existing uh Raleigh fire stations on the west side of the they're all on the rest west side of side of the river here. It's not playing well. Uh and then the areas shown in black, those are properties that have been annexed since 2011. So we have uh other areas in the ETJ nearby that have been recently annexed. Public safety. So you can see the police districts here shown in various shades of blue. this there's existing uh north district on the east side of the site and on the west side already and to the south and then uh indicate indication of uh Friday collection area in this vicinity currently. So you can see the site outlined in red. There is a Friday collection sort of in the midst of the site on the east side as well as on the southwest side. Uh and then extensive collection to the west on either side of Sky Crush Skyrest drive. The street plan there is a proposed street through this site that aligns with generally aligns with the current right ofway that would make an important east west connection. that would connect Skyrest to uh Tarhill Club via Tarhill Clubhouse. Um so development of this site would require um for a for a tier three site plan would require additional right ofway dedication and street improvement here and would advance the overall street plan connectivity of the uh city network. uh public utilities serves the area shown in blue on this map. You can see the northeast special study area outlined and and emphasized here from your discussion of the old no Bernie old cruise request that you have recently acted on. And then I've highlighted the location of the item that's in front of you today. It's a little bit to the south and west of that earlier request again within the current public utilities service area. a reminder of what that site looks like now. So, there's some conditions offered here. They've limited the number of residential units to 225. They've established a minimum lot size as well as a maximum lot size for residential units. And they've said that 40% of those lots will be more than 7,000 square ft. They have prohibited townhouse and apartment building and then uh have said that a minimum of the site area will be designated as open space and at least 60% of that would be located adjacent to existing environmentally sensitive andor undisturbed areas. They've uh pro provided to include at least two amenities such as a um you can read uh and then um I'm not going to list them all and then also a pedestrian connection from their site network to the Alvis Farm property for for future access when that park is is there. So uh right now one unit per agricultural tract uh at a uh you essentially have two tracts currently uh going to a total of 225 units. Of course the setbacks are coming back going into that denser residential district. So inconsistent with the comprehensive plan, particularly the future land use map, which calls this uh agricultural production or rural residential, excuse me. And then uh a handful of consistent policies here. Uh and then a couple inconsistent uh largely tied to uh service and um exclusion of those building types that we that I noted and the conditions things along those lines. If you were to approve the resoning, it would amend the future land use map from rural residential to lowcale residential. planning commission uh did recommend uh denial with a split vote. That's right. Um some concerns about fire's ability to serve distance from the city core. Uh but then folks also in support recognizing the proximity of the park property. Um there I believe there's also a school in this vicinity uh public facilities of that nature ready to serve. What questions could I answer for you before you answer open the public hearings? I will note you could reszone without annexing uh because this is already in the city's planning jurisdiction. Uh but probably more logical to first make your decision about the annexation before taking action on the resoning. Okay. Questions for Miss Walters? Mr. uh Councelor Silver? Yeah. Uh, I don't want to put Ken on the spot, but Ken, can you come up here for a second? Uh, I'm actually playing director when we mapped this rural residential and agricultural productive back in 2008. Um, I was looking at the map. Can you pull up the zoning map? cuz I only saw an R six CU which meant that that was probably the only reasonzoning in recent memory cuz typically we don't do general use. Yeah, there it is. So I'm seeing to the bottom an R six CU. Everything else uh looks like from manufacturing housing. I don't see any CU. So this seems to be the first major resoning. Ken, I don't want to put you on the spot, but I know we did this together. Could you recall was it the location because that was 2008. This is 2025. There's new demand for housing. So, I'm just Was it the nature of the land use at that time? Cuz we see in combination, this is really rural manufacturing housing which are very rare in a city of Raleigh. Uh we then have AP uh agricultural productive and then we have generally rural residential was the overall future land use. Well, you're putting me on the spot. I know I would I'm putting myself on the spot because I know we did almost every part of the city together and it wasn't it was a number of years ago. It was. So, um I honestly can not remember and I probably the best way to answer that question would be to go back and look at the documentation of how we initially drafted the future land use map for purposes of folks in the audience when the comp plan was drafted and adopted in 2009. That was the first time that we had a future land use map. Correct. So we were mapping the entirety of the city's jurisdiction for the very first time with land use categories and so certain rules and um decision points were made as to how we would map areas. I'm going to guess that the combination of how lightly developed this area was uh the fact that the vehicular access uh was not very good or you know not very well developed. There wasn't much of a street network here. We already had a legacy of agricultural productive zoning is kind of among the factors that drove the rural residential designation. That doesn't mean that these designations should never be revisited as the city grows and develops. But it but I think though that's probably why um back at that time it seemed like growth was rather far away from this area and that low density uh was in keeping with the with the physical and environmental factors. Well, you your memory is probably as good as mine because I recall driving this area. Uh, and the reason why I'm saying that is that it seems like the plan commission struggled with inconsistency to the land use. And it seems that since 2008, a lot of circumstances have changed. So, when I see a combination of rural residential, manufacturing, housing, and large tracks of land, you know, I'm trying to determine in my head. the plan commission was saying yes, it's inconsistent. But the question is, should this have been, you know, potentially probably the comprehensive plan update will take a look at changing it. So that's why I'm struggling with that inconsistency based on something that was looked