The Raleigh City Council met on June 2, 2026, at 1:00 PM for a regular session that included a Pride Month proclamation, a public hearing on the city's consolidated housing plan, multiple rezoning referrals, an urban heat resiliency update, and policy changes to the traffic calming program. The council voted unanimously on the consent agenda and approved two key traffic calming reforms. The meeting concluded with a closed session regarding a potential claim.
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City Manager's Report – Urban Heat Resiliency:
Committee Reports – Transportation and Transit:
So these are some of the accomplishments from the fiscal year 2021 through 2025 federal reporting period. This is a subset of what's available on our website on our affordable housing dashboard. So we have over 2,000 affordable rental units created, over 200 down payment loans provided, and over 5,300 individuals provided shelter. And these are the federal and local resources that our plan has grounded in. It's about 16.6 million dollars total. And this is an annual allocation. So these are some of the goals for fiscal year 26 through 27 under increasing affordable housing options. We have housing rehab, home buyer assistance, rental development, and site imprisonment. And that is a total of about 12.76 million. Preventing and reducing homelessness, homeless service grants, tenant-based rental assistance and emergency shelter support at about 4.4 million. And then increasing housing stabilization and supportive services, and these are where our grants, community enhancement grant, human service agency grants, as well as home buyer counseling fall. So to conclude, I just want to briefly outline our timeline. We're currently in the comment period phase, which includes a combination of in-person and virtual meetings as well as a 30-day comment period. The next step is to incorporate the feedback that we receive into the plan that'll come back to council for adoption in May. That concludes my overview, and we just ask that council over the public hearing. Great. Thank you. Uh we will go ahead and open the public hearing, and we have two uh members of the public signed up, Octavia Rainey is the first, and we have uh three minutes per speaker. Good afternoon. I'm gonna start off and I'm gonna stick to my three minutes. First of all, the NRSA, the plan sucks. It really sucks. Larry did not follow any fair housing guidelines. Number two, the city don't enforce the fair housing act. So I don't even think how you can move forward with any of your policies and housing without enforcing the act. It's terrible. Number three, this is a report from North Carolina State University on Newban Avenue. I was the co-chair of the Newman Avenue Alliance. So I know what went on and I know what happened to the city. So it was Edison Street and College Park. I went through my storage and bought this personally tonight because I wanted you to know that you didn't follow any of the guidelines in this either. Something is wrong with that picture. Third, I'm hot. Here is the document from 2007, and it was the Southeast Raleigh Assembly that we did with the City of Raleigh Planning Department. The NRSA was not a part of that plan. As a matter of fact, Eileen Brazil, Julian Prosser, Dempsey Benton said they would not do the NRSA. But what happened, you did it anyway. Fourth, you know, I call myself being famous, but when they did the policies, I was talked about, but that didn't bother me, because that's what the council did. It was half Republican and half Democrat. And they really talked about me. But do you think I care the hoolie fruit? I didn't care at all. But my point is, you did college parking injustice. You really did. You let Cliff Zenna build a $500,000 house. You did that. You turned around and let them put infrastructure on the new homes, then on the black homes. They didn't even put the wiring on the ground. That wasn't fair at all. What I am asking, because y'all got to make up for the fairness in this project.