The Raleigh City Council convened at 7:00 PM on April 1, 2025, to hold public hearings and vote on several zoning and development items. The meeting featured major discussion on the proposed Raleigh Sports and Entertainment District at the Lenovo Center, as well as multiple smaller rezoning cases. Key decisions included approval of a business investment grant, two annexations, and several rezoning requests, with one rezoning continued for further work on pedestrian safety and traffic calming.
For coming out to tonight's public hearing. First item on the agenda is the business investment grant for Reliant Corporation, and we have uh Evan Raleigh from the City Manager's Office and Kyle Touchstone with Raleigh Economic Development. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Before you is the business investment grant for or Kyle Touchstone Raleigh Economic Development. Before you is the business investment grant for Rallyant Corporation. Under the state matching grant provision. This grant is for $36,000 over five years. This is in the recruitment of their headquarters, which represents a $2.12 million investment in real estate and equipment, 180 permanent full-time jobs with an annual average salary of 190,858. Recommended action is following the hearing. Make a determination that the incentive will increase the taxable property employment and business prospects of the city and authorized finalization and execution of an incentive agreement by appropriate city officials. Great. Thank you. Questions. And since there's no one signed up, close the public hearing. Any other questions? Sorry, Kyle, I ask you this every time, but we don't do these a ton, and so I always assume there's someone tuning in for the first time. When we offer these grants, the uh recipients do have to meet a certain set of standards, right? Correct. Uh thank you for the question, uh, Councilmember Patton. For the uh business investment grant, um, the state matching grant provision, it is required that they qualify for the state's job development investment grant. In order to meet the provisions of the local of our incentive, they have to meet the minimum hiring requirement, which is the um 180 full-time jobs. Um then we pay that out over five years, but they have to meet the requirements of the J Dig in order to then and fulfill our requirements to receive that payment. And if for any reason they did not fulfill these requirements, they would not receive this incentive. Correct. All right. Any further questions or discussion? I'll make a motion. Second. All right. Uh that we make a determination that the incentive will increase the employment and business prospects of the city and authorize finalization execution of an incentive agreement by appropriate city officials in the amount not to exceed 36,000. Second. Okay. Any other discussion? If not, all in favor of the motion. Aye. Aye. All opposed. Thank you. Thank you for coming down. Okay, next we have petition annexation AX025 5,000 and zero Lewisburg Road. And we have Matt Bailey. Good evening. Uh Madam Mayor and Council. My name is Matt Bailey. I am planning manager for long-range planning and development, and I'm standing in this evening for Christopher Gold. So the petition that you have in front of you is for a contiguous petition annexation within the ETJ. It is currently a residential mixed use, seven-story conditional use. It is just under eleven acres. The proposed applicant is looking to build a 330 multifamily apartment unit. There is water uh connection alongside uh Lewisburg Road and sewer site, uh sewer connection on the site.