at 17 years ago. But that was my only question. Thank you, Ken, for at least doing your best to go back in history. I can't speak to the mapping the futureous map mapping exercise that you're talking about, but I can say this was reszoned in 1995. That's uh Headingham. This is reszoned in 21 and this in 17. I don't This is about 100 acres. This is probably closer to 150. Um those have those are two requests that have been in front of council since the future lane use map was adopted just in the in the vicinity. You you said this is the first big reasoning in this area. So I just wanted to offer that context and the greenway is on the west side not on the east side. Uh but I know this is potential park. So it is very close to potential park and probably at least my favorite green greenway in the city of Raleigh. Uh, so it's on the west side. Is that correct? The Stephen the greenway. The greenway is on the west side. It's on the west side. Okay, that's what I thought. Any other you have a question? uh um back in the at the retreat we asked we we talked about the larger broader implications of of sprawl and growth in these areas although this one is not in the it's neither in the northeast special city set nor the southeast it's in a different different set of the hinterlands um but the we I think for me I try I'm trying to like distinguish between individual case work and then broader policy work that needs to be done. Um, when is that broader conversation around annexation and growth coming back to us? We will have a written report for you in this week's manager update and then we'll be speaking with you in person at a work session in September with more content then. Thank you. Quick question. Y council school Beaverdale is it in the city limits of Raleigh? I will look. Do you want to move ahead while I do that? Yeah, you can move ahead. Yeah, that's my that was my only question. Um cuz we have the school on one side and we have the park on the other side. The park I know is in the limits because it's our park, but I just wanted to verify about the school. It is according to Okay. Um, any other questions for staff? We I can open the hearing. We have a number of folks. Um, so I'll open the petition annexation for AX1724 and I have uh a number of people signed up and you've got eight minutes. I can read the names or Okay. No, our our team is just available to answer questions as needed. Okay. So, do you have uh questions for the applicant on the petition? And I could say andor resoning, but we'll do a separate hearing and Okay. Oh, and you have a presentation. Okay. Yes, Mayor Cow, we do have um a quick presentation. I am Marie Farmer with Parker Poe here on behalf of the applicant uh Meritage Homes of the Carolinas. And so I'm joined by my colleague uh Collier Marsh uh with Parker Poe and uh the project's engineers with MRA and DRMP are with us and available to answer uh traffic and any technical questions that you may have. So this request is to reszone one parcel of land totaling approximately 77 acres. Again from that agriculture production to R six with conditions to allow for a single family home development. The property is located in northeast Raleigh just west of 540 along Tar Hill Clubhouse Road as staff explained and it is right next door to the Alvis Farm uh future public parkland which is in city limits and then it is also right next door uh to Beaverdam Elementary School which is also within the city limits and was opened in 2016. So, this is an area that the city has anticipated and seen lots of growth recently. In terms of annexation, this parcel is adjacent to the city's primary corporate limits and sandwiched between properties within city limits because of the elementary school uh to the east. The fire department's ability to serve this area has been a concern that has been raised for this case, but as staff noted, annexation here would fill in a gap in existing city limits in an area that is already being served by the city, including the elementary school next door. There is sufficient access to city water and gravity sewer to the southern portion of the property, as you can see on the image uh to the right. and the city's 10-year fiscal impact analysis does show that this development will be revenue positive for the city. Currently, the property is zoned uh agriculture production, which would allow for 21 single family homes. And so in order to strike an appropriate balance between that rural residential future land use map designation and the comprehensive plans policies that address growth and increasing the city's housing supply, we requested the R six with conditions to allow for a maximum of 225 units, which is roughly three units per acre. And as staff noted, we added conditions to address the minimum and maximum lot sizes. And what we tried to do uh with this was really prioritized uh the open space in consistency with the overall comprehensive plan policies over consistency with that rural residential future land use map designation which would ultimately require sacrificing that open space and density to provide for what would ultimately be more expensive homes on 1 acre lots. While this is within that rural residential future land use map designation, it is only within a small node and uh this property is surrounded by the lowdensity residential which is the amended uh proposed amended designation for this parcel which is consistent with most of the city's neighborhoods and the character and pattern of development in this area. So again, that proposed use and density strikes what we believe to be the appropriate balance between the city's uh increasing uh housing supply and allowing more affordable homes while still being consistent with the surrounding area. As noted, there is that mobile home park and there are other single family homes in the immediate vicinity. Uh this request did go before committee of the whole because it had been found inconsistent with that rural residential designation and with several comprehensive plan policies. And so staff made uh several recommendations to make this request more consistent, including addressing the minimum lot size, increasing the amount of open space, and making that connection to the Noose River Greenway. So, we worked with staff, we met with city parks and wreck, and we responded to each of those recommendations as outlined here on uh this screen. We also digested the feedback from the committee and evaluated and responded to a suggestion about consolidating open space on site, which is what resulted in that condition about the 60% uh open space being next to environmentally sensitive or undisturbed areas. The applicant will continue coordinating with parks and wreck on the connection to Alvis Farm as that is a future public park that has uh does not currently have a park plan. And so uh the location the exact location for uh the greenway connection uh will be uh determined at site plan. And while we did not prioritize consistency with that rural future land use map designation as noted, uh we did want to highlight several changes that we made to try to bring the project into f further consistency