City Council - Regular Meeting

0:08 – 0:28•JCJanet Cowell

The Stanley Cup winning Carolina Hurricanes. And we have Brian Fork here, the Chief Executive Officer of Carolina Hurricanes Holdings. If he just wants to say a few words. And we really appreciate you, Brian, coming to City Hall, allowing all of us to get up close and personal with the Cup.

2:58 – 4:07•JCJanet Cowell

And I know we're gonna have a photo op since we all dressed up for this, but I do just wanna thank Brian Fork and say, we are fortunate to have you in charge of the hurricanes. As many of you may know, Brian is a Broughton High School graduate. He played football, actually was the quarterback of the Broughton High School football team, went on and played at Davidson, another great North Carolina institution, and then got his law degree at UNC. So he's got a lot of bona fides in the state of North Carolina, obviously worked as an attorney and worked in the General Assembly, understands the poli

Uh, no. I'll come down here. Put them in the middle.

5:42 – 6:17•JCJanet Cowell

Do we need, I know the couple exit the chamber, so do we need to pause for a moment while they, the handlers. come in okay well that is the handler right there other duties as assigned all right well next we have the Pledge of Allegiance and council branch if I can ask you to

6:47•JCJanet Cowell

5B, I believe it was, right? Otherwise, is there a motion on the remainder?

6:56•JCJanet Cowell

All in favor, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. Okay, and then do we want to take up that item?

Yes, I appreciate staff supplying a response. I know this is, in terms of specifically, we understand the needs of Lake Wheeler. We understand that there was some additional work required by Department of Environmental Quality The concern that I have is that there is a transfer of $5 million that's going from a project that money went from Six Forks into this project, and now some of the money from the old Wake Forest Road widening in particular is now being moved to the Lake Wheeler project. I guess from my... But the constituents are very concerned about the traffic issues in that area. We'v

It splits our district, so it's important to my constituents, too. So I just want to confirm, Old Wake Forest was a 2017 bond project, is that right? Okay. And I guess the fear I have is that when we move this $5 million away and we say we can make it up through this other, you know, I hear my brain glaze over and I hear complicated bureaucratic process. So like how, what is the kind of life cycle of getting these return funds if we're going to use this CAMPO reimbursement?

So we're bidding the project in early 27, 60 to 90 days to work with CAMPO to replenish these funds. So we're not going to have any delay in the project. I am curious if...

I just want assurances, because you still have to go through a process, that if we go ahead and approve this consent agenda item, that the city is committed to finding the five million, whatever gap that is, to complete the Wake Forest Old Wake Forest Road project. Just need that assurance because, you know, the public's been waiting. I know there's a process you're pursuing. I just want to know there's a contingency to ensure that we get to fall 2027, that we have either the approach you're recommending with the lab funding, another contingency option, but just want to make sure for me to vot

12:46•JCJanet Cowell

Okay, thank you. Do we have a motion to?

12:54 – 13:08•JCJanet Cowell

Second. All in favor, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. All right, thank you for highlighting that. Next we have the report and recommendation of the Planning Commission and we have Ms. Bynum Walters.

On Z43, and maybe this is a question for Mr. Otwell, I read through, but it said 4.3, recommending denial. And I guess I have one question. The applicant did reduce it from the R10 to R6 CUD. Currently, I believe it's R6 would be, it was R4 now. Do they understand what could be developed under the current entitlement or it was just, because sometimes you hear deny, it's for the following reasons. I just want to understand for the 4-3 from the Planning Commission and then the community asking for the no. And I know we'll go to public hearing and ask more questions. I just want to understand the

And the three, the filling of the three that recommended, I'm sorry, there were four that recommended denial, so can you just ask the essence of what their concerns were?

Can I build on that, Commissioner Otwell? So when we first saw this case, the split difference was larger, and so some people were swayed. Do you have any insights into did people state their reason if they had been opposed to the case and are now in favor of it, what brought them around?

And then if I could ask, this is a little out of field, but tonight we have a case, and I don't think we asked you about it, Commissioner Otwell, when it was at this step in the process, the one on Glenwood Avenue, the split zoning from CX3, or it's R now and CX3, whatever. Do you have any memory of what the deliberations were like there? What, if anything, was of interest to the commission?

