The Raleigh City Council met on July 1, 2025, for its first Tuesday afternoon and evening session. The meeting covered a wide range of topics including consent agenda items, planning commission recommendations, special presentations on the CARES program, Six Forks Road project, citizen advisory councils, the fire department master plan, a restructured convention center hotel deal, downtown major projects, and public hearings on rezoning and zoning text changes. Key decisions included approving the consent agenda, setting public hearing dates, directing staff on the Six Forks Road project, approving the Omni hotel restructuring, accepting the fire master plan, advancing some advisory board reorganization recommendations, and approving a controversial zoning text change for the Rust Bus overbuild allowing a payment in lieu of on-site affordable housing.
Oh no, it's a little bit of that. We saw it, they could just pay the skin typically. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. We could come to order. All right. Uh welcome. Uh first we have the Pledge of Allegiance. Uh, can I ask Mayor Pro Tem Fort to lead us? Individual with liberty and justice for all the right. Next we had the consent agenda, and I do not believe anything was pulled. Is that correct? And if so, could we have a motion? Uh move for approval. Okay. All in favor, uh, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. All right, so that passes, which brings us to the report and recommendation of the planning commission. And we have Vinom Walter. Yes. Yes, ma'am. I'm joined today by Chair of the Commission, Blanny Miller. And we have a robust report for you. A handful of August holidays identified in the future. We have three petition annexations already scheduled for public hearing on August nineteenth. And then a good number of items suggested for August nineteen. This is at your discretion how you want to schedule the hearings. But we have brought these forward all with an August nineteen uh suggestion. So I go through these in the order that they appear on the agenda. The first request is on Wicker Drive. It's under four acres, going from industrial mixed use to a commercial mixed use with a twenty-story height limit, urban limited frontage, and conditions. And so they are ready to file some revised paperwork to indicate that. So Planning Commission can make a recommendation to you. Next up is C 5224. This is two parcels on the north side of Try and Road. Blend of zoning request blend of zoning existing and blend of zoning requested. This is inconsistent with the future land use map, but consistent with the comprehensive plan. And the planning commission does recommend approval here. A very small parcel on Bragg Street at Blunt Street requesting to go from R 10 with the NCOD to a neighborhood mixed use district with a three-story height limit and retaining that overlay district. The Raleigh Historic Development Commission also reviewed and they recommend approval. So the concern from the Commissioner here, the neighborhood mixed use district does allow a variety of commercial districts, and there is a commissioner who was not certain that that was adequate protection for the neighborhood. I will note that the commercial use operating here is a nonconformity. This is a request on Z 725 is a request on Forestville Road. This is 14 acres being requested to go from residential four to commercial mixed use for with conditions. This is requested by a church that is wanting a larger sign to advertise their church. So they're moving they're requesting to move to the commercial district. Again, Planning Commission recommends approval. And then a request on crosslink road. This is under an acre going from residential four to residential 10. The Planning Commission is requesting an extension here so that the applicant could consider some conditions for their request converting from a general use to a conditional use case request.