with the future land use map designation. And uh this was also in direct response to feedback that was received from uh the immediate neighbors. So this included and was the reason for uh the condition that staff noted about limiting the building types. Uh neighbors had uh expressed concerns about town houses and apartments in this area and not being consistent with the surrounding area which inspired that that condition. Um and we also uh added conditions to guarantee that there would be some larger lots on this site to again bring it into further consistency with the future land use map. This uh just quickly summarizes uh the the conditions as staff already noted again uh addressing amenities uh to the north and south on the project and uh that overall 20% open space with again that 60%. In terms of the comprehensive plan consistencies, there are two vision themes and nine key policies this request is consistent with, including compact development, open space preservation, and greenway oriented development. And so while we did address every recommendation uh that had been made by staff to align this case more closely with the comprehensive plan uh and the proposal uh had been found consistent with more policies with nine policies than inconsistent. Uh the lowdensity residential is compatible with the vast majority of the surrounding area and pattern of development that this uh area has seen over the last four to five years. and any remaining inconsistencies we believe should be outweighed by the public benefits of this project. So, this proposal will again increase the city's housing supply in an area that the ser that the city has anticipated and seen growth. Again, right next door to that future public parkland, the elementary school that was recently built and that is under capacity and it will provide housing near recreational opportunities with sufficient access to water and sewer and the connection to the greenway. Uh despite addressing again every recommendation and those public benefits, we do understand that the potential insufficiencies in fire response times is still a concern for the overall analysis. And so we have been exploring ways to respond to address including uh res reserving acreage on site for a new fire station. We understand that engineering services and Raleigh fire have indicated that reservation uh for a new fire station would need to be on uh existing rightway and be at least at 3 acres in size. And while this site is not a priority location that multiple options for service locations is valuable to Raleigh Fire. So that is something that that we are exploring that we believe is feasible and in order to add that condition to this case uh we will at this time be asking for a continuence on both the annexation and the reasonzoning hearings uh to July 1st. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So that is uh out of time on that one. I will Oh, that's right. Leaving it open till July 1. Um, I can open the resoning for Z1424 3301 Tar Hill Clubhouse. So now, uh, and that one I have nobody signed up for support or opposition. So, is there a motion or discussion? Yep. Um, yeah. Hey, Marie. Um, thanks for all your work on this. I do appreciate the uh pursuit of dedicating some land for future public safety. I do think some of our previous um conditions on other cases also include a provision for sort of like how to dis dispense with the land or reallocate it if if ultimately it's not decided for that use. So that might be an important piece to to navigate through. Um and then some some questions came up uh internally. Some folks wanted to know is this land being farmed right now? Do you know? Yes, it is being farmed and um is it what maybe but then perhaps you sir maybe know um what's the crop and why not continue it as farmland um etc etc. And this is Bill Robinson with Meritage Bill Robinson with Meritage Homes. Uh currently the person farming the land is uh our our grading contractor. He's friends with the owners. So he's uh our marks clearing and grading and they're the ones that do our development. So they've anticipated this will be developed. He's just happened to farm and he's just temporarily farming on the land. What is he farming? Sorry. I don't know. Okay. So the property owners are not the not the farmers and so they would No, they're not. Okay. Okay. Other questions? Yeah. I just had a question and I don't know it might be for staff more. I'm curious on this agricultural production, you know, uh zoning. Uh what is the goal here? Um what is that set out for? How common is it? Do we have any areas where we're like this is where we want farming in the city of Raleigh? I feel like we haven't talked about that much as a council and I don't know it's a priority for the city at this time. Good question. So agricultural production is a I would say the one of the least dense uh residential districts. It's based on tract size. So, um, if you have a 100 acres and it's a single lot, one house. If you have 200 acres and it's a single lot, one house. If you have two acres and a single lot, one house. Um, there, as far as I know, there's no minimum lot size. Uh, the range of use that's allowed is quite limited in favor of agricultural use. uh and generally located in more edge conditions of the city's jurisdiction or or planning jurisdiction. I don't know that there's any agricultural production in our corporate limits at this time. And my understanding is Wake County does have some efforts to preserve farmland. Um but that would be within their jurisdiction. We don't have anything like that that I know of. Not to my knowledge. No. Okay. Um, and my understanding right now is they could build 21 homes at this time. So, if it were to stay with the current zoning, you'd have some very large properties that would probably be quite costly compared to what's being offered. I think uh the presentation indicated 175. Yeah, I I don't remember the number off the top of my head, but we can pull it up and look at it together. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Bam. Madam Mayor, yep. Question and this is for the um owner um our representatives. What's the intent? Like I hear the question. I understand the premise of some of my council members of this being farmland and possibly making sure we keep something out there. But at the end of the day, you have a property owner who's made a decision obviously looks like to sell the property. So, can you is there some background you can give on what got us here? I think a lot of it would be some of the city's policies and and guidance and um some of the the growth that has been occurring. I think it would also be some of the road improvements that are anticipated uh in this area with the improvements to 540 and some of the connections that are being made. I think um there was some uh reading of of the tea leaves of what would happen here. Um, and especially with the elementary school being uh uh opened in in 2016 right next door. Um, knowing that that the parkland is right next door, I think um from from all sides um it was seeing that residential made sense here. Okay. Just one more question for maybe