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Good evening.

Good evening, everybody.

The few gathered here for zoning rezoning Z thirty-three twenty-five, Gresham Lake Road, and I will call up Matthew Clem.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Matthew Clem, Planning and Development.

Here to present Z 3325.

If you'll remember, we had a public hearing for this case on January 6th.

The applicant expressed desire to uh amend the zoning conditions to add a number of play courts to the request.

So I'll walk through those changes now.

So this is a request to rezone 7.8 acres from heavy industrial with the special highway overlay district two to industrial mixed use with a special highway overlay district two.

Planning commission recommends approval 8 to 0.

This is the site here.

It is currently developed with uh light industrial use and is adjacent to the east to uh landfill and to the west is uh I-540.

It's on Gresham Lake Road.

Uh zoning conditions limit development of the site to 10,000 square feet of retail um in the aggregate, so any number of buildings on the site can have no more than 10,000 square feet of retail, and there can be no more than 50 play courts.

The intended use uh is a pickleball facility.

Um this looks at the change in uh land use intensity.

So the requested zoning is a five-story industrial mixed use zone.

Uh so you can see the increase of residential units uh and some changes to setbacks.

Um in some respects, this is uh uh an upzoning because taller buildings are permitted, but uh in other respects it's a downzoning because heavy industrial uses are no longer permitted.

So light industrial uses uh would be permitted in the IX district, um, but those heavier noxious uses are prohibited.

Matthew, before you go, I forgot to say that um Mayor Pratim Harrison is excused and absent this evening.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.

Um consistent with the future land use map and the urban form map and the comprehensive plan overall, a number of consistent policies, uh inconsistent with zoning and infrastructure impacts um in reference to the response time standards.

Um this is the planning commission findings.

I'm happy to answer any questions for you.

The applicant is here as well.

Okay.

Questions for Mr.

Klem.

Okay.

So we have uh public hearing, and we have Isabel Maddox signed up in support.

Good evening.

Uh Isabel Maddox, I'm here today representing RITD LLC, the prospective developer and owner of this property.

Here with me today is Christopher Mislich, who is the principal in this business, and our civil engineer Bill Piver is also here in case you should have engineering type questions.

Um Matthew gave you an overview, and this isn't an it's it's an industrial area, but there's also a lot of residential if you look across 540 and even across Gresham Lake Road, there's more re residential in this area than there used to be.

The current business on site is a remediation business where they primarily go off-site to remediate things like you know, water and and fire damage, that kind of thing.

That will remain.

Um but what is proposed is a pickleball complex.

Um my client has gotten very into pickleball and has decided there's not enough courts in Raleigh, we need to do something about that.

And so he's he's doing something.

He's got some investors and they're very excited to bring this to Raleigh, which all my friends who play pickleball say the same thing.

Not enough, not enough courts.

Um the request is heavy industrial uh to industrial mixed use.

Um zoning map.

We will be maintaining the SHAD II yard along 540.

And for that that's for that reason, there's a lot of land that is almost eight acres in this site, but there's a lot of land area, so I don't think it the the height of this building will bother any neighbors because we've got you know 540 is one buffer.

We've got industrial, heavy industrial uses around us.

Um we've got a lot of land area in this in uh site.

Um the proposed building is sort of back on the back part of the site.

And here are some uh some elevations of I've got to get I've got to remember how to get rid of this.

Um you got it.

Yeah.

So this is sort of um what what they envision the pickleball complex, some outdoor eating areas, some outdoor, you know, hanging out areas.

So between pickleball matches, you can go and enjoy that.

Um, some graphics on one side of the building.

And there may be at some point in the future a small stadium that um would allow for tournaments and that kind of thing.

Um the conditions are, you know, 10,000 feet retail max, which would mostly be restaurants.

There would also be associated uses with pickleball like showers and locker rooms, but primarily it would be a restaurant, um, some sort of uh food service, uh drink service, and then a maximum of 50 play courts.

Um we are consistent with the city's plans.

We have had no neighborhood opposition.

We think it adds popular active use to address the play court need in the area.

And it is a neurali economic development target area.

Uh and we feel like this contributes to sort of mixed use uh in this area because you do have a recreational use with a restaurant, and uh you have a fair amount of residential and close proximity.

So, you know, I have Mr.

Pyver here.

If you have engineering questions or you have any general questions for me, feel free.

Okay.

Questions for Ms.

Maddox?

Okay, I will close the hearing.

First, thank you for bringing us a very nice, simple case, Isabel.

We appreciate that.

I failed to say this earlier.

I want to wish everyone a very joyous Black History Month.

Uh I plan to support this case unless my colleagues have any questions.

Um I move to adopt uh the proposed consistency statement dated February 3, 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.

Any other discussion?

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed, nay.

That is unanimous.

And thank you.

With that, we are adjourned.

All of my cases are very simple.

Keep that in mind.