What if we added a BRT line too?
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As a college student from a rural part of the state, I didn’t know a ton about bus systems and how they worked. The Wolfline was super reliable and free, so that was all I needed. In the 20+ years I have lived in Raleigh since, I have never set foot on a CAT/GoRaleigh/TTA/Whatever bus, sorry for my ignorance.
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20 years ago GoRaleigh (then CAT) sucked. Most routes were no better than hourly, except for a few hours a day. It’s improved quite a lot since then.
I think students these days are fairly savvy about the city buses. It’s well known that students can get a pass to ride them for free They seem to ride them interchangeably, provided they are going to the same place - especially on Avent Ferry, from what I have seen.
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Done. It looks like this.
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Glad I’m contributing to this thread in meaningful and thoughtful ways.
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Lmao. This may be the best thing you’ve ever posted. I’m crying over here lol
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Oh wow. This emoji is about to get a work out. 
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There’s the prison, the train tracks are also adjacent, there’s a lot of slope on the site, and there are some constraints from underground utility easements. The last two don’t really impact what kind of development it could be, but it does kind of limit some decisions on the building shape and volume.
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Another round of thread resurrection with 
news… also looking forward to more fun discussions…
And yes, seems like literally ~ someone ~ should have been able to figure this out before demo.
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Uh…they didn’t know there was an easement? But, running “under” the property? So many questions.
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Are you fucking kidding me?!
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Ok… so can the developer that demo’d the building be sued??? The city should absolutely get on this, ASAP so that something like this NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN 
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“Underneath the property” sounds like something related to utilities.
Not having done the homework before knocking down that building is really surprising. Some of the partners in that planned development had a lot of experience in the area. Wonder if they can pivot and do something lower impact to add to the growing retail/F&B presence in that area.
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My takeaway the whole time has been not everything needs to be built squarely edge to edge of a property anyway. Like it seems the developer’s baseline assumption is the problem. You should always build around site constraints.
Leave the historic buildings. Have plazas/ open spaces within unbuildable easements. Increase height in other areas to account for the lost density.
These are straightforward concepts that are thrown out when all you care about is maximizing profits and trying to have simple square boring designs.
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How many times have I witnessed clients too impatient and/or cheap defer commissioning an ALTA (American Land Title Association) level land survey until required to do so by their lender.
Hence the notation on the survey they do commission that it was performed without benefit of a title search. More times than not the surveyor is instead provided this information well after the survey is out there and tasked with showing the information in graphic form per ALTA standards with explanations as appropriate as to impact.
Ready, fire, aim.
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Red is stormwater, green is sewer. I’m not sure if that weird skinny parcel is an easement or not. The info in iMaps isn’t very helpful.
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Can we move this invisible easement to run under the former Berkeley Cafe building as well? Not the whole plot as I’d love to see that developed, but just under the OLD hotel building.
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That sliver was an old right of way, I believe it was surrendered (link to minutes below, search for STC-06 in teh July 6, 2021 minutes). The stormwater/sewer was known during design, prior to demo.
That’s even more infuriating!
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What I mean is the original building plans considered it and left the easement accessible, at least the stormwater one running down the side of the train tracks. And yeah, it was fairly deep.