for Pat. when we're doing our comprehensive plan um updates, do you have a sense of where we're going with agricultural production? Are we talking about that? I don't know if it's coming up much. Yeah, great question, Council Member Pat Young with Planning and Development. Um still early days. We're going to listen to the continue to listen to the community. Um, but I think the strategy likely is to primarily work with our county partners who have some really robust programs in farmland preservation and that will pair with the um material we're going to bring you on September 16th about propo recommendations on annexation utility extension policy that most of the area that is under current agricultural use uh or projected future agricultural use will be outside of our priority growth area. if you take our if you accept our recommendations. So if that is indeed where we go with it, I think you might see um less direct reference to agriculture in the city. Thank you. Sure. Uh thank you. I um just had a question as I look through and this is going back to the annexation report, but we talk about solid waste revenues. when I'm looking at staff uh opinions and stuff, I want to be able to explain when it says that it's a negative 22,000 for solid waste revenue. Um, does that take into account because I know this is just, you know, no numbers on the page. I know we just had that discussion, but does this take into into account what residents are charged on a monthly basis? What does that $22,000 in the negative represent in terms of solid waste services? Could we bring that information back to you on July 1st? Yeah. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Any further questions for the applicant or staff? Um or do you have a motion for the July 1st deferral? Yeah, I'll just move to hold this open until the July 1 meeting in the afternoon. Both hearings open, right? Yeah. Second. Okay. All in favor of the motion I I. All opposed. All right. So, we will hold both sessions open. Thank you. All right. Uh, next we have zoning reszoning Z4424 on Avent Road. Yes, ma'am. This is Z4424 on the north side of Avent Ferry west of Gorman. So, this is uh adding expanding the R4 uh I'm sorry, the R six zoning district to a an additional lot on the west side of the assemblage and then unifying conditions across all of them, all of those lots. So you'd end up with a R six residential six consistent across all parcels, consistent conditions across all and then the special residential parking overlay district would remain. This request is consistent with the comprehensive plan with the future lane use map planning commission recommends approval 8 to1. Uh look at the site again. This is at the northwest corner of Gorman and Avent Ferry. There's a lot of residential around here. commercial immediately across Avent Ferry to the south and then uh Centennial uh campus farther down to the south and east. So there's some conditions offered here. Some of these are common from the existing zoning. Some of them are new. Some of the old ones go away. So uh they have limited the number of bedrooms in a residential unit to no more than three. They've limited building height to two stories. They have said that uh there would be one row of structures aligned and facing a ferry with a minimum setback of 20 ft. That's a reduction from the previous 45 ft setback. As I recall, they have said that a 6oot 6ft fence would be maintained along the rear lot line. That could be new a new fence or uh maintenance of an existing fence. They have limited parking, surface parking to no more than 45 spaces uh and said that uh that would exclude any spaces in a garage or a driveway. Um they've prohibited the apartment building type and limited development to 19 no more than 19 dwelling units. So this is a modest increase in entitlement. the uh current entitlement is um pretty limited based on existing conditions on the properties. This is consistent with the comprehensive plan with the future land use map which calls for low-scale residential here and a number of consistent policies. The response time standards for fire are not met here. Um and planning commission recommends approval. What? There w there was a concern from Commissioner Bennett about the requirement of the fence. She felt like that was exclusionary. What questions could I answer for you before you open the public hearing? Questions from staff? Nope. Okay. Um we'll open the public hearing on Z4424 and we have Isabelle Maddox signed up for the support. It's not present. Is my presentation gonna be up here? He's working on it. Okay. Good afternoon again. Isabelle Maddox here, 3700 Glenwood here today representing the property owners of four parcels on Avent Ferry. And this is a pretty straightforward case. I think you'll find um my client Sammy Stevens who's kind of the leader of these property owners. He has done some a fair amount of development in the sort of NCATE area of Raleigh and has has a good track record and one of his sort of things that he's very focused on is working with the neighborhood and getting the neighbors happy before he uh proceeds with development. So he, you know, he's doesn't have to have it all. He doesn't have to he doesn't want to be greedy. He just wants to get, you know, slight increase in entitlement and that's what we're requesting here. Um so R4 to R six keeping the special residential parking overlay. There's the aerial. Um it's close to a Ferryy and Gorman Street kind of across the street from the Aent Ferry shopping center. Uh there was a case for the three easternmost lots two or three years ago. Um and we originally had this lot right here which is on Octavia in the case and the neighbors did not like that to say the least. and and they they um it's a pretty much of a single family neighborhood back on the other side of Octavia and they were very focused on wanting to maintain the character of their neighborhood, the single family character. And so Sammy agreed that we'll just keep this focused on a ferry and not go to that Octavia lot. So he dropped that out of the case. We grabbed the cases the the parcels that had been reszoned in 21 or two and conformed the conditions they work for the four four parals. Um it is the the future land use map does show lowcale residential. So we're consistent there. Um and some other things we did in in response to neighborhood concerns. Um no dwelling unit should have more than three bedrooms. as you know that there's a concern that if you have a four-bedroom unit that's a student housing um and you know it's one of those things well gosh we're really are close to NC State so why should that be a problem but he was willing to cut that down to three he's going to do town houses here so that kind of works with a townhouse you have uh you know maybe maybe a ground floor bedroom and two up or maybe three up um and building shall not exceed two stories in height again That's a nod to the neighborhood to keep the the height down so there won't be a significant height conflict between the new development and the single family development which is tends to be um you know a lot of onestory smaller