The Raleigh City Council held its regular meeting on April 7, 2026, covering planning commission recommendations, board appointments, annual reports, and a tobacco-free ordinance. Key actions included setting public hearings for two rezoning cases, appointing members to the Dix Park Commission, and approving work plans for multiple advisory boards.
So I think we should start. Um welcome to the city council meeting. Uh as always, we will start with a Pledge of Allegiance and I'll leave. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Next we have the consent agenda, and there were no items polled. Do we have a motion? All in favor of the motion, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. All right, so that passes. Next we have the planning commission. We have uh Bynum Walter and our new chair, Dwight Otwell. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Vine I'm Walter, Planning and Development, joined by Dwight Otwell, Chair of the Planning Commission. Uh preview of upcoming holidays over the next sixty days or so. A reminder about hearings that are already scheduled. You always flash those holidays so quick that I can and there's a lot on there. Reflect on them longer. Do any of them. Not to my knowledge, no. Uh well, I believe we are meeting on Cinco de Mayo. Okay. Noted. So I expect beer. All right. And then we do have some uh public hearings already scheduled for the 21st for your afternoon meeting. There is an annexation, three rezoning requests, as well as a comprehensive plan amendment. Right now we don't have anything scheduled for the evening agenda on May 5th. As previously mentioned, May 5th. Uh we are suggesting three items for that evening. Uh, and I'll I'll talk about each of these uh coming out of planning commission. So the first is three parcels on Trailwood Drive. This is the northernmost of the three requests that are currently pending. The other two are uh public hearing this evening. So this is just under thirteen acres, going to a residential mixed-use district, three-story height with conditions, as well as a portion of the site would be uh residential ten with conditions. This is consistent overall with the comprehensive plan, but inconsistent with future land use map as well as the urban form map. Planning commission does recommend approval by a split vote. Uh I will note that after conversation with the applicant, I understand they would like for you to delay taking actions at the public hearing. Uh they would prefer to come back at a future meeting so they could make some revisions to the request. Um there are uh yeah. Uh next up, uh this is 3470 Blue Ridge Road. This is under two acres. Uh and I apologize, the districts here are inappropriately listed. This is going from a residential district to our a residential mixed use three-story district. This is consistent with the comprehensive plan. But inconsistent with future lane use map and urban form pack. Planning commission recommends approval again, suggesting a May 5 public hearing. I will note the correct information about the request does appear in your agenda materials if you need to refer to those. Some has frontage, some has conditions, all going to a unified downtown mixed district, mixed use district with 20-story height and conditions.