The corridor study to plan land use around the Western Blvd. BRT line made it through the Planning Commission yesterday. It was stuck there since November since the commission and city staff kept going back and forth about how to lay out new proposed roads around the Jones Franklin/Western intersection. City Council should be debating about this plan once again (and encounter the same headaches that PC did) in the next few weeks.
There were two votes in opposition. But as commissioner O’Haven pointed out on behalf of himself and his colleague Jennifer Lampman, this was more about a protest to a flawed process that seemingly enabled misinformation about how development works in Raleigh; it was not a vote against the merits of the proposal. Their opinions are best understood alongside their thoughts on the Capital Blvd. North corridor study, which I wrote about here.