houses uh on Octavia um consistent setback off of Avent Ferry a fence and the fence rather than being exclusionary um as Miss Bennett feared this was a condition that the neighborhood very much wanted. They wanted some delineation between the townhouse development and their single family neighborhood. So there's no attempt to really exclude anybody. It's really a it's a just a bare a line of demarcation between a townhouse and a single family neighborhood. No more than 45 surface parks. Uh no apartment building. So, we're going to do towns and a maximum of 19 units. So, again, it's a fairly straightforward case. Um, as I said, we originally had a a parallel in Octavia Octavia. We dropped that out in response to neighbor concerns. All the parcels were on the transit emphasis carder. We're adding more housing units closer close to transit while being sensitive to the single family neighborhood um adjacent. Restricting stories. restricting the number of bedrooms, excluding apartments, requiring a fence. We are consistent with the comp plan and the future land use map. Um, as to the urban form map, residential zonings can't bring with them a frontage. So, we can't really add a a frontage designation in this zoning case, but we we are requiring that 20 foot consistent setback. So that I think that mimics a frontage. Uh I think the the green or urban limited maybe a 20 foot setback. So I think that that does as as well as we can do to mimic an urban frontage. Um on the inconsistency as to fire response time. The only issue there was that a second ladder truck would take 9 minutes rather than eight to arrive to this site. And also that and this is a two-story building so we don't really need the ladder truck so I don't think that's a huge thing. Um the planning commission vote was 8 to1 and Miss Bennett did offer a couple concerns. The fence as as Bay mentioned was one of the things but she also wanted a little more density here in in keeping with this area of town. I get it. But again, trying to balance the neighbor issues with the desire to add some units. So that's this is where we came out. So anyway, happy to answer any questions that any of you guys have and um that concludes my presentation. Okay. Thank you. Questions for Miss Maddox. Um just real quick, Isabelle. Um I just that green background so you know is very hard to read. Um but I really appreciate what you all have done with the neighbors. I know there were some significant concerns early on and you all have worked quite hard to um you know deal with that and as far as I know there aren't any concerns at this time. Not that I have heard. Thank you. And that's that's the understanding of of our team and and my client. Um Councelor Jones and then councelor Silver. Thank you so much. Um can you help me? I I don't see the condition very often about bedrooms about specific bedrooms. So I'm just wondering the can you further help me understand why it's just it's a sort of anti- studentent housing condition you know the four bedroomedroom unit which you if you want to maximize your revenue student housing put four bedrooms in it that makes okay all right thank you councelor Silva I'll support the case but I will to express my concern uh about the fence I think the neighbors if there were concern about delineation all of them collectively. Could it put up a fence? The fact that it's being built, it's a type of development does concern me. I always ask, I look carefully at conditions. What is the condition mitigating? And in this case is a different housing type. Therefore, we have to put up a solid 6-ft fence. I spent half my career actually removing fences or lowering fences because there are other ways in the distance between, I'm sure, the back of the building and the back of the property. I'm just looking at your map probably is 150 to 200 feet which is sufficient different distance for landscaping. So um I'm troubled by it. I'm not going to punish uh this particular case but do want to send a message that I always want to make sure conditions at least from my perspective are mitigating an impact and this one's being preemptive and that makes me extremely uncomfortable. Uh but again the neighbors agreed this case is going forward. All the other merits work. uh in my case, in my opinion, so I will support it, but just sending a message uh that I'm very concerned about the existence of a barrier. Uh but to me, I want to make sure people have good neighbors and you know, I I just I'm not comfortable with it, but I'm not going to oppose this case for that reason. Thank you. Okay, any other questions from Miss Maddox? All right. I will There's no one signed up in opposition, so I will close the public hearing. Yeah, I'm prepared to make a motion. I move to adopt the proposed consistency statement dated June 17th, 2025 contained in the agenda materials and to approve the zoning amendment with the adoption and effective dates described in the agenda item under recommended action. Second. All right. Uh, any other discussion? If not, all in favor of the motion? I I All oppose. Nay. And that is unanimous. Thank you. All right. Next matter for public hearing is reszoning Z5424 Lewisburg Road in District B. Yes, ma'am. So, this you have seen this before. This is a uh we're continuing the public hearing. This is uh on the east side, southeast side of Lewisburg Road, currently zoned R1. um go into our residential den with conditions consistent with the plan, consistent with the future land use map. Planning commission recommends approval. There has been revision to the request and I want to highlight that for you and then you uh may want to hear from the applicant. So the change here, the uses previously identified for prohibition remain the same. They have added a condition that waves their uh possible exemption from UDO block perimeter, dead in street and stub street requirements to allow for a stub street to be created on the eastern property boundary toward Kyle Drive. So, um you remember when we discussed this previously, the district council member had questions about connecting to Lewisburg. There, uh two separate parcels between this parcel and Lewisburg. Uh but the connection to Kyle Drive, setting up a stub there is uh consistent with state transportation desires for limiting connections to a Lewisburg and also advances city interest in improving connectivity and the street network. What questions could I answer for you before you continue the public hearing? Any questions? All right. Um and as you said, the public hearing was continued. We do have the Is the applicant here? If there are any questions for the applicant. All right. Um, it's fine. Uh, all right. So, I can close the public hearing. And do you have a motion? Um, thank you so much for making that amendment. I really appreciate your work on that. Um, and so with that, I move to adopt the proposed consistency statement dated June 17, 2025 contained in the agenda materials and to approve the zoning amendment with the adoption and effective dates described in the agenda item under recommended action. Second. All right. Any other discussion? If not, all in favor of the motion I. I. All oppose? Nay. Great. