All considering -even as a traffic engineer, Six Forks is not very “congested” to warrant a 6-lane section. Give that corridor some better turn lanes / improved signal timings and it’d function fine. Add some bus queues and signal priorities and we’re set.
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Back to Five Points… 2 levels of up to 48 units. Even assuming if these would be 100% car driving residents would not be a ton of added traffic. And is at a fairly connected intersection, so likely not a ton of added trips on majority of back neighborhood streets.
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The traffic engineer wanted to remove the single right turn lane approaching Carol Middle School going northbound on Six Forks to have consistency preventing people flying to beat other cars when merging into two lanes. I literally herd audible gasps from the back of the room, we then had to reorganize into “focus groups” and continue the brain storming. This process has been going on for nearly 6-7 years, and since I have moved away from the MidTown experiment I have no clue where they are with progress.
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From my impression, most of the trees going away in these residential neighborhoods seem to happen when a developper buys a single story ranch, tears it down, including all trees and builds a 2 or 3 stories 3000 sqft house in place. I’ve seen it happening a lot on Mills / Mial st.
In those cases, there is not a lot people can say, there is no rezoning involved, parcels are too small for tree conservation rules, etc.
It probably builds some people angriness toward a system they don’t like and use those bigger projects where “public input” is part of the process to empty their bag of complaints.
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The pressure will release where it’s possible to release.
Haha my firm worked on the Six Forks corridor concept right as I was starting there in 2014 - I went to a few citizen meetings just to observe my coworkers at work and it was interesting to say the least.
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Looks like all of the vacant property on Bernard St. from the corner to the townhouses would be split into the five pods that they mention.
Major makeover of the County Club Homes development in the Oberlin/Five Points neighborhood coming soon:
The existing complex was built in the 1940s and is suffering from utility and maintenance problems, so the owners plan to redevelop it. Rather than garden apartments, they plan for a wide variety of housing styles. Here’s the renderings:
Grubb said the plan is to have residential offerings for people of all ages and stages of life.
The Raleigh City Council approved the rezoning for 4 of the 20 acres on Tuesday, allowing for the development of the apartments. The city approved the rezoning for the senior living portion last year, and the remainder of the project can be built with the existing R-10 zoning.
The group plans to break ground this year and expects the first dwellings to become available in 2023.
The new neighborhood will be called Budleigh East.
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Glad to see that they’re not just razing all the apartments and just building million dollar homes.
It’s a step in the right direction.
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Do you know how many units the Multi Family Dwelling and Senior Living will have? With the listed numbers there, I see 64 units, but that doesn’t include the apartments.
I hope they save as many old-growth oaks in that grove as possible.
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Lol. There are a lot of silly ass houses in the hood, lots of stupid signs in most yards and windows, this hood is full of horse poop, fake and fraudulent.
Would this be considered gentrification of the Country Club Homes? What about about all of the people being displaced?
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I can’t wait to see what they call affordable.
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And here we go.
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Sounds like a great place for Raleigh’s first dispensary whenever we (eventually 
) follow Virginia’s lead…
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aaaaand East End Market isback on the ringer for Apr. 13 (next Tuesday). The developer came up with some possible conditional requirements to deal with the shade issue of the tall tower.
Two sets of rules will be debated. One’s for if the building on Tract C is 9 stories tall or less:
…and the other is if the building is to be 10 or more stories tall:
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The Country Club Townhomes are actually pretty cheap. They don’t have any on site amenities which is part of why I think they were cheap. This is why I was wondering how many units are going to be put in with the new development. As much as I like new development, I would hate for there to be less units than what there already is. I don’t think this will realistically be the case.
In contrast, people are going to argue no matter what and the news pushes against development. A Spectrum news person asked someone on Nextdoor, who opposed the development on Lead Mine, if they’d be willing to do an interview. There were a few advocates, but last time I checked none of them were being asked to speak in support. The development on Lead Mine will remove about 5 houses I believe.
Some of those anti-developers will make an argument about the costs of new multi unit development. I never hear them talk against tearing down a house and building a bigger one.
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Are they making those concessions based on actual real concerns, or just some neighbor’s comment at a meeting? Ugh
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As far as I understand it those concessions are made for the corner lot. It seems to me that there is a push from the city for more cross access to that piece of land. They know that it probably won’t stay a garage forever…
I was also under the impression that the owner of that parcel was in negotiation with the developper.
As far as I can tell, the developper didn’t lower the max height, they even in raised it on the building closer to Mills st. All they did is give some max height in very specific portions of the buildings adjacent to existing structures (to give more transition).
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