I have one last one. Sorry, I think this one's for you, Bynum. I know we've toyed with this process change where once the public hearing is set, changes can continue to be made during the time until the public hearing is open. Have we done that yet? We have not done that yet. We have not done that yet. Okay. So if you want to change before the public hearing... Don't set it. Okay. Correct. Got it. Okay. And I'll just call out into the ether the applicant for the Capitol Boulevard case. I hope they'll reach out to me. But happy to proceed with the public hearings as suggested by staff. So moved

21:57 – 22:11•JCJanet Cowell

Okay. All in favor, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. That is unanimous. Thank you very much. Thank you both. Okay, next we have the report and recommendation of the city manager.

I just want to say I think that the this is awesome and I would love to see more of this intentional placemaking Calling on our history throughout the city it really honors the past and also gives I think a sense of purpose and place to that area now and and What a great message that's gonna send for everyone who's coming in from out of town to see how we as a city separate celebrate our history and I just think it's fantastic and I don't think miss Rainey's here, but you know I don't think any of this would have happened without her advocacy and the neighbor's advocacy for decades. And so con

30:13 – 30:39•JCJanet Cowell

Well, and just following on that, I was also, I think it's exciting, both of these announcements, but to the street signs and the different colors. So we have brown for historic districts. We have green for generic districts. Now we're introducing blue. What does the blue symbolize and will we have other blue districts to sort of piggyback on Councilor Lambert-Melton's question?

31:09 – 31:20•JCJanet Cowell

And then just the thought, what is the delineation of that district? And when you say it has to be compact, is there a regulation on the books as to what that means?

I'd imagine if Octavia is here, she would say thank you for all the support you did. There was a gospel celebration that was held in the complex two weeks, a weekend. I can't keep up with days. Two Sundays ago. So I know she was, she'd be grateful for that. And then I also wanted to commend you for the name reveal. I still haven't gotten it all straight. Atlantic Union. Yeah. A-U-B. Atlantic Union Bank. Yes. But you put on a phenomenal, y'all missed a phenomenal performance. but to see so many people from the community come out and support that as well, so I just wanted to commend you on that.

I want to commend you as well. As you know, I do this work for a living of addressing past harm, and for those that would fully understand the impact of past harm, it has three components, to apologize, to acknowledge, and to atone. it's the tone that most people can't figure out. And so to see this bear itself out, because even when I was here the first time, Octavia kept telling me about Manly Street, Manly Street, and I'm like, I'm looking on a map and could not find it. The exhibit at the Atlantic Union Bank Convention Center, did display that and helped me understand a bit more, and I thi

37:34•JCJanet Cowell

Great. Thank you for helping pull this together. Councillor Ford.

Don't step away yet, Tyesha. I've been having some conversations and also thinking about the issue of the curfew and understanding this conversation is going to be moving forward. But one of the things I think I would want us as a body to consider, but also with staff, is looking at how do we actually reach the at-risk youth population more. You know, one of the things I think people don't often realize is that we've got a lot of challenges with Kids in the community and the kids who often come to hoop nights, participate in our summer youth employment program and our councils and things along

Hi. could not have said it better myself. That was gonna be my question. We have to do this community conversation, but I agree with Council Member Ford. Because the teen takeover was the top of a conversation, most of the teens that will most likely show up probably did not go to the teen takeover. And I'd probably ask the first question, how many did you go? And if no hands go up, I do agree that we have to focus on the marginalized, the overlooked, the neglected. As I stated, I don't know the right number because I tried to look at our data between 10 and 19. 25% of our population has 50, 6

42:03 – 42:17•JCJanet Cowell

And just to those, Ms. Mosley, if you do want to just talk about, I know you have reached out to a number of nonprofit partner organizations in organizing this, but maybe you can just at least elaborate how you're approaching this.

Madam Mayor, I just want to share that Councilor Jones and I met with the Educational Justice Alliance just yesterday. And in that meeting, I think they worked with some of the kids that Councilor Ford is mentioning. And I passed on the contact. I talked to Taisha last night as well, and we had a conversation. So I think, yeah, we just need to also, from a council standpoint, if we know of certain groups and organizations Even just individuals that can that we need to make sure our staff talks to are that we need to talk to let's pass it on and share it So it's a joint effort

Yeah, I was just, in terms of next steps, wanted to make sure it was totally clear, because I think many of our residents were expecting that September 15th was their next engagement on this topic. So I just want to make sure we're saying clearly, we're not hearing this topic on the September 15th, and we invite you to join us on October 12th.