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you. Yeah. Thank you. I hope you all as well. Okay. All right. Next, we got AX1124. Yes, ma'am. I'm actually going to provide you with a combined presentation for the next four items. I'm only going to talk once about the four. That's my that's that's how I demonstrate. That's what love looks like in public, right? Um, so we have these two long skinny parcels on the west side of Globe Road that are adjacent to each other. There's a reasonzoning request and an annexation request for each. And I just want to walk you through the situation out here. So, they currently have Durham County zoning. The areas in white around them on this map also have Durham County zoning. The areas in color are Raleigh zoning. Uh the Durham Raleigh annexation agreement puts these parcels inside Raleigh's boundary. Even though this property is in Durham County, my understanding is that it's all about which way the water flows and who can provide service. This is a little bit of a funny situation on our county border. So the um again Durham County residential rural residential zoning here the two parcels combined are less than two acres. Each one is just under an acre um tied to the resoning request which I'll talk about in just a minute. The uh proposed use here is a single family residence on each lot. uh water I'm sorry water is and sewer are both relatively approximate. There are this these are both outside the standard NFP response times for full respon full fire response and arrival of a second company. So, um, again, you can see here those two lots. Um, here's the kind of pullback so you can get a sense of where that annexation agreement boundary is and where these lots are between the county line and the annexation agreement that dates to 2019. The utilities are all on the east side of Globe Road. We've talked about zoning already in both towns. Uh Globe Road is a is a bit of a ridge. A view on Globe Road looking at those two sites in question. Uh looking in the other direction. So this is looking uh south along Globe. The first image was looking north. So then the resoning request, this is consistent with the 2030 comprehensive plan, the 2030 comprehensive plan as well as the future lane use map and planning commission recommends unanimous approval of both of the reasonzoning requests. Again, just under two acres. Um, two separate requests for these lots, but it's the same business across them. So the um there's a condition for each parcel that says that the maximum number of principal residential dwelling units will be one and that that then there would be a 50-foot principal building setback from Globe Road. So you're going from um one parcel a total of two per lot to the same but with uh city zoning and and that is really about access to service as you might imagine. So again consistent with the comprehensive plan future land use map here is low scale residential number of consistent policies that there is a response time consideration here for fire uh planning commission recommends approval. What questions could I answer for you before you open four individual public hearings for these items? I think councelor Jones and councelor Patton I was wondering for first of all thank you what why are they going for R six zoning um especially if they're limiting it to one residence what is the uh benefits of being an R six I would defer to the applicant on what they believe they're accessing okay through that I will ask them okay okay um I I might have some questions about that too maybe for the applicant because it seems seems like these properties are large enough to support well and septic but so I seems like they could do what they wanted by right but um so this if we approve if we approve the annexation it will come into city of Raleigh's corporate limits but it will remain in Durham County's jurisdiction so people will vote for Durham County commissioners and Raleigh city that's my understanding yes okay clear as much [Music] Do you have a a question on that? My brain is processing all that. I don't know that this is the first time that I'm contextualizing that point because I've been as with all the other annexations, I'm like, "Oh, look, it's in the positive and it's going the right way." But I didn't realize that they would not be incorporated into us. So, that's a point that I had not thought of. So, you're just hearing my brain do that. They will just Can you help me understand that a little bit more, Megan? I don't. My brain is not. So, on their ballot, they would have the Durham County Commissioners, but also the Raleigh City Council instead of voting on Wake County Commission and City Coun Raleigh City Council. Instead, they'll vote on Durham County Commissioners and Raleigh City Council because a lot of people in that area already do that. Okay. Okay. Okay. Uh, any other questions for staff? If not, I can I'll open uh the petition annexation for AX1124 3114 Globe Road. There's no one signed up on this one or in opposition, but we do have folks signed up for the next one. So, I'm assume Do I have to be religious about this? I'm afraid. Okay. So, I go ahead and just close it. Let's say you're going to open all four. Okay. All right. Well, let me do that. I will open the reszoning for 3114 Globe Road. I will open AX0825, which is the petition for 3108 Globe Road. And then I will also open reszoning Z0625 for 3108 Globe Road. And we have a number of folks signed up in support. If any of y'all want to come down have Tripy Perk, Keith Larson, and Hitesh Aay Aaya. You've got 32 minutes. I'm just Well, hopefully we can get this done in 5 seconds. Um, thank you for your time today. My name is Keith Larson. I am the general contractor and quote unquote developer that's been hired by the two property owners. Neither one are here today. One was here earlier but had to leave. So I'm here to answer any questions that you may have in reference to the property annexation and resoning. Um, can you help me understand what the R six what benefits that brings to the the R six was the intent here is to have a single family with potential of having at least maybe one outbuilding or structure or in-law suite that could be built on the property proper. So it has to be R six to be able to allow for that. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Think they could build an R All right. Do you have a question? Yeah. Um, it seems to me, sir, like you could probably have built these two single family homes and in-law suite on well and septic and just with the zoning and jurisdiction you already have on the property. Um, why not why not do that? The property owners didn't want to have a private well andor septic tank for two reasons. it's environmental to them and that's their personal opinion and um it also limits the footprint of the structure that they may build on the property. Okay, any other questions for the applicant? All right, I'm going to close them all ready. Okay. So, closing uh 3414 annexation, closing 3414 reszoning, closing AX8 3108 and 3108 reszoning. I just have a quick question in um do I have to if I'm making the motion make it for the four separate or can I combine them like two annexations approval and or they all have to be their own approval? They have to be their own separate. I have to do them all separately. Got it. Okay. All right. Uh my I I make the motion to approve petition indexation AX1 1124. Second. Second. All right. All in favor of the motion. I I. All oppose? Nay. So that's unanimous. I will make a second uh motion to approve the petition annexation AX0825. Second. All right. All in favor of the motion? I I. All oppose? Nay. Okay. Okay, so that's unanimous. And then uh for uh motion to approve resoning Z1624. And that says, I move to adopt the proposed consistency statement dated June 17th, 2025 contained in the agenda materials and to approve all the zoning and to approve the zoning amendment with the adoption and effective dates described in the agenda item under recommended action. Second. All right. All in favor of that motion? I I. All oppose? Nay. All right. So, that's unanimous. And then I'm going to move to approve Z625. And that is I move to adopt the proposed consistency statement dated June 17th, 2025 contained in the agenda materials and to approve the zoning amendment with the adoption and effective dates described in the agenda item under recommended action. Second. All right. All in favor of that motion? I I. All opposed? Nay. All right. So, that's unanimous. Thank you so much. Love you. Love you. Love you. All right. Right. For four started a new trend. I know. Yeah. And when they don't get their way, they don't love you. Okay. So, that concludes our public hearing uh for today. And we now have report and recommendation of economic development and innovation. We don't have a report and no items pending. Okay. We've had nothing this council term so far. Okay. And then we've got uh growth and natural resources committee. No report. No items pending. Safe, vibrant, and healthy community committee. No report. There is a meeting on the 24th. I am asking for an excused absence. So my vice chair would need to run that meeting on the 24th. On the 24th. Okay. Okay. Uh and then transportation and transit. Uh we have one item pending related to pavement markings. We will not meet in June for reasons of scheduling. So we will pick up that topic at our meeting August 28th from 3:00 to 5:00 in council chambers. Okay. Uh next we have the report of the mayor and city council. I'll start with councelor Harrison. Yeah. I just want to thank the people across uh this nation who peacefully exercised their first amendment rights this weekend. I'm incredibly grateful to RPD who monitored activities in Raleigh and work to ensure our safety every day. It's essential that our nation nation's leaders respect our ability to come together to assemble in peace and express ourselves freely. I'm dismayed by the political violence that took place in Minnesota and the loss of life of a protester in Salt Lake City. Um, I just want to say I think we are living through a tumultuous time and I'm asking for a moment of silence. I reflect on our shared humanity and pray that we do take care of one another. All right. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Um, so on June 23rd, there will be a District C meeting at Robert's Park starting at 6:30. Also, I know doing public comments, there was a comment made about the Junth events that were just cancelled this past Saturday. Um, the city didn't cancel those events. I just wanted that to be out there. the um individuals who were hosting the event at Dicks made the call to cancel that event. But the city is working and supporting multiple Junth events this week that are happening at Chavis Park. So please go out um govern yourselves accordingly. And also there will be an event at Shaw University um at 11 a.m. Um I'm actually on the panel um about Junth. I'm actually on the part of the presentation um at SHA University at 11. So I look forward to everyone, you know, remembering, you know, where we've been as a country and let's try not to repeat some of those. Okay, I have a few things. Um first, it is happy pollinator pollinator awareness week. One in three bites of food we eat requires pollinators. So make a small change in your yard. Plant a native plant. Leave the leaves. increase natural areas in your yard because small actions by each of us can have a big impact. Um, next I want to say that our district e next community meeting will be on Wednesday, July 9th at La Cuscina Italian restaurant from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. We're moving it back an hour this month so that I can attend the entire community engagement board meeting for a longer discussion on what the city's expectations are for the board and uh bring updates following our boards and commissions task force meeting tomorrow, June 18th. Our Decoding Democracy Book Club will meet on Saturday, July 12th at Overland Regional Library from 9:30 to 11:30. We went through article 1 and article 2 last weekend and we'll be moving on to article 3 next month. All study guide and reading material can be found on our Google Drive once you sign up at christinaforalei.com. Hope to see you there. Uh my CAC update, we had an amazing uh meeting last week uh of which we will be sending out some more information. Uh please look for updates from the city. would love it if we could possibly add it as an agenda item on our next meeting to just daylight the uh conversation and um the offerings that the city has done, the work that we've done so far in partnership with the CAC network. I'm really really uh excited about that work and so I'd love to give the space before we go on break. And then uh in accordance with everyone else, I want to give a huge shout out to the organizers of this weekend's protests uh demonstrations. It was an incredible experience to be a part of a movement and brought so many people together in peaceful demonstration. With that, I do want to say that we are living in a deeply dangerous moment in this country. The political assassinations in Minnesota weren't isolated. They are a warning. A warning about what happens when violent rhetoric is normalized. When people are dehumanized for their beliefs, their background, or their identity, and when disagreement turns into open hostility. We are watching military tactics being used in our cities against protesters, immigrants, and neighbors. People are receiving death threats simply for praying in their houses of worship. Our Jewish community has been targeted with threats to their synagogues. Families in our immigrant communities are being torn apart by raids. And overseas, we continue to witness the deaths of innocent civilians in a war that has left so many around the world feeling helpless and heartbroken. Violence is never the answer, no matter who it's against. We can't afford to be selective in our outrage or conditional in our compassion. In a time when institutions feel shaky and politics feel weaponized, community is what we have left. Let's hold tight to that. Let's choose to care, to show up for one another, and to remember that peace doesn't come from silence. It comes from solidarity. Thank you. Thank you. I'll just build on the violence and nonviolence commentary to say it is uh gun violence prevention month and I know the Raleigh Police Department is working hard on um getting guns off the street and also uh doing projects on uh safe locks for gun storage and storage. So I would just encourage everyone to uh right support those efforts and try to reduce gun violence. We've had 15 homicides this year in the city, which is flat in terms of violent crime. And then I think it's 33. I see the police chief out there. 