Remarks by Christina Jones
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“And that's why they voted, the three voted no?”
“A few things. In any of these projects, how does the relationship with the county funding work? Do any of them have county funding as well?”
“And then my other question is around the Blue Ridge loophole because that had to do with affordable housing projects. Would these all qualify for that if it stays in?”
“These are, okay, okay, never mind. It's for legacy, okay.”
“So some of them may and some of them may not. Okay.”
“Awesome. Saul, thank you. Awesome job. I just want to go over a few things that we have talked about in our meetings that I know that will hopefully wrap into our work plan for next year. But really, I think it's going to be really important for us to talk about overdose data, because I think counsel would be really beneficial for us to see what does it look like in Raleigh? What do the overdoses look like? Is it fentanyl? There are other drugs that we discuss in our meetings that I had never even heard of. I think it was kratom. Yeah, kratom. Kratom. Yeah. that I think would be very…”
“and I'd like to make a motion. I move to adopt the proposed consistency statement dated October 20th, 2026 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.”
“JUST TWO UPDATES. WE HAVE DISTRICT E'S NEXT MONTHLY COMMUNITY MEETING WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH FROM 6 TO 8 P.M. AT LA CUSINA ITALIAN RESTAURANT AND THEN OUR DECODING DEMOCRACY BOOK CLUB WILL MEET ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH FROM 930 TO 1130 AND WE WILL CONTINUE WITH CHAPTER 3 OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE. THANK YOU.”
“This is for staff and it would just be to tag on to Councillor Silver's comments. I think in the process of conversation, learning why, since this is only 2024, it's not a very old ordinance, why the five lines was important. I think that explaining that, not just that we want the change, but why we initially just two years ago thought five was the number and wanting to increase it. I think that's gonna be really clear for the public. I just wanted to extra highlight that and put a pin in that.”
“Thank you so much for this. In terms of the board members, you broke it down. There would be Raleigh, there would be two appointments from Raleigh. Who appoints the community members? Because I know currently they do that kind of on their own. So is that, would it be a mixture or would it be all us and the others that you?”
“Okay, so outside of the Secretary of State, the NC State, all eight other positions, there were six community and then two, that would be us? Yes. And currently we only do three, right?”
“Got it. Understood. Thank you so much. All right.”
“Sharnell, can you come back? I'm so sorry. No, no, you're fine. You're fine. I raised my hand as you were going. Can you review just briefly some of the wins from the last job fair? And then how many departments, if you remember, I may have missed it at the beginning. I was chatting. So how many departments are we going to be doing this time? And then how successful was the last one?”
“That's awesome. So 400 people interested last year. Yes. Wow. All right. Well, I'm excited about that. Thank you so much.”
“Thank you so much. I want to go back to the inquiries. You mentioned that there were a few that were sent to our PD and then you reviewed the ones that you're going to do next year. I'm wondering, can you walk me through the process? What does that look like and were there any inquiries from previous years that closed out this year?”
“And what is the response back? Once you send all that information, how do they receive it and either act on it or don't act on it?”
“Very cool. And I just learned from SUAC, from the Substance Use Advisory Commission, that you guys spent, at least the chairs, some time together, able to have this conversation with each other within, I think those that were at the Pathway Center, and really interested in learning how that meeting went. And did you feel that it was good to connect? Was that your first time connecting with other chairs within that area?”
“Awesome. Well, thank you so much for your work. I look forward to seeing you at the October 12th. Hopefully that will speak to some questions that the board has, but thank you for your service.”
“Go ahead. Thank you so much. On the two structures in the north side, are there people currently living there? I didn't see the staff report.”
“They're both vacant. Great. Thank you so much.”
“Thank you. I do want to highlight that in the questions we asked about this, in that 23 developments that you mentioned, that also it created 50 to 70 lots. So that's a really impressive number of homes that could have been added. I do have a question about stormwater. As we increase density, and I know in five points we have a lot of, maybe some potential for this to be an area where this is utilized. Will you walk me through what the UDO would require with the stormwater concerns with that increased density on smaller lots?”
“No report. I just have a few things. As I am the liaison for our stormwater team, I did send an email out to council about something that I'd like our stormwater advisory council to work on. So I would like to say, as Raleigh continues to densify and experience more intense weather events, we need to ensure our development regulations are keeping pace, particularly when it comes to sensitive sites. And to that end, I would like to propose and motion that we direct the Stormwater Management Advisory Commission to review the UDO, the Unified Development Ordinance, and associated stormwater…”
“anything well I think that through this is the discussion so the goal of this would be to send this to the the team the Advisory Council to discuss and bring back any recommendations so there's no record there's nothing that would change right away it would be just open the discussion so that we can learn maybe there are those issues and we can if possible strengthen what we can do is conditions”
“Oh, okay, perfect. And just to close that, I have just a few more. Our Decoding Democracy Book Club will meet on Saturday, October 10th at the Continental in District B from 9.30 to 11.30 a.m. We will continue our discussion and we will be moving on to Chapter 3.2. DISTRICT E's COMMUNITY MEETING WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14TH FROM 6 TO 8 P.M. AT LA CUSINA ITALIAN RESTAURANT. COME JOIN US FOR DINNER AND CONVERSATION. AND THEN LASTLY, I LAST FRIDAY WAS ABLE TO BE WITH THE GUATEMALAN CONSULATE AND WE RECEIVED THIS AWARD. JUST CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION TO THE CITY OF RALEIGH JUST IN…”