44:03 – 45:32•JCJanet Cowell

Yep. Actually, I was going to wait for all of that and then close this. Yeah. So I guess we are not holding a vote on September 15th. I think. we all just from that first conversation we had saw how big this topic is, how much conversation it is, particularly because we were framing it as youth engagement, youth workforce, youth programs, and the curfew. And that all just very quickly became a lot to try to force that conversation into a very condensed, period of time and I do appreciate I think all the counselors I mean y'all just mentioned I know counselor Jones has been meeting with you kno

Thank you so much. I guess this is for the city manager. As we discussed and learned in our last sessions that there's a big chunk of the participants in the teen takeover that weren't from Raleigh. I know that that's an issue up in Briar Creek where we started. There's a lot of break-ins and things that are happening from people who come out from Durham or from Morrisville. And I'm wondering, can you give us an update on what the collaborations or conversations between Morrisville PD, Durham PD, and RPDR so that we can see how we're addressing that from those coming into the city and what the

Right. I think that's one of the biggest messages that I heard in just speaking with young people was it wasn't even us. We're being punished for something we didn't do. And I just want to be able to see, okay, well, we are working on that. And so any information, whether it's in the Friday Reporter or forthcoming, would be much appreciated. Thank you.

47:20 – 48:05•JCJanet Cowell

Well, I just wanted to follow on that. I've had the opportunity to sit down with the Chancellor of Duke University yesterday, Vincent Price, and their Homegrown Initiative, which is talking about these very issues in Durham. And I think they've invested a lot in Durham County. They know they do have a footprint here in Wake County. They have, obviously, the Duke Hospital in North Raleigh. one of the follow-ups from that conversation was to understand maybe some of the activities that they're finding that are effective there given that you've got an initiative with metrics working with the Durh

yeah i just wanted to say thanks to everyone who is having these conversations um it's not always you know obvious because it's not right here at council but this has been a huge i think important issue to all of us i know the police advisory board had a really robust discussion about these issues so if anyone wants to check out their notes from their last meeting I found them helpful. I also did a ride along with our PD in the downtown district just to kind of see things on the ground. And again, I found that super, super useful. So appreciate everyone in our community engagement office, our

I saw the chief come in. I don't know if you.

Awesome. Thank you so much. I know I've spoken to some counselors in Morrisville because we're all super connected and we're all right there. So just wanted to make sure that we understood the conversation that was going on. I appreciate your update.

52:16 – 52:35•JCJanet Cowell

All right. Thank you. And we will move on to the matters scheduled for public hearing this afternoon. The first case is rezoning Z08 on Rock Quarry Road. And this was a carryover from our last meeting. I will turn it over to Ms. Recco.

53:10 – 53:25•JCJanet Cowell

Okay. It's already open and we have four minutes, 37 seconds remaining. Mr. Hunter Winstead is the only person signed up support or opposition this time. Mr. Winstead.

54:36•JCJanet Cowell

All right, thank you. I'll go ahead and close the rezoning. Do you have questions or a motion?

No question. Just for the record, I requested that you meet with the residents. I didn't ask your request for that actual hearing. Just to be clear, I didn't request for the condition. I asked you to meet with the residents and talk about what y'all could do. So I thank you for your condition and putting in that at the work of the resident. And with that, I move to adopt the proposed consistency statement dated August Let me change this yet. They didn't update in their document. So I'm going to update it Compose consistency Damon dated September 1st 2020 says contain the gender materials and t

55:32 – 55:49•JCJanet Cowell

Any other discussion? All in favor of the motion, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay, and that passes. Thank you. All right, next we have rezoning Z5125, Spring Forest Road, and this, we've got Mr. Burns.

56:53 – 57:18•JCJanet Cowell

Okay. Questions for staff? All right. And this was carried over, so it is an open hearing, and we have... Hunter Winstead in the support with two minutes and 24 seconds remaining. And then opposition, we have Scott Ayers, David Bender, Valerie Willis, and Rita Tatum, got your name right today, with a minute and 17 seconds.

58:23 – 58:35•JCJanet Cowell

Questions? Okay. Then I will welcome the folks that are here. Again, you have a minute and 17 seconds remaining.

1:00:12•JCJanet Cowell

Thank you. Okay, we'll close the hearing. Do we have comments?

Sure, yeah. I think we hear from residents a lot that they would like to live close to something they can walk to. I hear that even in my own neighborhood, so I do think there are a lot of things people would like to live close to. I do think CX leaves a lot of space, and I appreciate that the Constraints that have been put on since the time of the last public hearing based on resident feedback You know our job here is to decide if something's reasonable and in the public interest I think the constraints placed on the commercial uses including the hours of operation and the buffers bring it in

1:02:03•JCJanet Cowell

Councillor Silver, did you want to say anything?