33 incidents of shootings where the victims did not die um but involved gun violence. So um just disturbing uh numbers, although again I think that's in in keeping with past um any any homicide and any shooting is one too many. Thank you. Uh, I want to echo my sentiment about Junth and remind everyone it's not just a city of Raleigh holiday. It is a national holiday. There are some of us that actually call it freedom day. It is a day of celebration. Uh, I am honored to be in Annapolis that day. Uh, working on a master plan with the team to unveil a heritage park for a piece of property that was owned by an enslaved black man named Frederick Carr. uh we'll unveil a 5acre master plan and I'll be there on Junth and I believe it's so appropriate to be there. Uh but I will try to enjoy all the other festivities while I'm here in Raleigh. Um I also very want to say to the city manager, thank you so much for an opportunity of the mayor and I to sit down with the assistant city manager Evan Raleigh and Carrie Painter to work out those adjustments on Liken Plaza. I know I have a design background. I try to stay in my lane, but the mayor and I sitting down. We're very pleased with the modifications made uh to address a very important issue as people enter our performing arts center. And then lastly, I'm so pleased to say that after working now with my policy analyst in parks and wreck, I'll be starting to hold our district meeting starting in August. Uh we're trying to secure a date, so I'll be able to announce that on the July 1st uh council meeting. Uh and so that'll be starting in August and every month thereafter. So I'll be looking from meeting and hearing from residents so we can ensure we can make the district and the city the very best place it can be. Those are my remarks. Great. Um I will not Oh gosh. Um no office hours for me in July. I'll resume in August. Uh, one thing I wanted to lift up from the consent agenda that is that we made a mid-year budget amendment for related to increased transit assistance program costs. And while like find having to shift money around is maybe a neutral neither good nor bad, I do think it's a good indicator that we're getting these assistance programs to the people who need them. And so I was somewhat glad to see like a high utility of those programs. Um, and then uh does sound it's like really been a bummer with these comments today, guys. But, um, I did want to express my deep condolences to the loved ones and family of Adrien Basilio who tragically drowned near Raleigh Beach this weekend. Um, as folks will know, this has been a particularly problematic area of the Noose River, um, resulting in a number of drownings. Um, so I understand that the access is currently closed and I know the parks department is already on it, but I'd just like to ask for another round of assessment to see if there's a way to further deter visitors in this area. I know that as the weather warms, this the noose is an attractive amenity in our city. But if any further sort of hardening of the area to deter visitors would, I think, be fruitful. and then a round of engagement with our Latinx community leaders like El PBLO and other faith-based organizations that can help discourage folks from swimming in this area. I sorry I had one other comment to make uh this is a quick question for the city manager and the communications staff. I think we've all received uh both positive and not so positive comments about the change in the leaf collection program. I don't know if the city has been proactive because a lot of people are saying, "Why did you do this? What's the benefit?" And so I know we're individually getting emails, some of us to all council members, some individually. So I don't know what the communication staff putting something out there just explained the reason and benefit. And some are saying why, you know, we this is great. Why is it going to take a year? So, I don't know if anybody watched our deliberations. It would be helpful as we start that communications plan because we we're all here at the table and understand why it's going to take some time to phase it in. But a lot of emails we're getting, at least from my perspective, I think all of us are being copied. That would be helpful if something would just go out. Uh but again, we're getting both positive and negative. Uh but those that are saying positive, like saying please make this happen tomorrow, not a year. And so I think it'd be helpful just to push it out to our residents. Thank you. We are working on a communication strategy. So we're trying to put all the pieces together. Thank you. Yes. No report. No report. Okay. Next we have appointments. Good afternoon. First is Centennial Authority one regular vacancy. John Harden received four votes. Latanta Mcrimman received four votes. So that will be carried over to your next ballot. Next is Civil Service Commission, one regular vacancy. That is the management of a private business or industry slot. Mayor Cowell and Council Member Jones nominated Seth Wood. So that will be appearing on your next ballot. Next, Human Relations Commission. I separated these out again for um simplicity. Rachel Boon received eight votes, so would be appointed into that regular slot. And that leaves two alternate vacancies. Um couple nominations here. Council member Jones nominated Daphne Moore and Stacy Webb. So, both of those will be coming back for your consideration. Next is Police Advisory Board, one alternate vacancy. Council member Patton nominated Shawn Casada and Council Member Jones nominated Carlin Ashford. So, both of those names will be coming back on your next ballot. And lastly, Raleigh Historic Development Commission. that one remaining um alternate VA I'm sorry regular vacancy Reverend Gibbs received one vote Ariel Coorct received six so would be appointed so we're uh done there and uh no new announcements today under nominations that's all right thank you uh next report of the city attorney no report and the report and recommendation of the city clerk good afternoon again mayor and council you received your various sets of minutes in your agenda materials for consideration to approve. Move for approval. Second. All in favor of the motion? I I. All oppose? Nay. It's unanimous. Thank you. All right. Uh, a motion is in order to enter into close session pursuant to general statute 14318.11 A2 to prevent disclosure of an honorary degree, scholarship, prize, or similar award. General Statute 1431811 A3 to consult with this city attorney in order to preserve attorney client privilege. 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