Well, I did. I just want to go back. Looking at those transition zones, when we encountered the 2030 comprehensive plan, one of the hottest topics was transitioning between density and transitioning between residential and non-residential uses. That was the birth of those transition zones to protect nearby residential by having a series of transition zones and so I'm very pleased that as we have seen these zoning cases, it works. It was intended to provide the appropriate buffers, the screening, the distances, the height slope to ensure that residents aren't impacted. And so I just want, I'm s

1:03:07 – 1:03:24•JCJanet Cowell

Any other comments, discussion? If not, all in favor of the motion, aye. Aye. All opposed? So that is unanimous. Okay, one opposed. All right, thank you. And next we have petition annexation AX0626.

1:03:42 – 1:04:00•JCJanet Cowell

Okay. All right. Next, we have the various committee reports. We have no items pending, so we'll go to the report of the Mayor and City Council. And, Councillor Ford, I will start with you.

Too fast, I didn't have my notes ready. Okay. Sorry, y'all, I don't know what to do when we haven't spent five hours meeting. Sorry, I'm sorry. Panicking. I got, okay, I got him. Good stuff we did through the consent agenda today. We added more ADA parking spaces downtown, which we often hear about. So that is great news for our disabled parkers. And we also approved a bunch of master service agreements for invasive species removal that is... a team sport between parks and other departments that will allow us to tackle invasive species removal around the city at a greater rate. And we know tha

i just have one thank you and then i have one question or request from the city manager i know the last time we met i wanted to talk about the carib mask festival a very joyful event i'm of caribbean descent and it was overshadowed by the tragic event so just want to thank the mayor for the proclamation for haitians of the triangle And it was an extremely beautiful, colorful event, wonderful music. So just want to thank everyone who was involved, but particularly the mayor for the proclamation to acknowledge Haitians of the Triangle. On another matter, I think I've said this before, but I want

Thank you. Just a few things. Our next District E community conversation will be on Wednesday, September 9th, but we are changing locations. We are going to be working with a neighborhood meeting for an upcoming case, and this meeting will be hosted by the developer and will take place at Laurel Hills Community Center at 6 p.m. on September 9th. So we'll see you there instead of La Cusina. And then our Decoding Democracy Book Club will meet Saturday, September 12th at the Continental in District B from 9.30 to 11.30. We will be starting Chapter 3 and joined by experts in the UDO, both from a l

JUST WISH EVERYONE A NICE LABOR DAY WEEKEND. PLEASE TAKE THAT DAY TO REST. THANK YOU FOR ALL THOSE THAT SERVE AND KEEP OUR CITY MOVING AND GOING AS WELL. AND AS WELL AS AFRICAN CULTURE FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND DOWNTOWN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. PLEASE COME OUT AND HAVE A GOOD TIME. I JUST ASK COUNCILMAN SILVER PLEASE BE KIND TO THE BRANCHES.

good afternoon uh first arts commission one regular vacancy and second design review commission one regular vacancy no nominations were made for either of those categories so those will be carried over i submitted a nomination but it may have been um late sure but i would like to nominate for a design review um andrew osterlon o-s-t-e-r-l-u-n-d i also submitted a late nomination for mr osterlin

I'd like to put a name, Jason Dale. His application is on file.

1:10:34•JCJanet Cowell

All opposed, nay. That is unanimous. Thanks. Okay. Report recommendation of the city attorney. No report. Okay. City clerk.

1:11:02•JCJanet Cowell

Second. All in favor, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. That is unanimous.

1:12:08 – 1:12:46•JCJanet Cowell

All in favor of that motion, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. And that is the end. Thank you. Okay. I will make a motion to go into closed session pursuant to General Statute 143.318.11 to consult with the City Attorney in order to preserve attorney-client privilege and General Statute 143.318.11 to discuss matters related to the location or expansion of industries or other businesses within the City, including consideration of economic development incentives that may be offered by the City in negotiations. So moved. Second. All in favor of that motion, aye. Aye. All opposed nay. And we will go into closed session.

4:57:03 – 4:57:17•JCJanet Cowell

So the council met in closed session and I have nothing to report out. So we continue to be adjourned up until 7 p.m. when we will reconvene. Thank you.